Research on human social life for the 21st century at @PSU_Anthro & @wsuanthropology 🌍🌏🌎. Directed by @AnnePisor & @kris_m_smith. Accepting students.
State College, PA
Joined July 2021
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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: socialitylab.org
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 🙏🏻
🎉 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: kristophermsmith.com/
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"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: youtube.com/live/uP2v8s-AQ3o… Take-home: ... 1/
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. 🌍
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): psu.edu/news/social-science-…
"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👇
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: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT Child and woman standing under an umbrella on a cloudy day. By JW.
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 🙌
🎉 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! 🙌
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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! 🙌🏻🎉
🎉 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! 🙌
🎉 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! 🙌
🌟 Our director @AnnePisor was just named a @HumBehEvoSoc Rising Star, "whose innovative work has already advanced the field." 🎉
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!! 🙌🏻 🔥
Congratulations to @kris_m_smith on receiving the Postdoc Achievement Award from @CASatWSU! 🎉 Look at those kudos - all spot on! So well-deserved, Kris 👏👏👏
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Two more weeks until the deadline!
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! 🐾🦁
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 🙏🏻
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We are happy to announce our fee waivers and @CulturalEvolSoc ACE Travel awards #CES2024durham. You can apply for both here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.u… 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
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 👇
How much do chosen kin affect kids' outcomes? Find out in Ollie Shannon & Anne Pisor's new HBES blog post on alloparenting: hbes.com/connections-beyond-…
Or read the original EHB article here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"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 👇
What best characterizes human intergroup relations: hostility & aggression, tolerance & cooperation, or... flexibility? Anne Pisor discusses her research in the latest HBES blog post: hbes.com/human-intergroup-re…
Read the original E&HB article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbeh…