🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in @cp-iscience.bsky.social l together with @lukeglowacki.bsky.social, @hannesrusch.bsky.social and Isabel Thielmann: “Untangling altruism and parochialism in human intergroup conflict” doi.org/10.1016/j.is... (1/7)
Luke Glowacki
@lukeglowacki.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project.
Meet Uri. One of the first Hamar women to reach university, and she’s doing it with an OVRP scholarship. Her journey shows what a small amount of support can unlock. Read her story and see how you can help other students take the same step. 🔗 eepurl.com/jsefIY
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Fees and Funding - Durham University
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Graduate school is hard, because sometimes it requires you to explain the word “boofing” to your grandparents. Context below! open.substack.com/pub/unpublis...
I Do Not Recommend Boofing Plants
Notes from the Field #1
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Yes, I’m serious. But don’t get mad until you’ve read the piece! Ft. recommendations for work by @edhagen.net , @lukeglowacki.bsky.social , Will Buckner and others. open.substack.com/pub/unpublis...
Andrew Tate is right about masculinity
We don’t need a Joe Rogan of the Left. We need a liberal 12 Rules for Life.
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Whatever your position about sex as binary or not, this is a fantastically stimulating discussion, enough so it inspired me to buy the book.
On Humans Podcast@ilarimakela.bsky.social · last yr.Sex cells are binary. But humans are not sex cells. To understand humans we must move beyond a male-female binary. Or so argues Augustin Fuentes, author of the new book, Sex is a Spectrum. Is he right? Tune in to our chat! 🎧 onhumans.substack.com/p/an-essenti... @anthrofuentes.bsky.social
I'm excited to share that my wife's book, The Mind Electric, is out! She's a brilliant neurologist and weaves together patient stories exploring the human mind. I read it and it's fantastic. If you r interested in the mind, culture, & how we make meaning, check it out! www.amazon.com/Mind-Electri...
Projectile weapon injuries in the Riparo Tagliente burial (Veneto, Italy) provide early evidence of Late Upper Paleolithic intergroup conflict www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Projectile weapon injuries in the Riparo Tagliente burial (Veneto, Italy) provide early evidence of Late Upper Paleolithic intergroup conflict - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Projectile weapon injuries in the Riparo Tagliente burial (Veneto, Italy) provide early evidence of Late Upper Paleolithic intergroup conflict
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Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms https://go.nature.com/4mCImRm
Rare ‘ambidextrous’ protein breaks rules of handedness
Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.
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If you haven't checked out the list of talks for #HBES2025, it's available online: stockton.edu/human-behavi... Lots of great talks and plenaries coming!
HBES - 36th Annual Human Behavior & Evolution Society Conference - Human Behavior & Evolution Society Conference | Stockton University
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History and Philosophy of Science under attack
University of Utah Cans History and Philosophy of Science Major Amidst Political and Administrative Chaos - Daily Nous
One way public universities in Utah can earn back part of the $60 million in funding that the state legislature took from their budgets is by "showing that [the funds] will be reallocated for high-dem...
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Halting NIH foreign awards means that “more children and adults in low-income countries will now lose their lives because of research that didn’t get done about diseases like malaria and TB.” Plus: sometimes we collect data abroad about a scientific concern that affects all humans, including us!
Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
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Is there really no correlation between cancer prevalence and lifespan and body size across species, as there should be? The apparent lack of an effect of body mass and lifespan on cancer became known as Peto’s paradox. But it turns out there is indeed a correlation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Human and chimpanzee foot. We really are born to run (or walk).
Interesting post on philosophy over at Marginal Revolution. Philosophers, I'd love to hear your thoughts. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
This is a fantastic interview with @chrisbstringer.bsky.social. Wide ranging, interesting, and I learned some stuff. Imagine if the LCA of humans and Neanderthals dated to a million years ago! That may just be the case.
