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

I'm honored to announce my ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia will be funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute's Emslie Horniman Scholarship. Thank you @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and my dissertation committee for their kindness and intellectually generous support!

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One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. Speak up and push back. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Call for Pitches: As a contributing editor for @castac.bsky.social, I'm interested in Scientific paradigms 📚- How do fields such as veterinary medicine and ecology impact the ways we interact with animals and the environment? Urban ecologies 🌿 - How do animals retool urban infrastructure?

Happy New Year from Platypus! Check out our first post of 2025 to meet our team, including new and continuing Contributing Editors. Also, learn how to get in touch if you're interested in publishing on the blog. All the information at: blog.castac.org/2025/01/plat...

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/ www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

It's me, a person who does scientific research on and with humans - federally funded research no less! - telling you that if you define sex as about gamete size or chromosomes but collect data on it using baby genitals (aka assigned sex) as your measured variable, definition /= measurement.

Great essay "Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care" by @dialecticprimates.bsky.social www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...

For Anthropology News, I wrote on human encounters with free-ranging monkeys in Malaysia. Language, not in the abstract, but enacted and embodied through intimate encounters plays a part in sometimes pushing for or deterring the notion of care. Read here: www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...

A few years ago, @kevinlala.bsky.social & I put out a #nicheconstruction resource site stocked w/ beautiful examples, explanations, readings, glossary. The amazing @designscience.bsky.social just relaunched the site w/ an impressive new design! www.nicheconstruction.com #evobio #philbio #evolution

Sharing the CFP for our #4S2025 open panel on “retooling.” Come think with us about the relationship between sociotechnical change and continuity. Submission deadline is Jan 31! Organized by @aballes2.bsky.social Christy Spackman and myself. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler's Warning

"A family is a network of individuals tied to each other by blood, marriage, adoption or fostering and comes in many forms and sizes". yes. great overview!!! another terrific piece from @abbeyepage.bsky.social and @anushehassan osf.io/preprints/so...

I believe that one great movie can change the world. FROM GROUND ZERO is that movie. You are that audience. GO SEE IT. Witness the Palestinian people for who they are: taxi drivers & mothers, toddlers & teachers, comedians & artist — finding ways to survive... www.michaelmoore.com/p/from-the-r...

Biology is far more interesting than simple categories and being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture. “Sex is a Spectrum: the biological limits of the binary” @princetonupress.bsky.social publishing May 6th! Preorder princeton.press/0r0zpeq1

✴️ Archipelagos (AES spring conference) ✴️ MIT, Cambridge, MA March 20–22, 2025 How can archipelagos & “archipelagic thinking” help us grapple w/pressing global challenges across cultures, geographies, climates, disciplines, & methodologies? More info here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/meetings/spr...

⭐ CFP: Instruments of Obligation ⭐ Grad Student Conference, Princeton University (Apr 2025) Abstract submissions due Jan 12 2025! obligations.anthropology.princeton.edu

Call for Papers: Princeton University Anthropology will be hosting the “Instruments of Obligation” conference in April 2025! Abstract submissions due January 12, 2025. Open to all graduate students in all disciplines! For more information, please visit: obligations.anthropology.princeton.edu

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

Dear anthropologists, 🏺 Do you love any books by anthropologists (all subfields) that get at origins, myths, or/and the concept of human nature? I'm putting together an all-field syllabus and would love to have a huge pile of books to wade through as I do.

Time for my regular gripe about how “traditional” gender ideologies are not really traditional at all 👆 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

“We argue that societies do not experience universal, unidirectional progress toward nontraditional gender attitudes. The distribution of global attitudes toward horizontal and vertical gender differentiation displays uneven patterns across nations” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great piece by SE Asian archaeologists challenging us to think beyond the Three Age system and unlinear Eurocentric models of the past: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...