1. • Monkey Shrink Spies in Macaque Bedrooms screams the headline!  Read all about it in the December issue of the Danish magazine, Illustreret Videnskab.
   

1. • An article entitled “How the 5 O’Clock Shadow is Killing the Shaving Industry” discusses research by Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey published in Behavioral Ecology, 23: 481-490.
   

1. • An article in the Vancouver Sun entitled “Fabulous Ways to Survive” discusses the Nature of Things documentary Survival of the Fabulous that featured Paul Vasey’s research in Samoa.
   

1. • A Nature of Things documentary with David Suzuki entitled Survival of the Fabulous aired on November 28, 2013, on CBC television and featured footage of Paul Vasey at his research site in Samoa.  Here are a few publicity photos.
   

1. • Paul Vasey was interviewed from his fieldsite in Samoa on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Live Chat as part of a program entitled Why aren’t gay men extinct?
   

1. • An article in the Calgary Herald entitled “Survival of the Fabulous: Filmmaker has Science on his side in documentary on homosexuality” discusses the upcoming Nature of Things documentary that features Paul Vasey’s research in Samoa.
   

1. • Check out this preview from the upcoming Nature of Things documentary Survival of the Fabulous that features Paul Vasey’s Samoan research. The documentary airs on November 28, 2013.
   

1. • An article in the Star Online entitled “Movember:  What’s all the fuzz about, man?” discusses research by Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey published in Behavioral Ecology, 23: 481-490.
   

1. • A lecture by Paul Vasey entitled “Do Dodos: What Cross-cultural Research Tells Us About Why Male Homosexuals Do Not Become Extinct” appeared online as part of the Michigan State University lecture series Whom You Love.
   

1. • Check out this great Nature of Things clip from the upcoming documentary Survival of the Fabulous that will air on November 28, 2013.  It features Dr. Jean Baptiste Leca discussing our research on male homosexual behavior in an all-male group of Japanese macaques at Minoo, Japan. 
   

1. • An article in the Pacific Standard entitled “Why Gender Dysphoria Should No Longer Be Considered a Medical Disorder” discusses research by Paul Vasey, Nancy Bartlett and William Bukowski published in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50: 481-490 and Sex Roles, 43: 753-785.
   

1. • Our Human Nature article entitled “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis” is getting more media attention at TIME and International Business Times.
   

1. • Paul Vasey & Robin Milhausen co-presented an invited talk at the Canadian Sex Research Forum 2013 Meeting in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, entitled After Dark: Two Sex Researchers on Television. 
   

1. •An article in the Pacific Standard entitled “How being a gay boy is like having a physiological problem with milk” discusses Doug VanderLaan, Laura Gothreau, Nancy Bartlett and Paul Vasey’s article “Separation Anxiety in Feminine Boys: Pathological or Prosocial?” which was published in the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 15: 1-16.
   

1. • Our Human Nature article entitled “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis” is getting more media attention at Science Daily and Science Blog.
   

1. • An article in Science 2.0 entitled “Kin selection and how transgendered males have been an asset in some ancestral societies” discusses Doug VanderLaan, Zhiyuan (Lance) Ren and Paul Vasey’s article, “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis”  which was published in the journal Human Nature.
   

1. • An article by Doug VanderLaan, Zhiyuan (Lance) Ren and Paul Vasey entitled, “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis” is now available online at the webpage for the journal Human Nature.
   

1. • Dan Savage tweeted about our forthcoming Human Nature article entitled “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis.”
   

1. • An article in the Pacific Standard entitled “The Old Way to Be Gay?” discusses Doug VanderLaan, Zhiyuan (Lance) Ren and Paul Vasey’s article, “Male Androphilia in the Ancestral Environment: An Ethnological Analysis”  which will be published in the journal Human Nature. 
   

1. • An article entitled 5 Questions for Dr. Paul Vasey appeared in the University of Lethbridge’s newspaper, The Legend.
   

