We (the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) at the @tse-fr.eu) are looking for a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science (fancy way of saying psychology). Spread the word! Apply! www.tse-fr.eu/tenure-track...

"Under rationing, people consumed about as much sugar as we currently recommend they consume (~40g of added sugar per day or slightly less than 10% of their caloric intake). Moreover, everyone consumed about the same amount regardless of class. That was the policy that decreased diabetes by a third"

A Spoonful of Sugar: What Postwar Rationing Can (and Can't) Tell Health Policy | Milbank Memorial Fund

While she was pregnant with our son in 2018, my wife and I agreed to a no-sugar diet. We also draped her in a lead vest and a blanket that blocked

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😂 Not me sitting here scrolling the feed to see y’alls I voted posts 📱 Have you voted? Did you tell your friends and family to vote? Florida, make sure to vote for me Nov. 3rd. That’s it. That’s the post. Let’s win this Florida! #AngieForFlorida

You might have noticed higher-than-usual water costs in your monthly bills. Our researchers analyzed the costs of the 500 biggest water systems in the country and found that average water bills are increasing faster than incomes and inflation. Watch this conversation to learn more:

VIDEO — Water Affordability: Facts Behind the Crisis

Our new report uncovers just how expensive drinking water has become. Learn more about the findings and how we can keep

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NEW: Trump gave orders that led to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family entering the US on parole. They will likely get permanent residency later, as his younger brother Eduardo did in July. A White House official arranged a private jet to help them flee Brazil. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/w...

Trump and His Aides Helped Bolsonaro Flee Brazil and Enter U.S. (Gift Article)

President Trump ensured Flávio Bolsonaro, who lost a presidential election in Brazil and faces multiple criminal investigations there, could enter the United States, U.S. officials said.

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this is one hell of an ad

Breaking News: The Trump administration is set to relax rules restricting the emission of methane, a gas considered to be a “super pollutant.”

E.P.A. to Loosen Methane Rules for Oil Firms

The Biden administration had sought to crack down on methane leaks, a big driver of climate change. Those rules are now being scaled back.

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🙂 New paper from our lab on why some men choose to counter patriarchal norms in Tanzania. We used a mixed-methods "positive deviance" approach, interviewing outliers to explore why some become exceptionally supportive of women while most don't. bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/gsc/view...

Which young men support women’s empowerment and why? A positive deviance study of supportive men from north-west Tanzania

Promoting gender equality is a long-standing global health priority, with growing emphasis on engaging men as allies and agents of change. Accordingly, several studies have used attitudinal surveys to...

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If our votes didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to suppress them or spend so much to buy them. #VOTE

🔥💀🔥 50'000 climate deaths in Europe 🔥💀🔥 Media coverage is highlighting Italy, correctly, but proportional to population, Switzerland is number 3 in Europe. Above Spain and France. Central-Eastern countries Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria all in top 10.

Sadly, the social science backs this account very well - and has done for decades - men too often bring out the worst in each other to demonstrate/protect their fragile masculinity. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

Opinion | What Makes Men in Groups Behave So Badly?

Why do men in groups behave this way?

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A new preprint, co-authored with a great group of collaborators who joined us in Aarhus almost a year ago: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Playing at scale: a long-term population perspective on the relationship between play and innovation

The multifaceted relationship between play and innovation has long fascinated scholars across disciplines. Yet, we lack robust empirical evidence regarding the causal pathways that may connect these t...

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Most people know that losing sleep makes it harder to think clearly, but this new research paper from #JRSocInterface shows that it also changes the way we walk doi.org/10.1098/rsif... | #Biomechanics #BiomedicalEngineering

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Some Chimp Mothers Carry Their Deceased Infants Until They Mummify

Chimpanzee and bonobo mothers have been observed carrying their deceased infants on their backs for years. Why does this happen?

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New in the saga of our causal model of human growth 🚼🧬📈at AJBA: can we reconstruct growth trajectories when kids’ ages are uncertain & all we have is cross-sectional data? Turns out, YES! 🎉 Accurate estimates, with exciting (?!) implications for bioarchaeology and beyond. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70358

The latest from the lab! What we can learn about urbanization from gut microbes from diverse communities around South Asia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Distinct trajectories of urbanization shape the human gut microbiome across South Asia

Human gut microbiomes respond to lifestyle transitions, yet the extent to which these responses are conserved across spatio-cultural contexts remains undercharacterized. We present the South Asian ...

