Congrats 🎉 to HSL alum Dr Joon Hwang on his new publication in Evolution & Human Behavior! In rural Bangladesh, participants’ risk preferences may be a function of their social networks... 🧵 [1/3] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Northern Kenya experiences extreme heat. Practitioners connect this heat to anxiety. Household heads report kids can’t go outside. At the @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Climate Solutions Symposium, HSL PhD student @soujanyaakkiraju09.bsky.social presented early insights from CHARMES Kenya. 1/2

In a recent win for the HSL, Courtney Elmore received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for the first 3 years of her PhD at @psuanthro.bsky.social. Courtney plans to study how livelihood change and migration affect social networks in rural South Africa. Congratulations to Courtney!! #NSFfunded

It was great to present some ongoing work at #HBES2026 about how the mind might make judgements of others’ traits in environments with dishonest signaling!

CEs Job Alert 🚨! 4-year teaching focused lecturership at Bristol in bio/evo anthropology with a quantitative focus. Bristol is a terrific city to live in, and many ECRS in the CES will hopefully fit the profile: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Wow it's hard to start new research and grow our lab and get stuff out and *also* be social, but Human Sociality Lab is still here! We'll catch you up on our latest. To get you started: greetings from Kenya, where Soujanya Akkiraju and @annepisor.bsky.social work on climate change and health! 👋🌍🇰🇪

We're so excited for @kris-smith.bsky.social -- our WSU + PSU lab is keeping its WSU roots strong!! Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🎉

Kris Smith@kris-smith.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm excited to announce I'll be returning to WSU Anthropology this Fall as an assistant professor! I know these announcements are a little weird these days, but I'm thrilled to be joining a great department with wonderful colleagues. I'm looking forward to this new chapter in my academic career

Is us vs them thinking inevitable? 👥 No, and understanding why it happens can help us push back against it, even if in local ways. In a Q&A, Anne offers some ideas for what we can do 👇

Anne Pisor@annepisor.bsky.social · last yr.

Who has what, what we’ve heard, past experiences: these are all factors that (1) contribute to us vs them thinking, and (2) that we can address – even if in small, local ways – to reduce it. Read my hopeful Q&A with Francisco Tutella (Penn State sci comm) for more: www.psu.edu/news/researc...

How do social relationships spanning communities help or hurt conservation? 🐠 Kris, Anne, and our collaborators in Africa and Europe find that long-distance relationships increase participation in conservation behavior 👇

Kris Smith@kris-smith.bsky.social · 2y ago

How do we get people to work across community boundaries to achieve conservation goals? In a new paper in @consletters.bsky.social, we show that long-distance friends in other communities encourage people to participate in managing natural resources conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

How climate adaptation and cooperative networks affect people and the resources they manage? 🐟 How changed livelihoods change health? 🩺 This is what we do at the Human Sociality Lab. 🧵