Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst. So this absolutely tracks.

We are hiring a Project Co-ordinator! 🚨 Are you extremely organised with great interpersonal skills? Able to multitask efficiently? Interested in African prehistory? Keen to work with an enthusiastic team? We want to hear from you! Closing date: 17 October, 2025

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic. @univie.ac.at More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

Beyond mutualism: the nature of domesticator–domesticate interactions www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

If you want to hear from Jane Goodall tonight given the news, this podcast interview she did for Wiser Than Me earlier this year was really good.

A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era. My story: www.science.org/content/arti...

"I do know that when talking to people who perhaps think very differently, the only chance you have of getting them to think in a different way is to touch the heart." — Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Thanks, Jane, for touching our hearts.

Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

He’s blocking her because she would be the final vote necessary to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. He’s doing this to protect pedophiles. Release his Grindr profile!

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

We're hiring! WSU anthropology is looking to hire a TT Asst Prof in cultural anthropology, with a health, well-being, or human-environment interactions. This is a great dept with friendly folks! CV and cover letter due by 11/2 wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jo...

Not only is this bonkers in general, but there are no single measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines manufactured in the US. (Or anywhere else I suspect?) Tylenol is safe in pregnancy, MMR is safe, hepB vaccine is safe at birth, no other vaccines need to be spaced out, autism is primarily genetic.

Ian Roberts, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 800 meters for Guyana, has been arrested by ICE. Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.* www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

Been going to back to school nights for 17+ years. I think tonight was the first time I crossed the threshold of feeling “old” as emblematized by these classroom signs.

Harrowing deep dive by my colleagues on DOGE’s devastation of government agencies, in the words of federal workers: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

Anyway, here is some actually incredible news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely critical for putting the events of the last 48 hours into context

Rethinking Hominin Air Sac Loss in Light of Phylogenetically Meaningful Evidence onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

The finish on the men’s marathon at the World Championships will power me this week

A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and <em>Homo erectus</em> chronology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Charlie Kirk's org's main purpose was to surveil, terrorize, and force the firing of college professor's he disagreed with. He was a committed, tireless opponent of free speech and democracy. 1

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Kavanaugh doubles down on (& misapplies) the most shameful standing decision in the Court’s modern history, Los Angeles vs. Lyons (1983). In Lyons a Black man who was victim of a chokehold by LAPD sought to enjoin its use. SCOTUS said no standing b/c….how do you know it will happen to you again?

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“Massachusetts will require health insurers operating in the state to cover vaccines recommended by the state's department of public health. Massachusetts is the first state to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines even if the federal government stops requiring it.” www.axios.com/2025/09/04/m...

Another month, another win for the “cats on catnip” calendar

This is infuriating and you should send it to every veteran you know, because while you can’t lose your civilian job while you’re activated, they don’t have to pay you, and you can’t get the mortgage pause until you’ve been activated a month. American Legion & VFW should be on fire.

Expanding the “Cradle of Humankind” www.johnhawks.net/p/geographic...

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

🙏Drop everything and put this on your agenda. Save it, and listen to it during exercise or your commute. You may know some or most of these events, but to hear them all together is alarming. The analysis is sober, but as Balko said, it’s hard to talk about this without sounding crazy.

I wrote about gene-gene interactions (epistasis) and the implications for heritability, trait definitions, natural selection, and therapeutic interventions. Biology is clearly full of causal interactions, so why don't we see them in the data? A 🧵:

This is something I'm navigating as a seller 😬, but everyone should be aware of what's happening tomorrow when the de minimis exemption ends. 1/

"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." This is wild. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This is absolutely catastrophic for U.S. higher education, and for U.S. global leadership. Just the latest in a series of senseless acts of self-sabotage by a malevolent administration bent on making the United States weak and poor.

#Disabled faculty: I am interested in developing, if this does not exist, a repository of #accommodations that have been provided. Anyone know about something like this? DM, please.

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

there is not a single mitochondrial challenge that you could definitively identify by sight. literally not a single one. he just picked a phrase for issues that are caused by genetic issues (because he’s a eugenicist) or by medicine/environmental factors (cause he’s a fear mongering piece of shit)

That whole, "indict a ham sandwich" line is going to need some revision

Forensic Anthropology as Practiced in the United States: Qualifications, Standards, and Ethical Practice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...