Pablo J. Varas Enríquez
Why humans (and other organisms) have babies? (from an evolutionary perspective) 👶🤔 | Research fellow in @iast.fr 🇫🇷👨🎓| Latino | Spanglish
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezDon’t miss out a brand new episode of @cognitations.bsky.social where they discuss with @manvir.bsky.social about the social lives of human populations in the past 🤩🤓😎😉
- 🎙️ EP #19 Think our ancestors lived in a state of "primitive communism"? New research reveals our deep past was far more complex than the "noble savage" myth suggests. @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this & much more with @manvir.bsky.social youtu.be/1BRZy9O665k?...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezYou can check his research and work in: tvpollet.github.io Congratulations! 🎉
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- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🎉 Got the good news? If your abstract was accepted — congrats! 🥳 📬 You can now check OpenReview to see your assigned presentation format. ⏰ Reminder: early bird registration for #EHBEA2026 is open until 20 February!
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezYou can check their research and work in: lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk sites.google.com/view/sheinal... Congratulations! 🎉
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezTheir contributions on sharing their research outside academic spaces, together with the project for an Open-Access textbook ln human behaviour and evolution highlights their originality and community scale initiative, valuing the diversity of voices within the understanding of human evolution
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🚨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 Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🎤✨We’re thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for #EHBEA2026: Dr Iyad Rahwan! 🤖His talk dives into machine culture—how algorithms and chatbots are reshaping social learning, norms, and the evolution of new cultural traits. Don't miss out👉 www.rahwan.me ⏰Early bird registration until 20 Feb
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezOur 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 Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🚨 CONFERENCE DEADLINE 🚨 9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social See you in April! 😊
- ⏳ONE WEEK LEFT⏳ We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟 Submit now: ehbea2026.com #EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations for their New Investigator Award. If you are doing, or know someone, some really cool research as an early-career researcher please don’t hesitate to apply! DEADLINE: December 19th, 2025
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezIf you know someone who works and contributes to the research community on human evolution and behaviour, please do not hesitate to nominate them! Deadline: December 19 👇 👇 👇 👇
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez@royalsocietypublishing.org has published an OPEN ACCESS theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B: “Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures” compiled and edited by Adam H Boyette, Sarah Mathew, Stephen Asatsa, Michael Chimento, and Rachel L Kendal 💫 👇 👇 👇
- A new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges - from #inequality and cooperation to #conservation and education. Read articles (all #OA): buff.ly/S44vv6l
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezWe’re hiring for two postdoctoral positions in Social and Behavioral Sciences! 💼 👉 Two Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines. 🗓️ Starting date: September 2026 👉 Learn more and apply now: www.tse-fr.eu/fr/recrutement
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezDo you, or someone you know, do/does the extra-step on spreading the word about human evolution and behaviour? Then don’t hesitate to apply for the EHBEA award on public outreach and communication! Deadline? December 19 😉
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- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezWe have already received many wonderful abstracts, thank you all! 🌟 For those who need a little extra time, we have good news: the #EHBEA2026 deadline has been extended to 9 Jan. ✍️✨ Add the finishing touches, hit submit, and join an exciting, inspiring conference! 👉 www.ehbea2026.com
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezEHBEA has a shiny new website and it looks lovely 😃 Many thanks to @amrotella.bsky.social for leading EHBEA through this change, with assistance from @pablovarase.bsky.social and @jeannebovet.bsky.social 🙏
- ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ We are finishing the year with a brand new website, so please stop by, have a look, and enjoy the new looks of EHBEA 💫 👇 👇 👇 www.ehbea.org
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez✨NEW WEBSITE✨ We are finishing the year with a brand new website, so please stop by, have a look, and enjoy the new looks of EHBEA 💫 👇 👇 👇 www.ehbea.org
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🚨 NEW AWARD DEADLINE 🚨 EHBEA is giving, for the first time, an award for those members who excel in reaching outside of academia with their research and evolutionary human sciences Don’t miss out the opportunity! Deadline? December 19, 2025 More information? 👇 👇 👇
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezToday sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezI am incredibly proud of my PhD student @amandinevisine.bsky.social who won the Academic Achievement Prize for achieving the highest overall mark in her masters program 🤯 😱🤯 😱🤯 😱🤯 😱🤯 😱 Watch out world, here she comes!!!
