“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/...

Plus +60 people killed in past 2 days... It feels overwhelming. But you can help individuals directly. @alaaalassar2.bsky.social 's is one family who've been injured, separated from each other, but are doing their best each day for their children (✏️ by a friend) www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ev...

“This report lays bare that Gaza is one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child...Alongside the levelling of hospitals, schools and homes, a trail of psychological destruction has caused wounds unseen but no less destructive on children who hold no responsibility for this war.”

It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom granted 19 Thanksgiving eve pardons, including one to a Pulitzer Prize finalist who produced the popular “Ear Hustle” podcast while imprisoned at San Quentin."

The coolest postdoc I know is now accepting applications: 🧪🔬THE WITTIG POSTDOC IN FEMINIST BIOLOGY🧪🔬 Our interdisciplinary program @ UW Madison seeks to train the next generation of feminist scientists/scholars of science Please share widely and read more here: crgw.gws.wisc.edu/scholarships...

www.science.org/content/arti... #science #academicsky #blacksky

Thrilled to share that you can now pre-order my book!! As Sophie Lewis put it: “Get It Out engages a completely ordinary yet conspicuously neglected practice of everyday healthcare, and demands that an overdue womb-reckoning take place.” www.amazon.com/Get-Out-Poli...

'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', by Kevin Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman and Scott Gilbert, is now available @princetonupress.bsky.social Find our more at www.evolutionevolving.org #evolution #evodevo #philsci

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Dr. Alan Goodman is delivering the Biological Anthropology Section Distinguished Lecture! “Anti-racist science is a rejection of the conflation of social race and human bio-genetic variation” #AAA2024Tampa

Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genes, culture, and scientific racism: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... "We summarize how genetic data refute the notion of racial substructure for human populations and address naive interpretations of race across the biological sciences... that help to perpetuate racist ideas"

"A GCC perspective can refute reductionist and determinist claims while providing a more inclusive multidisciplinary framework in which to interpret human variation." A new article that is a must read from Kevin Lala and Marcus Feldman www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join us if you are in Tampa this week!!! #AAATampa

"results highlight the importance of going beyond the nuclear family towards the impact of the wider family network when examining children's socio-emotional development" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I fundamentally disagree w/ the idea that science is “apolitical.” Any critical thinker can see that what we call “science” is inherently invested with power, that the history of science is highly political, and that its benefits & risks are not distributed equally. It is important to be honest here

The Council on Anthropology & Reproduction (CAR) is raising money for the Tampa Bay Abortion Fund (TBAF)! Get some cool merch--100% of the proceeds go to TBAF! www.bonfire.com/store/counci...

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro #AnthroSky #Anthropology It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added. [Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.] go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh