There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.

Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management

The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.

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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Notably, this helpful list of action items for scientists implies that the primary audience will probably not be found on BlueSky.

Mary Feeney@mkfeeney.bsky.social · last yr.

Censoring mis/disinformation research is just the beginning. All scientific research in the US is under threat. Now is the time for scientists in all fields to act. Some small steps each of us can take:

#WithoutNSF ‘s support I would not have been able to teach >8000 undergraduate students in my 25+ year career as a biology professor. No grants, no job, no promotions.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

If only the evolutionary social sciences had more Margo Wilsons. Lovely piece from Daniel Nettle on how her work is "a particularly successful example of how you can bring evolutionary understanding to social science topics and be genuinely constructive; rather than just irritating people"

Margo Wilson, and how to do evolutionary human science

In October 2024, I had the great honour of travelling to Hamilton to give the Margo Wilson Memorial Lecture.  It was fifteen years since Margo’s death. Preparing the lecture gave me the oppo…

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My alma mater continues to lead.

Sagan Friant@saganfriant.bsky.social · 2y ago

Anthropological Research in Science Education (ARISE) at Penn State is a summer institute in integrated anthropological sciences for historically underrepresented and underserved undergraduate students from the United States. APPLY NOW!

@russellsagefdn.bsky.social has established a #dissertation #funding program, including in areas related to #behavior and #decisionmaking. Check it out. #GetFunded www.russellsage.org/research/dis...

Dissertation Research Grants

The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) has established a dissertation research grants (DRG) program to support innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to

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Starter pack for evolutionary behavioral science! I know I am missing many ppl working in this area. Please add yourself and your colleagues! go.bsky.app/Rt4Kh26

My team's latest, "Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research" #causality doi.org/10.1080/0018...

Anyone interested in taking a 2-day online workshop with me? An introduction to multilevel models! (will be taught in R/RStudio). Register here: Registration link: umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/mult...

A publication’s “what” should count more than its “where”: why we should waive journal titles. A great story about how the long term impact of research led to Adrian Barnett's parents getting a new boiler in chilly Belfast. sfdora.org/2024/11/10/a...

A publication’s “what” should count more than its “where”: why we should waive journal titles. | DORA

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

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(This starter pack will no doubt expand as more people migrate to Bluesky.) go.bsky.app/KVUQFms

It's been 12 hours so maybe everyone has moved on, but I created a graph with the all the missing lines. Visually, you could say White men without college degrees were ahead of 10 groups in 1980 (5th place out of 16), and only 7 groups by 2022 (9th place).

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 2y ago

White men w/o college degrees have “fallen behind” because women with college degrees now out earn them. The framing here is something.

Unambiguously the best part of this job is hanging out with smart people like the attendees of this socioecology workshop.

Nic Thompson González@nic-tg.bsky.social · 2y ago

💫 Join us 💫 for a day long program Thurs Oct 17 with fantastic speakers exploring the social dynamics of aging across primate species and human cultures 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨‍👧‍👦🦍🐒. Attendance free in person or on Zoom, check out our program of talks (PT) and register with the QR code below!

Might be a good time to remind folks of the Project 2025 plan to eliminate NOAA. Madness

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 2y ago

NOAA just sent out a "rare news release" urging media to focus the public's attention on Hurricane Helene's potential to cause widespread flooding "hundreds of miles inland," including "the urban areas around Tallahassee, metro Atlanta and western North Carolina, including Asheville."

SocArXiv seeks volunteer moderators! Screen research papers in social science, arts, humanities, and law. Volunteers generally spend 1-2 hours per week after initial training, plus a low-volume group chat. Any professional level welcome, multiple languages especially encouraged. socarxiv@gmail.com

Progress in science involves corrections to the record. Great work led by Maria Creighton re-evaluating the link between female sociality and infant survival in baboons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Re-evaluating the relationship between female social bonds and infant survival in wild baboons

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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For mentors of smart and ambitious undergraduate students who are looking to publish their research, the Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour could be worth a look. cjhumanbehaviour.com/about/

Exam copies of Cambridge's new textbook, Human Behavioral Ecology, can be requested by instructors who are considering the volume for use in their classes. Copies can be requested by following the link on this page: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

For a two-year position, the Santa Fe Institute is hiring a postdoctoral scholar with expertise in statistical modeling and social network analysis to advance analysis and publications from the first wave of cross-cultural data from the ENDOW project: www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/a...

Cambridge is glad to remind everyone that this edited volume, Human Behavioral Ecology, will be available in February. While summarizing the state of the field, it also looks ahead to rising cohorts of early-career behavioral ecologists and the insights that await. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

Human Behavioral Ecology

Cambridge Core - Evolutionary Biology - Human Behavioral Ecology

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