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezCultural transmission and market participation in a Congo Basin village url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🚨 DEADLINE ALERT 🚨 If you know someone who has contributed enormously to strengthening our community beyond our research please do not hesitate to nominate them! Deadline? December 19th, 2025 More information? 👇
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- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez🚨 AWARD DEADLINE 🚨 If you are, or know someone, doing really cool research as an early-career researcher…EHBEA is calling for SELF-nominations on their New Investigator Award. Deadline? December 19th, 2025 More information below 👇
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezEHBEA awarded a workshop grant this year to researchers aiming to strengthen evolutionary approaches to the study of behaviour in Chile & elsewhere in Latin America, as we're keen to use these awards for outreach beyond our usual community. Congrats to the organisers, & hope the workshop goes well 😊
- Interesado en salud, comportamiento y evolución humana? Este 10 de diciembre se realizará la Jornada de Investigación “Evolución Biocultural: Aplicaciones y desafíos en salud y comportamiento humano” El evento es gratis pero con cupos limitados, inscríbase aquí 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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- Interesado en salud, comportamiento y evolución humana? Este 10 de diciembre se realizará la Jornada de Investigación “Evolución Biocultural: Aplicaciones y desafíos en salud y comportamiento humano” El evento es gratis pero con cupos limitados, inscríbase aquí 👇 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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- No se pierda este 10 de diciembre de 2025 el workshop en Evolución Biocultural! Estaremos hablando de salud, comportamiento y evolución! 🤓 Link de inscripción aquí 👇 tr.ee/ytgK8OIO7V
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- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezCome and do a PhD at Exeter with me and Chico Camargo (Computer Science) on human-genAI coevolution "Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Data-Driven Agent-Based Modelling of Online Cultural Dynamics" www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/recr... More details here: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
- 🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Happy to share a comment, together with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, on the need of formal models and a developmental perspective to really understand the relationship between environmental uncertainty and the reproductive behaviour of humans 🤓😉 doi.org/10.1017/S014...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezAnother great PhD opportunity: An ERC-funded project on “Children as agents of cultural evolution,” lead by @sheinalew.bsky.social at Durham University. Come do fieldwork with Mayan groups in Belize with her, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, and I! One of three, 3-year PhD positions starting Fall 2026.
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezI’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezWe're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠 Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology: "Is disgust a unitary emotion?" 📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5 👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!
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- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez@sriucl.bsky.social is HIRING 2 permanent Lecturers 🚀 in #QuantitativeSocialScience! It comes with smart and lovely colleagues🌟, a central London office, and many big ideas and questions 🧐 Apply now! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezIt'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 Pablo J. Varas EnríquezGreat news from the @erc.europa.eu today: I received an ERC Starting Grant to study the cultural evolution of literature 🔥 www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/a...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez💙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...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezOur article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online. We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them. doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas Enríquez@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/...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezEres un chileno/a, mexicano/a o otra persona latinoamericana que quiere hacer un doctorado en la tema de programas educativas de imagen corporal en escuelas? Tenemos una beca en Durham para unirse en nuestra proyecto! Puedes ver las detalles y aplicar aqui 👇 #Psicología #antropología 🇨🇱🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇷🇦🇷🇨🇷🇭🇳🇸🇻🇺🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇧🇴🇨🇺
- PhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth. Please share with your students. #PsychSciSky #Anthropology www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezPhD post! 2 students sought to join the BIRES project, taking a body image intervention developed in Nicaragua and Colombia and examining how (and if!) It can be adapted in other LatAm and African youth. Please share with your students. #PsychSciSky #Anthropology www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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- Reposted by Pablo J. Varas EnríquezOur book is now available online at the African Books Collective here: africanbookscollective.com/books/mangro... Reminder that 100% of proceeds to go mangrove conservation and education programs in Pemba, Tanzania.
