Social Resources are Associated With Higher Fertility Intentions in Contemporary Finland: 'receiving instrumental support ‒ especially financial - from parents & other relatives is associated with higher childbearing intentions, as is not feeling lonely' doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-…

So excited to see this win the best poster award!!!

With the world turning away from diversity we need public anthropology more than ever. I’ve decided to do my bit to share what we know about cultures of reproduction & why they matter for evolution. PEOPLE LIKE US coming in 2027 🙏🏻 Will Francis Picador Books Andrea Henry

Parents of kids 6+: help us understand parenting behavior by giving us 5 min of your time? okstateches.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eG…

New Cebu study out in PNAS led by Calen P. Ryan 🌊! Epigenetic clocks accelerated with each pregnancy, adding to evidence for the evolutionary concept of a “cost of reproduction” impacting aging. Will relationships hold into later ages? Fascinating/important evolutionary med questions.

Fertility Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic [Kenya & Burkina Faso}: 'Findings indicate an uptick in conception around 6 months following the pandemic onset in Kenya...& a pronounced increase in conception rates among disadvantaged groups' doi.org/10.1111/padr.1…

The spirits of dead scholars have deposited a PDF copy of this chapter within the digital inferno xcelab.net/rmpubs/McElrea…

'Who helps Tsimane children and adults?' — 'results support kin selection and relationship effort explanations for who helps Tsimane children and adults' researchgate.net/publication/37…

Global household trends: converging sizes, divergent structures: 'findings suggest a global decline in average household size, although household structures continue to differ across countries' niussp.org/family-and-hou…

Societal Pessimism and the Transition to Parenthood: A Future Too Bleak to Have Children? 'perceiving the future of the coming generation as worse than today is associated with a lower probability of becoming a parent' [Netherlands]
doi.org/10.1111/padr.1…

Editorial: Day-care for healthy child development and wider social and economic gain in urban areas in low- & middle income countries - “This Research Topic brings the global challenge of the childcare vacuum to the attention of academics & policy makers” frontiersin.org/journals/publi…

Read this. Wholesale destruction of an entire highly profitable industry….why isn’t there outrage?

Our consensus statement on post-pandemic #PerinatalMentalHealth , published today in Frontiers in Global Women's Health - a collaborative effort of researchers, academics, clinicians, policy makers, and the charitable sector.

Funded by SRIP

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

My university is making staff redundant and the consultants senior management have hired couldn’t even manage to remove our letterhead before doing exactly the same thing at Goldsmiths. Really says it all about the competency of the people tasked with destroying universities.

Parents, Caregivers & Peers: Patterns of Complementarity in Social World of Children in Rural Madagascar - 'Rather than being linearly ranked, children’s social partners may complement each other by providing different but equally significant experiences' doi.org/10.1086/725037

I'm so proud of my youngest academic daughter, Joanna Żyrek for her very first scientific paper published in Scientific Reports!

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Important and timely: “the more social support the pregnant woman receives, the lower is her risk of Post Partum depression” (in Poland) - New paper led by BirthRites PhD student Joanna Żyrek out today

The decimation of Anthropology at UK universities (Kent 😭; us at Goldsmiths facing becoming unviable due to rendundancies) is incredibly short-sighted.

A short 🧵 giving 8 reasons why the world needs anthropology and anthropologists, now more than ever 1/9:

My delightful news of the day…..developing Biological/ Evolutionary Anthropology at Kent has been the cornerstone to my entire career, so this really, really hurts.

This is devastating