“As time went on, I began to embrace the decision to bring my kids with me on my expeditions, not as an exigency of parenting but as a kind of feminist act,” the evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers writes. Read: nyti.ms/3JzDKJp

Laure Spake 🏔️ et al. on running successful cross-cultural projects: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Three year lecturer/senior lecturer position at Otago. Expertise in science of religion, evolutionary approaches, CSR, etc. Equivalent to Assistant/Associate in North America. Great colleagues. Apply here: otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

Advancing cooperative breeding research with a peer-reviewed & “live” Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD): "estimates prevalence of breeding events w potential alloparents in 265 samples frm 233 populations of 150 species, including 2 human societies" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Interested in analyzing and visualizing natural history collections data? The Smithsonian NMNH is looking to contract a Data Scientist to lead the development of tools aimed at better understanding institutional, taxonomic, spatial, and temporal biases. 1 year contract, DC or remote!

(1/2) When collaborating on a project, visualizations, such as RACI charts (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed), are a great way to think through and assign responsibilities across collaborators. datamgmtinedresearch.com/additional-con…

Hello! Please consider applying to a year-long RA position with me, Nathan Nunn Awa Ambra Seck and Jacob Moscona. Project involves ethnographic and historical work on culture and institutions in SSA. Deadline 6/3/24. Econ RA Listings employment.ucsd.edu/research-data-…

New data collection started this week! Very excited and lucky to work on the next phase of Evolutionary Demography of Religion with a wonderful team of researchers from MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM and Anthropology at Binghamton University Binghamton University

Our (with Oskar Burger and Ron Lee) edited volume Human Evolutionary Demography is now published by Open Book Publishers 🎉 32 chapters completely free to read, including an impressive line-up of researchers working in this area 😊

Fascinating stuff! Carl Lipo & his colleagues continue to rewrite the story of Rapa Nui/Easter Island: theconversation.com/rocks-on-rapa-… via The Conversation U.S. #SUNYresearch

Write up about our new article led by Laure Spake 🏔️ Article here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out a quick summary of our paper on religiosity and support to mothers in the US and the UK. The paper is from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion team, and is also out now in E&HB

Still counts… right?

#DataScience - anyone know of a #rstats package that facilitates conversion of data from IBM cards into usable formats? My specific dataset has already been digitized into a .txt file as a numerical string.

Check out our (Evolutionary Demography of Religion) new paper simulating fitness outcomes for alloparenting! Allocare with different cost structures is adaptive under different ecological conditions. Free to read/download here for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jbEK3tz496Y…

Awesome to see the first results from the cross-cultural Evolutionary Demography of Religion project !! This one focuses on the role of religiosity in The Gambia. Summary thread in QT, and stay tuned for more from the team soon!

Hi friends who study fertility! Excited to share that our team received NSF funding to create a US Human Fertility Database. We'll be generating state-specific (since 1959) & county-specific (since 1982) period & cohort fertility indicators that will be easy to access.

Article accepted yesterday at Social Science & Medicine!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 It has important implications for how we think about the role of women’s work and maternal care in shaping child health outcomes.

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

🚨🚨NEW PAPER🚨🚨 “Impacts of women’s work and childcare on child illness among Bangladeshi Shodagor communities” In Soc Sci & Medicine, coauthored with Monica Keith, Fatema Tuz Zohora, and Nurul Alam. Open access here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…