This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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Why did evolution give us menopause? And why is it only humans and a handful of whales that seem to experience it? A short piece on evolution, reproductive conflict, and the mystery of grandmothers. nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/why-did-ev...

Why did evolution give us the menopause?

And why didn't it give it to most other mammals?

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Fully funded. Deadline: 27 May 2026. 🔗 ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please repost or tag someone who fits.

Postdoctoral Researcher in Sensory Neuroscience

Do you want to contribute to top quality research? In our research group, you will find a unique opportunity to work within an ERC funded project together with top researchers in the intersection betw

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⚠️ Deadlines are approaching! ⚠️ Interested in disgust and, more broadly, human disease avoidance? 🚨 Two PhD positions are currently open: see thread below 👇

Fantastic example of intellectual humility from @drsarahmyers at #ehbea2026, re-evaluating a previously published paper of her own using more robust methods. Advice to the audience: “be more reflective”

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

💸 Budget options: FlixBus → www.flixbus.fr BlaBlaCar → www.blablacar.com ✈️ Flights: www.bordeaux.aeroport.fr/vols-destina... 🚆 Trains: www.ter.sncf.com/nouvelle-aqu... 📣 Abstract deadline: April 10, 2026 🔗 ishe.org/conferences-... #ISHE2026 #ISHE26 #HumanEthology

Getting to Les Eyzies for ISHE 2026 is easier than it might seem ✨ The best option is to fly into Bordeaux (BOD), with direct international connections, and take a train (1 change).

COME AND JOIN OUR MEET & GREET! 📽️❤️‍🔥 Following up, before @ehbea2026.bsky.social , we have @jeannebovet.bsky.social , the vice president of @ehbea.bsky.social , who tells us a bit about herself and how conferences are organised 🤓 🙌 💯 Have a look and #MeetTheBoard 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/fsxNE...

Vice president of EHBEA - Jeanne Bovet #MeetTheBoard

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Amazing PhD project with a wonderful set of supervisors! This is a rare topic of study, so if you’re into it, embrace this opportunity!

Arnaud Tognetti@atognetti.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

Relevant for @pnirs.bsky.social @ispne.bsky.social !!

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’

- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...

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⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Psychology

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? We are currently looking for a driven and curious postdoctoral researcher who wants to join Mats J. Olsson’s research group in the Division of Ps

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Spring is in the air, and we’re getting excited for #EHBEA2026! Hope you are too! ⏳ Registration for EHBEA 2026 closes April 1 👀 We know… suspicious timing. But it’s real! Grab your spot while you can! #[AI]volution #ConferenceSeason #EvolutionaryHumanSciences #Cognition #BehaviouralScience

The 28th ISHE Biennial Congress will take place at the Musée National de Préhistoire in Les Eyzies. Join us for a week of science and discussion in this unique setting. 📍 Les Eyzies, France 📅 June 21–27, 2026 📣 Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2026 More info: ishe.org/conferences-...

How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Thread🧵 (1/25+)

Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes - Nature

In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

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#ISHE #ISHE2026 #HumanEthology #Prehistory #Archaeology

The ISHE 2026 social programme combines science with exploration of the Dordogne’s remarkable prehistoric heritage. 📍 Les Eyzies, France 📅 June 21–27, 2026 📣 Submit your abstract by April 3, 2026, and register to join us. More info: ishe.org/conferences-...

🤖🛠️ #EHBEA2026 Workshop As part of the [AI]volution track, Lennard Froma will lead a workshop (Tue 14 April) on using Large Language Models (LLMs) to process qualitative data. Analyse and classify while keeping data on your own machine—more private, efficient & researcher-friendly 🔒💻👉 ehbea2026.com

Overview | EHBEA2026

The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026. EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...

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Our March issue is a Focus on "Evolution in medicine", out now! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Including research & opinion on: ➡️Somatic evolution and health ➡️Predicting intrahost evolution ➡️Collateral sensitivity during antibiotic therapy Cover illustration by Alex Cagan @atjcagan.bsky.social

🏆✨ Congratulations to Hana Hubová, recipient of the Owen F. Aldis Award 2026! We wish her the very best of luck with her project and look forward to hearing more about the results at one of our upcoming conferences.

📘 Nouveau livre ! Introduction à la statistique bayésienne avec le logiciel R Découvrez pas à pas la statistique bayésienne et sa mise en œuvre dans R : théorème de Bayes, MCMC, priors, régression, GLM/GLMM et comparaison/validation de modèles. Aux éditions Quae 🙏 📷 Crédit photo : Yann Raulet

Don't forget! ⏰ Early Bird Registration for #EHBEA2026 closes TOMORROW! 🐦✨ Don’t miss your chance to secure a discounted spot at four days of inspiring research, stimulating keynotes & vibrant discussion in Leiden 🇳🇱🧠🌷 Register now and join us 14–17 April! 📅 ➡️https://www.ehbea2026.com/

Overview | EHBEA2026

The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026. EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...

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🔥28th Congress of the International Society for Human Ethology 📢 Call for Abstracts — Open! 📍 Les Eyzies, France 📅 June 21–27, 2026 ⏳ Deadline: April 3, 2026 More info and submit here: ishe.org/conferences-and-summer-institutes/ #ISHE2026 #HumanEthology #CallForAbstracts #AcademicConference

'Patterns of genetic diversity on the X and Y chromosomes suggested that European-farmer ancestry seemed to arrive mostly through females. “We really do think that the bits and pieces of the farming lifestyle that were incorporated by these hunter-gathering groups came in through...women".'

Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia

Ancient inhabitants of the Rhine-Meuse river delta resisted population shifts that transformed most of Europe — until they helped catalyse the expansion of ‘Bell Beaker’ culture.

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We're getting excited... just putting the finishing touches to **PsychoPy Studio** This is a complete rewrite of the PsychoPy Builder/Coder app, now packaged in Electron. Faster load, modernised UI, web-ready, independent of the Python interpreter 🎉 🚀 blog.psychopy.org/general%20bl...

PsychoPy Studio: the app we love, reimagined

It’s now over 20 years since PsychoPy’s humble beginnings as an open-source Python library to help users present high-precision stimuli and collect responses from participants. Since 2009 PsychoPy…

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🌟 Introducing the plenary speakers 🌟 We are bringing you the remaining plenary speakers who will join us at the International Society for Human Ethology Congress 2026 in Les Eyzies, France. 📅 Dates: June 21 – 27, 2026 For more information, visit: ishe.org/conferences-...

Happy #WplusEBSWednesday! Reposting this 🙌 Submit your abstracts for the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health by March 1st! #conferences #WplusEBS #evolution

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health will hold its annual meeting 28-31 July in Kiel, Germany. Abstract submission deadline 1 March isemph.org/page-18356

Was excited to talk to @davidpinsof.bsky.social and @dpietra.bsky.social on their stellar podcast. We covered pandemic lockdowns, how comfortable you'd be touching your friend's sweaty socks, why politicians are disgusting, and whether some core concepts in evolutionary psychology even make sense.

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This week, we talk to @joshtybur.bsky.social about the immune system in your head. 🤯 youtu.be/O0t8WpICTyo www.podbean.com/eas/pb-x6vk5... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏 @durhampsych.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk