Olympia L K Campbell
@olkcampbell.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Institute of Advanced Studies Toulouse. PhD from UCL. Human behavioural evolution. Researching kinship, honour, and gender-biased outcomes
Occasionally writing pop science and misc
https://sites.google.com/view/olympialkcampbell/about
Occasionally writing pop science and misc
https://sites.google.com/view/olympialkcampbell/about
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📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr
Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France.
Deadline: November 15, 2025.
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Check out the new 'most read' tab at EHS (Evolutionary Human Sciences), currently topped by this paper by @olkcampbell.bsky.social et al on sex ratio and violence against women
Skewed sex ratios correlate with violence against women from spouses, boyfriends and in-laws, but less so for honour-based violence from natal family @olkcampbell.bsky.social Maheen Pracha @ruthmace.bsky.social | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Skewed sex ratios and violence against women in Pakistan | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Skewed sex ratios and violence against women in Pakistan
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October 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Check out the new 'most read' tab at EHS (Evolutionary Human Sciences), currently topped by this paper by @olkcampbell.bsky.social et al on sex ratio and violence against women
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Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling & intuitive, but what is the evidence that monogamous marriage is advantageous for society?
theconversation.com/rethinking-p...
theconversation.com/rethinking-p...
Rethinking polygamy – new research upends conventional thinking about the advantages of monogamous marriage
Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling and intuitive. But new research suggests some arguments about its harms don’t hold up.
theconversation.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling & intuitive, but what is the evidence that monogamous marriage is advantageous for society?
theconversation.com/rethinking-p...
theconversation.com/rethinking-p...
So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social
The winners of the HBES Margo Wilson Award (best paper in E&HB the previous year) are Olympia Campbell, Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Gregory Fiorio, & Ruth Mace for the paper “Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures”. Congratulations!
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Redirecting
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July 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So pleased to have won this award. Thank you @ceciliapad.bsky.social @gregoryfiorio.bsky.social @ruthmace.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social
So brilliant this piece by @ceciliapad.bsky.social about how human societies have often been so flexible that political hierarchies can change with the seasons, literally. www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...
How Societies Morph With the Seasons
An anthropologist chronicles radical changes foragers undertake seasonally—and how the rigidity of industrialized societies is an anomaly.
www.sapiens.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
So brilliant this piece by @ceciliapad.bsky.social about how human societies have often been so flexible that political hierarchies can change with the seasons, literally. www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...
Made an attempt to add some nuance to the recent debates on cousin marriage unherd.com/2025/04/stop...
Stop worrying about cousin marriage
unherd.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Made an attempt to add some nuance to the recent debates on cousin marriage unherd.com/2025/04/stop...
We have made it to Lake Turkana @ceciliapad.bsky.social @asociacionbiomas.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We have made it to Lake Turkana @ceciliapad.bsky.social @asociacionbiomas.bsky.social
I’m just a girl, standing in front of Turkana Boy, asking him to love her @ceciliapad.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I’m just a girl, standing in front of Turkana Boy, asking him to love her @ceciliapad.bsky.social
So much in here incl: "five marriages in which both partners descend from the founding female. However, these partners have no recent relatedness...suggesting the people had a deep knowledge of their own genealogies...used to guide marital arrangements among a pool of related groups"
rdcu.be/d6m8T
rdcu.be/d6m8T
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
Nature - An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
rdcu.be
January 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
So much in here incl: "five marriages in which both partners descend from the founding female. However, these partners have no recent relatedness...suggesting the people had a deep knowledge of their own genealogies...used to guide marital arrangements among a pool of related groups"
rdcu.be/d6m8T
rdcu.be/d6m8T
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Why do 70% of Pashtuns say that honour killings are justified?
The UNFPA estimates that 5000 women are killed every year over ‘honour’.
Is this related to cousin marriage?
Tremendous new paper, combining surveys & DNA!
www.ggd.world/p/does-cousi...
The UNFPA estimates that 5000 women are killed every year over ‘honour’.
Is this related to cousin marriage?
Tremendous new paper, combining surveys & DNA!
www.ggd.world/p/does-cousi...
January 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Why do 70% of Pashtuns say that honour killings are justified?
The UNFPA estimates that 5000 women are killed every year over ‘honour’.
Is this related to cousin marriage?
Tremendous new paper, combining surveys & DNA!
www.ggd.world/p/does-cousi...
