Congratulation to one of our newest grad students My Linh Huynh-Lucero (@mylinhhulu.bsky.social) who has secured a highly competitive NSF GRFP award, recognizing outstanding graduate students in STEM. This year there was only a 5% acceptance rate in the life sciences, so very well done My Linh.
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The application email for the project based PhD opportunity has been updated.
๐ฉ Submit applications to: ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ญ๐จ๐ฎ.๐๐๐๐๐๐@๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ก๐ญ๐ฆ.๐๐.๐ฎ๐ค
Learn more & apply๐ tinyurl.com/bdz26una
Deadline๐ 22nd April 2026
COME AND JOIN OUR MEET & GREET! ๐ฝ๏ธโค๏ธโ๐ฅ
We are starting the week before @ehbea2026.bsky.social with some words from @rebeccasear.bsky.social on her role in @ehbea.bsky.social , a bit of history , and thoughts on human research ๐ค ๐ ๐ฏ
Have a look and #MeetTheBoard ๐๐๐
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Postdoc opportunity at the Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, for candidates with a background in social psychology, cognitive science, or social neuroscience. As a bonus, you get to work with @martinlangcz.bsky.social! www.phil.muni.cz/en/careers/a...
A Hadza collaborator of mine suddenly lost his wife earlier this week. They had two young children. I am seeking to raise a small amount of money to help Endeko cover funeral expenses and short-term childcare costs. Any small donations would be appreciated
www.gofundme.com/f/support-en...
New research lead by @marcela-pfaff-nash.bsky.social shows children living in low-resource, rural settings experience intestinal challenges that can persist well beyond early childhood, highlighting the role of globally varying intestinal function for childhood health and development.
We've got two groups presenting growth-related research at #AABA2026 today! These were their term projects for our Growth and Development course this fall. Go check the posters out ! @harpurcollege.bsky.social
๐ข New Paper ๐จ
Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.
In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.
bit.ly/4kvLOwA
Men and women in rural Bangladesh use gender-specific kinds of religious practices to elicit more alloparental support from their religious networks. | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For National STEM day, Baylor's educator's have been taking their research into high school, middle school and elementary school classrooms across the county!
Here's our very own Sam Urlacher who led students at Mart Elementary School, measuring human energetics.
www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/...
I'm pleased to announce that Natalie Munro and I have authored an Element through @universitypress.cambridge.org on "The Behavioral Ecology of Food: Bridging the Archaeological and the Contemporary."
It will be released in February, and you can pre-order it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...
Interested in doing a PhD with Baylor Anthropology? This week weโll be showcasing our faculty starting with John, Julie and Duncan (Thatโs me!).
Weโve prepared info sheets with contact info and research specialisms. Any further questions, please drop us an email.
Excited to get this paper published! ๐
We argue that men exaggerate patriarchal beliefs in an effort to signal conformity to others, which in turn fuels misperceptions about peers - making patriarchal norms resistant to change.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
๐ฃ New BBS preprint out now! ๐ฃ
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
๐จ ๐ Our new paper on the consequences men face when countering patriarchal norms in rural Tanzania ๐.๐จ
We carried out focus groups and detailed interviews with a whopping 172 women and men about their perceptions of men who support women's empowerment... ๐ 1/5
"Modeling Uncertainty around Free-list Cultural Salience Scores" by @rcc-au.bsky.social's @djsmith90.bsky.social and @bgpurzycki.bsky.social OnlineFirst up now at Field Methods journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #AnthroTools #quantethnography
If one man marries two women, another man must go unmarried, right? No. Demography matters. If sex ratios are skewed towards women, then polygyny can exist alongside universal marriage for men (who want to marry women). If only more people understood demography ๐
Title slide of Mary's talk: Grandmothers, siblings and the quantity-quality tradeoff in human fertility: How allocare shapes fertility in the context of high social competition
Mary Shenk presented at the Evolutionary Demography Society conference in Oxford today, showing intriguing (and opposite) associations between women's fertility and allocare from either grandparents or children
New paper from the team, led by Radim Chvaja:
The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
New paper led by @anushe.bsky.social on alloparenting in Tanzania. Child care assistance surely benefits child health, but we find little evidence that specific care arrangements are more resilient than others.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Interested in examining culture, cultural models, and what people think, know, and believe? New book from RCCโs @bgpurzycki.bsky.social coming soon as part of Sageโs โLittle Green Bookโ series!
collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/eth...
8 men and women stand together in front of a hospital building
Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!
โSocial-science journals have a key role to play: they must prioritize transparency to improve the credibility and verifiability of published researchโ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Also follow PI @johnhshaver.bsky.social as well as @lspake.bsky.social & @anushe.bsky.social, without whom that data would not exist! Here's a paper led by Laure and Anushรฉ describing the process of data collection in our 5 main locations royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
We are 'The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size and Child Success' project, an international team investigating how religion impacts fertility and child wellbeing. Check out our website for more info, and follow us for updates on our activities ๐
evolutionarydemographyofreligion.org
Our project on the evolutionary dynamics of religion, family size and child success is now on bluesky ๐ Follow for updates on our cross-cultural research, which is getting to a particularly exciting stage of paper-writing ๐ (after a long slog of data collection in 6 countries!)
The evolutionary demography of religion project is on bluesky! Give it a follow for content about religion, cooperation and prosociality, allomothering, and maternal and child outcomes ๐
bsky.app/profile/evod...
