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Anne Pisor

@annepisor.bsky.social
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Faculty (Penn State), lab director (socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people cooperate to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 15h
Ugly drafts, excellent company ✍️🙌 @brunelpsy.bsky.social Lora Adair, W+EBS Chair-Elect, and Ashley Coventry launch a monthly writing group for W+EBS members on 5th Oct! First up: free-writing. No editing allowed 👀 Join W+EBS: tinyurl.com/3svhmrn3 Sign up 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Had a great conversation with PRX's (think NPR's) The World. We talked about how heat is affecting herders in Kenya and the US, and what we and herders can do about it. It aired yesterday but here's where you can listen today 👇🏻
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Had a great conversation with PRX's (think NPR's) The World, airing today across the US. We talked about how heat is affecting herders in Kenya and the US, and what we and herders can do about it. To listen live, try streaming an East Coast station at about 7:38pm Eastern. To go podcast-style... 👇🏻
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The anthropology section of the Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship has now been published www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
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Joseph Henrich
The Task This document represents a supporting chapter in our Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Our interdisciplinary panel was charged with asse...
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can't wait to try this new @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social writing group! I don't know about y'all, but giving writing the space to be ugly sounds preeeetty good this month 🧟‍♀️. Join us on Monday! 👇🏻
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 14/09/2026
Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba
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Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here's my 1-month alert: applications to join us in the Demography Department at UC Berkeley are due in 1 month. This is a great department in a great place with collegial people doing cool things. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05488
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Assistant Professor - Open Field - Demography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Adam Siepielski @adamsiepielski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Arkansas is hiring a TT Assistant Professor Position in Ecology. We have a wonderful group of colleagues. Join us! Apply here: tinyurl.com/yxk5marb
Photograph of the University of Arkansas in Fall.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In an NPR interview, Jack Clark (Anthropic cofounder) referenced the emergence of cooperation at two levels: first, in a social-insect-like way for AI agents in the Hugging Face hack; second, as a collective action problem among tech companies Cooperation researchers: 🍿 www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
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Anthropic co-founder says slowing AI is a 'collective action problem'
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark discusses growing concerns about artificial intelligence, recent warning signs and what he says companies should do to reduce the risks.
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
✨ Introducing the #WplusEBS member spotlight! ✨ Each month we'll feature a member and something they're excited about — a paper, project, recent accomplishment, etc. Want to be featured? DM us! Or check your DMs...we might already be reaching out 👀 Not a member yet? Join via the link in bio!
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hi #WplusEBS members, This week we have 2 job postings to highlight for you all 👇 #academia #jobmarket
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton saved many, many people’s lives with her contributions to the Moderna vaccine and that is what I will remember about her more than anything. We should all hope to do this much good. www.knoxnews.com/story/entert...
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Dolly Parton gave the world the gift of reading and a COVID-19 vaccine
Dolly Parton's philanthropy extended to any cause anywhere she felt she could make a difference, big or small. That’s just who she was.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Out today in @us.theconversation.com: There are shepherds on the US open range exposed to extreme heat. It's difficult for medical professionals to serve them, much less for public health researchers to study them. As extreme heat gets more common, how could it be affecting herders' health? 🧵 1/
A herder helps to move a flock of sheep near California’s border with Mexico to graze on alfalfa in 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New article out in @us.theconversation.com by @annepisor.bsky.social and Bonface Osindi on the health effects of heat on herders' mental and physical health. Environmental exposures to extreme heat in people who work outdoors is an increasing problem in our climate-heated world.
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Relentless heat and drought take a toll on herders’ physical and mental health, in Kenya and the US
Whether in Kenya or California, herders face dangerous temperatures and difficult conditions that put a strain on their health.
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
LOVING the #mentorship feedback we're getting! 💚 Follow up question: Would you prefer matching based on career stage, or lived experience — e.g., minoritised identity, new parenthood, international researcher status, research area? Drop your thoughts in our DMs or comment below 👇 #WplusEBS
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New preprint 🚨 Traditionally, the Hadza lived as mobile hunter-gatherers, moving camps several times per year. Today this is changing - but why? We show that subsistence transition offers multiple pathways to food security. Families who move less are *substantially* more food secure.
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Moving On From Movement: Sedentism Provides a Key Pathway to Food Security for Hadza Hunter-Gatherers
Extensive discussion attends to the disadvantages of shifting from mobile hunter-gatherer subsistence  to sedentary living. Fewer studies have investigated
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Experiencing widespread or back-to-back climate events could affect decisions in your household, or in households you serve or study. In a new paper in Climatic Change, we explore whether different characteristics of drought predict whether labor migrants send home money. 🧵👇🏻 1/
Cracked brown mud dominates this picture, with just a bit of water toward the horizon and cloudy skies above
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Looking for an Associate Prof position? Interested in behavioural ecology & cultural evolution? Come join us at the Dpt of Ecology and Evolution in Lausanne🇨🇭 @dee-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! Great department & great place to live. Pls RP. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🚨Final Reminder! 🚨 If you're a member of #WplusEBS please make sure to vote in our election for chair-elect and secretary!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🗳️ W+EBS elections are coming up! We're voting for two positions: Chair Elect and Secretary. Ballots go out by email tomorrow to #WplusEBS members only and are due July 31st. Not a member yet? Join before the ballot drops to make sure you get your vote 👇 linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New paper alert: How were Kenyan herders affected by the worst drought in 40 years? Health impacts were universal. Whether herders searched for pasture with their animals or stayed close to home, everyone remembers experiencing headaches, stress, and hopelessness. 1/4
Elders work closely with RAs Bowman, David, and Magarre to identify where water sources and settlements are near their community
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"Evolution should be compulsory viewing for everyone over the age of five." 🫡
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
When you study humans for a living and your kiddo's first M1 molar erupts and you're like "oh my god 😭 you're not in early childhood anymore!" 🧪 #anthropology #humanbiology #evolution #primates #demography
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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!
careercenter.americananthro.org
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Yes it’s climate change, stop asking
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hey ethnography nerds! @dwbird.bsky.social, @parnajarlpa.bsky.social, Nyalangka Nola Taylor, & Desmond Taylor have a new book out on "the interacting socio-ecological relationships" of the Martu economy. I especially recommend the social organization chapter 🤌🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Aboriginal Homelands and Economy in Australia's Western Desert
Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Aboriginal Homelands and Economy in Australia's Western Desert
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In case you, like me, are today years old when you learn that accelerometers in our phones are crowd sourcing seismic data -- and the resulting alerts may be a second-best option in countries without early warning systems: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Phones Alerted Millions Before Quakes Shook Venezuela (Gift Article)
Millions of people in Venezuela and surrounding countries received early warning alerts to their phones up to two minutes before back-to-back earthquakes on Wednesday.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's not that NSF's Directorate for Tech, Innovation, & Partnerships is a bad investment. It's the way it's going down 👇🏻 #saveNSF
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Run to become a leader of @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social! We work closely with evolutionary social & behavioral science societies -- HBES, CES, and EHBEA -- to foster spaces supportive of women and sexual and gender minorities. As incoming W+EBS president, I'm happy to chat if you have questions! 📞
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
More extreme weather events, increasing local wealth inequality, & increasing incidence of hypertension and diabetes. I just spent a week in rural South Africa with the teams at Wits Rural & the Agincourt Health & Socio-Demographic Surveillance System, both part of Uni of the Witwatersrand 🧵 1/
A view of the Agincourt catchment in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Northern Kenya experiences extreme heat. Practitioners connect this heat to anxiety. Household heads report kids can’t go outside. At the @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Climate Solutions Symposium, HSL PhD student @soujanyaakkiraju09.bsky.social presented early insights from CHARMES Kenya. 1/2
Soujanya presents her blue, orange, and yellow poster
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
'Some analysts at conservative think tanks are making.. arguments in favor of the social sciences.. “if you care about giving businesses & policymakers [info] they need to understand the world,” you should care about the Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences' www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The Trump Administration Is Done With Social Science
The National Science Foundation division that covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the crosshairs.
