“Children's entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention” “Wearing her signature pink headband, Rachel Accurso spoke with two children being held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. She described the conversations as devastating.”

✨NEW INTERVIEW✨ A NEW HABILIS SKELETON - Return of the Handyman ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE @carriemongle.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/KdEQvjHJQGE

"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the [NSF]’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4d0fi3N

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

ICE has detained at least 3,800 kids under the second Trump administration — more than 500 of whom were under 5 years old. Children shouldn't be locked up by our government.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

I made a video about that new Paranthropus hand! youtu.be/WmtNIRqPNc8?...

✨NEW INTERVIEW!✨ RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE @carriemongle.bsky.social @trentonholliday.bsky.social #evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils 👇🏿👇🏽 youtu.be/kcGgfUbbkwE

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. 🏺🧪

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

#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

For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...

Awesome papers out today by some awesome colleagues of mine.

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...

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 et al. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

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/

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

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. 🧪

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

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.

Come work with me! (Or Gabrielle or James) stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

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 🧪

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.

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 🏺🧪

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

So much fomo for missing #aaba2025, but at least I am missing it from the field

Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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 🧪🏺

Door sign official, I'm excited to introduce the SHaPE lab!

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.

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...

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.

I'm sorry... what?

🚨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.

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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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... 🏺🧪🦣 #paleoanthropology

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

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...

📣 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...

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.

Just think, Neanderthals, Denisovans and Hobbits (Homo floresiensis) would have been amongst the last ones to see this comet…