1. • Thanks to Sam Dawson, Kelly Suschinsky, Doug VanderLaan, Ryan Mallard & Lanna Petterson for the lovely flowers! 
   

1. • On August 19th, Ryan Mallard successfully defended his MA thesis entitled “Overachieving and Sexual Orientation.”  YAY Ryan!  You did a great job! 
   

1. • A Scientific American blog entitled “Meet the Feeders: Getting Off On Getting Fat” by Jesse Bering discusses Lesley Terry & Paul Vasey’s case report of feederism in a woman which was published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40: 639-645.
   

1. • Noëlle Gunst, Jean-Baptiste Leca and Paul Vasey published an article entitled “Development of heterosexual and socio-sexual mounting in free-ranging juvenile male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)” in the journal, Behaviour, 150: 1225-1254.
   

1. • Miranda Abild, Doug VanderLaan & Paul Vasey published an article entitled “No evidence for treating friends’ children like kin in Canadian androphilic men” in the Journal of Sex Research, 45: 697-703.
   

1. • Miranda Abild was awarded a Canadian Psychology Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her Master’s thesis entitled Socio-cultural Influences on Kin-directed Altruism in Canada.  Congratulations Miranda and well deserved! 
   

1. • Chelsea Wrightson was awarded a Canadian Psychology Association Certificate of Academic Excellence for her Honour’s thesis entitled Sex and Sexual Orientation Differences in Recalled Childhood Gendered Behaviour in Japan.  Way to go Chelsea!
   

1. • Samantha Dawson, Martin Lalumière, Scott Allen, Paul Vasey and Kelly Suschinsky published an article entitled “Can Habituation of Sexual Responses be Elicited in Men and Women When Attention is Maintained” in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 45: 274-285.
   

1. • Thanks to Katherine Frank for the nice shout-out she gave me in her fantastic new book, Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex.
   

1. • Using data collected over our 12-year study of Japanese macaques, Jean Baptiste Leca gave an amazing  podium presentation at the 2013 International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting in Chicago:
   

Leca, J-B., Gunst, N. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). Long-term trends in female bisexual behavior of Japanese macaques: A Kinsey Scale for Monkeys? Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting, August 2013, Chicago, IL.

1. • Vasey lab members presented the following posters at the 2013 International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting in Chicago:
   

Leca, J-B., Gunst, N. & Vasey, P.L. (2013) Comparative development of heterosexual and homosexual behaviors in adolescent female Japanese macaques. Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers, August 2013, Chicago, USA.

Parker, J.L., Forrester, D.L., Dixson, B.J., VanderLaan D.P., Little, A.C., & Vasey, P.L. (2013). A possible psychological mechanism for elevated fecundity in the female relatives of Samoan androphilic males. Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting, August 2013, Chicago, USA.

Mallard, R. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). Overachieving in androphilic males.  Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting, August 2013, Chicago, USA.

Ottenheimer-Carrier, L., Pellis, S.M., Leca, J-B, Gunst, N. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). Homosexual and heterosexual mounting in female Japanese macaques: A preliminary postural analysis. Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting, August 2013, Chicago, USA.

Petterson, L.J., Wrightson, C. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). Sex and male sexual orientation differences in recall of childhood gender-atypical behavior in Japan. Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting, August 2013, Chicago, USA.

Vasey, P.L., Parker, J., Forrester, D.L. VanderLaan, D.P. (2013). Comparative reproductive output of androphilic and gynephilic males in Samoa. Presented at the International Academy of Sex Researchers Meeting, August 2013, Chicago, USA.

1. • Paul Vasey and Miranda Abild’s review of the book A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What The Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships, by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, was published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42: 1101-1103.
   

1. • Paul Vasey was appointed to Editorial Board of the new American Psychology Association journal Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.
   

1. • Paul Vasey was appointed an adjunct visiting faculty member in the Department of Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii-Manoa during the summer of 2013.
   

1. • Barnaby Dixson and Paul Vasey’s beard research is given the comic book treatment at Sci-ence.
   

