Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.bsky.social https://www.rebeccasear.org/
An unexpected consequence of declining mortality - reproductive-aged populations around the world are becoming male-biased, meaning men now have lower fertility than women (a reversal of previous trends): Masculinization of populations reverses sex differences in fertility
PNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...www.pnas.orgRace is real? "Given current patterns of racial fluidity, the results show Brazilians will spend 39% of their lives as White, 53% as Brown, and 8% as Black, regardless of their racial classification at birth"
IUSSPN-IUSSP: Estimating years lived across racial categories in Brazil, by Jerônimo Muniz, Aliya Saperstein and Bernardo L. Queiroz www.niussp.org/migration-an... #demography #populationstudies
Reminder to vote in the #WplusEBS election! The deadline has been extended to Sunday 08/02. If you're not officially a member of W+EBS but want to be, and want to vote in the election, make sure to register by Wednesday to get a ballot!
W+EBS🗳️ W+EBS elections are coming up! We're voting for two positions: Chair Elect and Secretary. Ballots go out by email tomorrow to #WplusEBS members only and are due July 31st. Not a member yet? Join before the ballot drops to make sure you get your vote 👇 linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs
Do you study human ecology, human behavior, or human institutions? Is your work relevant to climate change, adaptation, or sustainability? Join us at Stanford! 🌲🤓🌲 My department will be running a junior search in Environmental Behavioral Sciences this year. Happy to answer any questions.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Social Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (Environmental Behavioral Sciences) - Stanford University, California, United StatesStanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. The scope of t...facultypositions.stanford.edu
New article!: The Origins and Evolution of Writing www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 🧵1/
The Origins and Evolution of WritingFor centuries, scholars have debated the etiology and evolution of writing. The most persistent concerns relate to the relationship between writing and social organization, linguistic structure, and c...www.annualreviews.org
cc: scientists who work with protected human data, and especially those ones who are also AI evangelists
Maggie Harrison DupréNEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
“This paper explores the evolution of hereditarianism in its various forms, examining its connections to racism and anti-egalitarian politics. A consistent theme is the belief in the potential for genetic explanations of social inequalities both within and between groups”
Hereditarianism: a century of the science of inequality - History and Philosophy of the Life SciencesHereditarianism, the belief that genetic factors significantly influence differences in behavioral traits and social outcomes, remains relevant in the age of polygenic embryo screening and social scie...link.springer.com
#ProcB in @bbc.co.uk | Reassuring body contact promotes social tolerance in bonobos and chimpanzees: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Great Apes kiss and cuddle to keep the peace, says studyHugging before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, say scientists studying apes.www.bbc.co.ukCall to incorporate feminist theory into evolutionary psychology research on incels: "By looking at how men's expectations are constructed in society, EP could offer solutions that do not reaffirm sexual marketplaces but emancipate men from the discourses that suggest they must function in them"
Feminism is for every (academic) body: A critical commentary of evolutionary psychology incel research - Stu Lucy, 2026Involuntary celibates, or ‘incels’, continue to receive increasing attention from a variety of academic positions. While most scholarship has added important co...doi.org
It’s a little nerve-wracking playing in another field’s sandbox, but this was a really fun way to bring some primatology to an ancient Egyptian conundrum.. so if you’re into big baboons, Egyptian dieties, etymological puzzles, &/or spectroscopy of shiny things.. read on! 🧪🏺🐒🌕 tinyurl.com/moonbaboon
Moonlight and the apotheosis of sacred baboonsThoth was an ancient Egyptian deity of wisdom, writing, magic, and the moon. Manifestations of Thoth took the form of two animal species, the sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) and sacred baboo...tinyurl.com
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
“Journalists are self-censoring their reporting on rightwing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’www.theguardian.com
As an economic pathology, AI is *extraordinary*. AI boosters have spent a baffling and terrifying sum of money - over $1.4T, most of that in the past year - on the promise of making as many workers unemployed as possible, while lowering the wages of the meager survivors of this jobspocalypse. 3/
I completely re-wrote the AI section of my guide to academic reading/writing to be much stricter and more negative (now titled "AI-generated fabrications as academic misconduct"). Please use/share with your students, and let me know if you have any more changes to suggest! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
