Our province is mourning a senseless tragedy. Our hearts are with the families of the victims. 💔

We’re launching the Canada Emergency Student Benefit. With this benefit, you’ll get $1,250 a month from May to August. And if you’re taking care of someone or if you have a disability, that amount will go up to $1,750 each month.

Updating my CV. Covid2020=Career interruption??? Sure feels like it with two small kids at home...

Passed a class this semester but dissatisfied with your grade? You can now change your letter grade to a P! Please consult academic advising, Financial Aid, and/or International Services for Students to help you make this important decision: ow.ly/71PO50zsdQy

I suspect this is true of many nations now

Can I pin this tweet into my brain please?

Is collective isolation the best strategy to prevent the spread of #SARSCoV2, #COVID19 in indigenous populations? New paper in The Lancet showcases concrete plan developed with tribal leaders, physicians among #Tsimane of Bolivian Amazon. Press release: news.ucsb.edu/2020/019900/in…

Collab with Indigenius communities, scientists, and medical workers to stop spread of COVID19 in Rural Bolivia. Out in The Lancet. Best part, it was translated into multiple languages so the strategies can be widely used

Check out our paper from a team of psychologists and anthropologists on methodological and ethical considerations of cross cultural research.

This conversation must keep happening. Just a reminder (particularly to the haters who don’t get how hard it is to work AND parent in the pandemic ) that we evolved as cooperative breeders. This means that having childcare is *literally* one of the hallmarks of our species.

Great thought piece by Clark Barrett in EHB's special issue: Beyond WEIRD, a decade on. Clark points out that 72% of studies in EHB between 2015-20 used "generic samples" with no geographic origin specified. When do we raise the bar? It's been a decade.

Our new review paper is out now in E&HB. In it, Katherine McAuliffe & I trace the history of two complementary approaches to studying children across cultures — one focused on breadth of knowledge, the other on depth — & offer suggestions for future work. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

ICYMI, our latest mini episode discusses the origins and influence of the term WEIRD—an acronym first introduced a decade ago by Joe Henrich and colleagues. manyminds.libsyn.com/weird-adventur…

I’ve rediscovered several local sayings since I moved back to Nova Scotia, but my all time FAV is, “he didn’t lick that off the grass”, spoken by a member of a dairy farm family. #naturenotnurture #NovaScotia #antigonish #Children

POSTDOC at WSU Anth in the Biocultural #Anthropology Lab! PhD in any discipline. Possible renewal up to 1 additional year pending positive performance. App review starts May 15. Ad: wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs… Lab: labs.wsu.edu/meehan #postdocjobs #AcademicJobs #postdoc

Thrilled that this paper just came out in Human Nature. Who are children spending time with in their everyday interactions? rdcu.be/ckfqg

amazing!! cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

New faculty position in evolutionary anthropology at ASU. Apply if you are interested, retweet if you are prosocial jobs.chronicle.com/job/385838/evo…

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