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Assistant professor at Stony Brook University studying human evolution and phylogenetics
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Gutsick Gibbon: A Gentle and Modern Ape
about 1 month ago
I made a video about that new Paranthropus hand!
youtu.be/WmtNIRqPNc8?...
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Wake Up Babe New Transitional Fossil Just Dropped
YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon
https://youtu.be/WmtNIRqPNc8?si=10AvKm6C53WgY22k
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Evolution Soup
about 2 months ago
✨NEW INTERVIEW!✨ RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE
@carriemongle.bsky.social
@trentonholliday.bsky.social
#evolutionsoup
#evolution
#paleoanthropology
#science
#fossils
👇🏿👇🏽
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Caley Orr
3 months ago
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. 🏺🧪
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Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology
Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08711-7
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Black in Anatomy Inc.
3 months ago
Today, on his birthday, we celebrate an inspirational Black anatomist whose legacy guides
#BlackinAnat
to this day. Please enjoy this tribute to Dr. W. Montague Cobb shared during our first
#BlackinAnatWeek
in October 2021!
blackinanatomy.org/dr-w-m-cobb-video
#AnatomyArtAdvocacy
#CobbPanel
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Black in Anatomy Inc.
3 months ago
#BlackinAnatWeek
kicks off today! From Oct 13-18, join us for impactful webinars, community, art, and reflection celebrating anatomy and the
#BlackinAnat
mission! Come connect, learn, and grow with us! Register at:
linktr.ee/blackinanatomy
& Visit:
blackinanatomy.org/black-in-anatomy-week-25
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Caley Orr
3 months ago
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Impact of intermittent lead exposure on hominid brain evolution
Lead exposure, as influenced by NOVA1 expression, affected brain function in multiple hominid species.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr1524
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P. David Polly
3 months ago
For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
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Chris Robinson
3 months ago
Awesome papers out today by some awesome colleagues of mine.
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Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology
Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08711-7?fbclid=Iwb21leANdDEpjbGNrA10MQ2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeFnJI3OfYOAWLLiZSNzfWN37S-B7mgab8mA0kHOG3tgZsA4cMAGMQnyEeOTk_aem_ib_yHPXoUMADsKp0E5Wl7A
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Henry Gee
3 months ago
Let's give
@carriemongle.bsky.social
and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in
@nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09594-8
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Tim Vernimmen
3 months ago
A fossilized hand reveals 'Nutcracker Man' Paranthropus boisei, thought to have made the Oldupai gorge tools until Homo habilis was found, would also have been able to make and use those. Based on the
@nature.com
paper by
@carriemongle.bsky.social
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www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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Discovery of fossilized hand may unlock a 1.5-million-year-old mystery
Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/paranthropus-boisei-hand-leakey?loggedin=true&rnd=1760542411673
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Caley Orr
3 months ago
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
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New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09594-8
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Black in Anatomy Inc.
3 months ago
Announcing the 2025
#BlackinAnatWeek
presenters! Join us for connection, celebration and inspiration. Highlights: Oct 14: Dr. Ketema Paul Oct 15: Marcelo Oliver of Body Scientific Oct 16: Ni-ka Ford of Enlight Visuals Oct 17: Dr. Kerrie S. Lashley Register:
linktr.ee/blackinanatomy
#BlackinAnat
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
4 months ago
I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the
@oupaleobiology.bsky.social
, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
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PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
https://daveyfwright.wordpress.com/lab-news/
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Science Magazine
3 months ago
Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community. Learn more this week:
https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
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Dave Levitan
3 months ago
NEW: NIH leadership has
denied
the existence of a list of banned words for grantmaking purposes, but I have seen such a list circulating among staff. It has lots of words relating to gender and diversity, of course. Also things like "climate change," "vaccine hesitancy," "ethnic origin," and others.
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Come work with me! (Or Gabrielle or James)
stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Meave Leakey Postdoctoral Scholar
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
https://stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=2502527&tz=GMT-04%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York&fbclid=IwY2xjawMdpftleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmILw9L7yBVdFDWcLj3UGmS7PW0UlspCSXa3rq-GZKdJAej3SLxxB990b49-_aem_MyrTJbEnynyCjzMC5wyX1A
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Neil Shubin
6 months ago
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
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NPR
8 months ago
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387367/federal-science-opinion-use-poll
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Caley Orr
9 months ago
New paper from my lab & Drimolen team (
@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social
) on the DNH 43 hominin pelvis. I first saw it in 2019. Given the importance of the pelvis in the evolution of human locomotion and birth, I was surprised only a basic description had been published. 1/
#paleoanthropology
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Caley Orr
10 months ago
This new review by Sandel et al in
@yearbookbioanth.bsky.social
is a nice summary of the approach by which we can best link primate behavioral data to questions in
#humanevolution
using a more formalized comparative framework.
#biologicalanthropology
#paleoanthropology
#primatology
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Primate Behavior and the Importance of Comparative Studies in Biological Anthropology
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70009
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So much fomo for missing
#aaba2025
, but at least I am missing it from the field
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Jonathan Eisen
10 months ago
Reading for today:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00667-2?fbclid=IwY2xjawI1bGNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWLOXzjQJxxX3Fx9L4Pr6l5Z0kejGHzPwjtH2ZJy2o65Xr-Hc3LLeM54Sg_aem_TvfREvlkVW4jhbhkbX7rYw
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Caley Orr
10 months ago
Despite the recovery of 100s of fossils of Paranthropus robustus (a human cousin) in the last ~75 years, there's a lot we don't know for sure about its anatomy below the neck. This beautiful specimen contributes significantly to our knowledge of P. robustus hindlimb morphology.
