Human Sociality Lab

Research on human social life for the 21st century at @PSU_Anthro & @wsuanthropology 🌍🌏🌎. Directed by @AnnePisor & @kris_m_smith. Accepting students.

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

Join us at the Human Sociality Lab! We study:
🌍climate impacts -> behavioral & cultural change -> health impacts
🌎Indigenous knowledge & climate adaptation
🌏social relationships & their effects on natural resource use & well-being

More about us: https://t.co/dQc4kTndw8

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

Prospective PhD students! Work with me at @PSU_Anthro!
🌡️Evo anthro, climate adaptation, & public health
🏫5-year, fully funded, top-ranking anthro program
🔬Dual degrees avail. in climate science, demography, & environment

Apps due Dec 1. Contact me if interested! Please RT 🙏🏻

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

🎉 We're excited to announce that our Co-Director Kris Smith will be an Assistant Professor at @wsuanthropology in August! 🙌 Congrats Prof Smith! 🥳

More about Prof Smith's work on cooperation, climate adaptation, & natural resource management here: https://t.co/LxNIDRRGeq

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

"Sustainable for whom?" "How does climate affect culture?" Just two of the key themes myself & 3 other panelists tackled for Michigan Anthropology's Sustainable Life Symposium last week. Watch here: https://t.co/AIok0ge4r7 Take-home: ... 1/

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

Talking climate-sensitive disease requires talking about humans, environment, & animals too. HSL Co-Director @kris_m_smith is in Kenya working on adaptation to #climate-sensitive disease: working with county officials, teaching qualitative methods, & kicking off new research. 🌍

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

Access to care & food, household & community health, the causes & consequences of climate change - these are topics tackled by HSL Director @AnnePisor & other members of the new faculty cohort at PSU's Social Science Research Institute (@SSRIPennState): https://t.co/TR2KqcENcq

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

"Earth keeps breaking global heat records" - headline in @ScienceNews today. BUT we're way behind on climate adaptation. How do we accelerate adaptation - what reduces risk for households in different places? @AnnePisor & colleagues have suggestions for identifying what works👇

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

1. Climate adaptation is underfunded, partially because it’s hard to project returns on investment. We need to know more about what works where, says the UNFCCC.

My coauthors & I say: existing data can do this, & at scale.

New paper in One Earth: https://t.co/CsJioEpfD5

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

What cultural practices reduce climate-sensitive disease incidence & can be shared across communities? @kris_m_smith & @GachohiJohn have an NIH-funded grant to identify effective adaptations to Rift Valley Fever in E Africa & work with communities to upscale what's effective 🙌

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

🎉 Congrats to our Co-Director @kris_m_smith as he starts a new postdoc in @WSUGlobalHealth studying adaptation to climate sensitive disease in E Africa! 🌍 Kris will stay on with HSL as our WSU head too - awesome for us! 🙌

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

It's been an awesome three years working with @kris_m_smith on everything from natural resource management to parochial altruism to infectious disease. Excited for his next chapter on climate adaptation and health! 🙌🏻🎉

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

🎉 Congrats to our Co-Director @kris_m_smith as he starts a new postdoc in @WSUGlobalHealth studying adaptation to climate sensitive disease in E Africa! 🌍 Kris will stay on with HSL as our WSU head too - awesome for us! 🙌

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

🌟 Our director @AnnePisor was just named a @HumBehEvoSoc Rising Star, "whose innovative work has already advanced the field." 🎉

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

Feeling honored to be named a Rising Star ⭐ by @HumBehEvoSoc! Thank you 🙏🏻.

Shout-outs to @PSU_Anthro
& @SSRIPennState (I'm recruiting PhD students y'all! 😉)
my lab @SocialityLab
& @wsuanthropology.

And congratulations to my fellow awardees!! 🙌🏻 🔥

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

Congratulations to @kris_m_smith on receiving the Postdoc Achievement Award from @CASatWSU! 🎉 Look at those kudos - all spot on! So well-deserved, Kris 👏👏👏

[Penn State Anthropology @PSU_Anthro]

Two more weeks until the deadline!

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

The Human Sociality Lab is starting a new chapter! We're a lab built around our people, & we'll now be at two campuses: Penn State & WSU. We're accepting fully funded PhD students for Fall 2025 at Penn State too 👀. Here's to new things, new places, & new faces! 🐾🦁

[Anne Pisor @AnnePisor]

News! We're going to @penn_state! 🦁

I'm stoked to join Anthro & the Social Science Research Institute this summer. Interested in climate adaptation & well-being? I'm accepting fully funded PhD students for 2025!

We'll miss everyone in WA & ID - it's been a great 6 years 🙏🏻

[Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @Durham_DCERC]

We are happy to announce our fee waivers and @CulturalEvolSoc ACE Travel awards #CES2024durham. You can apply for both here https://t.co/DfcCGbJLXr The deadline is 20th April at 9 am BST and you will hear back before the deadline for early bird registration on 20th May 4pm BST

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

New blog post from @Queer_as_Idaho & @AnnePisor: "By embracing the complexity of chosen kinship, we honor the resilience and diversity of human social bonds, fostering a more inclusive and compassionate approach to human relationships."

Read more in their post here 👇

[HBES @HumBehEvoSoc]

How much do chosen kin affect kids' outcomes? Find out in Ollie Shannon & Anne Pisor's new HBES blog post on alloparenting: https://t.co/lx23YxiJec
Or read the original EHB article here: https://t.co/f9GsHaMqf7

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

Want the original paper? Sans paywall here: https://t.co/11sdXJIlBs

[Human Sociality Lab @SocialityLab]

"Is intergroup aggression part of human nature? Or is intergroup tolerance part of human nature?

Yes & yes."

New blog post on flexibility in intergroup relations, features of psychology that can influence our science & the relevance of diverse experiences, from PI @AnnePisor 👇

[HBES @HumBehEvoSoc]

What best characterizes human intergroup relations: hostility & aggression, tolerance & cooperation, or... flexibility? Anne Pisor discusses her research in the latest HBES blog post: https://t.co/Gp5GTj5ZIM
Read the original E&HB article here: https://t.co/fqEztGiCxa