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Bluesky network1d ago

Were Margaret Mead's data on the ages of girls' heterosexual experiences out of the ordinary, and therefore she must have been hoaxed? Here is a plot of her data. Pastor: girls living in a pastor's boarding school 🧪 #BioAnth, 🧵 1/4

A logistic regression model of self-reported heterosexual experience vs. time since puberty, with a term for living in the boarding school. Girls living in the boarding school have a lower probability of heterosexual, ranging from close to zero near the onset of. puberty, to around 50% five years later. Other girls have a probability of around 37% near the onset of puberty to close to 90% five years later.

Ed Hagen@edhagen.net

1. Attempted cancellations of prominent scholars as proxy wars on ideas one doesn't like: the case of Margaret Mead...and a mea culpa 🧪 #AcademicSky

Bluesky network4d ago

1. Attempted cancellations of prominent scholars as proxy wars on ideas one doesn't like: the case of Margaret Mead...and a mea culpa 🧪 #AcademicSky

Bluesky network9d ago

Andrew Gelman reviews several chapters from The War on Science, edited by Lawrence Krauss 🧪 statmodeling.substack.com/p/13-aspects...

Bluesky network17d ago

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Remembering Uncle Ken on the anniversary of #D-Day www.aphidophaga.org/hagen.htm

Ken Hagen, professor emeritus of Entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, died suddenly of a ruptured aortic aneurism on 10 January 1997. He was born in Oakland, California on 26 November 1919. His parents were from Norway, and his father was a seaman. Ken attended Fremont High School in Oakland, where he graduated in 1938 and then enrolled in San Francisco State College. He received there his A.A. degree in 1942. Ken then attended U.C. Berkeley, where he earned his B.S. in entomology in 1943. He then went to Officer Candidate School at Columbia University, where he was commissioned in the U.S.Navy. On a brief leave he married his fiancee, Maxine White, on 1 December 1943. A week later he went to Norfolk, Virginia to attend Amphibious Training School, and then was shipped out to Europe. During the war he served on the USS Anne Arundel, as a lieutenant in charge of a landing craft section, and saw action in the Neptune Invasion at Omaha Beach in Normandy, and the Dragon Invasion in the south of France in 1944. In 1945, he participated in the landings at Okinawa, where the fierce fighting stranded his boat on the beach overnight.

Bluesky network17d ago

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Meme
Wait, it's all transposons?
Always has been

Alex de Mendoza@alexdemendoza.bsky.social

Capolavoro 🎨 alert 🚨! What is the role of gene body methylation in invertebrates? Despite extensive speculation linking it to plasticity and environmental responses, its mechanistic effects and heritability remain unclear. Our take out in @natecoevo.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Bluesky network21d ago

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I need #rstats #stats advice. 59 kids in 2 ethnic groups were observed for 2 hours each, & the # of times they learned something from parents (vertical), other adults (oblique) or peers (horizontal) was recorded. Each row is one child. Q: How to test if ethnicity is associated w/ learning mode?

First 10 of 59 children:

ID ethnicity Vertical Horizontal Oblique
<chr> <fct> <int> <int> <int>
1 KECKD09 Koygu 0 3 3
2 KACEG04 Koygu 1 0 6
3 KECAD06 Koygu 1 4 1
4 KACNB02 Koygu 3 2 0
5 NACPL06 Nyangatom 7 0 3
6 NACLN04 Nyangatom 0 4 3
7 NACMJ05 Nyangatom 5 3 4
8 KECKB04 Koygu 3 3 1
9 NECLJ04 Nyangatom 1 6 7
10 NMCNL10 Nyangatom 3 4 2

Bluesky network24d ago

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I've updated this plot of data from @thefireorg.bsky.social on campus deplatformings and attacks on scholars (1) with complete data for 2025, (2) by changing the incidents plots to cumulative sums of incidents by year, and (3) adding the topics involved 🧪 #AcademicSky

top left: most deplatforming by students, administrators and activists.
top right: increase in campus deplatforming from 1998-2025, led by attacks from the right.
bottom left: most attacks on scholars by students, administrators and activists.
bottom right: steep increase in attacks on scholars starting around the start of the Trump era, with a huge recent spike of attacks from the right.
Very bottom: dot chart of topics involved in each incident. The top 3 are race, political views, and gender, with more of each from the right than the left

Ed Hagen@edhagen.net

My plot of @thefireorg.bsky.social data. Early on, campus deplatforming was more from the right, then more from the left, & now equalizing at a high level. Attacks on scholars were rare until 10 years ago, then increased by both sides, w/ a recent steep drop of attacks from the left 🧪 #AcademicSky

top left: most deplatforming by students, administrators and activists.
top right: increase in campus deplatforming from 1998-2025.
bottom left: most attacks on scholars by students, administrators and activists.
bottom right: steep increase in attacks on scholars starting around 2014.

Bluesky network26d ago

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The grandmother hypothesis is seen as the "feminist" version of human evolution, but if so it's a dark version. At its heart is the recognition that despite higher male mortality, menopause sharply restricted the pool of fertile women relative to fertile men👇 intensifying male-male competition 🧪🧵1/4

A plot showing that despite higher male mortality, the ratio of fertile men (18-60) to fertile women (18-40) is almost always greater than 1, and was probably around 1.4 to 1.5 fertile man per fertile women for life expectancies typical of hunter-gatherers.

