Gender-affirming care saves lives

Had a really great experience at #aaa2025. Had been pretty pessimistic going into it, but was part of a wonderful panel, many productive meetings, and new connections. Now to get to the end of the semester so I can pick up those new threads…

Fell down a literature rabbit hole all day about the debate over protein degree/connectivity and evolutionary rate. Then, for fun, asked an LLM about it to see its answer. Wow, things predictably don't bode well for grad students who rely on those tools to do the reading and thinking for them

I would support a system in which reviewers get credits to offset/waive APCs so as to align an interest in valuing the labor and valuing access

Morphological variation in the manual distal phalanges of chimpanzees (<em>Pan troglodytes</em>) in relation to tool-use behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

During #AAA2025 seems like a good time to re-up this. LMK if you have any questions about UGA or life in Athens!

Are you local to the DC area and want to be a public engagement volunteer with us in the Hall of Human Origins? Apply now! naturalhistory.si.edu/join-us/volu...

📆 Reminder: The deadline for Pollitzer Student Travel Awards to attend #AABA2026 in Denver is December 5. Be sure to submit your application! bioanth.org/about/willia...

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

A charming essay by the former chair of Africana studies at Bowdoin College about the New York Times crafting elitist propaganda.

Here’s the direct link to my introduction chapter to ‘Long COVID and Society’, open access and free to read for all, either directly online or downloaded as a PDF link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

2.7 Mya Oldowan tools found in Koobi Fora! 🤩 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My lab at Indiana University is searching for a *postdoc* and *technician* to contribute to our work studying the evolution of social behavior using fruit flies as a model system. Details below, feel free to email me with any questions! More info on our research: saltzlab.com

New techniques for old bones: Morphometric and diffeomorphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Reilingen and Ehringsdorf Neandertals anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We’re excited to announce that we are partnering with the American Council of Learned Societies to host a graduate student intern this summer, to help edit our news coverage of the changing landscape of religion in America

The Biden administration worked hard to accomplish this new free IRS filing system. It’s astounding that one should have to pay fees in order to pay their taxes. But this rent seeking is entirely consistent with the economic policies of the current administration that benefit the most wealthy.

Two #Postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke -Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate -Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN Check it out and spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783

The hominin fossil record of the Omo-Turkana Basin www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

everything I'm seeing about this is apocalyptic. is anyone on here fundraising around this already / know the best Jamaican orgs to support atm? abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

One day you're grad school roommates in the dankest apt in Ann Arbor; 20 years later you write a paper together. To friendship and scholarship - On populations & our poor operationalization of the concept w/ @apv2600.bsky.social onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/doi/10.1002/...

Excited to finally have this article out with @robingnelson.blacksky.app. Although we have nominally centered populations as our unit of evolutionary analysis in biological anthropology, we have no coherent understanding of what a population is. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Atlantic Crossings: Biosocial Interventions in African Diasporic Bioarchaeological Thought and Practice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evaluating the Evolvability of Paranthropus Cranial Morphology in Relation to Feeding Biomechanics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nuevo e importante Paranthropus boisei KNM-ER 101000: compartía adaptaciones manipulativas y bípedas con Homo, y su mano se parece a gorila para procesamiento de alimento y agarre poderoso para escalar. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei www.nature.com/articles/s41...

National Fossil Day (and World Anatomy Day) seems opportune timing to drop a couple of coauthored papers with great collaborators. Here's #2 for the day, this one led by colleague Cody Prang of Wash U. Ardipithecus is of critical importance for reconstructing the ancestral condition for hominins. 🏺🧪

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICYMI Notre Dame Anthropology will be hiring a post-doc for 2026-2028. This is part of a university-wide initiative to support early career scholars. Deadline is Oct. 31...sorry for late notice. apply.interfolio.com/171503

I found the war on Christianity

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀 I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641. As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570. (Published July with @texastribune.org)

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Incorporating Evolutionary Theory Into Forensic Anthropology Methods and Practice: A Proof‐of‐Concept Study Using Skeletal Sex Estimation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Modern Human Dentognathic Remains From MIS 3–2 of Jianshan Cave, Southern China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New Middle Pleistocene Hominin Dental Remains From Velika Balanica, Serbia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

INBOX: an investigation by @annenbergmedia.bsky.social found that the United States Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 over the last seven years for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for Israel Defense Forces training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.