just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

We are feeling incredibly grateful and energised this week on beautiful Gunditjmara Country. Deepest thanks to GMTOAC for hosting us and for everyone for travelling from far and wide to join together again. We even managed to have the sunshine breakthrough for this lovely group shot!

So far so good!

AABA/AAAG folks! Want to reach more people with your awesome science 👩‍🔬👨🏿‍🏫💀🧬🦍? Check out this upcoming writing workshop by @bioanth.org on Nov 19🗓️ ! A great way to prepare for this year's Politzer Prize op-ed style competition 👩🏿‍💻 📝(bioanth.org/about/willia...) Register here: shorturl.at/7cf9J

1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation 2. Revolutionize cancer therapy 3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance 4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases 5. Support healthier behaviors 6. Improve pandemic responses by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!

WE HEAR HE'S A FUN GUY! #IRegretNothing You can attend in person or via Zoom! #EvMed

Congrats to Professor Megan Jehn for receiving the 2025 Arizona Public Health Research Award! 🎉 Since 2020, she has led the Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT), training over 400 case investigators to help improve public health. azpha.org/2025/10/15/a...

A beautiful day at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social

The best antidote to despair is ACTION! As we inch our way into another day of the Republican shutdown that threatens to plunge millions of Americans into a food insecurity crisis, we are mobilizing to Keep America Fed. Join us on 11/3 at our ACTION HOUR to learn how to get involved. tr.ee/UF24dV

A spectacular recovery: feral cats and fox exclusion dramatically reshapes a small mammal community in an Australian desert. Join us 5 Nov 8:00 AM (London, UK time) to hear #ProcB author Katherine Moseby talk about her research. Reserve your space: cassyni.com/events/RtW3T... #ecology

50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵

I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry. My friends, my loves, my dears. Don't start. JOIN. These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!

Great “CEMinar” at @evmedasu.bsky.social by @avanzich.bsky.social about her research on the evolutionary history of the pathogens causing leprosy! (& a nice evening afterwards at a local brewpub!)

Interested in giving a talk at PAG 2026 in the Wildlife Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, OneHealth, Ancient DNA, or Domestication Genomics sessions? We are extending our abstract submission by a few days. We'd love to hear from you! Submit here and please repost! forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...

A hearty Denisovan stew ripe with stories of mixing and more mixing, even with a third more ‘archaic’ hominid. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only…

"The virus can inflame blood vessels and raise the risk of clots and strokes. Think of it as a smoldering inflammation after an infection that can last for years to come." Hey, that sounds really familiar! 😷 Maybe there are other viruses that do that, too. 😉

umm so...getting rid of the IRB at CDC is, uhh, not good?

Deadline for this PhD position is coming on Friday. Please apply and/or share

#NoKings Phoenix

It’s a great day in PHX to march for democracy! #NoKings

“Today’s events demonstrate the power of collective organizing & action to defeat tyranny. “We hope that we serve as an example to the other public universities that received the ‘Compact’—the University of Texas, Austin, & the University of Arizona—giving them the courage & clarity not to buckle.”

Earlier this month, Evolutionary Biology PhD student Brooklynn Scott in @smacklab.bsky.social presented research on chromosome evolution & genetic diversity in geladas at the International Gelada Workshop, highlighting implications for species conservation! #EvMed #OneHealth

What is Evolutionary Medicine? #EvMed askabiologist.asu.edu/explore/evol...

The WH budget for FY26 includes a proposed $18B cut to NIH, a $5B cut to NASA, a $5B cut to NSF, a $5B cut to CDC, and a $5B cut to EPA. You don't need a math/econ PhD to see that a $40B bailout to Argentina covers this and more right here in the USA. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Episode 3 of Safeguarding Sound Science: Evolution Edition is out! In this episode, host Mat Kaplan and guests Joseph L. Graves Jr., Holly Dunsworth & Augustin Fuentes explore Darwin’s ideas, how far we’ve come, and where evolutionary biology is headed. ncse.ngo/safeguarding... #evosky #podsky

Full time, TT position in Biological Anthropology at Santa Clara University: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

SATURDAY Stand Up. Fight Back. #NoKings Find an event near you. www.nokings.org#map

The FRAMERATE: Desert Pulse exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden is stunning! Go see it! #DBG

When floodwaters hit remote Alaska villages, recovery isn’t as simple as fixing up a home in the Lower 48. No roads. No hardware stores. Winter closing in. Families are facing impossible choices after Typhoon #Halong. buff.ly/OS40JJ3 #Indigenous

If the CDC firings fill you with the fury of a thousand white hot suns, might I suggest this rally and joining/supporting @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪🩺 #ScienceSky

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

Opinion | What Makes a Great Op-Ed? An ‘L.A. Times’ Editor Explains Op-ed editor Philip Gray shares advice for academics on how to get published in a national paper and how submitting pieces is a numbers game. https://bit.ly/46W4zmE #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

March 16: "It is time to change course before the US loses its ‘measles eliminated’ status and becomes a country where children are routinely hospitalized and die each year of a preventable disease." joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/eliminated... Mid-Sep via CDC, highest # of cases in 25+ years.

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

✓ No basis in fact.

Unrelated to anything, just a cool recent paper jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

Do you want to support students attending #AABA2026? Get your #AABA2026 t-shirt or hoodie! Proceeds will fund our various student programs www.bonfire.com/sales-will-s...

Interested in becoming more involved in AABA? The deadline for nominations for President-Elect, Vice President, and Secretary are due October 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

📌 Students attending #AABA2026: we've made some changes to simplify the submission process for Student Presentation Awards. Your award application is now due October 15, 2025, the same day as abstracts are due. 📖 Read about it here: bioanth.org/about/studen...

Ok so I have the Jane Goodall legos (which are awesome or “fire” as my daughter says!) but I totally need #PlaymobilÖtzi!

Apply! @bioanth.org #AABA2026

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Penn & Teller covered how vaccines don't cause autism 15 years ago on the show Bullshit! which aired on Showtime. The illegitimacy of Andrew Wakefield and vaccine disinformation has been widely debunked and discredited over and over again with creative analogies and visuals, no less.

The University of Texas at Austin seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Ancient DNA. Requirements include a PhD, DNA analysis experience, and strong computational skills. Apply to Ainash Childebayeva. More info: [email protected]. #postdoc

💡 Did you know that the Tar Pits' iconic Lake Pit is a pit left over from asphalt mining operations in the late 1800s? Uncover more about the past and Ice Age L.A. at TARPITS.org!

Really excellent. Since Wakefield's retracted study, 43 of some 70 studies found no vaccine-autism link For 26 reporting a link: 2/3s authored by David & Mark Geier. Their work's been criticized for "deceptive research techniques & flawed data." Of the 8 others: 4 retracted for data manipulation