Reposted by Eric ShattuckJosh Ackerman @joshackman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This should be a great event. Hope to see you there if you’re in town! 011
Reposted by Eric ShattuckShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026So 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 714660
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every day is just something new and baffling, isn't it? 000
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm so happy the kiddo pulled through. This stuff is nuts. Great thread and article. 010
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords sounds much better than most governments these days... 040
Reposted by Eric ShattuckWill 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 11714
Reposted by Eric ShattuckRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tradwives 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"link.springer.comHow Many Children in a Family? Fertility Ideals and Gender Equality Norms in 26 Societies - European Journal of PopulationWe 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... 0206
Reposted by Eric ShattuckRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/ 253060431
Reposted by Eric ShattuckMauro Silva Júnior @maurosilvajunior.bsky.social · 25/09/2026EDHB 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 #PsycScievohuman.org A Global Platform for Human Behavioral Evolutionary Science: Introducing Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Behavior | Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Behavior 033
Reposted by Eric ShattuckZoë 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! 14261
Reposted by Eric ShattuckDr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Come 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.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL 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). 0413
Reposted by Eric ShattuckPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it 630254
Reposted by Eric ShattuckEmily Mendenhall @emendenhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Consider 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...sciencepolitics.orgWe Defeated the Diseases, Then Forgot Why - Science PoliticsThe absence of disease shows the prevention has been achieved, not that prevention is no longer necessary. 012
Reposted by Eric ShattuckAndrew Buskell @andrewbuskell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A special collection on ‘Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences’ is now accepting submissions on the Evolutionary Human Sciences website:nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.comMetascience of the Evolutionary Human SciencesCall for papers for special collection 1138
Reposted by Eric ShattuckAlex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 16/09/2026I'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) 2102
Reposted by Eric ShattuckMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nothing 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. 325728
Reposted by Eric ShattuckPaige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The 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. 🏺🧪 37226
Reposted by Eric ShattuckNew England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We’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. 052
Reposted by Eric ShattuckDuncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I 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...anthro.utah.eduremembering_nbj - Department of Anthropology - The University of Utah 2249
Reposted by Eric ShattuckChris 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/ 18272
Reposted by Eric ShattuckDorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hey 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 05027
Reposted by Eric ShattuckStephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Do 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. 063
Reposted by Eric ShattuckThe Onion @theonion.com · 10/09/2026Beef Tallow Homunculus Escapes From HHS Building theonion.com/beef-tallow-homunculus… 271997239
Reposted by Eric ShattuckDavid Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In the original Greek play, the men didn’t last long.😂 3445
Reposted by Eric Shattucksamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 09/09/2026the 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 3282
Reposted by Eric ShattuckGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We 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. 527135786
Reposted by Eric ShattuckDr. James K Gibb @jameskgibb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I’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! 052
Reposted by Eric ShattuckSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. — Carl Sagan 5350115
Reposted by Eric ShattuckDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In "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 13012
Reposted by Eric ShattuckWHO @who.int · 04/09/2026Public 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 012930
Reposted by Eric ShattuckHeidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 04/09/2026THE ENSHITTOCENE 110123
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Cmon man. Didn't DoD just get (or at least ask for) for 1.5 trillion? 110
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If 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. 179
Reposted by Eric ShattuckSaganism @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 416650
Reposted by Eric ShattuckLisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So 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... 282
Reposted by Eric ShattuckRob 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...science.orgAncient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchmentNewly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged 085
Reposted by Eric ShattuckEmily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'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 25904619
Reposted by Eric ShattuckSiobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Need 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. 362
Reposted by Eric ShattuckEmbrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Cooked brains theory will eventually be seen as the defining theory of our time. 48522
Reposted by Eric ShattuckRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Exceptionally 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"sciencedirect.com 081
Reposted by Eric ShattuckSheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These 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. 226358
Reposted by Eric ShattuckLucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Excited 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 1103
Reposted by Eric ShattuckJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Every 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 153546487
Reposted by Eric ShattuckThe Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026What 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-cyoutu.be#527 Kim Hill: Human Sociality, Human Universals, and Protecting Isolated SocietiesYouTube video by The Dissenter 031
Reposted by Eric ShattuckJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026Psychological 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... 7244128
Reposted by Eric ShattuckSiobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 26/08/2026NSF GRFP solicitation is live and anthropological disciplines are included in the appendix. I will be encouraging students to apply. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...nsf.govNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 184
Reposted by Eric ShattuckPat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026New >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 23715
Reposted by Eric ShattuckJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7253894611282
Reposted by Eric ShattuckAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts 545038812