1. • On  June 20, 2013, Dr. Vasey was honoured with a OUTreach Southern Alberta Pride award for outstanding contributions to academics!  Here are some photos.
   

1. • On June 18, Ryan Mallard gave a speech on the importance of community diversity at Lethbridge City Hall.
   

1. • Chelsea Wrightson and Emma Yong made the Dean’s Honour’s list. Congratulations to both of them!
   

1. • Paul Vasey spend part of May working with a Nature of Things film crew for a documentary on the evolution of male homosexuality entitled Survival of the Fabulous. Here are some photos, some of which show Paul looking anything but fabulous in the roasting heat of Samoa.
   

1. • A big congratulations to Jessica Parker and Lanna Petterson who were both awarded highly competitive Masters scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada!
   

1. • Sam Dawson gave the follow presentation at the Society for Sex Therapy and Research Meetings:
   

Dawson, S., Lalumière, M., Allen, S., Vasey, P.L. & Suschinsky, K. (2013). Attention to sexual stimuli during habituation of sexual responses: Casual or correlational? Presented at the Society for Sex Therapy and Research Meeting, April 2013, Baltimore, USA.

1. • Chelsea Wrightson successfully defend her Honour’s thesis entitled “Sex and male sexual orientation differences in recalled childhood gendered behaviour in Japan.”  Way to go Chelsea!  A co-authored manuscript based on this work has been submitted for review to the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
   

1. • Vasey lab members have three articles in the April issue of the Archives of Sexual Behavior!  These are:
   

VanderLaan, D.P., Forrester, D.L., Petterson, L.J. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). The prevalence of fa’afafine relatives among gynephilic men and fa’afafine. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42: 353-359.

VanderLaan, D.P., Vokey, J.R. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). Is trangendered male androphilia familial in non-Western populations? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42: 361-370.

VanderLaan, D.P. & Vasey, P.L. (2013). Birth order and avuncular tendencies in Samoan men and fa’afafine. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42: 371-379.

1. • An article by Jean-Baptiste Leca and Nöelle Gunst entitled “Population density and abundance of ebony leaf monkeys (Trachypithecus auratus) in West Bali National Park, Indonesia, was published in the journal, Primate Conservation, and is available here.
   

1. • An article, Beard Envy, profiles Paul Vasey and Barnaby Dixson’s cross-cultural research on beards.  It appears in the April 2013 issue of the Avenue Calgary.
   

1. • An abstract by Barnaby Dixson, Paul Vasey and Rob Brooks, “The Evolution of the Human Beard,” has been published in the Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 64: 146.
   

1. • On April 10, 2013, members of the Vasey lab were honoured to meet, and discuss our research, with the President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Dr. Chad Gaffield. Here are some photos of our meeting.
   

1. • The article, Face Value, profiles Paul Vasey and Barnaby Dixson’s cross-cultural research on beards.  It appears in the April 2013 issue of the Avenue Edmonton.
   

1. • The article, Research ties established through Japanese macaques, profiles my research with Jean-Baptiste Leca and Nöelle Gunst on male homosexual behavior in all-male groups of Japanese macaques.  It appears in the April 2013 issue of the University of Lethbridge’s publication, The Legend.
   

1. • On March 28, 2013, Paul Vasey gave a talk at the Evolution of Sexuality conference at Oakland University in Michigan.  Kudos to the incredible hosts Todd Shakelford and Randy Hansen for organizing an amazing day of talks.
   

1. • On March 20, 2013, CBC’s The Nature of Things filmed Paul Vasey and Jean-Baptiste Leca as part of a television documentary being made on the evolution of male homosexuality entitled Survival of the Fabulous.  Here are some photos.
   

1. • On March 16, 2013, my Honour’s student, Chelsea Wrightson gave a (great) talk entitled “Sex and male sexual orientation differences in recalled childhood behavior in Japan” at the Graduate Student Association of the University of Lethbridge Annual Multi-Disciplinary Research Conference.  We plan on having this study submitted for review to a referred journal in the next few weeks.