Great ideas can come from anywhere, and congressional legislation (e.g., CHIPS and Science Act) has directed the NSF toward the goal of broadening participation in science. Researchers can organize and approach the legal counsel at their universities for clarifications on their activities. (14)

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)

I once strapped a GPS unit on a hunting dog in Nicaragua as well as its Mayangna owner. The dog's track (blue) was substantially longer than its owner's track, and this quote definitely makes resonates: "(Dogs) tend to get into nooks and crannies where humans don’t necessarily go," says Helen Meade.

One of the suggested references in this compelling piece by Gonzalez and Rice is a new textbook, Human Behavioral Ecology. Instructors can request an exam copy from the Cambridge website:

www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Anyone who follows these debates probably guessed correctly that the abstract is referring to MDPI and Frontiers. But can we also agree that calculating journal impact factors over short time frames (the previous two years) is a terrible metric in any case?

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/

To what extent does this resonate?

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 the "Hunting is not a binary phenomenon" discussion, it could be helpful to note relevant work on time allocation. For example, Hames (1989) compiled cross-cultural data, showing that men (left) hunt substantially more minutes per day than females (right) in a sample of lowland societies.

There are potentially gray areas to consider, too. For example, I once published a chapter in this book, edited by Matt Gompper. The chapter is in my Google Scholar profile, but the book and its citations are not. Some other folks might lobby that the book should count, too.

Here's the full lineup of chapters:

Designed with pedagogy in mind, the book has chapters from a fantastic group of authors (many of whom will hopefully join the inimitable @rebeccasear.bsky.social on Blue Sky in the near future).