Daniel Redhead
Assistant Professor in Sociology at @rug.nl | Interdisciplinary researcher interested in social networks, cooperation, and social and economic inequality | Assistant director of the ENDOW project: endowproject.github.io 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏 @durhampsych.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadBayesian Workflow by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, @rmcelreath.bsky.social with @danpsimpson.bsky.social, @charlesm993.bsky.social, @yulingy.bsky.social, Lauren Kennedy, Jonah Gabry, @paulbuerkner.com, @modrakm.bsky.social, @vianeylb.bsky.social (in production, estimated copy-editing time 6 weeks)
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadOur new paper in Hunter-Gatherer Research! We explored women’s decision-making power within households in two subsistence communities with different gender norms (BaYaka foragers & Bandongo fisher-farmers) in the Congolese rainforest ✨ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨Two weeks left to apply for our postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social , & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full-time positions, 2 years, no teaching Deadline: Jan 23 Please share and spread the word! www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadEarly 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...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨 We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE. Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies. Full time, 2 years, no teaching. Deadline: Jan 23 www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
- This week I got to travel back to Göttingen to participate in @benkawam.bsky.social’s excellent Ph.D. defence! It’s been an amazing few years supervising and learning from Ben, and I’m very excited to see what’s next to come in his research on causal inference and animal social network analysis ⭐️ 🐒
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadAnother great paper using social network data from >5000 Ethiopians by @drsarahmyers.bsky.social, @danielredhead.bsky.social et al. They show how attitudes towards IPV against women cluster socially on gender-homphilous ties. But opposite-gender ties actually predict *reverse* IPVAW attitudes
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadCome join this exciting workshop on social network analysis and social transmission, all within a Bayesian framework!! 💻 And many thanks to @danielredhead.bsky.social and @mchimento.bsky.social for conducting it, I'm looking forward 🤩 More information below 👇
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadDid cooperation evolve because of conflict? Or is conflict an (avoidable) ‘by-product’ of evolved capacities to cooperate. I think the latter—> journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadRetraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
- . @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadFully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadPostdoc position in individual-level incentives, social learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...
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- Reposted by Daniel RedheadNew Paper! A chapter of my dissertation looking at the time dynamics of friendship has been published! We find decreasing emphasis of demographic characteristics over time, in favour of friendships based on interests. Interesting implications on clustering! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨🐵 New MS: rdcu.be/eQDX7 ... behavioural syndromes are associated with how much individual Barbary macaques adjusted affiliative behaviour across multiple socioecological gradients... including human-related activity! (1/3)
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🎙️ New episode of Knitting Networks! Tom A. B. Snijders, emeritus at Oxford & Groningen, and a key figure in statistical models for networks. A journey from math to sociology, theory to method. 🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/2mrB... @aespinosarada.bsky.social @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣 "Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified." doi.org/10.1017/S014...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨 🐍 Our new paper on the consequences men face when countering patriarchal norms in rural Tanzania 🐍.🚨 We carried out focus groups and detailed interviews with a whopping 172 women and men about their perceptions of men who support women's empowerment... 📝 1/5
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadSocial behaviour happens over time - so we can gain insights if we analyse it as it happened:
- New paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadBehavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...
- New paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadNew paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadNew preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social . Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadFree online for the next two weeks: @bgpurzycki.bsky.social‘s *Morality and the Gods*. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadAre you studying animal sociality? My (now published) first PhD chapter proposes a Bayesian + causal framework to infer the factors shaping the social relationships that animals form with one another. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadNew paper in NHB 📄🚨 We ran extensive experiments to show that making the rules of some canonical economic games looser, makes people more cooperative www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead3yr PDRA at @exeter.ac.uk with @york.ac.uk and Centre for Whale Research, studying how killer whale social relationships change with prey availability, partner loss and social info. A fantastic team & unique longterm dataset. Deadline 19 Oct! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/postdoctoral-research-associate
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadThe new Bayesian Social Sciences section of @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has just been created: bss-isba.github.io. The committee is myself as chair, @robinryder.bsky.social, chair elect from 2027, @nialfriel.bsky.social, program chair, @monjalexander.bsky.social, Treasurer, EJWagenmakers, Secretary.
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadLovely detailed description by @haneuljang.bsky.social & @danielredhead.bsky.social of how knowledge & skills are differentially spread through the network of a forager village in DRC. And how this is patterned by own & contact age, kinship and relationship status
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadIt's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadNew research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead“individuals tend to report more accurately about the partners with whom they shared knowledge than about those from whom they received knowledge….findings provide important empirical evidence on how community-wide cultural transmission is structured by demography and perception”
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
- Re-upping this super helpful thread from @benkawam.bsky.social! In it he outlines some core analysis principles and summarises our preprint on animal social network analysis 🐒
- Are you studying animal sociality? Confused about the "non-independence" of social network data: what on earth are they? are they threatening your results? should you attempt to get rid of them? A thread summarising a part of our new paper (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...).
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadRadical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadAre you studying animal sociality? Confused about the "non-independence" of social network data: what on earth are they? are they threatening your results? should you attempt to get rid of them? A thread summarising a part of our new paper (ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...).
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadThis is my point (and Duncan’s) that this special issue is co-edited by @rebeccasear.bsky.social @drsarahmyers.bsky.social and me and an @ehbea.bsky.social initiative to support rigour in science We’re all evolutionary *to our core* and care deeply about using this knowledge to challenge hate
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadPhysical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadNew manuscript "to help bridge the gap between behavioural ecologists and the broader social network analysis community"
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago. @science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadI learned a lot working on this new paper with this group of network scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and behavioural ecologists. We're hoping it helps anyone who feels (understandably!) lost in the animal social networks weeds.
- 🐒🕸️ New preprint! Confused about how to model animal social networks? ASNA can be confusing—but also full of opportunity. We break down 5 common misunderstandings in animal social network analysis and share solutions from behavioural ecology, anthro, stats, & network science. Hope it helps! A 🧵
- 1/ ASNA often treats statistical dependencies in networks as problems to eliminate. But these dependencies are part of the biology that we’re interested in! We show how to model them directly, not try to control them away.
- 2/ Typical methods in ASNA rely on ratio indexes (e.g., SRI, DSI) and permutation tests to deal with these dependencies, plus other issues related to imbalanced sampling. However, there’s been quite some (growing) evidence showing the pitfalls of relying on such methods.
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View full threadAll from an amazing interdisciplinary group 👥: @benkawam.bsky.social 🌟, @jgyou.bsky.social, Dan Franks, Connor Philson, Marijtje van Duijn, @jordanhart96.bsky.social, MB McElreath, @rmcelreath.bsky.social, @eapower.bsky.social, Cody Ross, @steglich.bsky.social, & @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Daniel Redhead🚨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...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadMany thanks to HBES for this recognition and congratulations to Rising Stars @mohammadatari.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social @juliastern.bsky.social 💫
- Reposted by Daniel Redheadthe journal Animal Behaviour, which is run by @asab.org, is looking to hire a new Managing Editor. Please share advert with folks with a Life Sciences degree (ideally postgrad) who might be interested www.asab.org/opportunities
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadYour next Fall read, my new book: SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden. Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 for 30% discount: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadEugenics is back: short video and blogpost about the 21st century resurgence of the discredited ideology of eugenics www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/the...
- Reposted by Daniel RedheadThis socio-centric social network study estimates the social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5163 Ethiopian Arsi Oromo adults. @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
