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Women and Others in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences Empowering women and SGM students, researchers, and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community https://linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 12

❗Want to know what W+EBS is all about now? ❗

Check out our updated remit:
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💭 Got ideas for what we should do next? Submit suggestions here:
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#WplusEBS #InclusiveScience #EvolutionaryBehavioralSciences

W+EBS Mission statement and remit

W+EBS Mission statement and remit Tag-line Empowering women and SGM students, researchers and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community Missio...

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 23d

Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

And from @siobhancully.bsky.social: "Be kind. Do your work truthfully. Come at things with empathy. Keep dismantling those structures...so much of what we're dealing with is structural." 4/4

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

From @dconroybeam.bsky.social: "You're not going to have the career you thought you would have..but this too shall pass...Find your allies...Find ways to hold on...That's all we can do." 3/4

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

From @robingnelson.bsky.social: "We can do the hard hitting work we want to do...while also being mindful of power dynamics and the implications of our work" 2/4

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

That's a wrap on the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel!

Thank you to our panelists @robingnelson.bsky.social, @dconroybeam.bsky.social, @siobhancully.bsky.social

And thank you to the #HBES2025 attendees who shaped this conversation.

Read some final takeaways from our panelists: 👇 1/4

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

And one more!

@siobhancully.bsky.social: "One of the biggest [pieces of advice] is being aware of false urgency and know when you need to take that time for yourself"

#HBES2025 #WplusEBS

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Some more good quotes from the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel so far! 👇

@robingnelson.bsky.social "I can't do the work I want to do if I'm not in the room, so I am staying in the room"

@dconroybeam.bsky.social "People that are mutually invested in each other has made surviving [in academia] possible"

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Advice for early career researchers during this time? 6/6

@dconroybeam.bsky.social: "Find a way to endure now... and capitalize when the good times come"

@siobhancully.bsky.social: "Normalize non-academic positions...& Think about the structures that make it so hard for early career researchers"

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

5/6
@robingnelson.bsky.social: "Tons of stuff we can't say in grants...very basic terms in health equity we can't say...Funding levels are minuscule now"

@siobhancully.bsky.social: "I don't know if anyone knows what's going on...avoid the bots going through these grants [for flagged terms]"

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

"Have you had to change the way you frame your research?" 4/6

@dconroybeam.bsky.social: "We're very much in the process of figuring it out...it's hard to maintain progress [in certain areas] when it's not clear that these areas are fundable"

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

"What kinds of support have helped you...?" 3/6

@siobhancully.bsky.social: "Having good alliances...find those groups."

@dconroybeam.bsky.social: "I struggle to think of institutional support that has been helpful...having good friends and a good mutually invested community...paying it forward"

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

"Have you ever felt pressured...to downplay your identity?" 2/6

@robingnelson.bsky.social: "I can't [as a Black woman]."

@siobhancully.bsky.social: "I was advised by colleagues to not disclose...academic culture is highly ableist and I wish there was more training for people in positions of power"

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Halfway through the #WplusEBS panel (co-hosted by us, the LGBTQ+ Social Networking, and HBES president @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social) ! Some interesting quotes by panelists so far 👇 1/6

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

We had a great time at the #WplusEBS networking event last night! So great to meet all our community members 💙

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join us for the #WplusEBS #HBES2025 panel.

"Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025"

Happening NOW in the event room!

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 5

The #WplusEBS networking event is TODAY at 7pm! Come join us for some good conversation and speed-networking.

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 3

Check out these #WplusEBS events at #HBES2025!

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 3

#WplusEBS is now live on LinkedIn!

We’re building a more inclusive future for women + SGM researchers, and we’d love to have you along. 💙

🖇️ Follow us here: www.linkedin.com/company/w-pl...

And if you know folks in our field who aren’t on Bluesky, let them know we’re on LinkedIn too!

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 3

Check out these #WplusEBS events at #HBES2025!

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉 Coming to #HBES2025?

Join us for “Survival of the Social”, a speed networking event by #WplusEBS!

🗓 June 5th | 🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Byrdcage, 3426 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City

All are welcome. Come build community with us!

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 28

Join us at the #WplusEBS panel discussion at #HBES2025:

"Gender and Identity in the Evolutionary Human Sciences: Challenges to Research and Researchers in 2025"

🗓️June 6th
⏰4:50pm
📍Stockton University Campus Event Room

See you there!

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 28

🎙️Panel Chair: H. Clark Barrett (he/him) @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social

UCLA Anth Prof, Director of UCLA BEC, #HBES President

Expertise: Roots of human cog; nature & diversity of moral judgment; Indigenous knowledge & role in evolutionary and cog sci; ethics of evolutionary research & theorizing

5/6👇

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 28

🎙️Siobhán Cully (she/her) (@siobhancully.bsky.social)

Associate professor of Anth at Rutgers University; former NSF program director

Expertise: New perspectives on old debates in evolutionary anthropology, including how disabled people, adopted children, & women contribute to human evolution
4/6👇

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 28

🎙️Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam (he/him) (@dconroybeam.bsky.social)

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UCSB

Expertise: Am I expert in anything? I guess computational modeling of human mating psychology

#HBES2025 #WplusEBS 3/6 👇

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 28

🎙️ Dr. Robin Nelson (she/her) (@robinnelson.bsky.social)

Associate Professor in the SHESC at ASU

Expertise: Social Networks, Kin Investment and health outcomes across the lifespan; methods in qualitative behavioral research, and equity and access in research

#HBES2025 #WplusEBS 2/6 👇

W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · May 28

Meet the speakers behind our #WplusEBS panel at #HBES2025:

“Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences”
🗓️Friday, June 6th
⏰4:50pm - 6:10pm

We’re highlighting each panelist in this thread so read on! 👇1/6