I actually love the 'Hola profa' when visiting Colombia. It's adorable. I had no idea til someone told me that profe/a is quite casual.

Okay, but what about when you do an actual experiment and then a reviewer tells you off for using causal language?
(I am having a strange month...)

Together, our findings demonstrate that men supporting women’s empowerment face heavy costs - but norms are mutable.

Policies that reduce structural barriers, address stigma around gender atypical behavior, and leverage emerging benefits can help accelerate gender-equitable change. 🎯 5/5

I'm here! But I was asleep.

It's the side burns.

Does it say who the action editor was?

To be fair it was raining all night in Durham. Hopefully we'll get something visible before I inevitably collapse in sleep by 10pm tonight. 😆

Waking at 3am and seeing all the Americans on my feed posting their pics was awesome.

Yay!

That's so lovely to know. It's always hard to determine if someone who seems lovely on brief interactions is a good egg in the rest of their life, but Annette always gave me good vibes.

And then we'll have some open access materials coming out hopefully next year, including a chapter on genetics by @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social and one on race science by @kevinlala.bsky.social and @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social

If you want the papers going 'oh actually this isn't an adaptation, it's a cultural by product' or similar then you need to go topic by topic.

If you want an intro to (good) genetics within evolutionary social sciences Dan Nettle wrote 'Evolution and Genetics for Psychology'.

Most EP people actively reject strong biological determinism (even if IMO too many fail to see how easily others will apply EP work deterministically.)
Louis Bachaud just published a paper on how the manosphere falls into such traps.

This is very true and I've often advocated just this point.
(Keep in mind of course that bad vision science can lead to bad medical decisions. )

The guy who thought Rushton was worth a punt found Watson too much of a c**t. That really says something!

(Compelling bad ideas are annoyingly sticky of course, even when well rebutted. But that's not unique to EP by a long shot.)

Anyway, read the paper, marvel at the lack of actual good data on femininity and fertility. Consider doing the critical test research yourself?

/fin
#ehbea
#hbes

And I know exactly why EP has such a bad image. And I get sick of all that research too. But science contains multitudes. Even those interested in sexual selection.
Most of the empirical take downs of poor EP ideas have come from within.
If we weren't interested we'd never have bothered...