Really enjoyed speaking at this great initiative in Sheffield’s School of Biosciences sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/.... Many thanks for nominating me @jennifer-morinay.bsky.social and great hosting Kimberley Simpson @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Last Nov, the Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre (led by our Prof Helen Ball) joined the Lullaby Trust and Sheffield Sling Library for an event on safe sling and baby-carrier use - find out more below! 🎥: Durham University Impact Acceleration team youtu.be/SGQc8UixG_M?... #ResearchImpact #Anthropology

Durham University researchers working with partners to support safe use of baby slings

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Great to be here @durham.ac.uk Institute for Advanced Study, with colleagues from @durhamhistory.bsky.social and @durhamanthropology.bsky.social who share an ‘interest in cattle’. We love chatting about cattle @themerl.bsky.social (and we love going elsewhere to chat about them too).

Are you a new parent desperate to try any products and gadgets that might help your little one snooze for a bit longer? 👶💤 Our baby sleep expert, Professor Helen Ball, gives her verdict in this BBC Radio 4 podcast. 🎧 tinyurl.com/4kxhb7fm @durhamanthropology.bsky.social | @helenball.bsky.social

It's Safer Sleep Week. If you're a new parent, why not take a look at some tips from our world-leading baby sleep expert, Professor Helen Ball, to find out the science behind your baby's sleep 👶🏼😴 tinyurl.com/mr2rff45 @helenball.bsky.social | @durhamanthropology.bsky.social #SaferSleep

From hot-mic moments to ‘selective editing’, “taken out of context” is a familiar defence—but what does understanding something in context really involve? Dr Paolo Heywood from @durhamanthropology.bsky.social traces the term’s meanings across history, politics, culture & language 👉 bit.ly/4bgxkfQ

Special collection out now: 'Flashes of Responsibility: Craft, Ethics, and Impact in Global Health Ethnography' Read it here: medanthro.net/critical-car... Featuring many of our Department's health anthropologists: staff members, postdocs, and PhD students! #Anthropology #GlobalHealth #DUresearch

Last week we saw the launch of the new 'EDI in application processes' toolkit! editoolkit.webspace.durham.ac.uk (more info in thread 👇)

Our Prof Rob Barton has been elected as a fellow of the @rsb.org.uk! Fellows of the RSB demonstrate a distinctive and notable contribution to the advancement of the biological sciences, with min. 5yrs' influential experience throughout their career. More about Rob: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/r-a-ba...

Prof Nayanika Mookherjee has said of her article: "In this essay I write on the danger of misinformation in South Asia in the run up to the Feb 2026 Bangladeshi elections and the codes of vulnerabilities which becomes preyed on." (continued in thread)

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New article published by our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee, '2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs' Read it here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... (republished from counterpointbd.com) #Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #DurhamAnthropology

New article published by our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee, '2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs' Read it here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... (republished from counterpointbd.com) #Anthropology #PoliticalAnthropology #DurhamAnthropology

2026 Bangladeshi Elections and Information Bombs - Durham University

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"Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual" Last term our Department's Dr Paolo Fortis was invited to give the weekly Departmental Seminar at the University of Oslo's Social Anthropology Department - learn more here! www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/... #Anthropology

Paolo Fortis: "Untimely Figures: Artefacts, Time and History in an Amerindian Ritual" - Department of Social Anthropology

The Departmental Seminar Series features Paolo Fortis, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Durham University, U.K.

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📃 Out now! 📃 Our Anthropology Department's Professor Yulia Egorova has co-edited an issue of Ethnoscripts titled 'Jewish Cultural Heritage, Minority Agency, and the State' - available free and open access here: journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts... #DUresearch #Anthropology #CulturalHeritage

Research by @tomyarrow.bsky.social challenges the idea that emotional openness is the only route to friendship. He found that care & intimacy can be forged through shared work, banter & even silence. www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... @uk.theconversation.com @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Heritage railway volunteers show how deep friendships can be formed without discussing emotions - Durham University

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My @uk.theconversation.com piece on male friendship and intimacy beyond words is out today:

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People can develop intimate and caring relationships, without naming emotions.

Me on Sky News waffling nervously about friendship and intimacy: news.sky.com/video/mental...

