Faculty (Penn State), lab director (https://socialitylab.org), entrepreneur. Interdisciplinary anthropologist studying how people cooperate to manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍
Anne Pisor
Loading...
We’re putting heads together to better understand how livelihoods, climate exposures, & health experiences come together for people in rural spaces, in SA and beyond. I forecast a mix of community engagement, personal tech, fresh surveys, innovative mental-health tools, & environmental sensing. 3/
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
I'm excited for what comes next for this cross-sector, cross-disciplinary collection of collaborators - for understanding rural transitions like the ones we see in South Africa and in the United States, with implications for interventions supporting health and livelihoods globally. /end 🧵
Anne Pisor
Anne Pisor
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
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! 👋🌍🇰🇪
Human Sociality Lab
It is such an honor to receive this award, and especially alongside @dconroybeam.bsky.social! Thank you to the @humbehevosoc.bsky.social community! 🙏🏻
The Agincourt platform’s been running since the 1990s, with data on 20,000+ households. Researchers & community members note how frequent flooding and droughts are affecting households. A few months ago floods took out roads and affected the water supply. Disruptions are still affecting travel. 2/
'Some analysts at conservative think tanks are making.. arguments in favor of the social sciences.. “if you care about giving businesses & policymakers [info] they need to understand the world,” you should care about the Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences'
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
"The world is entering a new El Niño phase. Researchers are warning it could be one of the strongest on record and are invoking.. history as an admonition that natural forces, when they reach their highest magnitude, can lead to profound volatility and hardship."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/c...
Human Sociality Lab
Human Sociality Lab
The National Science Foundation division that covers social, behavioral, and economic sciences is in the crosshairs.
More extreme weather events, increasing local wealth inequality, & increasing incidence of hypertension and diabetes. I just spent a week in rural South Africa with the teams at Wits Rural & the Agincourt Health & Socio-Demographic Surveillance System, both part of Uni of the Witwatersrand 🧵 1/
