Alex Alvergne

Covid-19 studies should record women’s menstrual changes, recommend researchers bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/nove… via @BristolUni

What are the evolutionary causes of #endometriosis? If you live in the UK, are menstruating and older than 18, help us by completing this 10min survey nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6X… Thank u so much!

Environmental factors, lifestyle choices have greater impact on health than genes, a new study published on @NatureMedicine finds. #aging By @austinargen, @AlexAlvergne, @NajafAmin, @aiden1doherty, et al. doi.org/10.1038/s41591…

Last spring I gave a workshop on Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R where we learned how to assess the quality of a dataset and apply a standardized checklist of cleaning steps in #rstats. ICYMI - The slides and exercise materials are here: cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-clea…

and now ⁦@andrea_migliano⁩ ! Woohoo!

Too many cool talks at #FRESH and more to come ! fresh-cnrs.org

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Group-level signatures in bonobo sociality | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4g0k8fW "This suggests that rather than groups having different levels of sociality, different patterns of sociality exist in each group"

Excellent new paper which clearly explains how “a gene-culture coevolution perspective can refute reductionist & determinist claims while providing an inclusive multidisciplinary framework to interpret human variation” Genes, culture & scientific racism pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Testosterone mediates life‐history trade‐offs in female mammals - Crespi - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Two tiers, not one: Different sources of extrinsic mortality have opposing effects on life history traits | Behavi. & Brain Sci. bit.ly/4ehOXex "energetics alone cannot account for the complex empirical record on environmentally-mediated regulation of LH strategies."

Can you tell how🌶️SEXUALLY INTERESTED🌶️people are IN YOU? Not 💯 Men who are (a) into short-term mating (eg casual sex) OR (b) good-looking OVERESTIMATE women's interest in them ...esp attractive women Women UNDERESTIMATE men's sexual interest in them journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

Low haemoglobin in arduous seasons is associated with reduced chance of ovulation among women living in the Bolivia… pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39444585/ @oxford_anthro @isemevol

Final call for abstracts for #FRESH (French Network for the Evolution Study of Humans) conference held in Lausanne 25-26th November - with @andrea_migliano as plenary speaker and organized by @Cedric_Perret13 fresh2024.sciencesconf.org

Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality | The American Naturalist journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

UPCOMING WEBINAR: Causal Inference from Evolutionary Human Sciences Join us October 3rd 2PM BST | 3PM CEST Register Now > cambridge-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The archives of the International Cognition and Culture Institute (active 2008-2021) are now freely online with past blogs, webinars, and discussions from anthropologists, biologists, cognitive scientists, historians, linguists, and philosophers. cognitionandculture.net/index.html

👋Associate Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology.  Full details are available on the SAME website: anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/associ….  The deadline for applications is 12 noon on 7th October 2024.

How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem (1/3)

Dans une tribune à lire sur @Le_NouvelObs, 2500 scientifiques appellent à la mobilisation contre l’extrême droite et dénoncent "le discours dominant qui présente le Nouveau Front Populaire comme une menace pour la République" (via @SciRebFr) nouvelobs.com/politique/2024…

Prof Joan Silk is in Montpellier ! We are finally going to understand what it means to be a daddy when you’re a primate