Carlos Sosa Colindres
@carlossosacdres.bsky.social
phd candidate @ucsantabarbara psychological and brain sciences | evolutionary and computational approach to psychology
I’m recruiting #PhD students to join my Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social! We study how infants learn about the natural world from others 🌱 If you’re interested in #devpsych, #EvPsych, and #infantstudies, please reach out and apply! More info below (1/2)
Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community? Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2) 🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z... #WplusEBS
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Have a resource, opportunity, or recommendation you think would be valuable to the Women+ in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (W+EBS) community? Every Wednesday, we share posts featuring useful tools,...
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Happy Monday! This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays! Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more). Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2) #WplusEBSWednesdays
👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)! At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2) #WplusEBS
Why does W+EBS matter to @abbeyepage.bsky.social? “It creates a supportive, cross-career network that helps people who can struggle to stay in our field and I think our field really needs diversity to thrive too!” Fun fact: Abbey's "powered by tea and very opinionated spreadsheets” 2/2 #WplusEBS
Now that I'm officially on the website, I'm thrilled to announce that in just a few short weeks I'll be starting as an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa! anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu/elizabeth-ag...
Elizabeth Agey – Department of Anthropology
Background As a first-year undergraduate I took an Intro to Biological Anthropology course, and I enjoyed it so much that I switched my major. As I took classes
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I'm hiring a full-time #labmanager for my new Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at UCSB! The start date is flexible, but could be as early as August 1, 2025. Application review begins July 17th and will continue until the position is filled 👶🪴 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02992 #academicjobs
Junior Specialist-Lab for Infant Learning And Cognition (LILAC), Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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Excited that this paper is finally out (in collaboration with @zoeliberman.bsky.social @saraburke.bsky.social & Brenda Major) in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Comparative Status Hypothesis: Inferences About Discrimination Vary Based on Identity Salience - Elizabeth A. Quinn-Jensen, Anh L. K. Tran, Sara E. Burke, Brenda Major, Zoe Liberman, 2025
Past research examining when people label an outcome as discrimination has largely ignored contextual factors beyond the victim–perpetrator dyad. We contend tha...
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Thanks to everyone who came to my #HBES2025 talk this morning! It’s exciting to finally share this work I’m so passionate about!
Our Fourth Episode is out today! Our first of many wonderful interviews. This one with Dan Conroy-Beam @dconroybeam.bsky.social where we discuss the good and less good of ep studies of mating. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-f8icb-... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0qR...
Mating with Daniel Conroy-Beam
Guest Daniel Conroy-Beam (UCSB) explains why human mating has occupied the interest of evolutionary psychologists, what consequences this has had on science, and how things might be done better. If yo...
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I had a great time at HBES 2025 @humbehevosoc.bsky.social! I presented my work on a method we developed that allows us to predict who people will choose as partners 3 months into the future—participants chose romantic partners on their own, in their own mating markets—with zero intervention from us!
Come see me at HBES this week! I'll be talking about my work with @dconroybeam.bsky.social simulating mate choice in Nepali arranged marriages. Saturday at 9:50.
Can’t wait to share some exciting new work at #HBES2025! Join me for my talk: “Is Mate Choice Predictable? Using Agent-Based Modeling to Prospectively Predict Successful Blind Dates” 🗓️ Thursday, June 5 ⏰ 10:50 AM Check out my abstract below ⬇️
I’m really excited about this panel: “Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025” Help shape the conversation & submit your questions at the link below! Let’s talk about what attendees actually care about. Repost to spread the word!
W+EBS@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · last yr.For the first 75% of the session, we’ll discuss curated Qs from #HBES2025 attendees. What should we ask? 🙋Submit your questions anonymously here: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #WplusEBS (3/3)
#W+EBS is excited to announce our panel at #HBES2025: "Gender and identity in the evolutionary human sciences: Challenges to research and researchers in 2025" Chaired by @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social Moderated by @annepisor.bsky.social Abstract below👇 (1/3)
First Episode arrives May 20th. epthepod.podbean.com www.youtube.com/@Evolutionar...
Super interesting research by @bengelbart.bsky.social: "Love may not operate as a commitment device in the classic sense: Rather than disincentivizing one's own pursuit of alternatives, acts of love may disincentivize alternatives from pursuing oneself." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The function of love: A signaling-to-alternatives account of the commitment device hypothesis
Love is commonly hypothesized to function as an evolved commitment device, disincentivizing the pursuit of romantic alternatives and signaling this mo…
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🚨New paper! I tackle a confound in mate preference research: Are preferences & standards driven by one's own sex or target sex? Two studies show preferences are (mostly) driven by own sex, but overall standards are driven by target sex. Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0956... #MatePreferences #Research
Deconfounding Sex and Sex of Partner in Mate-Preference Research - Ashley J. Coventry, Selina Mixner, Benjamin Gelbart, Kathryn V. Walter, Daniel Conroy-Beam, Tamsin C. German, 2025
Much of the previous research examining sex differences in human mate preferences has relied exclusively on heterosexual participants. Consequently, prior work ...
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