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Shreya Ramachandran@srama.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 New paper just dropped! So excited to share the first paper from my PhD work, with Nagarjuna Pasupuleti, Niraj Rai, Maanasa Raghavan & our incredible team of collaborators across India and Sri Lanka! 🧵below on what we found studying South Asian gut microbiomes:

Microplastics: research and commentary I've been collecting items on microplastics, for which research is finding increasing evidence for harm to human and environmental health.  Here are some relatively recent examples of what's out there on this topic. Should we be worried about microplastics?  …

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

NSF X-Labs

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

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“No educator would require students to smoke cigarettes to learn about nicotine’s ill effects on their health…If the medium is the message, then using generative AI in a course on climate change or sustainability might end up teaching the wrong lesson.” —Debra J. Rosenthal

Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT

Should generative AI be used in courses on the climate crisis?

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Academe@academemagazine.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New in #Academe: "Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT" by Debra J. Rosenthal www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

We are recruiting for a PhD student who will be studying jointly between Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and University of St Andrews, More information are attached. @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @cpc-cg.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social

The Shuar Health & Life History Project Special Issue (Edited by Sam Urlacher @ssurlacher.bsky.social, Theresa Gildner, & Larry Sugiyama) is complete! This important SI features 11 papers highlighting 20+ years of research with the Indigenous Shuar of Ecuador. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Shuar Health and Life History Project: American Journal of Human Biology

The American Journal of Human Biology publishes reports of original research, theoretical articles and timely reviews, and brief communications in human biology.

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Full cringe here but also proud of the work that we have done with my colleagues, John Bunce and Caissa Revilla-Minaya now at @amnh.org #childgrowth #anthropology #bioanth #antropologia #growhtmodel #FAU

The Human Biology Association@humbioassociation.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New SoS episode 🎙️: Chris & Mecca talk with Dr. Catalina Fernandez about her research on nutrition, growth, & the causes of variation in child growth trajectories among non-Western populations. Check it out here: soundcloud.com/sausageofsci...

The largest and most diverse collection of Indigenous American genomes 👉🏻 “The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” @macscastro.bsky.social @hunemeier.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @jrockdrigo.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A reminder, on the day following another mass shooting: it's a gun problem, and it's a masculinity problem. Framing instances of gun violence largely as a domestic issue or a mental health issue ignores these glaring truths. wapo.st/3QQEH6Y

It was a pleasure to join my co-author of Food Intelligence @juliabelluz.bsky.social as a guest on the #AmericanDish podcast hosted by food policy journalist @hbottemiller.bsky.social youtu.be/flBGxRoKXvc?...

What we still don't know about ultra-processed foods with Julia Belluz & Kevin Hall

YouTube video by American Dish

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🚨 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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"The team’s analyses revealed that, eight years after the arrival of their first child, women were 29% less likely to be employed at a university than if they had not become mothers" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why

Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.

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The evidence is overwhelming - COVID vaccines #ProtectYouBoth!! True then, true now - equitable, community centered outreach makes a difference in helping pregnant & lactating folks get vaccinated.

NPR@npr.org · 8mo ago

A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy. n.pr/4uXOx6X

New research lead by @marcela-pfaff-nash.bsky.social shows children living in low-resource, rural settings experience intestinal challenges that can persist well beyond early childhood, highlighting the role of globally varying intestinal function for childhood health and development.

Impaired Intestinal Function Among Indigenous Shuar Children of Amazonian Ecuador: Evidence From Lactulose:Mannitol Tests of Absorption and Permeability

Objectives Intestinal function is an important but often overlooked aspect of human biological variation, with the intestines serving as both a barrier against external pathogens/contaminants and th...

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Of course this administration, which loves to talk a big game on "health," is trying to protect a pesticide company from legal accountability.

Trump Administration Affirms Support for Bayer in Glyphosate Case

Make America Healthy Again supporters plan to rally against the proposal when Supreme Court justices hear the case in Ap

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