HBES Members,
Help recognize people who have gone above and beyond in communicating and countering misinformation about human evolutionary science by nominating them for the 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye award! Self-nominations allowed too.
Submission deadline extended until February 7th at: https://forms.gle/VXJgczHA1irDDNB19
Last year’s winner was our president, Ed Hagen.
Dear HBES colleagues,
Below find important information for the HBES conference:
Registration: The registration for the 2026 meeting in Rabat, Morocco, is now open! Please visit the website for information regarding registration, or directly access the registration form. The early bird period will conclude on the 29th of March 2026. Online attendance is possible. If you wish to attend but not present at the CES conference, you can do so at a fixed discounted fee (use the HBES registration form to do so). You can also buy up to 2 tickets for the conference gala dinner, which will take place at the beautiful Rabat Story Hotel – Le Carousel (shuttle from campus included) on the evening of May 16th. Also available are two excursions to Roman ruins–the Chellah in Rabat and the Volubilis ruins closer to Meknès (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites)–planned for May 14th, to which you can also register (transportation and guide included).
Accommodation: The conference is hosted on the Rabat (Salé) campus of the UM6P. The campus offers a range of accommodation options, including the campus hotel and student residences. Prices vary based on the chosen option. Student residences are highly recommended for student participants as they are very cheap. Both are within walking distance of the event venue (approximately 3 minutes). Please note that children, while admitted on campus, are not allowed to reside in the on-campus accommodations. You can book your on-campus accommodation with this form (subject to availability).
Off-campus accommodations are available (see the website for suggestions). A regular shuttle service will pick participants near the Onomo Hotel downtown Rabat (in the Hassan neighbourhood: location here). The stop is also close to a tramline linking with hotels located in Agdal (such as the Marriott or First Suites hotel; about 10 minutes). An additional shuttle service may be provided based on the preferred location of the participants. Please note that the shuttle service is located about 20-30-minute walk uphill if you choose to reside in the Old Medina.
We are also issuing an additional call for Special Activities (e.g., workshops, training sessions, roundtables, networking events, interest-group meetups, and other community-building programming). If you would like to propose a Special Activity, please review the guidelines below and submit a proposal by email (to: HBES2026@um6p.ma). Submissions are due March 15th.
Childcare services: A free childcare center will be organised for the conference, for children from 11 months to 6 years of age. To book a space contact the organizers directly at HBES2026@um6p.ma by March 16th 2026. A discreet changing and breastfeeding space will also be provided (no booking required).
Call for activities proposals: You are invited to submit proposals for two activities to be held during the conference. All activity proposals and further questions should be sent to HBES2026@um6p.ma More details on Special Activities (including formats, expectations, and submission instructions) are included below and available at this link.
Warmly,
Zach Garfield, Ed Seabright, Sarah Alami, Mathieu Charbonneau, HBES 2026 Organizing Committee
Conference website
HBES2026 – Call for activity proposals
You are invited to submit proposals for two activities to be held during the upcoming HBES 2026 conference:
1. Lunchtime Panel Discussion
We invite proposals for a panel discussion (about 90 minutes) to be held during lunch, tentatively on the final day of the conference (May 16th). This panel should address an important topic for the discipline that is not strictly scientific but highly relevant, such as issues of representation and inclusion, ethics or equity in the field, history of the field, and broader issues shaping disciplinary culture. Proposals will be reviewed, and only two panel submissions will be selected for inclusion in the program.
Deadline: March 15th, 2026
2. Lunch Across Societies – Joint with CES
Held on the joint/overlapping day with CES (May 13th), Lunch Across Societiesoffers an informal space for small-group scholarly exchange aimed at fostering cross-societal dialogue and intellectual exchange in an informal setting. We welcome proposals for brown-bag–style interactive sessions (about 90 minutes), including methods clinics, special-interest or thematic discussions, discussions aimed at supporting junior researchers in their networking and professional development, or any other community-building discussions. Proposals will be reviewed, and a limited number of activities will be selected.
Deadline: March 15th, 2026
Submission Guidelines for 1 and 2
Please include a short description (max 250 words) of your proposed activity or panel, outlining the following:
All activity proposals, video submissions, and further questions should be sent to HBES2026@um6p.ma. Please include your name and HBES2026 – Call for activities subject line.
The Future of HBES Committee was formed to identify key challenges and opportunities facing the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and to develop strategies to ensure that HBES remains the intellectual home for scholars of evolutionary behavioral science. As part of this effort, we will be holding several small focus groups to hear perspectives from a broad range of voices within our field and the society.