On Humans Podcast@ilarimakela.bsky.social · last yr.How did humans evolve? 🧠 And why are we the only once left? 🌍 Join Chris Stringer from @nhm-london.bsky.social and myself on this epic quest to understand our shared origins. 🎧 Listen or read at: onhumans.substack.com/p/origins-of... @chrisbstringer.bsky.social #science #evolution
TIL that measles can infect and persist in the brain, and then (rarely) FIVE TO TEN YEARS LATER, kills you. There are no effective treatments. Vaccination against measles obviously prevents this 🧪 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
![Acute viral infections are typically cleared by the host’s innate and adaptive immune responses, but even non-integrating RNA viruses can persist [1,2]. Neurons of the central nervous system are a privileged location for persistence because the host cannot deploy the cytolytic and inflammatory defense mechanisms that control infections in renewable cell types [3,4]. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) provides the prime example of a persistent brain infection caused by a human RNA virus. SSPE, which occurs in about 1 in 10,000 individuals typically 5–10 years after they experience an acute infection as a child [5–7], starts with subtle signs of intellectual and psychological dysfunction and progresses to sensory and motor function deterioration that ultimately leads to death [8,9]. There are no effective treatments for SSPE, however nonspecific antivirals (interferons, ribavirin, and inosine pranobex) have been used [10]. Although vaccination against measles prevents SSPE, this lethal disease is resurging due to vaccine hesitancy and missed immunizations due to COVID-19 related disruptions [11,12].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wadfbchvgyngydxdhms5fvq6/bafkreifhzaeouy4vjlzpr3gc6irwy4hcpl3cb2x32fonx7irbxta3mrmmi)
"Cordelia has offered no strong hypothesis that explains the fact that, across time and place, men are more likely than women to decide to throw that punch... Killing off T-Rex entirely serves only to shoot ourselves in the foot"
A psychologist and biologist debate the significance of testosterone | Aeon Essays
In probing whether there are basic sex differences in humans, a psychologist and a biologist agree to seriously disagree
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This is a great exchange in a format we need more of--longform written debate.
Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · last yr.Does biology determine destiny, or is society the dominant cause of masculine and feminine traits? In this spirited exchange, the psychologist Cordelia Fine and the evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven unpack the complex relationship between testosterone and human behaviour
Hello, Bluesky! Pleased to share that my first public-press article, on the shifting debate over what makes human culture unique, was published today in @us.theconversation.com. I review recent literature suggesting that cultural open-endedness, not cumulative culture, is our true defining trait.
Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique
Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the uniquely open-ended ways we invent new ideas and share and build on them.
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Incredibly, we are cutting back on ag research and services as the US--with more good farmland and quality ag infrastructure per person than any other nation--is on its way, incredibly, to becoming a net importer of food (something pointed out by a disbelieving @sarahtaber.bsky.social ).
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗@charlescmann.bsky.social · 2y agoI have been covering agriculture, on and off, for 30 years. This involves talking to a lot of farmers and people in the business. You know what I have never heard? Not once? Farmers complaining about USDA's Agricultural Research Service and its outreach programs--the ones Musk just randomly cut.
Loads of evidence of cooperation among women in small-scale societies cross-culturally. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Fascinating @razibkhan.bsky.social column on new ancient-DNA work which gives us a glimpse of the matrilineal/matrifocal society of the ancient Celts -- a female-centered culture that was once thought to be a mythical creation.
Where Queens Ruled: ancient DNA confirms legendary Matrilineal Celts were no exception
Britain's Iron-Age mother-line
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Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG... @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory
culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability
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This is a fantastic PhD opportunity!
Tim Waring@twaring.bsky.social · 2y agoFully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG... @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com
I want to live in a world where science is funded no matter what party is in power. To do that, we need to ask how we got here and to reclaim the trust of the public. The answer is not more of the same.
Today the Cultural Evolution Society and @ehbea.bsky.social sent letters about the current attacks on scientific institutions. Imo, both were unnecessarily politicized. Here is my response, link below. FWIW, I’m glad the vibe has shifted and I can post this without worrying for my job.
Cultural Evolution Society@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2y agoCES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.
"In anthropology, as elsewhere, progress will never result from destroying what has been previously achieved but rather from incorporating the past of our science into its present and future, enriching the one with the other and turning the whole process into a lasting reality." Lévy-Strauss
"The ethnographic evidence is overwhelming that many foragers sometimes had intergroup coalitionary killings... Based on this body of evidence, I infer that intergroup coalitionary killings were likely to have occurred during the Pleistocene"
Robust evidence that mobile hunter-gatherers participated in war: Comment on Fry (2025)
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