@heidicolleran
Anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/heidi-colleran/ Culture | Demography |Reproduction | Population | Humanist and scientist. Writing a book: THE FACTS OF LIFE out 2027
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English | Colonialism | The Guardian
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Delay finally decelerating, maybe
Wriggling free of the dominant, yet unscientific view of human evolution is hard work.
And the dogma has only grown more powerful with time. But...
What if wanting to distance ourselves from Jeffrey Epstein will finally spark an evolution revolution?
ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
Chris Knight in Counterpunch on the #Chomsky/Epstein enigma.
Friends and comrades grew up reading Noam #Chomsky's fearless exposure of the US imperium. Many now feel traumatized, duped, and bewildered by the revelations of the extent of this relationship.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/t...
Havaianas are the new plimsolls
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This was the wrong week to decide to write about the incest taboo
It is! I love it too but it’s a bottomless pit! Also my mother already told me there’s too many men 😂
The study inevitably focuses on Western lifestyle women, which may say plenty about what this patriarchal society values and demands. Menopause/post-reproductive lifespan had a significant role in our becoming human. And may not always have been plagued by anxiety, depression or memory problems.
I do too, really. I think when first encountered it really is very perspective-shifting. And you have to get the exoticisim across, in order to understand how big the rug-pull in the 70s is
Expect I would have been a Malinowski groupie
Trying to squeeze the entire history of 20thC kinship studies into an 8000 word chapter for a popular audience. Glazing over at *my own attempts* to make classical kinship sound like a “fun” series of discoveries 😂
Parenting today is an Olympic sport. The support that new mothers need isn't there. Is it any wonder we're turning motherhood into a mental health condition? @drsarahmyers.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Publish less. Quality over quantity. The fact it seems bonkers to most people to publish say 1 paper a year instead of *as many as humanly or increasingly non-humanly possible*. Academic enshittification started with people buying into the science-as-a-production line model IMHO
Early view of our Special Issue on the Anthropology of Adolescence at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is now available!
Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue:
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
"US demographics are a real problem" is scammy and histrionic.
A more honest way to say what I think this guy means: "If our fertility rates remain stable or fall for many years, our population will begin to decline unless immigration increases"
The myth of the mother instinct (in German). With me harping on as usual . www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...
One of my favourite holiday traditions. For those in my timezone that's sun night about 7.40pm
Graph comparing motherhood penalties in Sweden, the United States and south korea
Great article about fertility in South Korea. That motherhood penalty 😳
worksinprogress.co/issue/two-is...
I hope it told him to get a nanny.
An outstanding and beautifully filmed documentary inspired by Sarah Hrdy’s “Father Time”, exploring the physiological and emotional changes men experience when becoming fathers and their deep evolutionary roots.
Streaming here until Feb 5, 2026 (French only for now):
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
Birthrates even, thanks enshittified autocarrot
‘It’s not birthdates, it’s the patriarchy’