Bluesky network29d ago

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Kids will sell their souls for a marshmallow

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social

I’m so sick of former bird app takes, I want to hear everyone’s parenting hot takes

Bluesky network1mo ago

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The joint @ces2026.bsky.social / #HBES2026 is a wrap. Local organizers @zhgarfield.com, @edseabright.bsky.social, @sarahalami.bsky.social, & @matcharbonneau.bsky.social & their amazing support team pulled off TWO back-to-back conferences. The vibe, food, high-tech venue & talks were fantastic!

Human Behavior & Evolution Society@humbehevosoc.bsky.social

Final day of #HBES2026! 🌍 Parallel sessions kick off at 9:00, followed by Martin Daly’s lunch panel on the history of HBES, the Postdoctoral Investigator Award finalists, and our closing keynote at 15:05: Simon Baron-Cohen on “The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention.”

Bluesky network1mo ago

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This is a very cool app: it's computing embeddings across bluesky posts. Enter your handle and find which clusters your posts belong to, along w/ nearby clusters. Apparently, most of my posts are in the, uh, mtcars cluster #rstats 🧪 divepool.social/pool/edhagen...

Bluesky network1mo ago

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There's also standard.site support: emdash/packages/plugins/atproto github.com/emdash-cms/e...

Matt Kane@mk.gg

EmDash now supports Atmosphere login as a first-class identity provider. More details here: docs.emdashcms.com/guides/atmos...

Bluesky network1mo ago

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1. Steve Jobs realized that "People hate their phones". Apple invented a better one, made bank, & changed the world. Academics hate their scientific publishers. Bluesky invented a better publishing platform, & could bank some of the ~$20B/year sci pub revenue, changing science 🧪 @toni.bsky.team 🧵

Bluesky network2mo ago

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1. In this paper, we included this word cloud of the top 200 words in the volume Man the Hunter. A reader wondered how could the top 200 words in a book with the title "Man the Hunter" include "woman" but not "man"? Doh! 🧪 #rstats #BioAnth #AcademicSky 🧵

The top 200 words in the original word cloud (not in order of frequency):

settlement
birdsell
vary
complex
bear
archeological
specific
winter
average
call
understand
residence
change
expect
total
adaptation
region
ecology
move
percent
close
record
share
central
occupy
disease
exist
feature
vegetable
community
development
knowledge
common
single
territory
analysis
primary
distribution
occupation
maintain
reason
territorial
modern
represent
level
chapter discussion
nature
increase
relationship
simple
find
kinship
practice
section
estimate
type
water
south
period
eskimo
bushman
species
require
condition
economic
organization
subsistence
base
relate
density
pattern
provide
carry
obtain
north
child
size
animal
society
evidence
researchrule
question
ecological
male
tribe
tie
people
life
define
family
female
activity
gather
band
unit
food
forest
square
bring
human
model
material
marry
rate
kill
structure
form
local
time
mile
hunt
marriage
site
note
sense
land
adult
evolution aboriginal
fish
live
term
hunter
social
early
australia
paper
function
determine
world
variation
relation
supply
symposium
degree
person
hadza
population
hand
occur
gatherer
tool
coast
mother
limit
system
include
situation
task
variable
woman
behavior
camp
datum
view
plant
extend
factor
resource
mean
ethnographic
individual
study
detail
source
cultural
tribal
australian
range
remain
result meat
lack
field
aborigine
suggest
culture
large
game
figure
report
discuss
process
difference
environment
importance
table
involve
river
pleistocene
kind
season
control
exchange
collect
similar
wife
mammal
diet
basis
recent
subsection
prehistoric
deal
composition
observe
account

Ed Hagen@edhagen.net

Our review of the import of the Man the Hunter conference and volume, which contrary to recent media coverage actually expressed diverse views on hunter-gatherers and inspired decades of research, is now published 🧪 #BioAnth authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Bluesky network2mo ago

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A great performance of this Zep classic: youtu.be/Ca3VI4aGDjc?...

“Ramble On” - Robert Plant with Saving Grace (LIVE on The Late Show)

Bluesky network2mo ago

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16 year old daughter visiting the Natural History Museum in NYC for the first time 🧪

IM IN THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSUEM
OMG
OMG
OMG

[Photos of huge dinosaur fossil]

OMGGGGGGGG

Bluesky network2mo ago

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Ed Hagen@edhagen.net

1. Does research by @caraocobock.bsky.social & others, widely reported in SciAm & elsewhere, finally dispel hunter-gatherer myths that have persisted since the 60's? In a preprint led by @vivek123.bsky.social The Meanings & Dividends of Man the Hunter: osf.io/preprints/os... we respond 🧵🧪

Scientific American cover article: Woman the Hunter: New science debunks the myth that men evolved to hunt and women to gather

Bluesky network3mo ago

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A unique prediction of an evolutionary approach is that some puzzling aspects of psych & health are best explained by mismatches of modern environments to the ancestral one. Yet the utility of the mismatch concept has been questioned by @joshtybur.bsky.social & @danielnettle.bsky.social 🧪 #BioAnth 🧵

Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social

This week, we talk to @joshtybur.bsky.social about the immune system in your head. 🤯 youtu.be/O0t8WpICTyo www.podbean.com/eas/pb-x6vk5... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Bluesky network3mo ago

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Re: Academic papers should become Bluesky accounts (yes, really)

by Ed Hagen (@edhagen.net)

Here's a Bluesky developer piece on group accounts, a future development that might be useful for paper accounts: https://bnewbold.leaflet.pub/3me3ea64bhk26

LeafletComment3mo ago