Abbey Page
@abbeyepage.bsky.social
Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. 🩷💜💙🩵
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· May 14
📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣
Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case.
We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍
Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case.
We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍
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Update: The deadline for #HBES2026 has been extended to January 16! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Update: The deadline for #HBES2026 has been extended to January 16! airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
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Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community?
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z...
#WplusEBS
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z...
#WplusEBS
W+EBS Wednesdays Recommendation Form
Have a resource, opportunity, or recommendation you think would be valuable to the Women+ in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences (W+EBS) community?
Every Wednesday, we share posts featuring useful tools,...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Have a resource, recommendation, or opportunity you think would benefit our community?
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z...
#WplusEBS
Submit it through this form (or comment below!) so we can feature it in an upcoming #WplusEBSWednesdays post (yes, even your own paper)! (2/2)
🔗 forms.gle/oz6M3fXN8G7z...
#WplusEBS
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Happy Monday!
This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays!
Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more).
Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2)
#WplusEBSWednesdays
This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays!
Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more).
Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2)
#WplusEBSWednesdays
October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Happy Monday!
This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays!
Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more).
Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2)
#WplusEBSWednesdays
This week, we’re excited to kick off our new series: W+EBS Wednesdays!
Every Wednesday, we’ll share helpful resources, recent job postings, and recommendations (podcasts, research papers, books, and more).
Be on the lookout for a new post this Wednesday!(1/2)
#WplusEBSWednesdays
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Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Spoiler alert: it's better to have a good theoretical understanding and design appropriate statistical models than it is to throw zillions of superficially "okay, fine" models at a poorly specified (and often deliberately vague) target.
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
A bit of good thinking >>> lots of poor thinking.
Shocking!
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👋 Meet Kat, our Student Event Liaison!
@ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating.
At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating.
At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
👋 Meet Kat, our Student Event Liaison!
@ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating.
At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@ksheetz.bsky.social is a PhD Candidate at Oakland University working with Dr. Lisa Welling, studying social cognition in the context of online dating.
At W+EBS, she organizes and plans social events at HBES and other conferences. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)!
At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
👋 And finishing our intros, I'm @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social, the Student Social Media Officer (& a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Barbara)!
At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
At W+EBS, I develop social media strategy to grow and connect with our membership, and manage our email, Bluesky, and (newly created) LinkedIn. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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👋 Meet Sarah, our Secretary!
@anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
👋 Meet Sarah, our Secretary!
@anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@anthrosarah.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.
As secretary, she helps connect with the evolutionary social sciences community, planning events and collaborating with the team to shape the future of W+EBS. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
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👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer!
@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.
As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.
As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer!
@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.
As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers.
As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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Reminder to anyone considering submitting for #HBES2026 and/or #CES2026 that the abstract submission deadline is November 16th!
Full guidelines and requirements are available on the conference website.
🔗 Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
We look forward to your contributions to HBES2026!
#HBES2026
🔗 Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026
We look forward to your contributions to HBES2026!
#HBES2026
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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👋 Meet Abbey, our Chair!
@abbeyepage.bsky.social is a lecturer in Psych at @brunelcce.bsky.social ! As chair, she sets the agenda and overall direction of W+EBS to best support our members. She arranges and chairs meetings and hosts W+EBS events at HBES and other conferences. 1/2
#WplusEBS
@abbeyepage.bsky.social is a lecturer in Psych at @brunelcce.bsky.social ! As chair, she sets the agenda and overall direction of W+EBS to best support our members. She arranges and chairs meetings and hosts W+EBS events at HBES and other conferences. 1/2
#WplusEBS
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
👋 Meet Abbey, our Chair!
@abbeyepage.bsky.social is a lecturer in Psych at @brunelcce.bsky.social ! As chair, she sets the agenda and overall direction of W+EBS to best support our members. She arranges and chairs meetings and hosts W+EBS events at HBES and other conferences. 1/2
#WplusEBS
@abbeyepage.bsky.social is a lecturer in Psych at @brunelcce.bsky.social ! As chair, she sets the agenda and overall direction of W+EBS to best support our members. She arranges and chairs meetings and hosts W+EBS events at HBES and other conferences. 1/2
#WplusEBS
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🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHBEA-Public-Communication-Award-nomination-form 2026.docx
2026 EHBEA Excellence in Public Communication award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DEC...
docs.google.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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📢 Our new article on relationship between height preferences and endorsement of gender norms.📢
We investigated whether adherence to the 'male taller norm' varied according to gender norm attitudes (heterosexual UK-based participants).