#paleoanthropology
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First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa
Since paleontological work began there in 1948, Swartkrans (South Africa) has yielded hundreds of Early Pleistocene hominin fossils, currently attribu…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248424001556?via%3Dihub&fbclid=IwY2xjawI1UUNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWQbTFIN5xdhAwtC8O9STiWBkt96mVoS-5b_wEfOcNyohmVm2hCzRf1jBg_aem_xeiFmY0gAwiGhWiV9ieGqQ#fig4
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Door sign official, I'm excited to introduce the SHaPE lab!
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10 months ago
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Jacquelyn Gill
11 months ago
For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities. That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
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Nature
11 months ago
Higher greenhouse-gas emissions, fewer jobs and dirtier air that kills more people: researchers have plugged Trump’s energy and climate policies into their models, and early results suggest far-reaching consequences for health, the economy and the planet.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Drill, baby drill? Trump policies will hurt climate ― but US green transition is underway
Market forces could undercut the administration’s plans to increase the use of fossil fuels such as oil and petrol.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00243-8
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Senator Bernie Sanders
11 months ago
I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS. I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
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Darby Saxbe
11 months ago
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Mya Breitbart
11 months ago
Senior scientists who will be reviewing tenure & promotion files in the future - please remember that the effects of many of these executive orders will disproportionately affect researchers from marginalized groups - often the same folks penalized by COVID-related delays, childcare issues, etc. 🧪
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Caley Orr
11 months ago
An open-access collection of early fossil hominin scans from Swartkrans, South Africa was recently published in the journal PaleoAnthropology by Skinner et al. Both Paranthropus robustus & early Homo are represented in the assemblage.
paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story | CNN
Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific...
https://cnn.com/2025/01/24/science/china-fossils-ancient-humans-homo-juluensis-denisovans/index.html
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SICB journals
11 months ago
IOB now in issue ! The Carnivoran
#Adaptive
Landscape Reveals Trade-offs among Functional Traits in the Skull, Appendicular, and Axial
#Skeleton
Chris J Law, L J Hlusko, Z J Tseng
doi.org/10.1093/iob/...
#science
#fossils
#analysis
#carnivores
#ecology
#topology
#locomotor
#mammalian
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Joseph W. Brown
11 months ago
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods in R course with Alex Dornburg and Amandine Gillet. Phylogenetic (including total-evidence) dating, trait & lineage modelling, etc. 12-16 May 🧪@physaliacourses.bsky.social
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
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Richard Butler
12 months ago
📣 Come work with us! Three year Research Associate position to work as part of Leverhulme Trust funded project collecting and studying amazing Jurassic mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. PhD not necessary; CT segmentation skills essential. Contact me for details:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK473/r...
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Excited to be hosting
@deadbovids.bsky.social
for our TBI Speaker Series in a few weeks! DM if you would like to be added to our mailing list for the zoom link.
12 months ago
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Chris Stringer
12 months ago
Just think, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits (Homo floresiensis) would have been amongst the last ones to see this comet…
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Science covered our editorial resignation from JHE
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
https://www.science.org/content/article/journal-editors-mass-resignation-marks-sad-day-paleoanthropology
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Katharine Hayhoe
12 months ago
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Chris Robinson
about 1 year ago
Nearly the entire editorial board at the Journal of Human Evolution resigned today due to not being able to get the corporate giant Elsevier to adhere to the basic idea that experts should be in charge of content in the journal. It's a sad day in the field of Biological Anthropology.
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Big things are happening on the morphology side of the building! Stay tuned for our soon to be announced *combined morphology lab* name (The "Grine-Russo-Rossie-Mongle Lab" hasn't caught on).
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Mario dos Reis
12 months ago
A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab: One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards:
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int...
(deadline 20th Jan) And another with CSC:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(deadline 29th Jan)
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Amy Boddy
about 1 year ago
Just a reminder! We are hiring an assist/associate prof in the Integrative Anthropological Sciences at UCSB!! Come for the endless science, stay for the endless summer 😎 Deadline is approaching! 1/06/2025
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Mark Grabowski
about 1 year ago
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr
about 1 year ago
🏺🧪🦴 Amazing opportunity for two PhD students to join us at Cambridge Uni! Topic: later pastoralists in Kenya, diet, mobility
#archaeology
#isotopes
#zooarch
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49439/
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv
about 1 year ago
I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬
about 1 year ago
Wake up phylo friends, a new Bayesian point estimate of phylogeny just dropped 🧪
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HIPSTR: highest independent posterior subtree reconstruction in TreeAnnotator X
In Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic studies it is common to summarise the posterior distribution of trees with a time-calibrated consensus phylogeny. While the maximum clade credibility (MCC) tree is often used for this purpose, we here show that a novel consensus tree method - the highest independent posterior subtree reconstruction, or HIPSTR - contains consistently higher supported clades over MCC. We also provide faster computational routines for estimating both consensus trees in an updated version of TreeAnnotator X, an open-source software program that summarizes the information from a sample of trees and returns many helpful statistics such as individual clade credibilities contained in the consensus tree. HIPSTR and MCC reconstructions on two Ebola virus and two SARS-CoV-2 data sets show that HIPSTR yields consensus trees that consistently contain clades with higher support compared to MCC trees. The MCC trees regularly fail to include several clades with very high posterior probability (>=0.95) as well as a large number of clades with moderate to high posterior probability (>=0.50), whereas HIPSTR achieves near-perfect performance in this respect. HIPSTR also exhibits favorable computational performance over MCC in TreeAnnotator X. Comparison to the recently developed CCD0-MAP algorithm yielded mixed results, and requires more in-depth exploration in follow-up studies. TreeAnnotator X -- which is part of the BEAST X (v10.5.0) software package -- is available at https://github.com/beast-dev/beast-mcmc/releases. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.08.627395v1
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