Dr Emily Emmott
@ehemmott.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Biological Anthropology, bringing Evolution to Public Health. Director of Education at UCL Anthropology.
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30051
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30051
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Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University!
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke - HBES
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783 Position Description The Pontzer Lab in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University seeks two Postdoctoral Associates for research in h...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University!
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
Funding for students!!
New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students:
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students:
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Julia Scott Memorial Bursary
The aim of the Julia Scott Memorial Bursary is intended to enable students in financial need to pursue their postgraduate studies in the Anthropology Department at UCL.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Funding for students!!
New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students:
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
New £6k UCL Anthropology MSc Bursary for Home students:
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
You can also apply to the £10k UCL Bursary at the same time - so if you get both, it should cover all your fees & a chunk of living costs🤞
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Fees and Funding - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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This is a great thing to do - I did it, loved it and it underpinned a Phil Trans B special issue 💜
If you want any advice DM me
Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️
If you want any advice DM me
Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️
🚨 GRANT APPLICATION 🚨
Do not forget to apply for the workshop/event grant from EHBEA in case you are organising a scientific event 😉
DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025
Do not forget to apply for the workshop/event grant from EHBEA in case you are organising a scientific event 😉
DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025
🚨GRANT APPLICATION🚨
Call for the WORKSHOP/EVENT GRANT from EHBEA is officially open!
If you are interested in organising a scientific workshop or an outreach event please check the link and apply!
DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025
www.cambridge.org/core/members...
Call for the WORKSHOP/EVENT GRANT from EHBEA is officially open!
If you are interested in organising a scientific workshop or an outreach event please check the link and apply!
DEADLINE: September 11th, 2025
www.cambridge.org/core/members...
September 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is a great thing to do - I did it, loved it and it underpinned a Phil Trans B special issue 💜
If you want any advice DM me
Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️
If you want any advice DM me
Also my (with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and @ehemmott.bsky.social successful application is on the EHBEA website to help guide you…. Just saying there’s still time 🕰️
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"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
Psychology Within and Without the State | Annual Reviews
Psychological research in small-scale societies is crucial for what it stands to tell us about human psychological diversity. However, people in these communities, typically Indigenous communities in ...
www.annualreviews.org
August 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"It is crucial to make psychology inclusive of all the world's people but vitally important to do this in ways that are respectful, ethical & empirically accurate. I weigh the promises & pitfalls of research in small-scale societies & discuss how we can improve our research practices moving forward"
New preprint!
"Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews"
We explored how parents view child weight + weight-related behaviours, and discuss implications for public health practice.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
"Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews"
We explored how parents view child weight + weight-related behaviours, and discuss implications for public health practice.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
New preprint!
"Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews"
We explored how parents view child weight + weight-related behaviours, and discuss implications for public health practice.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
"Parental beliefs and practices around child weight in London, England: insights from qualitative photo-elicitation interviews"
We explored how parents view child weight + weight-related behaviours, and discuss implications for public health practice.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
People often underestimate how awful pregnancy sickness is.
They think it's just vomiting.
It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They think it's just vomiting.
It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Severe pregnancy sickness leads to abortions in women, mum says
Sarah Spooner's husband once called an ambulance as she could not get off the floor due to the pain.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
People often underestimate how awful pregnancy sickness is.
They think it's just vomiting.
It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They think it's just vomiting.
It's not. It feels like your body is decomposing. You're in so much pain. You can't move. As this women says - it feels like you're going to die.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New paper!
What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?
Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?
Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Adolescence as a Key Period of Identity Development and Connectedness: A Comparative Autophotography Study in England and Japan - Emily H. Emmott, Yasuo Ihara, Yudai Tokumasu, Mari Nozaki, Atsuko Sait...
Adolescence is identified as a key period for identity development, but anthropological literature hints at cross-cultural variations. Past research suggests Ja...
journals.sagepub.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
New paper!
What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?
Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
What do teens in England and Japan view as important, and what does that tell us about adolescence?
Straddling anthropology and psychology, a massive piece of work that took 8 years from conception to publication. And one of my favourite projects 🙂
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jane Lancaster, my doctoral adviser, was a giant in our field. She taught me one can be assertive and kind at the same time.
Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe.
Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...
Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe.
Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...
In Memoriam: Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) ::
Anthropology | The University of New Mexico
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August 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Jane Lancaster, my doctoral adviser, was a giant in our field. She taught me one can be assertive and kind at the same time.
Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe.
Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...
Her legacy of both research and mentorship spans across the globe.
Dr. Jane Lancaster, Pioneer in Human Evolutionary Sciences (1935-2025) share.google/TdRdZD6eD5nR...