Click here if you like to participate in one of these focus groups.
HBES members now have full electronic access to current and archived (since 1998) volumes of Evolution and Human Behavior (http://www.ehbonline.org/). Your institution need not subscribe. However, due to our contract with Elsevier, the procedure to access the journal via your HBES membership has changed. You must now access EHB via the HBES.com website.
Go to the journal page (https://www.hbes.com/journals/), click “Online access”, and follow the instructions.
The Department of Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Quantitative/Computational Psychology. The position is co-funded by Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute.
We seek candidates who use cutting-edge methods to advance our understanding of complex social, cognitive, and behavioral phenomena–specifically in the areas of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, or Industrial-Organizational psychology.
Follow this link for more information on the job and how to apply.
The Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park (https://anth.la.psu.edu/) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor.
We seek an outstanding archaeologist whose interests and skills are consistent with Penn State Anthropology’s integrative, scientific, quantitative, and empirical approach to studying human diversity. Specifically, we wish to recruit an archaeologist whose research record addresses the material manifestations of sociopolitical stratification, population transformation, human-environment interactions, and/or evolutionary variability. Methodological and geographical areas of expertise are open. We encourage applicants whose work can contribute toward collaborative scholarship within the department and across the university on initiatives focused on inequality, sustainability, human-environmental systems, and human health.
Follow this link for more information on the job and how to apply.
The Department of Anthropology (https://anth.la.psu.edu/) and the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI: https://ssri.psu.edu/) at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position, at the rank of Assistant Professor.
We seek innovative social science researchers whose work focuses on the social and ecological determinants of reproductive health via field-based research using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods. Candidates may work on topics including, but not limited to, reproductive outcomes, such as fertility or parental investment in children (e.g. breastfeeding, child mortality, education); reproductive life stages, such as puberty, pregnancy, or menopause; and/or the social and ecological determinants of reproduction, such as environmental risk, social support, inequality, healthcare access, or communicable disease. Penn State Anthropology prides itself on its integrative research and is interested in hiring a scholar whose work is interdisciplinary and/or integrates across anthropology’s subfields. We welcome candidates with interdisciplinary interests or training in fields including, but not limited to, demography, human biology, epidemiology, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and/or public health. Study population is open and could include nationally representative samples, underrepresented groups, Indigenous communities, or small-scale populations, and regional focus could be in the U.S. or international.
Follow this link for more information on the job and how to apply.
Dear HBES Community,
HBES 2026 will be held in Rabat, Morocco, at the University Mohammad VI Polytechnic (UM6P) from May 13-16, 2026. This will be a joint conference with the Cultural Evolution Society (CES).
Abstract submissions for the 2026 HBES conference are now open. Submissions will be accepted until November 16, 2025. You will be notified whether your abstract has been accepted in early January, 2026.
For more information about the meeting and to submit your abstract, please follow this link.
HBES Members,
I am writing in my capacity as Communications Officer to share with you survey results about our recent meeting in Atlantic City.
We had 127 responses, most of whom are faculty at various career stages, doctoral students, and postdocs. The vast majority of survey participants are from North America. Anthropologists and psychologists made up over 100 of the 127 responses, with psychology outnumbering anthropology three to one.
Here are statistical summaries of Likert scale questions, ranked from most satisfied to least satisfied
In a large and diverse society, we can’t expect consensus on most issues. That said, most survey participants are broadly satisfied with the society.
There were two items in which a plurality of participants were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied: social media and the contractual agreement with Elsevier for Evolution & Human Behavior. (I’ll note that on no item was there a plurality, let alone a majority, who were dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied.)
I cannot speak to any concerns you have about the contract with Elsevier, but as Communications Officer I am happy to relay any messages to the Executive Council. Social media, however, is within my purview as Communications Officer. Please send me concerns you have and suggestions on how we can improve this aspect of our society (same goes for the website, the newsletter, email communications. etc.).
Lastly, I’d like to highlight some of the qualitative opinions members shared with us. Rather than reproduce multiple responses verbatim, I’ll share with you my summaries.
Please reach out to the society if you feel your opinions are not being heard.
If you have specific suggestions on how we might improve our society, feel free to email me (communications@hbes.com) and I will relay the message to the Executive Council.
If you witnessed or experienced inappropriate behavior at conference , please contact the Grievance Committee (https://www.hbes.com/grievance/).
Sincerely,
Karthik Panchanthan
