Sarah Peacey

Research Fellow @UCLAnthropology. Researching the evolution of belief in witchcraft.

[Olympia L K Campbell @OLKCampbell]

Once again adding to the noise but this time on falling birth rates. A trend that has stumped the human evolutionary sciences for years.

[Sarah Peacey @haraspc]

@tavitonst @Erhao_Ge Congratulations!

[HBES @HumBehEvoSoc]

Happy Halloween! In a timely HBES blog, Sarah Peacey discusses the ancestry of witchcraft beliefs: https://t.co/6Tmp8xhVPZ
Or read the original EHB article on the cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs: https://t.co/SQcJVlQYCz

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Watching tonight's BBC documentary on the Badger cull?

Angered by what's going on?

Please sign the petition calling on @UKLabour to end the Badger cull today.

https://t.co/Q6lOmNZIsG

#badgercull #badgers #stopthecull #endthecull

[Ruth Mace @tavitonst]

New paper: The cultural evolution of witchcraft beliefs with @haraspc et al. Some traditions have been around a long time https://t.co/T2gJGzeGJw

[Sarah Peacey @haraspc]

@OLKCampbell @padillaccc @FiorioG @tavitonst Wow, congratulations!

[Yuan Chen @cheriongyuan]

New paper with @QiaoqiaoHe2 et al is out.

[Ray Wood @rayfromreturn]

Will you watch this? If you eat bacon, will you? Please?

"In 2003 the Farm Animal Welfare Council said CO2 killing “is not acceptable and we wish to see it phased out in five years”. However, its use has instead increased to 88% of all pigs in 2022." https://t.co/SlfkxnswLy

[Olympia L K Campbell @OLKCampbell]

I'm organising a pre-@ehbea2023 satellite meeting on behalf of @evobias_erc "Researching sensitive topics in the quantitative social sciences". We have a great list of speakers from both inside and outside academia. Sign up here: https://t.co/gTPNm6tNZI

[Yuan Chen @cheriongyuan]

My newly published research article on Current Biology! Our comparative study examines the effects of dispersal on workload - Sex inequality driven by dispersal https://t.co/vQ5jziBeMj

Also a link to The Conversation post. https://t.co/WT75z180mx

[Megan Arnot @meganarnotx]

Reminder that abstract submission and registration for #EHBEA2023 at UCL are OPEN ⬇️ https://t.co/I8yUHDwQ8V

[Alberto Micheletti @AJCMicheletti]

New chapter! Building on our recent opinion paper in @BehavEcol, @EvaKBrandl, @tavitonst and I, together with @may_hanzhi and @haraspc, explore the role of human behavioural ecology in cultural evolution research: https://t.co/CKp06izCzp A thread🧵 [1/13]

[Dr Sarah Myers @SMyers1983]

New mums in the UK we need your help!👉https://t.co/hwi4ql8M6d 👇

[Ruth Mace @tavitonst]

Why be a monk? @AJCMicheletti @Erhao_Ge @Liqiong_Zhou @cheriongyuan @may_hanzhi @Juan_Du0127 @tavitonst
https://t.co/5ErNY6XiF1

[Malcolm Gaskill @malcolmgaskill]

"The victims were rounded up at gunpoint and taken to secret detention centres. They recounted being stripped naked, beaten, pressured into confessing to committing murders through witchcraft."
Remembering persecution in Gambia under President Jammeh.
https://t.co/Bl4zECRBvd

[Sarah Peacey @haraspc]

@timothyjballard Toastmasters is an organization for practising public speaking, might be worth checking if there's one in your area: https://t.co/hQXQPnXRH3

[Olympia L K Campbell @OLKCampbell]

New paper out with @tavitonst on whether common demographic risk factors for intimate-partner violence (IPV) associate similarly with natal family violence - with a particular focus on cousin marriage. Using data from >17000 Jordanian women 🧵https://t.co/WjWiDWUaQe

[Sarah Peacey @haraspc]

Why might witchcraft accusations be sex-specific? A short blog on our paper with @OLKCampbell @tavitonst https://t.co/9GXtwsiYmo

[Richard Beason @RichardDBeason]

Still time to get involved in the UK’s biggest ever investigation into household plastic waste by @GreenpeaceUK & @PlasticEveryday! Count the plastic you throw away for 1 week (May 16th – 22nd), sign up here: https://t.co/4u8o0zTTpA
Pls share!

[Ruth Mace @tavitonst]

Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations https://t.co/glR8u4J1uY by @haraspc and @OLKCampbell and me