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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🦍🚨 Happy to see this paper out!: "Variation in the timing of developmental milestones in Gorilla does not support the ecological risk aversion hypothesis": tinyurl.com/3y4k93zs It is my 1st collab with the Gorilla Group at MPI (tinyurl.com/4vsry4f9) and was a lot of fun to work with some 🦍 data!

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Daniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Now that (I think) it's official, I'm really happy to announce that I will be starting as a CNRS (@cnrsbiologie.bsky.social) researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences in Lyon at the end of the year 🎉. I'll continue working on how networks & (in)equalities emerge across animal societies!

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La Société Francophone de Primatologie @lasfdp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

C'est la rentrée! Le CA de la SFDP vous souhaite à tous.tes une bonne reprise! On en profite pour annoncer officiellement la distribution du nouveau bureau pour 2026-2027! Nous vous présenterons nos deux nouveaux membres dans les semaines à venir!

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎙️ EP #23 Is the drive to seek status a human universal? What are the ways in which humans seek status cross-culturally? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with anthropologist @chrisvonrueden.bsky.social youtu.be/7pDGe2bp3m4

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Cultural Varieties of Status-Seeking | Chris von Rueden

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Daniel Redhead @danielredhead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy to share our new paper in @royalsociety.org with Arleyns, Danier HM & Cody Ross! Combining network data with beh. economic games in four rural villages in Colombia, we assessed how prestige and dominance were associated with cooperation—focussing on whether dominance levelling would occur.

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Social and economic consequences of prestige and dominance in rural Colombian social networks

Abstract. Social status regulates influence and well-being in most social animals. In humans, social status can be attained via distinct routes: prestige (

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Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have just accepted my dream position: I am officially a CNRS researcher at the University of Rennes, in France, where I’ll be joining the @ceec-research.bsky.social lab. There, I'll be working on my favourite topic of all time: the semantic capacities of nonhuman primates

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New paper 💙 Together with Ayana Tanaka, Shun Hongo, and Akira Takada, we compared early childhood caregiving among !Xun in Namibia and Baka in Cameroon, showing how maternal care and care from others come together across the two hunter-gatherer populations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Reframing Mother–Child Closeness and Cooperative Caregiving: A Comparative Study of Two Hunter‐Gatherer Populations

Objectives Caregiving during early childhood emerges from a dynamic interplay between maternal and allomaternal contributions. This study aimed to challenge polarized portrayals of hunter-gatherer c...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Also worth noting how many of the signatories of the letter defending Cofnas call themselves evolutionary psychologists, including those with gatekeeping roles or large public platforms. Concerning to have the discipline represented by those who, at very best, misunderstand academic freedom

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 04/08/2026

I’m now @grinnellcollege.bsky.social in Anthropology where I’ll be offering a series of new courses on human #evolutionary social #science & #biologicalanthropology and launching a new lab to support student research and expand my research program. 🧪 #HBES 🌾💎 #Grinnell

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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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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The Horizon MSCA Postdoc fellowship deadline is approaching: url-shortener.me/OLZ3 If ur a postdoc interested in endangered primate (Barbary macaque) genomics, we (www.plasticprimateslab.com) have a lot data ready to go + more samples on the way! Pls get in touch before 10 August if interested.

Barbary macaque infant reaching out while being groomed

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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

On the tail of the announcement of my new Behavioural Conservation group at @idiv-research.bsky.social, I can also say... I'm hiring! We're looking for a Project Assistant (60% FTE) to join our "Conserving Cultures" project. Job posting: uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/1...

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Project Assistant (m/f/d/x)

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Ben Kawam @benkawam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For those of you at #ISBE2026, I will be presenting some of my work tomorrow (Friday the 24th) at 13:15, in the Auditorium Agnelli. Would love to see you there!

Title slide: "Inferring the causes of animal social network structure from time-series data", Ben Kawam, ISBE 2026, July 24th, 2026.
Features a drawing by Laure Pigeon.

State transition diagram for four dyadic behavioural states: (i) no body contact; (ii) body contact without grooming; (iii) grooming from a to b; (iv) grooming from b to a.
Each state is illustrated by a watercolor painting painting created by S. M. Pereira & J. von Nordheim.

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Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...

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Polyadic grooming in primates

survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species

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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🚨🐵 Paid primate work: We are seeking a new camp and research coordinator for the Born To Be Wild Project; Tazekka National Park, Morocco: Details here (sadly due to funding constraints only available for EU, and potentially UK applicants at a push): groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

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Dr. Alex Jurgens @amjurgens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm hiring! Two positions at Inria Bordeaux in complex systems: One software engineer, for development of a causal inference package: recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... One postdoc, on the inference of causal structure and causal dynamics: recrutement.inria.fr/public/class...

