I am in Paris right now, the final home of Georges Condominas, so I saw it fitting to mention it is his birthday today! He is famous for his avant-garde ethnographic writing style, which would now be akin to reflexive ethnography. 🧵 (1/3)

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Ray Hames made foundational contributions to human behavioral ecology in topics as diverse as food & labor exchange, human ecology, marriage, kinship, & parental investment, & served HBES & other societies in multiple roles. Congrats to Ray for winning the HBES Lifetime Achievement Award!

"All of the times in my life when I have felt hopeless, there has been hope. I just haven’t been able to feel it."
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A European robin! While very cute, male robins are known to attack other small birds without provocation and even their own reflection.

New research shows water de-fluoridation “disproportionately affects uninsured children.” Glad to see Calgary bringing fluoridated water back! Great news for the dental health of kids in low-income households.

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"For the first couple of years that you are making stuff, what you are making isn’t so good...But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you."
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Colleagues at MIT on the evolution of street life:

"...the average walking speed has increased by 15%, while the time spent lingering ... has halved."

"...the frequency of group encounters declined ... urban residents increasingly view streets as thoroughfares rather than as social spaces."

Photos are in from #uofucsbs research day. Featuring my ongoing master’s project about bias in ML models that predict BMI from photographs.

Evolutionary anthropologist Vivek Venkataraman and renowned scientist David Sloan Wilson dig into how early human societies developed.

🔗Don't miss out, come along! www.prosocial.world/events/democ...

#Evolution #Biology #Academic #Podcast #History #Science #ProSocial

Plantufrøðiligur urtagarður on another gorgeous day :)

New research shows LLMs may outperform humans in shifting others' opinions. But these results come with some important caveats… (1/7) 🧵

Tonight London time 18:30 with Vivek Venkataraman.
Everyone welcome, just join the Zoom!

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world.

The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use.

Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Let’s not fall for the “lump of labour” fallacy. During the Depression, banning married women from work didn’t reduce unemployment; it deepened inequality. Gendered job cuts didn’t fix the economy; they worsened conditions for the most economically vulnerable families. (1/4)🧵

No matter where I go in the world, pigeons have acted like an anchor when I feel lonely. Each time I see one, I’m reminded of home and feel a little closer to the people and places that make me feel safe. 🧵

The guard geese won’t let me take up close pictures of the baby lambs :( #faroeislands

Our team recently took a deep dive into the history of Man the Hunter.

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

I learned some very surprising things about interactions between popular writers and practicing anthropologists.

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What does the phrase Man the Hunter mean?

It’s everywhere in popular discourse, but rarely defined.

As a diverse group of hunter-gatherer scholars, we offer a new history and analysis of this controversial phrase.

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