👋 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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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That's a wrap on the #HBES2025 #WplusEBS panel!

Thank you to our panelists @robingnelson.bsky.social, @dconroybeam.bsky.social, @siobhancully.bsky.social

And thank you to the #HBES2025 attendees who shaped this conversation.

Read some final takeaways from our panelists: 👇 1/4

Halfway through the #WplusEBS panel (co-hosted by us, the LGBTQ+ Social Networking, and HBES president @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social) ! Some interesting quotes by panelists so far 👇 1/6

We had a great time at the #WplusEBS networking event last night! So great to meet all our community members 💙

Check out these #WplusEBS events at #HBES2025!

🎉 Coming to #HBES2025?

Join us for “Survival of the Social”, a speed networking event by #WplusEBS!

🗓 June 5th | 🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Byrdcage, 3426 Atlantic Ave, Atlantic City

All are welcome. Come build community with us!

🎙️Panel Chair: H. Clark Barrett (he/him) @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social

UCLA Anth Prof, Director of UCLA BEC, #HBES President

Expertise: Roots of human cog; nature & diversity of moral judgment; Indigenous knowledge & role in evolutionary and cog sci; ethics of evolutionary research & theorizing

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🎙️Siobhán Cully (she/her) (@siobhancully.bsky.social)

Associate professor of Anth at Rutgers University; former NSF program director

Expertise: New perspectives on old debates in evolutionary anthropology, including how disabled people, adopted children, & women contribute to human evolution
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🎙️Dr. Dan Conroy-Beam (he/him) (@dconroybeam.bsky.social)

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at UCSB

Expertise: Am I expert in anything? I guess computational modeling of human mating psychology

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🎙️ Dr. Robin Nelson (she/her) (@robinnelson.bsky.social)

Associate Professor in the SHESC at ASU

Expertise: Social Networks, Kin Investment and health outcomes across the lifespan; methods in qualitative behavioral research, and equity and access in research

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Read our #HBES2025 panel abstract!

This panel was co-organized by #W+EBS, the LGBTQ+ Social and Networking Event, and HBES president @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social.

What would you like to hear our panel discuss? (2/3)