I'm so very excited that this paper is finally out! DAIR has a webpage dedicated to the topic of TESCREALism (see Dr. Gebru's thread👇), and I will soon publish a TESCREAL FAQ that addresses the most common questions that folks have about the idea! What do you think? Would love

New episode (928), with Dr. Charles Roseman (Charles Roseman): The #evolution of complex Traits, Hereditarianism, and understanding sex. #Anthropology #Biology #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/5Usuozf02xs
Podcast: bit.ly/4azHI0J

Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

I’ll be giving a talk on the dynamics of deception in human societies for the Radical Anthropology group at UCL on May 7th at 6:30pm for anyone who wants to check it out or meet up

We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data!

These three aspects would make this a dream job for me:
• You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team.
• You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important…

Once again, being reminded of the importance of choosing one’s collaborators wisely: at the third project meeting for Evolutionary Demography of Religion and could not have better collaborators than these. Kudos to PI John H. Shaver for putting this team together 😊 evolutionarydemographyofreligion.org

Mental health of mothers with malnourished children in Nepal: a prospective observational study- 'At admission, 12% of mothers had anxiety, depression, or both, which decreased to 3.0% at the time of discharge' wlv.openrepository.com/handle/2436/62…

Off on my favourite mode of transport to a project meeting for Evolutionary Demography of Religion and then the EHBEA EHBEA 2024 conference 😊

📢 #JustPublished in The Lancet Global Health ‘Geographical accessibility to functional emergency obstetric care facilities in urban Nigeria using closer-to-reality travel time estimates: a population-based spatial analysis’.
Using an innovative approach with closer-to-reality travel time…

New article on the roots of the mainstreaming of far right politics:

Really existing liberalism, the bulwark fantasy, and the enabling of reactionary, far right politics

Open access in CONSTELLATIONS

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our brand new 2-year international Evolutionary Biology MSc program here in Mainz*) starts in October. Apply by May 15th ...or why not today or tomorrow? blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-biologie-…
*) a city that our today's visitor Audrey Proenca called 'adorable'. See how happy she looks with us😍

Documenting postpartum health beyond the traditional 6-week check-up is crucial.

Maxine Pepper Oona Campbell look at various methods to contact women. Women’s high level of engagement suggest a high perceived needs for care. @march_lshtm👇

This is an important contribution to the evolutionary behavioral literature across fields. Edited by
Stephanie Fox, Joan Silk, Brooke Scelza, and Karen Kramer.

UPCOMING WEBINAR - PSG/MARCH Centre, LSHTM present:

PSG's Kazuyo Machiyama talking about 'Ethnic diversity in fertility treatment in 2017-2021 using national register data, United Kingdom​'

12:45 Thursday 25 April

All welcome, either in person or online

lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

When there were a LOT fewer people, before all that industrialisation and colonising etc. were those people mostly in extreme poverty? Nope! We can tell because height & malnutrition. Parts of the world are STILL recovering from the 16th century!
#ethics
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

BMJ GH Editor-in-Chief Vacancy bit.ly/3xwydAI

We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Religiosity and gender bias structure social networks [Tibet]: 'participation in religious rituals contributes to the overall development of social support networks. The benefits to personal networks, however, seem to be contingent upon gender' bit.ly/3xyzC9Z

How scientists are making the most of Reddit: As X wanes, researchers are turning to Reddit for insights and data, and to better connect with the public nature.com/articles/d4158…

Øystein Kravdal and colleagues have found that a parental cancer death weakens young offspring’s mental health. In contrast, having a parent with cancer who remains alive throughout the observation period has quite little impact.
📰demographic-research.org/articles/volum…