Reposted by Eric Shattuckokay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The first day of grad school, identify the biggest idea in the room and kick its butt. 4657
Reposted by Eric ShattuckArtologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17hOne for the academics, from @ellisjrosen.bsky.social 🧪🎓 012117
Reposted by Eric ShattuckBrendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Our paper on how orangutan mothers plan and alter their space use at personal costs so their offspring may play with similarly aged offspring (independent of kinship and fruit productivity) has transitioned from preprint to peer reviewed publication doi.org/10.1073/pnas...doi.orgMaternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNASIn most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ... 211456
Reposted by Eric ShattuckProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“For entire disciplines, this is existential” 26424
Reposted by Eric ShattuckBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854193353
Reposted by Eric ShattuckMartin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm truly thrilled to have just received this brilliant new book by Peter Sahlins. It is very much a labour of love and provides one of the most detailed intellectual histories of the seemingly never-ending concern with Neanderthals from the very beginning to the present. 071
Reposted by Eric Shattucktoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 189112433061
Reposted by Eric ShattuckImmunoprof (she/they) @immunoprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hey data viz teachers….here’s a FANTASTIC example for class. 06717
Reposted by Eric ShattuckFrancesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026So excited to share that I will be starting my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology! 🥳 My lab will study curiosity and exploration across biological (and artificial) minds. I will recruit a PhD, a postdoc and an RA in the coming months, so please spread the word! 86514
Reposted by Eric ShattuckElizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026y'all i'm working on this data collection project looking at dissertations & sometimes I get reminders that we are not all playing the same game (1999 edition) 1632452
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 714861
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
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I'd probably prefer to see the published paper. I think your cover letter/research statement would show how you want to apply anthropological theories and methods and cover some of what I imagine would be in the interpretive essay. Just one opinion though! 120
Reposted by Eric ShattuckRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/09/2026Voyager Instruments xkcd.com/3302/ 253082432
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! 15372
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
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026!!! Hopefully you were able to find all the pieces before any decay set in... 000
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Our cats caught a lizard in the house last night. I managed to get them to drop the carcass outside. It definitely lost its tail and maybe a limb but the body wasn't there when I looked later. Hopefully it was just playing dead. Cats man... 100
Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026static.klipy.comJontron Says That's F***ing MetalALT: Jontron Says That's F***ing Metal 100
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. 325627
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. 🏺🧪 37227
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/ 28372
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… 271997238
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. 527136788
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 012830
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 416751