Ed Hagen

1. Santa Barbara Evolutionary Psychology (SBEP) argues that a universal human psychology evolved in Pleistocene Africa. But there has been surprising pushback from evo scholars arguing for recent behavioral evolution in the Holocene. What's the connection w/ race science? 🧵

An important corrective to the famous case of Phineas Gage, as well as details about Eadweard Muybridge, also a brain injury survivor, who made the famous movie of a galloping horse in 1878, a few years after murdering his wife's lover: aeon.co/essays/how-the…

If you're kicking the tires on the just-released version of the #rstats package {purrr}, which features built-in parallel processing... tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/p… ...be sure to read this issue, which explains how to pass in your helper functions: github.com/tidyverse/purr…

“Our anthropology colleagues, esp. behavioral ecology colleagues, have been studying a lot of these topics like parenting that we’ve been neglecting & they’ve been rightfully annoyed at us EP’s for being so obsessed with sex and dating…” @dconroybeam podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/evo…

📢 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. 🧵👇🏻

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federal health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction in indirect costs) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org