Reposted by Anne PisorCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ugly 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... 163
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Had 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 👇🏻 043
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026...here's the link! theworld.org/stories/2026...theworld.orgHow extreme heat takes a toll on herders, from East Africa to the US - The World from PRXIn northern Kenya, livestock is the heartbeat of rural life. Herders guiding their sheep, goats, cattle or camels across parched landscapes now struggle to find pastures with enough water. Each year, ... 010
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Had 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... 👇🏻 120
Reposted by Anne PisorRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The anthropology section of the Vanderbilt report on the state of scholarship has now been published www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...vanderbilt.eduJoseph HenrichThe 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... 4186
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Can'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! 👇🏻 011
Reposted by Anne PisorNature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 14/09/2026Obituary: 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/D33fLgYcv4Banature.comRobert Ricklefs (1943–2026) - Nature Ecology & EvolutionPolymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. 16843
Reposted by Anne PisorRobert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Here'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/JPF05488aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - Open Field - DemographyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 01511
Reposted by Anne PisorAdam Siepielski @adamsiepielski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The 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 14032
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026In 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...npr.orgAnthropic 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. 120
Reposted by Anne PisorW+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! 022
Reposted by Anne PisorW+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Hi #WplusEBS members, This week we have 2 job postings to highlight for you all 👇 #academia #jobmarket 111
Reposted by Anne PisorAngie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly 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...knoxnews.comDolly Parton gave the world the gift of reading and a COVID-19 vaccineDolly Parton's philanthropy extended to any cause anywhere she felt she could make a difference, big or small. That’s just who she was. 431270
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's the article: theconversation.com/relentless-h... Shoutouts to my coauthor Bonface Osindi and many collaborators in @wsuvetmed.bsky.social in Kenya! /endtheconversation.comRelentless heat and drought take a toll on herders’ physical and mental health, in Kenya and the USWhether in Kenya or California, herders face dangerous temperatures and difficult conditions that put a strain on their health. 011
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We need to know more about how heat exposure may translate into chronic health effects for herders - in Kenya and the US, where herders are less studied. Continuous funding is key - hard to come by, but necessary to understand how work environments affect health as extreme heat keeps coming. 4/ 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As we report in The Conversation, we're seeing a relationship between heat exposure and symptoms of heat-related illness and mental health impacts. More than a year after a huge drought in 2020-23, herders still remembered those health impacts and how difficult it was to do normal things outside. 3/ 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In Kenya, where there are solid social networks and cellphone networks to reach herders, we're studying the real-time and long-term impacts of heat on herders' health. Our team members ride on motorcycles and deploy wearable tech to make sure people's experiences are captured. 2/ 120
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Out 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/ 184
Reposted by Anne PisorJames Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026New 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.theconversation.comRelentless heat and drought take a toll on herders’ physical and mental health, in Kenya and the USWhether in Kenya or California, herders face dangerous temperatures and difficult conditions that put a strain on their health. 052
Reposted by Anne PisorW+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026LOVING 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 033
Reposted by Anne PisorDuncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026New 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.papers.ssrn.comMoving On From Movement: Sedentism Provides a Key Pathway to Food Security for Hadza Hunter-GatherersExtensive discussion attends to the disadvantages of shifting from mobile hunter-gatherer subsistence to sedentary living. Fewer studies have investigated 2319
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026with Danielle Touma (co-lead author), @juemos.bsky.social, and Hope Jared Shouting out: @climatepsu.bsky.social , @psuanthro.bsky.social /end 010
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If we can identify how households tend to diversify their portfolios given different kinds of climate patterning, we can better identify who needs what now. This isn’t our last paper on the subject – stay tuned for more social + climate data → what is patterning doing! 8/ 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026What is clear to us as researchers, however, is that we need to more systematically understand whether patterning in climate events – not just one-time bad events, or more climate extremes overall – influences household responses. 7/ 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The estimated effects for other kinds of drought patterning are mixed. While more spatially extensive droughts predict remittances in Nigeria, for example – consistent with our predictions about long-distance sharing – extensive droughts predict less use of remittances in the other countries. 6/ 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In our paper in Climatic Change (linked here), we find that when the average severity of droughts is higher – meaning especially low levels of rain and soil evapotranspiration – households are more likely to receive at least one remittance. But there's more... 5/ link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comMonetary transfers may be related to patterning in climate events, not just single extreme events - Climatic ChangeIt is well-documented that households respond to climate events with climate adaptations: risk-management strategies like livelihood diversification, migration, or remittances – sending money and good... 121
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Our team wanted to know whether patterning in climate events is associated with households receiving remittances, suggesting that households are using the traditional strategy of sharing resources across space. We looked at publicly available climate and household data from six African countries. 4/ 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Today, people frequently share by sending money from one place to another via remittances, financial transfers that amounted to almost $800 bn globally in 2022 alone (www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/remittanc...) 3/visualcapitalist.comVisualizing Remittance Flows and GDP Impact By CountryWhich countries rely on remittance flows the most? This animation shows the amount of remittance income that countries received in 2022. 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If we look to the past, households have tended to respond in certain ways to patterned risks. One way is to share resources across space – often beyond the boundaries of their settlement or even local region. (We have a review paper/how-to on this: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... ) 2/cell.comTo understand climate change adaptation, we must characterize climate variability: Here’s howClimate change adaptation involves the management of climate-related risks, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we must prioritize adaptation immediately. However, researchers and p... 110
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Experiencing 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/ 193
Reposted by Anne PisorSteffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet. 209109802166
Reposted by Anne PisorCharles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Looking 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... 15491
Reposted by Anne PisorW+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! 022
Reposted by Anne PisorMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I 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/... 13516148
Reposted by Anne PisorW+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 157
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Stay tuned for more on how mobile peoples may be affected by heat as they make a living. Here’s the open-access article in JCCH on how herders remember the drought: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 #science #fieldwork #pastoralists #climatechange #publichealth #anthropology #kenya 4/4 (end)sciencedirect.com 010
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We know that sometimes we remember the worst days. To understand the minute-to-minute effects of heat on health, we just completed a follow-up study, with real-time data on how heat may affect movement and physical and mental health in this community. 3/4 120
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Those who left sometimes walked 12 hours a day in the sun. Those who stayed couldn’t do daily activities outside - it was too hot. Almost everyone sold or slaughtered animals or borrowed money to get by. This is what herders remember. 2/4 120
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026New 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 1107
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"Evolution should be compulsory viewing for everyone over the age of five." 🫡 021
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026When 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 050
Reposted by Anne PisorRobin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026We'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 04033
Reposted by Anne PisorKate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Yes it’s climate change, stop asking 13945270
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Hey 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...cambridge.orgAboriginal Homelands and Economy in Australia's Western DesertCambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Aboriginal Homelands and Economy in Australia's Western Desert 041
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026In 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/...nytimes.comHow 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. 030
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026It's not that NSF's Directorate for Tech, Innovation, & Partnerships is a bad investment. It's the way it's going down 👇🏻 #saveNSF 000
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Run 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! 📞 088
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I'm excited for what comes next for this cross-sector, cross-disciplinary collection of collaborators - for understanding rural transitions like the ones we see in South Africa and in the United States, with implications for interventions supporting health and livelihoods globally. /end 🧵 000
Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We’re putting heads together to better understand how livelihoods, climate exposures, & health experiences come together for people in rural spaces, in SA and beyond. I forecast a mix of community engagement, personal tech, fresh surveys, innovative mental-health tools, & environmental sensing. 3/ 120