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NWO endorses international statement on threats to academic freedom and international cooperation Read further: www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-...

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Along with all the other signs of fascism seems we are doing eugenics (openly) again. I am so angry that we have to engage in the same terrible fights over and over again.

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Surreal read of the day: a paper using USAID-funded and now terminated Demographic & Health Surveys to count the huge number of lives saved by the now frozen US PEPFAR program to fight HIV, co-authored by current US admin’s nominee to lead cuts in health research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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📢 Next in the London Universities Population Seminars! We're excited to host Joshua Wilde (@oxforddemsci.bsky.social) presenting on #ClimateChange and #Fertility 📅 4 March | 12:45 GMT 📍 Manson Lecture Theatre, LSHTM 🔗 lshtm.zoom.us/j/98684293654 co-organized by @clscohorts.bsky.social and pop@LSE

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Reminder that this is happening this weekend. Register to join via Zoom, and listen to me talk about how wealthy businesspeople have kept race science alive for the past 75 years, despite academic scientists’ best efforts to quash it.

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“higher wet-bulb temperatures predicted reduced daily breastfeeding time allocation, particularly among fishers, and drove shifts towards increased night-time and decreased mid/late morning feeding…climate change will likely exacerbate heat-related risks to global child health”

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“US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Reminder of this call for papers on scientific racism 👇 if you too are watching in shame as influential figures in the evolutionary behavioural sciences cheer on attacks on science & DEI in the US, consider writing about why academia continues to harbour scientific racism & what we can do about it

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Demographers ability to model the global population ("10 billion by 2050 followed by plateau") rely on DHS surveys. Without them we're blind to large parts of the globe and quality of forecasts will go down. Which is of course a non-issue if planing-horizons don't extend beyond next Friday.

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A vision of the UK’s future: “Legislation from previous governments had already made resistance more difficult. The Conservative government of 2019-2024 had reduced the independence of universities through the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act in 2023”

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“labour market stability, low inflation, strong welfare state involvement, and cultural attitudes emphasizing the role of the individual all support greater realization of short-term fertility intentions” www.niussp.org/fertility-an...

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Corvids cache food—surprisingly much in equatorial zones! breeding system, trophic niche, and habitat breadth not found to affect whether a species is a specialist or generalist cacher specialist caching (seasonal, seeds/nuts for long-term retrieval) likely ancestral state #BehCog behav eco evo 🧪

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🚀 On March 1 CES is launching TRANSMISSIONS. Hosted by our student reps, this talk series discusses topics that range from religion to animal culture with leading experts in cultural evolution. Stay tuned for key dates, speaker announcements, and more. We hope you'll join us for the ride!

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On the stupidity of UK governments’ decisions to turn “first-rate universities into third-rate companies” 👇

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What’s happening to science in the US is devastating, and has implications across the world. The Demographic and Health Surveys programme has reportedly been terminated

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Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

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At #anthro #altac folks: I'm looking to create a panel of 4-5 folks that I will make available to the public to discuss alt ac careers that make use of anthropology degrees. If you are interested in being a panelist, please let me know. A Tuesday in late April. TIA.

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“A menopause and hormone treatment conference in Sydney in March has ignited a passionate debate among medical doctors and researchers about women’s empowerment, social media advice, big business and even how doctors communicate with their patients” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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"Regardless of style and tactics, everyone in the American scientific community must hold to the principles of independence, peer evaluation, and inclusion...We will not turn our backs on them now." @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org YES!!!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Super cool to see a paper like this as an NBER working paper. I haven't tracked it systematically, but I think there's a lot more of this style of work on race and racism in econ now than when I started paying attention to the field in the 2000s. www.nber.org/papers/w33502

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ALLEA (European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities) Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States allea.org/portfolio-it...

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Hunting by Neandertals was not only subsistence. It was also a highly social activity that helps shed light on their ability to coordinate across groups, and to predict the social behaviors of prey species. johnhawks.net/weblog/what-...

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Interesting article by @blubludoesscience.bsky.social and colleagues on social learning mechanisms. #ehbea #culturalevolution #psychscisky www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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In a new article, I explore the baby boom in 7 charts, including some trends you (probably) didn't know: 1. Birth rates began to rise in the 1930s, before World War II

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I'm really happy that Dr Joseph L Graves will be coming to St Andrews University on March 12 to give the first Decolonizing Science Public Lecture entitled "Racism not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions". The lecture will take place at 1pm UK time and will be livestreamed - see link below.

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Highly topical conference featuring several talks/panels on scientific racism coming up this week, and you can register for zoom attendance for free 👇

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Bit of a belated post, but hopefully still new exciting news for some! We are delighted to announce that the next Cultural Evolution Society Conference will be in Rabat, Morocco, provisionally 11-13 May 2026, at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

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"Economic and policy decisions appear to have played a significant role in [life expectancy] trends. Countries that implemented austerity measures over the past 30 years had higher mortality rates, highlighting the long-term impact of reduced investment in public services"

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"Data suggest intergenerational transmission is greater among Swedish speakers, who have a lower separation rate. Group differences in separation risk persist after controlling for socioeconomic factors...results point to a cultural transmission of separation, beyond strong socioeconomic factors"

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If you're considering grad school (:cough: outside 🇺🇸), @brunelcce.bsky.social has a Psychology, Culture, & Evolution MSc with absolutely top-notch staff. Plenty of expats to help plug you into UK life & academia, MSc -> PhD & beyond. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements & feel free to email w/ Qs!

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If you're in the UK, please write to your MP to ask them to support this bill to put a cap on political donations and to keep foreign billionaire money out of British politics hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...

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Has anybody checked if our own UK Universities Superannuation Scheme holds shares in these tech companies?

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“Employing a qualitative-driven mixed-methods approach, the results confirm the significant roles of uncertainty and self-realisation in the childbearing decision-making process, with the former being more pronounced in Italy and the latter in Norway” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Excellent thread on what researchers outside the US can do to support our US colleagues, as science increasingly comes under ideological attack 👇

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.

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New substack essay on trusting science. open.substack.com/pub/kostaska...

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I suppose in summary - I don’t think there is a lack in male role models but there is a desire to create a false reality that instead promotes the negative role models thecosmicshamblesnetwork.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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Take time to listen to this interview with my extraordinary friend @edyong209.bsky.social. We use the word humanitarian too loosely. But Ed is truly this—one who reminds us about our inextricable connection to everyone and everything around us, with hope and outrage. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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The looks great: “cross-cultural developmental research poses distinct problems for ensuring high construct validity, owing to the nuances of working with children; the standard approach of transporting protocols designed & validated in one population to another risks low construct validity”

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Job available for Full Professor Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) - Indigenous Health and Well-Being at the Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University (RT 🙏🏼 please): www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/a...

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Excellent principles from @j2bryson.bsky.social for responsible use and understanding of generative AI

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Charting New Courses to Adulthood in the Global South: “although there have been impressive gains in education for both men and women over the past 20 years, labor force participation, particularly among women, has stalled or declined in most regions” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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