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-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 2w ago

🗳️ 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

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

New review out today in Evolutionary Anthropology on arranged marriage, coauthored with @dconroybeam.bsky.social and @davidwlawson.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/evan...

The Role and Consequences of Arranged Marriage in the Evolution of Human Mating

Mate selection has important fitness implications and thus has been a prominent focus across the evolutionary social sciences. However, despite ample evidence that human mate selection is uniquely sh....

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Come join us on the leadership team of #WplusEBS!

W+EBS@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reminder! W+EBS leadership elections are coming up. Know someone (maybe you?) who'd be great as Chair-Elect or Secretary? Nominate them now! We'll start compiling nominations in the next few weeks. Don't be shy, self-noms welcome! #WplusEBS

The call for “viewpoint diversity” is a nakedly political demand to overwrite the principles of academic freedom and academic excellence in order to create a “balance” of political and ideological allegiances – but only in fields and sectors that are deemed to be too liberal.

It was great to present some ongoing work at #HBES2026 about how the mind might make judgements of others’ traits in environments with dishonest signaling!

Congratulations to our #HBES2026 Early Career Award winners: Daniel Conroy-Beam and Anne Pisor! 🎓

Phenomenal talk by Martin Daly about the history of HBES! It’s so interesting to learn more about the people that made this field and this community into what it is today. #HBES2026

Scelza’s call: stop framing findings like these as “exceptions to the rule.” The more exceptions we find, the more we should rethink the rule itself. Not to abandon sexual selection theory — but to broaden the questions we ask. #HBES2026

‼️ #HBES2026 #CES2026 W+EBS UPDATE‼️ The #WplusEBS social event this year will now be a joint CES/HBES social event "Skip the Small Talk" 🗓️Wednesday, May 13th ⏰8PM 📍Azur Rooftop, Onomo Hotel Everyone is welcome & we look forward to seeing you there!

Have questions for the panelists? Submit them anonymously to this google doc: forms.gle/aaveD1ViFXdm... (2/2) #WplusEBS

Questions for W+EBS Panel: Allyship as a Social Process

We're hosting a Lunch Across Societies panel at the joint HBES/CES 2026 meeting in Morocco on May 13th, and we'd love to hear from you ahead of time. The panel — Allyship as a Social Process: Norms, I...

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Hi #HBES2026 and #CES2026 attendees! Do you know about our Lunch Across Societies session on May 13th? We'll be hosting a lunch panel called "Allyship as a Social Process: Norms, Institutions, and Care Across Contexts" on May 13th from 12:40pm - 2:05pm. (1/2 👇) #WplusEBS

Looking forward to co-chairing this panel with @annepisor.bsky.social! We have some great panelists so if you're going to #HBES2026 or #CES2026 be sure to join us over lunch on Wednesday for an interesting and engaging conversation! #WplusEBS

W+EBS@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ready for the #WplusEBS HBES2026 & CES2026 panel? We're excited to highlight our co-chairs and panelists over the upcoming days so stay tuned! Our two co-chairs for this panel are @annepisor.bsky.social and @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social -- learn more about them below 👇(1/3)

@lfanpsych.bsky.social set up this participant-driven ride share sheet for @hbes2026.bsky.social attendees arriving to the Rabat airport for #HBES2026 This is not managed by the local organizers or @humbehevosoc.bsky.social, but we're happy to spread the word. 

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HBES Rabat Ride Share (Self-organized)

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Happy #WplusEBSWednesday! I'm excited to announce our social event for #CES2026. We'll be hosting a speed-networking event, "Survival of the Social" during #CES2026. Date and time will be announced in the upcoming weeks :)

I’ll be there! #WplusEBS

W+EBS@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday! We're so excited to be hosting social events at both #CES2026 and #HBES2026 this year. At #HBES2026 we will be hosting a social community-building event called "Skip the Small Talk"! Date and time will be announced in the upcoming weeks. We hope to see you there!

Other exciting updates: W+EBS will be hosting social events at both #CES2026 and #HBES2026 this year! 🎉 Details coming soon — stay tuned for times, locations, and how to join us. Keep an eye on this account! 👀 #DiversityInSTEM #WplusEBS

Attending #HBES2026 or #CES2026? Join W+EBS for our lunch on May 13th as part of the Lunch Across Societies session! 🍽️ "Allyship as a Social Process: Norms, Institutions, and Care Across Contexts" Come connect, eat, and think together. All are welcome! 🌱 #DiversityInSTEM #WplusEBS (1/2)

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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I’m sorry, come again? The silent closeout of NSF-SBE is a travesty. #nsf #nsfsbe

Is good read, promise 👌

Justin Mogilski@justinmogilski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Why is the U.S. National Science Foundation important? Why is NSF SBE important? Please share your stories! Use the hashtags #WithoutNSF or #WithoutScience or #WithoutNSFsbe

If anyone is interested in an alternative to this “just so story” (ironic) about how evolutionary psychology derives hypotheses and its conceptualisation the environment(s) of evolutionary adaptedness that shaped our psychological mechanisms, then I suggest you read for yourself.

Samantha Joel@datingdecisions.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In the chapter on ev psych and gender roles: "This vision comes from the minds of (male) academics of the mid-twentieth century who closed their eyes, leaned back, and imagined a natural state of the human condition that looked a lot like their own home life". This book is so good OMG.

HBES members: Nominations are open for the 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye Award 🏆 Help recognize those who have gone above and beyond in communicating human evolutionary science and countering misinformation. Self-nominations are welcome. Deadline: Feb 7 Nominate here: forms.gle/VXJgczHA1irD...

EPE 2026 Award Nominations

Nominations for the University of Michigan's Evolution & Human Adaptation Program award: Evolution in the Public Eye Nomination deadline: January 31, 2026 Award Description: This award honors outsta...

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Huge fan of this lecture series on YouTube!

W+EBS@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday! Interested in learning about Bayesian data analysis but unsure how to start? Today, a follower would like to recommend a great online resource: a series of YouTube videos by @rmcelreath.bsky.social based on his book Statistical Rethinking! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnM...

Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances? Nope! Does blinding do anything? It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank. haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...

Fascinating longitudinal study in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @alicebaniel.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social and colleagues, providing evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate (gelada) 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate

Baniel et al. show that female geladas deceptively signal fertility when a new dominant male arrives. Across 14 years of data, lactating females displayed fertility signals and mated without conceivin...

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Second, a new paper by @matildabrindle.bsky.social and colleagues explores the evolution of kissing. Kissing may date back 21.5 million years, appears across large apes, and potentially occurred among Neanderthals as well! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #WplusEBSWednesdays

A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing

Kissing can be observed across the animal kingdom. This presents an evolutionary puzzle, since the fitness benefits of kissing are unclear. We use a n…

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Happy #WplusEBSWednesday, folks! This week, we're spotlighting the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 26–June 19), hosted by @tse-fr.eu and @iast.fr . Applications due Dec. 15! Great opportunity for PhD students - check it out at the link :) www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences Application

Application to the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences taking place from May 25th to June 19th, 2026 in Toulouse, France Application deadline: December 15th, 2025 Applicants will be...

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