Anne Pisor

Faculty (@PSU_Anthro), director (@SocialityLab), entrepreneur. Integrative scientific anthropologist studying how people manage risk. Foodie. 🌎🌍

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

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? 🧵

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

'“Science is the long game,” said Marcia McNutt, who was president of the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s top scientific advisory body.... “By the time we no longer win any Nobel Prizes, we will have lost the capacity to ever recover.”'

https://t.co/MUZMGAAXHH

[Juanlu_CabanillasGar @JuanluCaba_Unex]

Qualitative triangulation strengthens research by combining multiple data sources, methods, researchers, or theoretical perspectives to explore the same phenomenon. The result? Richer insights, greater credibility, and more trustworthy findings. 🔺📚 #QualitativeResearch

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

Shout-out to Joon Hwang (a @SocialityLab lab alum) on his new piece on risk taking and cooperation from a network perspective! 👏🏻

[HBES @HumBehEvoSoc]

Humans have long relied on cooperation to cope with unpredictability. A study in rural Bangladesh found that people in tightly connected moneylending networks were more willing to take risks, while those who could turn to more households for food and household items were less willing. These findings suggest that human decision-making under risk may have evolved to respond flexibly to the support available from others.

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[Bonface Osindi @OsindiBonface]

Relentless heat and drought take a toll on herders’ physical and mental health, in Kenya and the US https://t.co/2EpiZUdYuu via @ConversationUS

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

When squash remind you of bonobos

[Will @Evolving_Moloch]

Dolls are incredibly widespread but not universal cross-culturally. In addition to functioning as toys, dolls are commonly used for supernatural purposes to punish enemies, heal or protect, increase fertility, or embody spirits. New paper in EHB with @NachitaRosun.

[Cat Hobaiter @NakedPrimate]

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

[Mauro Silva Jr @M_SilvaJunior]

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👇

[nature @Nature]

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

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

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 in from the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean, areas where sea temperatures are warm — and much warmer than average.

Precipitable water is like the amount of fuel in a car's gas tank. The higher the level, the farther the car can go; or, in this case, the higher the level, the more rain the atmosphere can produce.

Fuel levels are currently high to very high, which means there will probably be more flooding events in the days and weeks ahead.

[Michael Gurven @MGurven]

Thrilled to announce my new book on shelves soon:

SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER

Our longevity is shaped by our evolutionary past—imagine aging as opportunity rather than burden.

Out Sept 16, preorder w/ code PUP30 30% discount: https://t.co/sedXAKIzdI...

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

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

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

📢 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. 🧵👇🏻

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

▶️ If you're able, show up and #standupforscience: https://t.co/dMemhY41Je