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...

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Revisiting Man the Hunter - HBES

– by Haneul Jang For decades, the phrase Man the Hunter has occupied a central place in discussions of human evolution. Today, however, the phrase sounds outdated, evoking a familiar image of men hunt...

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Behavioural Biology Netherlands (NVG) @gedragsbiologie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

📢 Early bird registration is now open for the Netherlands Society for Behavioural Biology (NVG) Annual Meeting 2026! 📍 Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee 📅 18–20 November 2026 Register and submit your abstract by 28 August to save €75. More info & registration: www.gedragsbiologie.nl/upcoming-mee...

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Upcoming meeting - Nederlandse Vereniging voor Gedragsbiologie (NVG)

NVG Annual Meeting 2026 18–20 November 2026 Venue: Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee Speakers Dobberke Lecture Martin Stevens (University of Exeter) Martin

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Danai Papageorgiou @danaipapageorgiou.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Almost synchronously with our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper on “Levelling: behaviours that constrain inequality in animal societies”, I'm also excited to advertise the first PhD student position in my Emmy Noether project @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance

Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…

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Julia Penndorf @julia-penndorf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🎉🦜NEW PAPER ALERT 🦜🎉 Which social learning biases underly the acquisition of novel food in wild parrots ? We (@lucymaplin.bsky.social, @bjjbarrett.bsky.social, @sonjawild.bsky.social, @drjohnmartin.bsky.social) presented >700 cockies with a novel, artificial food (🧵1/6)

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Women have always worked and they have always had kids. It’s just that now we live in this patriarchal setting…let’s change this whole culture.” @paulajasheppard.bsky.social telling it straight in @newscientist.com 🤩 www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

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The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide

From the cost of childcare to the housing crisis, there’s no shortage of explanations for the dramatic global fall in the number of babies being born. These analyses, though, are all missing something...

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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Applications now open for the UNIL Summer School on Modelling for Evolutionary Biology (31 Aug–5 Sep 2026, Lausanne)! For PhD & postdocs interested in formal approaches to evolutionary ecology (incl. social evo, life-history, species interactions). Scholarships available, Pls RP! shorturl.at/fo1GA

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Kathelijne Koops @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Cultural Evolution Society is delighted to announce that Mason Youngblood (he/they) @masonyoungblood.bsky.social, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, is the recipient of the 2026 CES New Investigator Award. Congratulations Mason on this well-deserved award!!

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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open.
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Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

COME AND JOIN OUR MEET & GREET! 📽️❤️‍🔥 We are starting the week before @ehbea2026.bsky.social with some words from @rebeccasear.bsky.social on her role in @ehbea.bsky.social , a bit of history , and thoughts on human research 🤓 🙌 💯 Have a look and #MeetTheBoard 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/c-3pU...

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President of EHBEA - Rebecca Sear #MeetTheBoard

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Ammie Kalan @ammiekalan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

It took 3 years to complete this paper and it was difficult(!) but I think both @ctennie.bsky.social and I are grateful for the varied perspectives we gained as a result of this collaboration. If you work on ape culture, hopefully you'll feel the same doi.org/10.1017/ehs.... [Opens in a new window]

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Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars - Volume 8

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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Emile Bryon @emilebryon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

New publication, and first one as a first author for me! 🥳 Have you heard of the brutal chimpanzee and "hippie" bonobo dichotomy? ☠️🕊️ Today, we report similar aggression magnitudes in 22 captive chimpanzees and bonobos groups - be it all aggression or restricted to contact.

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Christian Czymara @christian.czymara.com · 04/03/2026

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We’re #hiring a #PhD candidate at NIDI (The Hague). Together with @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and @glorenz.bsky.social, I will supervise a project on the connection of different dimensions of social cohesion in ethnically diverse schools. Deadline 1 April 2026. More information:

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PhD: Rethinking Social Cohesion in Ethnically Diverse Schools: Linking Horizontal and Vertical Ties

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Culture Conference @cultconf.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

What a pre-conference workshop on Bayesian statistical methods—a powerful toolkit for our community! 📊 Many thanks to Daniel Redhead and Ramona Roller for guiding us through STRAND and to Michael Chimento for the introduction to STbayes. And thank you to all participants for their energy! 🙌

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Wow #rainbowR conference was a blast! Even in these dark times, we have our community. Hoping this would be annual event! #rstats

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Linda Lidborg @lhlidborg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Students/ECRs in the evolutionary sciences: don't forget to apply for the EHBEA Student / ECR research grants! Deadline 1 March. Applying is very straightforward and funds can be used for research or professional skills development! More info here: www.ehbea.org/pages/awards

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Awards & Grants | EHBEA

Recognising excellence & supporting initiatives.

