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 ;) doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf1…

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. go.nature.com/4lKqlPI

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.

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: press.princeton.edu/books/ha…...

New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management. timwaring.info/2025/06/09/po… 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