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Just received the gift of Covid this Christmas! Left is with a swab of tonsils and nostrils, right is just nostrils (as directed for this test). Thanks to Charis Bridger Staatz for making me aware of this!

Trail hunting is just a trail of lies . . . Please watch and share this beautifully made film by @Keeptheban_ and sign the petition too . Thank you . keeptheban.uk/petition #trailoflies

New paper!📜 We ask: "What is cultural evolution anyway?" Our answer: a phenomenon, not a theory/ approach. Understanding this helps clarify other issues, e.g. the role of human behavioural ecology. With Eva Brandl & Ruth Mace (EvoBias ERC Project) academic.oup.com/beheco/advance…

Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations disq.us/t/472b6nc by Sarah Peacey and Olympia L K Campbell and me

Still time to get involved in the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household plastic waste by Greenpeace UK & Everyday Plastic! Count the plastic you throw away for 1 week (May 16th – 22nd), sign up here: bigplasticcount.com/sign-up Pls share!

Why might witchcraft accusations be sex-specific? A short blog on our paper with Olympia L K Campbell Ruth Mace evoanthucl.wixsite.com/blog/post/conf…

New paper out with Ruth Mace on whether common demographic risk factors for intimate-partner violence (IPV) associate similarly with natal family violence - with a particular focus on cousin marriage. Using data from >17000 Jordanian women 🧵academic.oup.com/emph/article/1…

"The victims were rounded up at gunpoint and taken to secret detention centres. They recounted being stripped naked, beaten, pressured into confessing to committing murders through witchcraft." Remembering persecution in Gambia under President Jammeh. bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Why be a monk? Alberto Micheletti Erhao Ge (Ethan) Liqiong Zhou Yuan Chen May Hanzhi Zhang Juan Du Ruth Mace royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New mums in the UK we need your help!👉motherhoodin2022uclstudy.formr.org 👇

New chapter! Building on our recent opinion paper in Behavioral Ecology, Eva Brandl, Ruth Mace and I, together with May Hanzhi Zhang and Sarah Peacey, explore the role of human behavioural ecology in cultural evolution research: osf.io/u47tw/ A thread🧵 [1/13]

Reminder that abstract submission and registration for #EHBEA2023 at UCL are OPEN ⬇️ cambridge.org/core/membershi…

My newly published research article on Current Biology! Our comparative study examines the effects of dispersal on workload - Sex inequality driven by dispersal cell.com/current-biolog… Also a link to The Conversation post. theconversation.com/women-work-har…

I'm organising a pre-EHBEA2023 - UCL London April 18-21st satellite meeting on behalf of EvoBias ERC Project "Researching sensitive topics in the quantitative social sciences". We have a great list of speakers from both inside and outside academia. Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-res…

Will you watch this? If you eat bacon, will you? Please? "In 2003 the Farm Animal Welfare Council said CO2 killing “is not acceptable and we wish to see it phased out in five years”. However, its use has instead increased to 88% of all pigs in 2022." theguardian.com/environment/20…

New paper with Qiaoqiao He et al is out.

New paper: The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs with Sarah Peacey et al. Some traditions have been around a long time sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Watching tonight's BBC documentary on the Badger cull? Angered by what's going on? Please sign the petition calling on The Labour Party to end the Badger cull today. protectthewild.org.uk/badger-petitio… #badgercull #badgers #stopthecull #endthecull

Happy Halloween! In a timely HBES blog, Sarah Peacey discusses the ancestry of witchcraft beliefs: hbes.com/exploring-the-… Or read the original EHB article on the cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs: doi.org/10.1016/j.evol…

Once again adding to the noise but this time on falling birth rates. A trend that has stumped the human evolutionary sciences for years.