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The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
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“Parenting is never perfect. Cultures raise children differently, shaping adults valued by their own standards. But one truth emerges: Learning to care for others should start long before having a baby”
www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...
www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...
To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents
An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa.
www.sapiens.org
July 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Parenting is never perfect. Cultures raise children differently, shaping adults valued by their own standards. But one truth emerges: Learning to care for others should start long before having a baby”
www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...
www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...
Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world!
Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box)
日本語バージョンもあります！
Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss
Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box)
日本語バージョンもあります！
Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss
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July 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world!
Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box)
日本語バージョンもあります！
Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss
Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box)
日本語バージョンもあります！
Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss
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AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
July 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Reposted by Dr Emily Emmott
A comparison of 2 industrialised populations (Italy, Singapore) with 2 indigenous populations (Tsimane, Bolivia & Orang Asli, Malaysia) suggests inflammaging - age-associated increase in chronic inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging - is a byproduct of industrialisation, not a human universal
Nonuniversality of inflammaging across human populations - Nature Aging
Analyzing readouts of inflammaging across four cohorts, Franck and colleagues identify strong variation and observe that inflammaging, in its known form, primarily emerges in industrialized—but not no...
www.nature.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A comparison of 2 industrialised populations (Italy, Singapore) with 2 indigenous populations (Tsimane, Bolivia & Orang Asli, Malaysia) suggests inflammaging - age-associated increase in chronic inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging - is a byproduct of industrialisation, not a human universal
UK Peeps: Please consider writing to your MP, asking them to support Amendment NC17 to the Crime and Policing Bill to decriminalise abortions. This *does not* mean that people will now get access to "illegal abortions"; it simply means that abortions will no longer be treated as a criminal matter. 👇
May 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
UK Peeps: Please consider writing to your MP, asking them to support Amendment NC17 to the Crime and Policing Bill to decriminalise abortions. This *does not* mean that people will now get access to "illegal abortions"; it simply means that abortions will no longer be treated as a criminal matter. 👇
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🚨 Seeking practitioners, researchers, or students involved in forensic anthropology and/or skeletal trauma interpretation 🚨
Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey!
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Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey!
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May 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🚨 Seeking practitioners, researchers, or students involved in forensic anthropology and/or skeletal trauma interpretation 🚨
Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey!
binghamton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey!
binghamton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
"...when it comes to all-class [mental health] lessons, we should listen to the evidence, and to young people themselves. We came up with a good idea, we spent a lot of time and money testing it, and we have our answer. Given the evidence, we should now stop doing those lessons."
May 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"...when it comes to all-class [mental health] lessons, we should listen to the evidence, and to young people themselves. We came up with a good idea, we spent a lot of time and money testing it, and we have our answer. Given the evidence, we should now stop doing those lessons."
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I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
Mental-health lessons in schools sound like a great idea. The trouble is, they don’t work | Lucy Foulkes
All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling.
(cont 🧵)
tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes!
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A reminder that there is a Home fee bursery for UCL Masters degree programmes!
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
Join us at UCL Anthropology!
www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
ACE Outreach Awards
CES will give out two awards of up to $2500 each to support activities that translate cultural evolution research for a non-academic audience or for students outside of the field of cultural evolution...
forms.gle
April 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The 2025 Cultural Evolution Society awards are now open for applications!
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
-Outreach Award (2 awards, up to $2,500 each) forms.gle/Eq6BhtnptQLQ...
-ECR Grant (2 awards, up to $3,000 each) forms.gle/69DpptguwRqN...
-Building Research Capacity Award (1 award, up to $6,000) forms.gle/ZLGEW612GbZ4...
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And just want to congratulate my co-author and MRes Anthropology graduate Imogen who got news of PhD funding today! Well done for all your hard work and persistence Imogen ❤️
Well done to my fantastic ex-student Imogen Hensler for her paper based on her MRes Anthropology research!
Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...
Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...
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May 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
And just want to congratulate my co-author and MRes Anthropology graduate Imogen who got news of PhD funding today! Well done for all your hard work and persistence Imogen ❤️
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New paper alert - Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis - is there a sociological mechanism which is creating the gender gap in mental health outcomes at adolescence in the UK?
May 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New paper alert - Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis - is there a sociological mechanism which is creating the gender gap in mental health outcomes at adolescence in the UK?
Well done to my fantastic ex-student Imogen Hensler for her paper based on her MRes Anthropology research!
Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...
Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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April 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Well done to my fantastic ex-student Imogen Hensler for her paper based on her MRes Anthropology research!
Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...
Performance of Femininity as the Potential Determinant of Lower Well-Being Among Adolescent Girls in London, UK: An Exploratory Discourse Analysis: doi.org/10.1177/1049...