horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Polish off your May Day protesting with this *essential* read by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.

I implore everyone to read this brilliant book review of Kathryn Paige Harden new book on the genetics of criminality. It cuts right through the bullshit to state plainly what Harden's project really is: eugenics bullshit and grifting lareviewofbooks.org/article/orig...

The JHI Blog has released a call for submissions to its forum on the “Conceptual History of Technology.” Pitches are due on May 7.

Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

"It is time to speak up — clearly, structurally and unapologetically. Time to build sideways, not upwards. Time to lift others without replicating the same extractive ladder." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So I did this debate on To the Contrary, an NPR debate show about the new International Olympic Committee rule banning trans women from competing in women's sports. I want to give a trigger warning: my opponent says offensive and hideous things about transwomen. www.pbs.org/video/olympi...

Gray whales, once rare in San Francisco Bay, dying there at alarming rates

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

So excited by paper on Bonobo Gal Pals with Kirsty Graham is now out in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology! 🧪 #primatology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I am honored to have won a 2026 dissertation fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation @wennergrenorg.bsky.social!! Having an unwavering spirit of curiosity pays off! Project: "Navigating Malaysia's Fragmented Frontiers: Primates, Privatized Property, and the Post-Plantation Landscape"

The National Science Foundation has proposed eliminating the directorate that includes most of the federal funding for fieldwork and research in human origins. It's a sudden acceleration of a decades-long trend. I comment on what this means. www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

Woo-Hoo! First comprehensive assessment of the evidence for Pleistocene mobile containers! A biocultural perspective viewing container use and manufacture as a process of niche construction! Jennifer C. French, Somaye Khaksar, me & @marckissel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Read this. this is what the administration wants to happen. this is how they destroy science... www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

interested in questions of tech, labor, and worker futures? on April 10 in Princeton i'm hosting an outstanding lineup of panelists at "the future of (data) work," where speakers will discuss the ethnographic, archival, and participatory action research they've conducted with data + tech workers

"...centering the nuance that anthropologists require in evolutionary approaches and encouraging recognition by evolutionary scholars that the cultural resources they are modeling can be more complex yet tractable in an anthropological sense." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

2026 AAAs CfP: "Edge Ecologies: Surplus, Scarcity, and Environmental Governance in East Asia", abstract deadline is April 20th! If metabolic drift, scales of loss and proliferation, socio-ecological histories, and developmental authoritarian regimes speak to you, please consider submitting!

Well if it isn't a late Friday cover reveal!!! My book PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: The Science & Stories of How Pregnancies Really End, out August 25th. 🧪

In these important and urgent times, I'm honored to be part of @wennergrenorg.bsky.social and @americananthro.bsky.social's 2026 OpEd Project cohort. Looking forward to writing more on community-centered environmental justice, especially in the Global South! americananthro.org/news/aaa-sel...

I love this! The brilliant Holly Dunsworth is reviewing Sapiens, one page at a time, separating myth from fact… Let’s dive in! ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sapi...

The AAA is once again pleased to offer a huge congratulations to the 20 members selected for this year’s “Write to Change the World” OpEd Project! americananthro.org/news/aaa-sel...

given the IOC of late...reposting a few bits... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

👏🏼The Choctaw Nation has purchased a warehouse in Oklahoma that ICE was trying to buy and use as a detention center. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/choctaw-na...

La Roche-Cotard is a remarkable cave site used by Neanderthals before 51,000 years ago and then closed. Inside are enigmatic parallel lines, geometric patterns, and ochre dots. Outside, a strange stone resembling a human face was unearthed. www.johnhawks.net/p/looking-in...

Didn’t see the Oscars. Raving comments made me look on YouTube because I needed to see this for myself. What magnificence! Someday there’ll be sensible merit based decisions in these awards. Meanwhile, kudos to Misty Copeland, Michael B Jordan, Brian Coogler & their team. youtu.be/j3ae7BvTuC4?...

Thank you to organisers Anand Krishnan, Sanjay Sane and Anusha Shankar and everyone who joined us in India for our Workshop on 'Integrative Ecology in the Global South' biologists.com/workshops/ #BiologistsWorkshops

CALL FOR PITCHES / ContraSTS issue 02 / "fortunes" Fortunes are slippery, contentious things that shape how we choose, desire, imagine, and forge connections with worlds seen and unseen... Send us your thoughts on fortunes, sci/tech ( #STS ), & society! More info & submit: contrastsmag.net

Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For @criticasianstds.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on the contemporary frictions of dwelling, diaspora, and development politics. Unpacking a political dichotomy, I pay attention to how linguistic identities contend with different projects of modernity in Malaysia. doi.org/10.52698/BBJ...

Notes from the Field | Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social reflects on the "multiple, overlapping political terrains that shape the complex kinds of interlocutor access and social relationships" Asian/American anthropologists encounter in the field. criticalasianstudies.org/commentary/2...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Highly recommended read about the politicisation of science in the US and how this will help the resurgence of eugenic ideology and scientific racism. “For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations” www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

Gentle reminder that John Odling-Smee, who is now in his 90s (!) published his big update on #NicheConstruction last year. It's open access and can be downloaded here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon... ( #pleasecite )

More on the non-binary animal world. www.prosocial.world/posts/lets-t...

This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪 “… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”

Just out "Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes" with @johnhawks.net @marckissel.bsky.social Penny Spikins, Jennifer French and me. Open access in Journal of Archaeological Science... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm honored to be organizing and presenting at our roundtable entitled "Asian/American Hauntings: Ghosts in/as Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.

The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read

Join us: Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Dialectics meets the enactive approach! Join us for Dialectics and the Embodied Mind 📍 Univ. of Luxembourg | Sept 22–23 dialecticalsystems.eu/events/inter...

Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi. "the detailed reviews (both rounds) and comprehensive author response are commendable and consequential parts of the scientific record of this study." Please do read. This is truly fascinating science elifesciences.org/articles/89106

For the first time, I'm teaching an introductory workshop on ethnography for scientists. Anthropologists and STS scholars, what short readings and group activities do you recommend? Thank you for your ideas! #Anthropology #STS #ethnography

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Read the piece and then go below to keep up with efforts to defend People’s Park: linktr.ee/Peoplespark

Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists. We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here: crimethinc.com/Rosebud

Five travel awards for scholars from low & middle income countries are available for this years ASAA/NZ #anthropology Conference in Whāingaroa, Raglan! www.asaanz.org/conference Priority will be given to applicants from #Oceania and #SoutheastAsia