Mental health: Research shows not all men should open up to their friends

Professor of Anthropolgy at Durham University, Thomas Yarrow, explains his findings.

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Keep an ear out this Thursday 18 Dec at 11am for our Prof Jo Setchell on BBC Radio 4! It's all about monkey business... 🐒 If you can't wait - it's already available online: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #Anthropology #Primates #DurhamAnthropology

BBC Radio 4 - The Infinite Monkey Cage, Series 34, Monkey Business - Robin Dunbar, Dave Gorman and Jo Setchell

Robin Ince and Brian Cox go bananas for our monkiest episode yet, all about primate love.

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Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

We're looking forward to the upcoming Inaugural Professorial Lecture by our Professor Ben Campbell - “What Are you Doing in this Place of Nothing but Rocks and Trees?” 🗓️ 3-5pm, 10 Dec 2025 📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre Free to attend! More info and abstract: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Ben Campbell Lecture 10 Dec 2025 - Durham University

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Professor Gina Porter, @durhamanthropology.bsky.social, and Bradley Rink, at the University of the Western Cape, draw on research in Cape Town and London to challenge the common assumption that young men walk freely and without fear within communities. Read more 👉 bit.ly/43I4D8B #DUResearch

Walking habits of young men in Cape Town and London - Durham University

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Aug 2025 when our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee was in Bangladesh: Nayanika carried out fieldwork, gave a lecture at Jahangirnagar University's Anthropology Dept and spoke at a Legal Aid (BLAST) event, on Reparative Justice for victims of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV). She also...(1/2)

First paper out in FACE-UP project on protecting children from urban air pollution www.growkudos.com/articles/10.... with Judith Covey and @clairehorwell.bsky.social. @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Children’s preferences for features and designs of KN95-style respirators: A comparative study between Indonesia and Nepal

This study explores children’s preferences for different designs of KN95-style respirators in two highly polluted cities: Kathmandu, Nepal and Bandung, Indonesia. It aims to understand which designs a...

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'Undamned: indigenous leadership in river restoration in North America', a talk by Prof Beth Rose Middleton Manning (University of California, Davis) on 10 Nov, 5.30pm at Trevelyan College. No need to book, just come along. #IASFellows @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

Thanks @patrickesavage.bsky.social great to see the door stop being used in great teaching @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social

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This thicc 71-chapter book (academic.oup.com/edited-volum...) arrived just in time to use as the textbook for my new "Cultural Evolution" class I've just started teaching! Featuring this chapter from @cailinmeister.bsky.social @psmaldino.bsky.social & Jingyi Wu as well as much more including...

📢 Upcoming event! 📢 This year's Layton Dialogue will be on Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 📅 5 Nov, 3-5pm 📍CLC407, Calman Learning Centre Free and open to all! More info: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #Anthropology #IndigenousKnowledge #ClimateChange

Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Layton Dialogue - Durham University

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Our Head of Department Prof Yulia Egorova a few weeks ago: 💭 Yulia presented her work on Jewish-Muslim solidarity networks at the workshop ‘Unsilencing Islam: Historical and Sociological Perspectives’. 📍The University of Chicago-Paris Centre, organised by Sarra Zaied and Elisabeth Becker-Topkara

Delighted to share that Athena Swan have conferred a Silver Award on our Department! This recognises our efforts to advance #GenderEquality in our community. Thank you to so many in our Department for their work towards this application! @advancehe.bsky.social #AthenaSwan #Anthropology

Day 1 of our recent Gibraltar field school: 🗺️ site orientation in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve 📋practice behavioural data collection 😋and a dinner in Casemates Square! Find out more about our residential field courses: durham.ac.uk/departments/... #Anthropology #StudyAnthropology #Fieldwork

Congratulations to our Prof Jo Setchell, appointed to the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2029 sub-panel on #Anthropology and #DevelopmentStudies! This expert sub-panel will assess #research quality in Anthropology and Development Studies, across UK higher education institutions.

The Royal Anthropological Institute has awarded our Prof Nayanika Mookherjee with the Rivers Memorial Medal, one of the highest accolades in #anthropology! This recognises her outstanding contributions to anthropology, with an emphasis on fieldwork and a significant body of theoretical literature.