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

📢 New Paper 🚨 Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life. In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus. bit.ly/4kvLOwA

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The “I” in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable

Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @nicolewalasek.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award of New Investigator👏

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏 @durhampsych.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Bayesian Workflow by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, @rmcelreath.bsky.social with @danpsimpson.bsky.social, @charlesm993.bsky.social, @yulingy.bsky.social, Lauren Kennedy, Jonah Gabry, @paulbuerkner.com, @modrakm.bsky.social, @vianeylb.bsky.social (in production, estimated copy-editing time 6 weeks)

**Part 1: From Bayesian inference to Bayesian workflow**

1. Bayesian theory and Bayesian practice
2. Statistical modeling and workflow
3. Computational tools
4. Introduction to workflow: Modeling performance on a multiple choice exam

**Part 2: Statistical workflow**

5. Building statistical models
6. Using simulations to capture uncertainty
7. Prediction, generalization, and causal inference
8. Visualizing and checking fitted models
9. Comparing and improving models
10. Statistical inference and scientific inference

**Part 3: Computational workflow**

11. Fitting statistical models
12. Diagnosing and fixing problems with fitting
13. Approximate algorithms and approximate models
14. Simulation-based calibration checking
15. Statistical modeling as software development

**4. Case studies**

16. Coding a series of models: Simulated data of movie ratings
17. Prior specification for regression models: Reanalysis of a sleep study
18. Predictive model checking and comparison: Clinical trial
19. Building up to a hierarchical model: Coronavirus testing
20. Using a fitted model for decision analysis: Mixture model for time series competition
21. Posterior predictive checking: Stochastic learning in dogs
22. Incremental development and testing: Black cat adoptions
23. Debugging a model: World Cup football
24. Leave-one-out cross validation model checking and comparison: Roaches
25. Model building and expansion: Golf putting
26. Model building with latent variables: Markov models for animal movement
27. Model building: Time-series decomposition for birthdays
28. Models for regression coefficients and variable selection: Student grades
29. Sampling problems with latent variables: No vehicles in the park
30. Challenge of multimodality: Differential equation for planetary motion
31. Simulation-based calibration checking in model development workflow

**Appendices**

A. Statistical and computational workflow for Bayesians and non-Bayesians
B. How to get the most out of Bayesian Data Analysis

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Eleanor Power @eapower.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The ENDOW project is seeking a Research Officer in Research Data Management to be based at the London School of Economics.
- Oversee and extend our database covering geospatial, demographic, economic & social network data from 50+ communities in 30+ countries!
- Contribute to research on the dynamics of social and economic inequality!
- Join a stellar interdisciplinary team!
- funded by the ESRC and the NSF
[world map showing location of ENDOW communities; photos of some of the team members and some of the ENDOW communities showing their diversity

Research Officer in Research Data Management
Salary from £43,277 to £48,220 pa inclusive of London allowance
Fixed-term appointment for 18 months
This research officer position is to work with Eleanor Power as part of the ongoing "ENDOW" project (Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality), funded by the UKRI and US National Science Foundation. The research officer will be based in the Department of Methodology, a leading centre for research and education in social science research methods. While we expect this to be a full-time appointment, we are open to considering the possibility of a part-time appointment.
The post entails overseeing and extending the database of the "ENDOW" project, which includes data from over fifty communities around the world, comprising economic, demographic, and social network data characterising each community, its resident households, and the individuals within them. The research officer will be responsible for the expansion of this database to include longitudinal data from each community site, implementing a robust data infrastructure to manage and curate this information. The research officer will work closely with Dr Power and data contributors to ensure data quality, standardisation, and appropriate governance. They will contribute to core analyses of the ENDOW project and develop tools and resources that will be of wide utility for the collection, curation, and analysis of cross-cultural data. This role is central to building the data infrastructure that will enable meaningful, productive comparisons across these diverse field sites and will ultimately serve as a resource for the broader scientific community.
The successful candidate will:
Have a completed PhD, be close to completing a PhD, or have other research experience that demonstrates the capability to produce independent original research
Have experience with database design, data management and data governance
Have experience with programming in R or Python

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Our new paper in Hunter-Gatherer Research! We explored women’s decision-making power within households in two subsistence communities with different gender norms (BaYaka foragers & Bandongo fisher-farmers) in the Congolese rainforest ✨ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

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Catherine Molho @handle.invalid · 12/01/2026

🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching Deadline: Jan 23 Please share and spread the word! www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

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Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Early view of our Special Issue on the Anthropology of Adolescence at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is now available! Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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