🧵1/5
🧪 #ehbea #psychscisky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We investigated whether adherence to the 'male taller norm' varied according to gender norm attitudes (heterosexual UK-based participants).
🧵1/5
🧪 #ehbea #psychscisky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Relationship between Height Preferences and Endorsement of Gender Norms - Human Nature
Height preferences when choosing a partner might reflect adaptive mating strategies, whereby tall men are deemed attractive to potential partners due to links with health and resource acquisition. How...
link.springer.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📢 Our new article on relationship between height preferences and endorsement of gender norms.📢
We investigated whether adherence to the 'male taller norm' varied according to gender norm attitudes (heterosexual UK-based participants).
🧵1/5
🧪 #ehbea #psychscisky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We investigated whether adherence to the 'male taller norm' varied according to gender norm attitudes (heterosexual UK-based participants).
🧵1/5
🧪 #ehbea #psychscisky
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators 🫶✨
🧵 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @loraadair.bsky.social published in the New Metro over the weekend about Outcry Witness
It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
Home - Healing starts when people bear witness
Outcry Witness is the platform where survivors of sexual violence keep an anonymous record of their experience, always under their control.
outcrywitness.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators 🫶✨
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It was cool to see that Mokyr got the Nobel in economics. @antonhowes.bsky.social has a nice write up here: www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...
Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel
A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
www.ageofinvention.xyz
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It was cool to see that Mokyr got the Nobel in economics. @antonhowes.bsky.social has a nice write up here: www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...
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"a narrow focus on gross fertility measures provides a potentially misleading picture of demographic change. Our analysis of 236 countries from 1950-2023 reveals that when mortality is incorporated through net reproduction measures, our understanding of global fertility changes dramatically"
The role of mortality in fertility transition studies - N-IUSSP
Vegard Skirbekk and Thomas Spoorenberg* advocate the combined use of fertility and mortality information, or net reproduction, when discussing fertility levels and trends, both in developing and in de...
www.niussp.org
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"a narrow focus on gross fertility measures provides a potentially misleading picture of demographic change. Our analysis of 236 countries from 1950-2023 reveals that when mortality is incorporated through net reproduction measures, our understanding of global fertility changes dramatically"
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🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵
🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.
🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.
🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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August 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵
🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.
🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.
🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
I'm so excited by this 😁💙
I love teaching and creating content that turn #idon'tdomaths students data freaks 🤩📊
I love teaching and creating content that turn #idon'tdomaths students data freaks 🤩📊
🤩 Methods, stats and critical thinking is getting a massive overhaul at @brunelpsy.bsky.social thanks to the hard work of CCE @willgervais.com @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social 💪💅
Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I'm so excited by this 😁💙
I love teaching and creating content that turn #idon'tdomaths students data freaks 🤩📊
I love teaching and creating content that turn #idon'tdomaths students data freaks 🤩📊
I mean it's the study of people and there is always people about....
my logic is solid
my logic is solid
i am sick in bed watching ONE DAY which I hadn't seen and I feel like this little exchange should have been an academic meme
October 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I mean it's the study of people and there is always people about....
my logic is solid
my logic is solid
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i am sick in bed watching ONE DAY which I hadn't seen and I feel like this little exchange should have been an academic meme
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
i am sick in bed watching ONE DAY which I hadn't seen and I feel like this little exchange should have been an academic meme
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🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌
Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!
Deadline: December 19th, 2025
Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌
Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!
Deadline: December 19th, 2025
Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
2026 service noimination form.doc
2026 EHBEA Services to the Community award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 20...
docs.google.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌
Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!
Deadline: December 19th, 2025
Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌
Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!
Deadline: December 19th, 2025
Here is the form👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🧵 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @loraadair.bsky.social published in the New Metro over the weekend about Outcry Witness
It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
Home - Healing starts when people bear witness
Outcry Witness is the platform where survivors of sexual violence keep an anonymous record of their experience, always under their control.
outcrywitness.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🧵 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @loraadair.bsky.social published in the New Metro over the weekend about Outcry Witness
It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories.
No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
Reposted by Abbey Page
🤩 Methods, stats and critical thinking is getting a massive overhaul at @brunelpsy.bsky.social thanks to the hard work of CCE @willgervais.com @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social 💪💅
Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
October 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
🤩 Methods, stats and critical thinking is getting a massive overhaul at @brunelpsy.bsky.social thanks to the hard work of CCE @willgervais.com @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social 💪💅