SCIENCE FIGHTERS! We need YOU to rally with us on March 7th in Washington D.C. or at your local rally! Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to learn more! #March7 #rally #standupforscience #science #savescience

BRACKET DROP DAY!!!! Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator! #2026MMM

GET IN, DORKS! It's time for round two! @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Join us in congratulating our outstanding members who have received the prestigious AABA annual awards for 2026. The 2026 Mid-Career Research award recipient is Katherine Amato from Northwestern University !

A newly sequenced 5500-year-old genome of Treponema pallidum rewrites the origins of syphilis, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Zpv2W2

Looking forward to #SMBE2026! It’s that time of year when my trainees and collaborators all send me files called “SMBE 2026.docx “

As per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

Yay Congratulations to Erin Rawls who passed his comprehensive exams today!!!! His dissertation looks at DNA recovery and downstream STR and genomic analysis of degraded and/or burnt samples.

Great end of year summary of some of the fascinating discoveries related to human origins on the Origin Stories podcast by the @leakeyfoundation.org! leakeyfoundation.org/learn/origin...

This year on Bluesky I wrote 77 posts and 46 replies. For some reason 🙄, I’m concerned about science funding and vaccination. I also talk about a strange word called MMM (more on that soon for #2026MMM) www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

A super fun way to unwind over the holidays = making paperweights with molten glass! Note: Steve at Inspired Fire glass studio in W. Lafayette was a terrific teacher!

Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices. www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

Review: Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts by @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social, Verena J. Schuenemann & @acstone.bsky.social rdcu.be/eSVPN

Yay! It’s a great day to hood some newly minted PhDs! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social @evmedasu.bsky.social @rebeccasiford.bsky.social #StoneLabVictory! #SciencePartyInTheDesert!

Do you have unprovenienced human remains in your teaching or research collection? Do you want to learn how to reconstruct their histories, and how to be ethical stewards of them? We're holding a workshop on this on December 11th! More information here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN

On Giving Tuesday, we appreciate everyone who transforms our understanding of disease and achieves new approaches to improving human health. Thank you researchers, funders, learners, & donors. Learn more: evmed.asu.edu Contribute: tinyurl.com/5td5vx6s

This #GivingTuesday, support the AABA community fund. Your donation supports student funding awards and other community initiatives. Even a small gift helps! bioanth.org/donate

Please join us on December 11 at 12pm EST for the AABA Webinar, "Tracing Forgotten Histories: Identifying Unprovenienced Human Skeletal Remains and Establishing Best Practices for their Ethical Treatment." Registration here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📆 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...

<dusts off the ol' blog> to say something about "celebrating science" in the age of AI & current political context. EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y...

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…

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...