Cody Ross

So proud to see the hard work of @rianaminocher come out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Nuanced analysis of 20 years of longitudinal data in a large rural community shows little evidence that non-nuclear family structures lead to reduced growth, education, or survival outcomes.

An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

@MasYoungblood @oleg_sobchuk @OliverWithAnI Omg, did you really?! 🫀 Jokes aside, looks like a cool read. I'll print it out next time I'm in the office. The open sentence is the heaviest I've read since The Stranger by Camus.

@mindismoving @oleg_sobchuk @OliverWithAnI This interview 😂 @oleg_sobchuk good thing we added “is_kanye (T/F)” as varying intercept lol

Anyone have a mirror of kinsources.net? Website seems down.

I really enjoyed this paper! Check it out.

In this new paper Claire Spottiswoode and I @honeyguiding examine how culture influences interspecies communication between people and honeyguides, and model why these cultural differences arise and stabilize science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How do people come together to solve complex problems? In a new paper with @psmaldino, @apvelilla, and @MikkelWerling, we propose that one general principle for complex problem-solving is the maintenance of "transient diversity." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🤯 This new @PNASNews paper out of @sfiscience is ELEGANT w/an incredible author list & one hell of a dataset. The way this is written w/hypotheses & predictions clearly outlined & theory bridging mammals should make this Eco/Evo/Anthro mandatory reading. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@Philip_Goff Call it: "The Goddamn Purpose"... Publishers will shorten the "The God Purpose". After that, soak in the fame.

My book has been provisionally called 'The Purpose of Existence', but the publisher are asking for something more suited to a general audience. Any suggestions? It's arguing that the universe has a purpose even though God doesn't exist.

This Lexis plot depicting UK mortality across the 20th century is wild. I had no idea cohort effects (diagonal 'scars') were so strong. Events like the 1918 flu led to not only high annual mortality, but an increase in mortality across one's lifetime. HT: @salonium's newsletter.

@babeheim But what's up with Lisp?

@babeheim I like the Ratliff myself.

This work highlights the value of replication efforts on modeling studies, and on the importance of written model descriptions being sufficiently detailed to enable replication. /end

Our new medicine laureate Svante Pääbo made a splash when his colleagues at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig threw him into a pond. Normally throwing a colleague into the pond happens when somebody receives a PhD, and they wanted to do it for Pääbo's #NobelPrize as well. Video: Benjamin Vernot

👇🏻 I'm accepting students! 👇🏻 We do a mix of evolutionary & applied #anthropology in the US & aboad. Our dept has a record of funding students the *whole* time they're here. Plus we have ⛷🚵🏻‍♀️🥾🎣🛶! Our lab mission, goals, & culture: docs.google.com/document/d/1gs…. DM with questions!

I’m very excited to announce that my FIRST first author paper is now out on EHS @Journal_EHS #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/ehs.20…

@SpeciesTypical @kris_m_smith @JaimieKrems @Chops310 @JessicaDAyers @HKBradshaw @TaniaArline @danielj_redhead Thanks for the plug Aaron!

@kris_m_smith @JaimieKrems @Chops310 @JessicaDAyers @HKBradshaw @TaniaArline Also forthcoming work in EHB by @danielj_redhead & @mindismoving

Friends buffer us against the incredibly high (individual + societal) costs of loneliness. They help us thrive. But we still don’t know why so many friendships fail—are failing now perhaps more than ever. Fingers crossed that NSF funds my lab’s work in how friendship works!

When faculty finally updates their headshot for the department website: