Depending on the work you do, your heat exposure can vary substantially, with impacts to your short-term health (like dizziness 🥵) & long-term health (like anxiety or depression). How does paying the bills with hard work today trade off with your health tomorrow? 🧵

Friday night (somewhere) so settle in for a 🧵that combines fermented fruit, scrumping monkeys, etymology, Larson cartoons, & Gothic art to tackle the enduring mystery of why humans are so astoundingly good at metabolising alcohol! or try our new paper ;) https://t.co/941barSyY7

1/ 🌍 New paper alert: "Not evolved to save the planet, yet capable to promote pro-environmental action leveraging human nature" by @varella_marco & others, incl. me This study challenges how we think about sustainability & human nature. A 🧵on what it says and why it matters👇

A key US Senate committee has indicated that it will reject the huge budget cuts that President Donald Trump proposed for some science agencies, including the US National Science Foundation and NASA. https://t.co/OgMxEe581r

Why has there been so many flooding events? Large amounts of water are pulsing through the skies across the United States — in many cases, near-record high levels. This vapor is being funneled along the southern and western flank of the Bermuda high pressure system, streaming

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Center: Center for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases - East and Central Africa Sources: (1) https://t.co/CbK0Zs945V (2) https://t.co/yhyj7qdEI2 (3) https://t.co/RLmod6Ht6l Shout-outs: @wsu @WSUvetmed @PennState @PSU_Anthro @PSULiberalArts

▶️ If you're able, show up and #standupforscience:

▶️ Call and write your representatives -- see here for script and tips:

▶️ Sign the open letter supporting the Bethesda Declaration, calling on NIH to stop putting our health at risk by defunding research:

💡 Our hands aren't tied, though: we *can* take action to support funding for infectious disease surveillance -- because if we don't know what's out there and if it's spreading, we won't be ready to stop it. Here's how you can take action right now to #SaveNIH:

🦟 When we cut funding to infectious disease research in one fell swoop, we lose the boots-on-the-ground surveillance that keeps us safe *and* work on therapies for when outbreaks (inevitably) do happen.

🌍 PI Kariuki Njenga adds, "We are also studying immune responses of Ebola survivors in Uganda to identity possible immunological components that can be used in the future for prevention or direct therapy. These are studies that cannot be conducted in the US."

🔎My collaborators were tracking Rift symptoms in hard-to-reach communities, testing for asymptomatic disease that could signal outbreaks, and identifying the precautionary behaviors people were already using - behaviors researchers can promote to reduce human transmission (3).

🐄People working with animals are most at risk, but you can get Rift from mosquitoes too - & for the 8-10% who get severe symptoms, some will lose their vision & others will die (2). Human-to-human transmission hasn't been observed yet but a few mutations can change everything.

📢 The NIH pulled funding for 10 centers monitoring infectious diseases likely to cause the next pandemic (1). My collaborators at WSU Global Health Kenya run one of these centers. Let's look at just one of these diseases they monitor: Rift Valley Fever. 🧵👇🏻

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management. https://t.co/mtOLdAgUrw Looking for behavioral scientist with experimental and modeling skills to expand the use of cultural evolution tools in applied social science.

90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.

So excited for @kris_m_smith, who's starting as an Asst Prof at @wsuanthropology in August! 🎉 His blend of theoretical rigor and applied research, his generous mentoring style, and his upward trajectory of accomplishment is just 👌🏻. Congratulations Prof Smith!! 🙌🏻

Social networks look different with different livelihoods during Bangladeshi rainy season says Ian Harryman: networks contract, but farming community manages risk with local ties while market-integrated community manages *correlated* risk with non-local ties. #AABA2025

Yes networks, including long-distance ties, can buffer risks (like environmental impacts) that strike whole communities, says Joon Hwang, but inequality can undercut both network support generally as well as formation of long-distance ties - Joon speculates on why below #AABA2025