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In a recent win for the HSL, Courtney Elmore received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for the first 3 years of her PhD at @psuanthro.bsky.social. Courtney plans to study how livelihood change and migration affect social networks in rural South Africa. Congratulations to Courtney!! #NSFfunded
Courtney celebrating with sushi
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
"The world is entering a new El Niño phase. Researchers are warning it could be one of the strongest on record and are invoking.. history as an admonition that natural forces, when they reach their highest magnitude, can lead to profound volatility and hardship." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/c...
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A Powerful El Niño Is Forming. If History Is a Guide, It Could Hit Hard.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It is such an honor to receive this award, and especially alongside @dconroybeam.bsky.social! Thank you to the @humbehevosoc.bsky.social community! 🙏🏻
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wow it's hard to start new research and grow our lab and get stuff out and *also* be social, but Human Sociality Lab is still here! We'll catch you up on our latest. To get you started: greetings from Kenya, where Soujanya Akkiraju and @annepisor.bsky.social work on climate change and health! 👋🌍🇰🇪
Lake Victoria shot from a Land Rover. In the foreground is a traditional wooden boat and a dirt road to a boat launch
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An interesting talk yesterday on work by @annepisor.bsky.social and Courtney Elmore: On coastal Tanzania, women and men get social capital from having friends, near or far, BUT they have less opportunity to form these friendships. Women who DO have this option have more social capital. #HBES2026
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Scelza’s call: stop framing findings like these as “exceptions to the rule.” The more exceptions we find, the more we should rethink the rule itself. Not to abandon sexual selection theory — but to broaden the questions we ask. #HBES2026
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What's really clear from today's #CES2026 - #HBES2026 panel is how much we've come to work together, across the evolutionary social & behavioral sciences. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder sums it up: "The gaps between evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, & cultural evolution have narrowed"
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is tonight!! We can’t wait to see everyone and have some great conversation! Everyone is welcome! #HBES2026 #CESRabat #CES2026
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
At long last, the director (@kris-smith.bsky.social) & co-directors of the Tanga Sociality & Fisheries Project in the same place at the same time ( #CESRabat) after writing multiple papers together! Some fruits of our labors are here: www.socialitylab.org/pubs/. Also btw our work was #NSFfunded 👌🏻
Kris Smith, Anne Pisor, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder at UM6P in Rabat
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
‼️ #HBES2026 #CES2026 W+EBS UPDATE‼️ The #WplusEBS social event this year will now be a joint CES/HBES social event "Skip the Small Talk" 🗓️Wednesday, May 13th ⏰8PM 📍Azur Rooftop, Onomo Hotel Everyone is welcome & we look forward to seeing you there!
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“The injury.. includes the disruption of protected expression, the interruption of ongoing research & publication, the cancellation or suspension of humanities programming, & the chilling effect.. of viewpoint-based & unauthorized criteria to terminate federal grants" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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Ashley J Coventry @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Looking forward to co-chairing this panel with @annepisor.bsky.social! We have some great panelists so if you're going to #HBES2026 or #CES2026 be sure to join us over lunch on Wednesday for an interesting and engaging conversation! #WplusEBS
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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Ready for the #WplusEBS HBES2026 & CES2026 panel? We're excited to highlight our co-chairs and panelists over the upcoming days so stay tuned! Our two co-chairs for this panel are @annepisor.bsky.social and @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social -- learn more about them below 👇(1/3)
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Coming to #CES2026 or #HBES2026? @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social looks forward to welcoming you at one of our two mixers or at our Wed May 13 CES+HBES lunchtime panel discussion! Follow us for more and we'll see you in Rabat! 👇🏻
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year. For example👇 1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year). 2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants. 🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...
Dear Member of Congress:
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants.
Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH:
• Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities
• Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants
• Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one
• Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units
Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects
• Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color
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