The UNFPA estimates that 5000 women are killed every year over ‘honour’.
Is this related to cousin marriage?
Tremendous new paper, combining surveys & DNA!
www.ggd.world/p/does-cousi...
The funniest part in this has to be Angus Deaton answering the question on whether there is a theory that is widely supported by his peers but which he considers total bunkum with: "that causality can be inferred from data"
We return to ask some stupid questions of the smartest people on Earth and, once more, our Nobelists oblige.
www.the-fence.com/nobel-endeav...
www.the-fence.com/nobel-endeav...
Nobel Endeavours II
Cats or dogs?
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December 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
The funniest part in this has to be Angus Deaton answering the question on whether there is a theory that is widely supported by his peers but which he considers total bunkum with: "that causality can be inferred from data"
Flattered to have produced a real LOL. Have a read of my piece in @thefence.bsky.social and all the other lolworthy bits.
One of maybe twenty lines in new @thefence.bsky.social that made me laugh out loud while waiting for a 1.5hr delayed doctor’s appointment (what I’m saying is, I was not primed for laughter, it is a VERY funny magazine)
December 17, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Flattered to have produced a real LOL. Have a read of my piece in @thefence.bsky.social and all the other lolworthy bits.
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Issue 22 is here 🧊
With writing from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social, Clive Martin, Gary Grimes, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, @natalie-berry.com, Stephen Smith, Falty DL, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Olympia Campbell & more
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With writing from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social, Clive Martin, Gary Grimes, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, @natalie-berry.com, Stephen Smith, Falty DL, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Olympia Campbell & more
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December 3, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Issue 22 is here 🧊
With writing from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social, Clive Martin, Gary Grimes, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, @natalie-berry.com, Stephen Smith, Falty DL, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Olympia Campbell & more
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With writing from @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social, Clive Martin, Gary Grimes, @franciscogarciadf.bsky.social, @natalie-berry.com, Stephen Smith, Falty DL, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Olympia Campbell & more
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interesting to see some of the easy, soundbite length explanations for falling birthrates challenged with counter-examples.
no definitive answers found here, but I always enjoy a good read in the category of “this seems obvious, but is it?”
no definitive answers found here, but I always enjoy a good read in the category of “this seems obvious, but is it?”
Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...
The truth about the fertility crisis
unherd.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:52 PM
interesting to see some of the easy, soundbite length explanations for falling birthrates challenged with counter-examples.
no definitive answers found here, but I always enjoy a good read in the category of “this seems obvious, but is it?”
no definitive answers found here, but I always enjoy a good read in the category of “this seems obvious, but is it?”
Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...
The truth about the fertility crisis
unherd.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Adding to the noise on why birth rates are falling - a question that continues to stump the human evolutionary sciences unherd.com/2024/12/the-...
The salmon hat article has that something something
Hat, hat, salmon hat, salmon hat, hat made of salmon, hat made of a salmon which is a fish, after 37 years
www.sequencermag.com/salmon-hats-...
www.sequencermag.com/salmon-hats-...
Salmon hats are back, baby!
We've waited 37 years for this moment.
www.sequencermag.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:23 AM
The salmon hat article has that something something
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We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...
As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
www.science.org
November 29, 2024 at 6:34 AM
We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...
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We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the #EHBEA2025 conference (of course we know you’re still running your analyses😉)! New deadline: 16/12 www.ehbea2025.com
@ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych
@ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych
a cartoon sheep says `` you 're welcome '' while standing next to another sheep .
Alt: Timmy from Shaun the Sheep says ``you're welcome''
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November 28, 2024 at 5:01 PM
We’ve extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the #EHBEA2025 conference (of course we know you’re still running your analyses😉)! New deadline: 16/12 www.ehbea2025.com
@ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych
@ehbea.bsky.social @ehbea2025.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych
I suppose my first post should promote my new paper on cousin marriage and honour cultures. Combining genetic data with survey data on honour cultures we show that the more a population has practised cousin marriage, the stronger the honour culture. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures
Honour cultures, characterized by violent responses to perceived threats to personal or family honour, are widespread. Honour killings, one of the man…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I suppose my first post should promote my new paper on cousin marriage and honour cultures. Combining genetic data with survey data on honour cultures we show that the more a population has practised cousin marriage, the stronger the honour culture. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...