Women and Others in Evolutionary Behavioural Sciences
Empowering women and SGM students, researchers, and educators in the evolutionary behavioural sciences through mentorship, advocacy and community
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Congratulations to Elizabeth Agey, winner of the #HBES2026 Postdoctoral Investigator Award! 🎉 For her work on “Parental influence on mate choice shapes reproduction and socioeconomic resources in Nepal.” 👏
Some amazing finalists for the #HBES2026 Postdoctoral Investigator award! A thread 🧵👇 (1/4)
Another fantastic panel at #CESRabat / #HBES2026 with Fiona Jordan, @edhagen.net, @joehenrich.bsky.social, & Monique Borgerhoff Mulder!
A great point made by Monique and echoed by Joe: The evolutionary social sciences agree about much more than we disagree about, and we need to stick together!
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Mentorship, advocacy, and community — these are the backbone of #WplusEBS.
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Great plenary by Michelle Kline at #CESRabat: In a UK context policing pregnancy doesn't appear to be changing pregnant peoples' behavior -- policing in this context does not affect behavioral change!
Plenary session by Prof. Hanna Kokko (University of Mainz):
''A Long Life: How Desirable Is It, Evolutionarily Speaking?'' Exploring longevity through an evolutionary lens.
@anthroliz.bsky.social discussed parental influence on mate choice in Nepal and the effects of different levels of parental vs offspring choice on reproductive success.
One key takeaway: we need to stop dichotomizing arranged marriages when studying these effects! (2/4)
#HBES2026
@olkcampbell.bsky.social
gave an interesting talk on the relationship between cousin marriages and exposure to intimate partner violence and coercive control.
She finds that women in cousin marriages reported less intimate partner violence and less coercive control! (3/4)
#HBES2026
An interesting talk yesterday on work by @annepisor.bsky.social and Courtney Elmore:
On coastal Tanzania, women and men get social capital from having friends, near or far, BUT they have less opportunity to form these friendships. Women who DO have this option have more social capital.
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And Julien Lie-Panis presented his work on trade and how Intermediaries concentrate exchanges, creating incentives for reliability! (4/4)
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