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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

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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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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Notably, this helpful list of action items for scientists implies that the primary audience will probably not be found on BlueSky.

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John Logsdon @johnlogsdon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

#WithoutNSF ‘s support I would not have been able to teach >8000 undergraduate students in my 25+ year career as a biology professor. No grants, no job, no promotions.

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

If only the evolutionary social sciences had more Margo Wilsons. Lovely piece from Daniel Nettle on how her work is "a particularly successful example of how you can bring evolutionary understanding to social science topics and be genuinely constructive; rather than just irritating people"

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Margo Wilson, and how to do evolutionary human science

In October 2024, I had the great honour of travelling to Hamilton to give the Margo Wilson Memorial Lecture. It was fifteen years since Margo’s death. Preparing the lecture gave me the oppo…

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Diego Guevara Beltran @psycheddiego.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Starter pack for evolutionary behavioral science! I know I am missing many ppl working in this area. Please add yourself and your colleagues! go.bsky.app/Rt4Kh26

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Jeffrey G. Snodgrass @godfreysnorgyrs.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My team's latest, "Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research" #causality doi.org/10.1080/0018...

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Tracy Sweet @tracysweet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Anyone interested in taking a 2-day online workshop with me? An introduction to multilevel models! (will be taught in R/RStudio). Register here: Registration link: umd-cilvr.catalog.instructure.com/courses/mult...

Two Day Online short course on Multilevel Modeling

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DORA @dorassessment.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A publication’s “what” should count more than its “where”: why we should waive journal titles. A great story about how the long term impact of research led to Adrian Barnett's parents getting a new boiler in chilly Belfast. sfdora.org/2024/11/10/a...

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A publication’s “what” should count more than its “where”: why we should waive journal titles. | DORA

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

(This starter pack will no doubt expand as more people migrate to Bluesky.) go.bsky.app/KVUQFms

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 27/10/2024

It's been 12 hours so maybe everyone has moved on, but I created a graph with the all the missing lines. Visually, you could say White men without college degrees were ahead of 10 groups in 1980 (5th place out of 16), and only 7 groups by 2022 (9th place).

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Unambiguously the best part of this job is hanging out with smart people like the attendees of this socioecology workshop.

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Might be a good time to remind folks of the Project 2025 plan to eliminate NOAA. Madness

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 28/08/2024

SocArXiv seeks volunteer moderators! Screen research papers in social science, arts, humanities, and law. Volunteers generally spend 1-2 hours per week after initial training, plus a low-volume group chat. Any professional level welcome, multiple languages especially encouraged. socarxiv@gmail.com

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Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Progress in science involves corrections to the record. Great work led by Maria Creighton re-evaluating the link between female sociality and infant survival in baboons. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Re-evaluating the relationship between female social bonds and infant survival in wild baboons

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

For mentors of smart and ambitious undergraduate students who are looking to publish their research, the Cambridge Journal of Human Behaviour could be worth a look. cjhumanbehaviour.com/about/

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Exam copies of Cambridge's new textbook, Human Behavioral Ecology, can be requested by instructors who are considering the volume for use in their classes. Copies can be requested by following the link on this page: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

For a two-year position, the Santa Fe Institute is hiring a postdoctoral scholar with expertise in statistical modeling and social network analysis to advance analysis and publications from the first wave of cross-cultural data from the ENDOW project: www.santafe.edu/about/jobs/a...

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sfiscience

We are seeking an Applied Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow to join a large, ongoing collaboration aimed at understanding the dynamic interplay of social and economic inequality.

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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Cambridge is glad to remind everyone that this edited volume, Human Behavioral Ecology, will be available in February. While summarizing the state of the field, it also looks ahead to rising cohorts of early-career behavioral ecologists and the insights that await. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

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Human Behavioral Ecology

Cambridge Core - Evolutionary Biology - Human Behavioral Ecology

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