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Brooke Scelza

@bscelza.bsky.social
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Professor at UCLA. Interested in family and marital dynamics, perinatal health and maternal support. Mom-mom and dog-mom.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Truly terrible for our students and for science
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Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Awww thanks!!! 😊
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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
This week we talk to @bscelza.bsky.social about Polygamy and the state of the evolutionary behavioral sciences. youtu.be/F2rz-vuczX0 www.podbean.com/eas/pb-9i7eb... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Polygamy with Brooke Scelza
YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
Screenshot of a paper published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

Testing the Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology using Ancient and Modern DNA

Published: 04 November 2025
Volume 11, article number 18, (2025)

Davide Piffer
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Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New paper out on the important role of social learning in breastfeeding! academic.oup.com/emph/article...
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Social learning is critical to breastfeeding success: evidence from rural Namibian pastoralists
AbstractBackground and objectives. Lactation is one of the defining features of mammals, yet many humans struggle with breastfeeding. One reason for this i
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Sean Prall @sprall.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Very disappointed that we were forced to cancel our field season and return early, following the suspension of our NSF grant as part of Trump’s attacks on UCLA. Particularly sad for our students, who spent significant time and effort to join us this year.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025
We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
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Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year
Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.
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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
HBES has released a statement with regard to recent US funding changes that are affecting HBES members. See our statement here: www.hbes.com/hbes-executi...
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HBES Executive Council Statement in Defense of Science - HBES
HBES stands in defense of the values of scientific inquiry and in opposition to censorship and the defunding of peer-reviewed research projects in the US whose grants were awarded by agencies and proc...
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10/03/2025
I'm on the @science.org podcast this week with @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social & @bscelza.bsky.social talking about genetic genealogy, cuckoldry and extra-pair paternity: www.science.org/content/podc... (Starting around 15:00)
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Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker
On this week’s show: The latest news on how U.S. government science agencies are being impacted by President Donald Trump’s administration, how researchers are using genealogy and DNA testing to find ...
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Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Could you add me please? Thanks!
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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
🎉Publication day! The third edition of my book 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social is now available! Paperback and eBook formats (Kindle etc): global.oup.com/academic/pro... #evolsky #philsci #philbio #PsychSciSky #HPbio #EHBEA🧪🏺
Stack of books with bright red cover and a Franz Marc image of monkeys running through a landscape with red mountains in the background.
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Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Pat Draper did some work on this back in the day I think. I’ll try to dig up a reference.
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
(This starter pack will no doubt expand as more people migrate to Bluesky.) go.bsky.app/KVUQFms
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 15/11/2024
Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...
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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Prospective PhD students! Work with me at Penn State! 🌡️Evo anthro, climate adaptation, & public health 🏫5-year, fully funded, top-ranking anthro program 🔬Dual degrees avail. in climate science, demography, & environment Apps due Dec 1. DM if interested! Please share 🙏🏻 More at www.socialitylab.org
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Brooke Scelza @bscelza.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
New opinion piece in Scientific American! www.scientificamerican.com/article/here...
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Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry
In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science
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