Luke Glowacki
@lukeglowacki.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Boston University. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project.
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@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!
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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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September 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
@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/...
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/...
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Graduate school is hard, because sometimes it requires you to explain the word “boofing” to your grandparents. Context below!
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I Do Not Recommend Boofing Plants
Notes from the Field #1
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September 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Graduate school is hard, because sometimes it requires you to explain the word “boofing” to your grandparents. Context below!
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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.
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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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August 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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.
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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.
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
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
An Essential Difference? Males, Females, and the Spaces In Between
A new podcast episode with Agustín Fuentes explores the meaning of biological sex.
onhumans.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Whatever your position about sex as binary or not, this is a fantastically stimulating discussion, enough so it inspired me to buy the book.
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...
June 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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...
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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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June 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Projectile weapon injuries in the Riparo Tagliente burial (Veneto, Italy) provide early evidence of Late Upper Paleolithic intergroup conflict www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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
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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May 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms
https://go.nature.com/4mCImRm
https://go.nature.com/4mCImRm
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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!
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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May 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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!
Lots of great talks and plenaries coming!
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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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May 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
History and Philosophy of Science under attack
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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!
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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April 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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!
Plus: sometimes we collect data abroad about a scientific concern that affects all humans, including us!
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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.
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PNAS
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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April 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Human and chimpanzee foot. We really are born to run (or walk).
April 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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...
April 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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.
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:
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@chrisbstringer.bsky.social
#science #evolution
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
Origins of Humankind, Part III: What Is a Human?
Things are about to get personal... In episode three of the series, Chris Stringer guides us through the story of humanity itself.
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April 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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.
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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...
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@jpeg)
April 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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...
Vaccination against measles obviously prevents this 🧪 journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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"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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April 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"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"
This is a great exchange in a format we need more of--longform written debate.
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
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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April 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is a great exchange in a format we need more of--longform written debate.
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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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March 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
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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 ).
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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 ).
Loads of evidence of cooperation among women in small-scale societies cross-culturally. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
March 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Loads of evidence of cooperation among women in small-scale societies cross-culturally. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
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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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March 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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.
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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
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
timwaring.info
March 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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
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
This is a fantastic PhD opportunity!
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
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
timwaring.info
March 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is a fantastic PhD opportunity!
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.
March 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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.
March 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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.