Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara
Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Lab 🌍🌏🌎
Human Behavioral Ecology
Global Health, Family, Gender Norms 🏳️🌈
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David W Lawson
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In their recent Perspective in our Field Stations in Experimental Biology Research series, Somanathan & co call for a network of field stations throughout India to better understand the biology of the organisms that inhabit the country's diverse ecosystems
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
The NIH is demanding that it's grantees cease collaborations with foreign scientists.
Wait until NIH director Jay Bhattacharya hears about this! His stated top priority in the director role is to prevent government interference with or censorship of scientific researchers.
Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
$9-billion taxpayer transfer to a $5 trillion company for US spy agencies to go all in on AI.
NYT doesn't include a single critical word from a privacy or civil liberties expert. Just a don't-worry-about-it assurance at the end.
Also: Anthropic is not our friend. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...
Especially concerning when we know DOGE was using AI models to identify “DEI” projects to cut. A self-reinforcing cycle against women and URM researchers.
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
Landmark systematic review of the British birth cohorts, providing further evidence of Generational Health Drift.
Led by the fantastic Laura Gimeno with superstar team: @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social @yiling1015.bsky.social Alice Goisis & @drjenndowd.bsky.social
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...
Our new commentary is out: "More than the sum of its sexes" — on embodied capital & age-structured labor in forager economies.
Big thanks to Venkataraman et al. for their excellent "Man the Hunter" piece that clarifies much. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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.” 👏
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
www.science.org
Emma Thompson among voices supporting anti-ageism campaign, which has uncovered striking findings in top-grossing UK films over past three years
Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits.
The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat. Continue reading...
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
Millennials and gen Z may spend more years in poor health than their earlier born counterparts, according to a new review of 51 studies comparing UK birth cohorts.
Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4wKqclU
Millennials and gen Z are more likely to live with obesity and report mental health difficulties earlier in their lives than the baby boomers and generation X.
