Zach Garfield
Evolutionary anthropologist & behavioral scientist. Leadership, punishment, conflict resolution.
Asst. Prof at UM6P in FGSES & AIRESS. Co-Director of @omovalleyresearchproject.org. Former RF @iast.fr.
📍 Rabat 🇲🇦
🌐 https://zhgarfield.github.io
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- Reposted by Zach GarfieldHBES 2026 registration is officially open! The conference will take place in Rabat, Morocco, with both in-person and online attendance options. Early bird registration runs until March 29, 2026.🧵
- We received a TON of submissions for @ces2026.bsky.social ! This is definitely a trend you'll want to conform to. If you didn't submit, still come for the amazing speaker lineup. Registration will open soon. @hbes2026.bsky.social abstract submission closes today!
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- A raw portrait of rural poverty and inequality in late French-colonial Vietnam during World War II, when food was scarce and family support often wasn’t enough. Worth reading if you like short stories.
- Reposted by Zach Garfield🚨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...
- One week left to submit your abstracts to #HBES2026 16 Jan deadline! @hbes2026.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social We’re scouting banquet locations. Hope to see you in Rabat!!
- Full guidelines and requirements are available on the conference website. 🔗 Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/hbes2026 We look forward to your contributions to HBES2026! #HBES2026
- Reposted by Zach Garfield1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/1814... Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
- Reposted by Zach Garfield1. My new preprint has its own bluesky account. Why? The problems facing social media & scientific publishing are similar: both are dominated by powerful oligopolies. The @atproto.com tech underlying bluesky that aims to solve the social media prob might also help solve the scientific pub prob 🧪 🧵
- 1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/1814... Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
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- Reposted by Zach Garfield🚨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...
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- Reposted by Zach GarfieldThe deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!
- The submission deadline for #CESRabat has been extended to 30 November @ces2026.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
- The submission deadline for #CESRabat has been extended to 30 November @ces2026.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
- 👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November. 🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
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- Reposted by Zach Garfield👉 A reminder that the deadline for submitting your abstract to the CES 2026 #CESRabat is the 16th of November. 🔗Submit here: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026 We look forward to seeing you in Rabat!
- >The Multi-Capital Leadership theory explains why #leadership emerges and why it varies among human societies and throughout individual life histories. w/@chrisvonrueden.bsky.social & @edhagen.net #LeadSciSky #HBES 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- #HBES2026 abstract submissions are live! More exciting details to come soon. Arrive early for @ces2026.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social
- If only there was a theory to explain this... ;)) @edhagen.net 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- #CESRabat 🇲🇦 ... Cultural evolution 🧪
- Reposted by Zach GarfieldWe’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live! We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.
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- What Makes a Good Reputation? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol... #BehSci @psychologytoday.com
- Reposted by Zach Garfield🔍 #EconJob Research Assistant in Political Economy You'll work w/ M. Montenegro @hlarreguy.bsky.social, J. Merilainen & N. Garviras 💡France-based—Toulouse ideal; remote OK; part/full-time 🧠 Advanced Stata skills + knowledge of Spanish preferred Application: mateo.montenegro[at]tse-fr.eu
- Reposted by Zach GarfieldNew Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...
- Reposted by Zach Garfield💙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...
- It's happening! And HBES will directly follow and overlap with CES, including a joint plenary to unite these two stellar scientific communities...don't we all love economies of scale. Do you happen to know anything about that cool logo?
- The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright
- Reposted by Zach GarfieldThe count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright
- Reposted by Zach GarfieldWe are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th: airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026
- "Gandalf and Saruman are similarly framed as opposites..Yet both share rare knowledge and supernatural power...Gandalf built trust across hobbits, men, elves, and dwarves. Saruman..built an alliance with & grew increasingly dependent on Sauron." #LeadSciSky www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...
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- Some thoughts on how preferences for #leaders change with our environments: Leaders for the World We Think We Live In | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol... #LeadSciSky #EvPsych #CultEvol #socialpsyc #BehSci 🧪 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @psychologytoday.com
- Interesting to see the vestiges of cultural migration and ethnographic variation tucked away in phrases and cognates across languages. Shared ancestry and convergent vs. spurious similarity in cultural evolution.
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- I'm interested in following up on these ideas. They're related to the Computational Services model we've developed (@edhagen.net) and transmission of opaque culture (@sheinalew.bsky.social). "symbolic systems may have helped decouple cognitive capacity from further increases in brain size"
- Reposted by Zach GarfieldNew 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
- Reposted by Zach Garfield👋 Create links with the IAST community: either with alumni, or with current research fellows... If you are part of the IAST community and would like to be added to the starter kit, send us a DM! 📩 #FriendsOfIAST 👇 Join the conversation ! 👇 go.bsky.app/5mQmnLFat://did:plc:qxd7gfymiv2jryq5nvn3v4vs/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3loqhosvn532e
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- New example for the risks of overly strong priors: "The company claimed that when operated properly, the Bayesian was “unsinkable.”" |https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/world/europe/bayesian-superyacht-sinking-report.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Hk8.2m-u.iVTXiZCyUi2_&smid=bs-share
- "“After all these years, it hit me,” she says. “The reason that all of these interventions are working is because they make people feel more connected to others." The psychs should've talked to the anthros. Sociality is the key. w/ work by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/m...
