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Eric Shattuck

@ericshattuck.bsky.social
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Biological anthropologist working to understand what people do when they're sick and why. Assistant Professor at FSU. The views here are my own, etc., etc. www.ericshattuck.com

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Josh Ackerman @joshackman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This should be a great event. Hope to see you there if you’re in town!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every day is just something new and baffling, isn't it?
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm so happy the kiddo pulled through. This stuff is nuts. Great thread and article.
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords sounds much better than most governments these days...
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 29/09/2026
🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨 @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Meara Geraty and I revisited religious priming, breaking the causal claim into links that we robustly tested. Do God Primes Prime God? Converging Evidence Against the Efficacy of Experimental Religious Priming osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #metascience
Do God Primes Prime God? Convergint evidence against the efficacy of experimental religious priming.

WIll Gervais, MEara Geraty, Aiyana Willard

then the rest of the image is a screenshot of the table of contents.plot summarising bayes factor results testing:
Prime -> Religious concepts (overt primes yield positive evidence, scrambled sentence negative)

Prime -> prosociality: universaly evidence strongly favoring the null result across 4 primes and 2 operationalisations of prosociality

Prime -> suspicion: fairly universal evidence in favor of priming methods causing suspicion

Religious concepts -> $$$: four independent sets of evidence favoring the null
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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amirite tho
White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tradwives aren't going to solve the "fertility crisis": "norms about gender equality are positively related to fertility ideals. In societies with strong gender equality norms, women, the highly educated, and the young display comparatively higher fertility ideals"
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How Many Children in a Family? Fertility Ideals and Gender Equality Norms in 26 Societies - European Journal of Population
We examine the relationship between gender equality and fertility ideals, focusing on the role of societal norms about men’s participation in care and household work, known as the second half of the g...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026
Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/
 3-panel comic. (1) [Person with shoulder-length hair gestures at diagrams on wall in front of table with three people.] PERSON 1: As the radioactive power source on *Voyager 1* weakens, we’ve been turning instruments off to conserve power. (2) PERSON 1: Only two instruments remain. Do we want to lose the plasma wave subsystem or the magnetometer? (3) PERSON 2 with ponytail: You know, if we just turned off Greg’s LED underlighting– PERSON 4 with short hair: Absolutely not. PERSON 3: Dammit, Greg. PERSON 4: I will *not* allow us to look uncool in front of aliens.
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Mauro Silva Júnior @maurosilvajunior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EDHB launches today 🎉Our inaugural editorial, "A Global Platform for Human Behavioral Evolutionary Science," is out now, setting the stage for a new home for rigorous work on the evolutionary sciences. Take a look, & share with everyone! evohuman.org/edhb/article... #EvPsych #HBES #EHBEA #PsycSci
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A Global Platform for Human Behavioral Evolutionary Science: Introducing Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Behavior | Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Behavior
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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!
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Dr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come and join our team at UCL Anthropology! Part-time (80%) fixed-term teaching post in Environmental Anthropology, December 2026-March 2028. Deadline 7 October!
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it
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Emily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Consider what happens when vaccines work, Dr. Stephen Olaide Aremu and Adamu Ishaku Akyala argue in Science Politics. The absence of disease shows the prevention has been achieved, not that prevention is no longer necessary. sciencepolitics.org/2026/09/18/w...
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We Defeated the Diseases, Then Forgot Why - Science Politics
The absence of disease shows the prevention has been achieved, not that prevention is no longer necessary.
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Andrew Buskell @andrewbuskell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A special collection on ‘Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences’ is now accepting submissions on the Evolutionary Human Sciences website:
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Metascience of the Evolutionary Human Sciences
Call for papers for special collection
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 16/09/2026
I've always felt collectivism needs better theoretical grounding. This seems to fit evolutionary theories of cooperation better: kin selection / direct reciprocity (relationalism) vs indirect/generalised reciprocity, reputation, norms (the 'fuzzy' bit)
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nothing makes you realize the kids are alright more than sitting & talking with a couple dozen of them for a couple hours at office hours. It would be great if the Ranting Pundits convinced that they know What Is Wrong With Higher Education could meet these students full of great questions & ideas.
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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Laetoli Footprints were found #OnThisDay in 1978. The incredible discovery happened because team members were hurling elephant dung at each other. Australopithecines probably left these trace fossils behind 3.6 million years ago. 🏺🧪
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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’re delighted to celebrate "Primates: A Kinship with All Creatures", the stunning new book by award-winning photographer Lennette Newell. NEPC is especially proud that our founder and president, Debra Curtin, contributed the foreword.
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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I was extremely saddened to learn of the death of my academic grandfather, Nicholas Blurton Jones. He was exactly the scholar one aspires to be: kind, modest, committed to his work and a superb empiricist and theorist. anthro.utah.edu/news/nbj_aug...
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remembering_nbj - Department of Anthropology - The University of Utah
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey folks, I'll be considering PhD applications for the 2026-27 cycle over here at Duke Psych. To learn more about the lab, check us out at www.mindandculturelab.com and/or read through this short FAQ for prospective students: www.mindandculturelab.com/faq
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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do you have / are you a student looking for broad interdisciplinary graduate training? I am actively recruiting this year - definitely not just folks who work in numerals! Let me know, or just send your student my direction. Wayne State has a great ecosystem of folks across disciplines and topics.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026
Beef Tallow Homunculus  Escapes From HHS Building theonion.com/beef-tallow-homunculus…
Beef Tallow Homunculus  Escapes From HHS Building
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In the original Greek play, the men didn’t last long.😂
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 09/09/2026
the more I edit scientific writing the more convinced I become that specificity is the antidote to uncharitable readers eg "the data are limited" may be true but it could be read as a barb even if it isn't one; "the data represent only Americans" is more specific and thus less vulnerable to meanies
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point.
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Dr. James K Gibb @jameskgibb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m recruiting PhD students to join my lab in Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington for Fall 2027. Folks interested in biological anthropology, human biology, or LGBTQ+ population health please reach out! Happy to chat about potential projects! Applications are due Dec 1st!
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan sitting on a wooden garden bench, smiling at the camera with hands clasped, wearing a dark overcoat, light trousers and black shoes, against a stone wall with flowers.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In "Mosquito Work," Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun follow entomologists, technicians, community volunteers, and mosquitoes to illuminate the collaborations, improvisations, and political entanglements behind contemporary disease control. Read the introduction for free now: buff.ly/JusZnQy
Cover of Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health by Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun. Features an image of a white container with 7 mosquitos on it. A metal handle extends from the container. The title and subtitle are in green serif text in the middle of the image and the authors' names are in brown beneath.
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WHO @who.int · 04/09/2026
Public health win! #Bhutan eliminates dog-transmitted #rabies as a public health problem. It is the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office region to have achieved this validation bit.ly/3SrMHwL
Young boys in traditional Bhutanese attire standing outdoors with two dogs on leashes in a grassy area.
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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
THE ENSHITTOCENE
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cmon man. Didn't DoD just get (or at least ask for) for 1.5 trillion?
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you're thinking about a Masters or PhD in anthropology and you want to study health, infectious disease, and the immune system, please consider applying to work with me! Happy to answer any questions, etc.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.” — Neil Postman
A black and white portrait of Neil Postman wearing a checked blazer, white shirt, and dark tie. He is seated in front of a shelf displaying several books, some of which bear his name on the cover.
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So much this! How do we solve it? Is there an existing good explainer (for Mac and PC) especially for new coders? Should we make one if there isn’t? This is how we address it in the #PsyTeachR Applied Data Skills book: psyteachr.github.io/ads-v3/02-re...
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@ifbookspod.bsky.social Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Need a good reading on intersections between evolutionary anthropology/ psychology and eugenics/ racism/ sexism for graduate course. I hear lots in the rafters but am not finding something closely relevant to ev anth, per se.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cooked brains theory will eventually be seen as the defining theory of our time.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Exceptionally low mortality despite widespread COVID-19 infection among Indigenous Tsimane and Moseten of Bolivia: "We propose that low fatality, despite high transmissibility and non-negligible severity, may be due to a more vigorous and effective immune response to infection"
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These painted pups represent the future of one of Africa's most striking and endangered species. Fewer than 7,000 African wild dogs remain, and Kenya is one of their last strongholds. In partnership with KWS, our anti-poaching teams have worked to remove snares across the ecosystem.
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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited to be part of this workshop, organized by Silvia de Cesare and Federica Russo, and to share some ideas on global health frameworks like #OneHealth that are still taking shape with this amazing group of people! If you’re in the Netherlands, don’t miss it! #philsci #philsky
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every hour there's a story of like a Norwegian death metal guy saying hey I never met Dolly Parton but she sent me a handwritten note saying she loved our song Corpse in the Copse and to keep speaking our truth
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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What are the best models of the societies we evolved in? Learn about it in my interview with Dr. Kim Hill. #Anthropology #Science Full interview: youtu.be/1s7WgXQV5-c
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#527 Kim Hill: Human Sociality, Human Universals, and Protecting Isolated Societies
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets; 
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NSF GRFP solicitation is live and anthropological disciplines are included in the appendix. I will be encouraging students to apply. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New >100-author preprint led by @zixuanjia.bsky.social @yutoozaki.bsky.social and @danya-pav.bsky.social is IMO our most important yet. TLDR: music is not "useless" "auditory cheesecake" - across 901 participants speaking 30 languages, singing bonds us together >1.5x more than speaking. osf.io/pv3m9
Drake meme:
Wrong: "Music is "auditory cheesecake...useless...compared with language" -S. Pinker
Right: "Music is "more effective for collective bonding than language" - P. Savage, P. Loui, B. Tarr, A. Schachner, L. Glowacki, S. Mithen, W. T. FitchSynchronised group singing enhances social bonding more than group conversation or recitation does: A Registered Report across 30 languages

Authors 
Zixuan Jia* , Yuto Ozaki* , Danya Pavlovich* , Jiawen Huang , Emmanouil Benetos , Uswatun Khasanah , Sasha Calhoun , Gakuto Chiba , Yoichi Kitayama , Shinya Fujii , Dhwani P. Sadaphal , W. Tecumseh Fitch , , Sebastian Vaida , Simion Echim , Tudor Popescu , Zhuozhuang (Nelson) Shi ,  Massimo Grassi , Lucrezia Guiotto Nai Fovino , Jan Hajič jr. , Petr Nuska , Barbora Štěpánková , Prapatsorn Tiratanti , , Joseph A. Bulbulia , Ye He , Yukun Li , Fang Liu , Giacomo Novembre , Chloé Coissac , , Flavia Arnese , Yannick Jadoul , , Andrea Ravignani , , , , Florence Ewomazino Nweke , Oladimeji Adedayo Olajide , Oluwatoyin Olokodana-James , Neda Mousavi , Pauline Larrouy-Maestri , Ulvhild Færøvik , , Astrid Lenvik , Marianna Ruiz Loria , Jeronimo Quintero-Martínez , Juan F. Ariza , , Juan David Leongómez , Anne Cabildo , , Christina Vanden Bosch der Nederlanden , , Polina Proutskova , Daniel Macholl , Jia Hoong Ong , Chloe Wider , Bahar Tunçgenç , Francesca Talamini , Lilly Leuschner , William Forde Thompson , Gemma Perry , Lee Wolff , Robert M. Ross , Adwoa Ampiah-Bonney , Shira Gabriel , Peter Q. Pfordresher , Hineatua Parkinson , Ferenc Honbolygó , Csaba Kertész , Yuri G. Pavlov , Alexandra Kosachenko , Dmitrii Tarasov , Wojtek Krzyżanowski , Piotr Podlipniak , Shahaboddin Dabaghi Varnosfaderani , Ann-Kathrin Beck , Inkuk Kim , Taeyun Jung , John M. McBride , , Teona Lomsadze , , Sara Ripley , Katerine Bilous , Laurel J. Trainor , Joshua S. Bamford , , Marc Thompson , Martin Hartmann , Bronwyn Tarr , Kai Yi (Kaye) Han , Aston K. McCullough , Psyche Loui , Ruwin Dias , Aitana Garcia-Arasco , Anouk Bellot , Katarzyna Pisanski , , Limor Raviv , , Remi van Casteren ,, Kristoffer Bæk Kortegaard , , Niels Chr. Hansen , , Dilyana Kurdova , , Zoya Mikova , Adwoa Arhine , Michael Ohene Okantah Jr. , Kofi Kudonu Labayili , Yiqing Ma , D…Figure 5. Pre- vs. post-experiment mean bonding scores from n=901 participants across 43 sites singing/conversing/reciting in groups of 5-10 individuals at a time (1,017 participants before planned exclusions; see Table S1). Social bonding score (y-axis) represents the mean of six self-report variables (scaled from 0-100): 1) “I feel I am on the same team with the other participants”; 2) “I am similar to the other participants’’; 3) ‘‘I trust the other participants”; 4) Inclusion of other in the self (IOS): ‘‘How close do you currently feel to all the other participants?”; 5) “I feel strong ties to the other participants”; 6) “I have a lot in common with the other participants”.Figure 10. Site-level mean bonding score differences across three conditions. Each row represents one experimental site, ordered by the magnitude of the bonding score change in the Singing condition, with the smallest change at the bottom and the largest at the top. Points represent site-level mean bonding score differences (Post- minus Pre-intervention) for each condition. The dashed vertical line indicates zero change. Site labels in green indicate Indo-European languages; labels in black indicate non-Indo-European languages. Sites with multiple locations within the same language are labeled with the location in brackets (e.g., “English [Auckland]”). See Figures S7-8 for alternative visualisations using raw differences in social bonding scores or effect sizes.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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