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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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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The first day of grad school, identify the biggest idea in the room and kick its butt.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17h
One for the academics, from @ellisjrosen.bsky.social 🧪🎓
Monster receiving a diploma 
He is thinking Dr Jekyll and Doctor Hyde
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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our 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...
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Maternal ranging strategies facilitate offspring social play at energetic cost in the most solitary ape | PNAS
In most vertebrates, social play among peers is considered essential for behavioral development. Yet in solitary species bearing single offspring, ...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“For entire disciplines, this is existential”
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'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.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found 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
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Immunoprof (she/they) @immunoprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey data viz teachers….here’s a FANTASTIC example for class.
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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So 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!
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 01/10/2026
y'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)
not the least, I would like to thank my family: my parents, for buying me a lovely condominium at Harvard Street so that I could concentrate on my research with out worrying about paying rents,
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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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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'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!
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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:
nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
Metascience of the Evolutionary Human Sciences
Call for papers for special collection
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
!!! Hopefully you were able to find all the pieces before any decay set in...
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our 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...
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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Jontron Says That's F***ing Metal
ALT: Jontron Says That's F***ing Metal
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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...
anthro.utah.edu
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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Eric Shattuck @ericshattuck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gotcha!
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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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