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Human Sociality Lab

@socialitylab.bsky.social
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We're the HSL, a lab of integrative scientific anthropologists passionate about combining basic and applied work. We're based at Penn State and work primarily in the US 🌎 and East and South Africa 🌍 www.socialitylab.org

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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congrats 🎉 to HSL alum Dr Joon Hwang on his new publication in Evolution & Human Behavior! In rural Bangladesh, participants’ risk preferences may be a function of their social networks... 🧵 [1/3] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Northern Kenya experiences extreme heat. Practitioners connect this heat to anxiety. Household heads report kids can’t go outside. At the @pennstateuniv.bsky.social Climate Solutions Symposium, HSL PhD student @soujanyaakkiraju09.bsky.social presented early insights from CHARMES Kenya. 1/2
Soujanya presents her blue, orange, and yellow poster
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In a recent win for the HSL, Courtney Elmore received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for the first 3 years of her PhD at @psuanthro.bsky.social. Courtney plans to study how livelihood change and migration affect social networks in rural South Africa. Congratulations to Courtney!! #NSFfunded
Courtney celebrating with sushi
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Ashley J Coventry @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It was great to present some ongoing work at #HBES2026 about how the mind might make judgements of others’ traits in environments with dishonest signaling!
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
CEs Job Alert 🚨! 4-year teaching focused lecturership at Bristol in bio/evo anthropology with a quantitative focus. Bristol is a terrific city to live in, and many ECRS in the CES will hopefully fit the profile: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Wow it's hard to start new research and grow our lab and get stuff out and *also* be social, but Human Sociality Lab is still here! We'll catch you up on our latest. To get you started: greetings from Kenya, where Soujanya Akkiraju and @annepisor.bsky.social work on climate change and health! 👋🌍🇰🇪
Lake Victoria shot from a Land Rover. In the foreground is a traditional wooden boat and a dirt road to a boat launch
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We're so excited for @kris-smith.bsky.social -- our WSU + PSU lab is keeping its WSU roots strong!! Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🎉
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Is us vs them thinking inevitable? 👥 No, and understanding why it happens can help us push back against it, even if in local ways. In a Q&A, Anne offers some ideas for what we can do 👇
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How do social relationships spanning communities help or hurt conservation? 🐠 Kris, Anne, and our collaborators in Africa and Europe find that long-distance relationships increase participation in conservation behavior 👇
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Human Sociality Lab @socialitylab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How climate adaptation and cooperative networks affect people and the resources they manage? 🐟 How changed livelihoods change health? 🩺 This is what we do at the Human Sociality Lab. 🧵
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