We’re at the PREMIERE of “A Century after Nanook!” A documentary film by our own Dr. Kirk French!

What does US tax money (via #NSF research grants) pay for? Example: I employ 3-5 UG researcher in my lab w/NSF $$. - They quit jobs in retail, - Spend more time in scientific spaces, - Gain confidence, - GPAs rise, - They graduate and join the workforce, ... and we get competent geoscientists. 🧪

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Hard to overstate how bad the Musk administration is going to be for American agriculture.

Michael Roth is one of the few university president who actually gets the urgency of the moment. slate.com/life/2025/02...

On February 17, we hope to see the largest peaceful protest event in American history. We want Donald Trump and his supporters in Congress to know that the American people will not surrender to fascism. Share this widely. Take your friends. Show up for your nation. #NotMyPresidentDay

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

I feel so fortunate to be part of this ongoing #NSF funded work in collaboration with the Martu community. #Solanum #TEK #ozplants #iamabotanist

🚨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.

The Hollywood Reporter asked for 700 words for a special section on the fires they have just published. Something looking at the fire itself.So I repurposed some sentences on 'fire as biology' and gave the notion a long leash. Alas, the title is *not* mine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...

"The people shepherding livestock across the continent's great open grasslands have been widely seen as the enemies of its charismatic wild mammals — to be fenced out of protected areas and policed by armed rangers. But that image is outdated..." @yalee360.bsky.social. e360.yale.edu/features/afr...

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...

New open publication in @annualreviews.bsky.social on "Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science" by anth faculty member @iainmckechnie.bsky.social & co-author Anne Salomon #historicalecology www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🚨🏺🍑 Nature Ecology & Evolution (@natureecoevo.bsky.social) chose our work tracking the spread of peaches through Indigenous networks as one of ten ecology papers published in 2024 to be included in their Year in Review set! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Original: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper coauthored by Dr. Sagan Friant and colleagues in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B!! “Towards a ‘people and nature’ paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease” royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I'm realizing a lot of you probably aren't familiar with March Mammal Madness so here's what it's all about. You fill out your bracket of animal 'battles'. Then each battle will be narrated live by scientists here on Bsky in the most absurd and nerdy way possible. libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

In just one month our Science article on Indigenizing Conservation Strategies in the Amazon has reached nearly 10,000 downloads! 🌱📖 #IndigenousKnowledge #AmazonConservation #EnviroAnthro

Gender roles have always been complex and flexible; time to retire for good the idea of “traditional” gender roles www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Anthropological Research in Science Education (ARISE) at Penn State is a summer institute in integrated anthropological sciences for historically underrepresented and underserved undergraduate students from the United States. APPLY NOW!

Terrific review by Eva Jablonka of @kevinlala.bsky.social and colleagues new book Evolution Evolving!!!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 15 #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 Day 3 #BookSky #BookChallenge

read the article and check out the table in the supplementary materials for actionable goals and possibilities...

🎉Publication day! The third edition of my book 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social is now available! Paperback and eBook formats (Kindle etc): global.oup.com/academic/pro... #evolsky #philsci #philbio #PsychSciSky #HPbio #EHBEA🧪🏺

Brilliant paper demonstrating that dingoes represent a unique canid lineage that contrary to popular belief is not hybridized with dogs. Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic... 🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky

Interesting idea. I'm uncomfortable with this because of the implicit opposition of "anthro" and "bio". Humans are parts of biomes, are agents that change and shape biomes. Yet it's undeniable that new patterns are emerging that humans have influenced more than past biomes.

The term “modern humans” really did originate in the late 19th century at a time when biologists and anthropologists took seriously the idea of end-directed evolutionary process. johnhawks.net/weblog/there...

“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS 2024 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sustainability requires collective action. The bigger the thing to be sustained, the more people have to work together. We find having friends in different communities predicts more participation in resource management: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... 🧵 on why & implications /1

A couple of colleagues suggested I organize my scattered comments of this year's fires in the Northeast into a short (!) narrative. History News Network has graciously published it: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-...

🚨 Applications are OPEN for our Anthropological Research in Science Education program! ARISE is a summer institute in integrated anthropological sciences for historically underrepresented and underserved undergraduate students from the United States. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4z86aucv

The Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy is working to bring back herds of plains bison (aka buffalo). Besides being amazing in their own right, buffalo are walking ecosystems and ecosystem engineers. Their presence would reinvigorate the grasslands. 🦬 🧪🌎 thenarwhal.ca/blackfoot-gu...

Published last year by myself and @isazooarch.bsky.social. Would love to see more use of network graphs to think about ecological data from the archaeological record! “A network approach to zooarchaeological datasets and human-centered ecosystems in southwestern Florida” 🔗 tinyurl.com/mf2xp6x2

Next up at #ESAus2024 we have the Indigenous Keynote: Joe Morrisson, from Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation. www.100climateconversations.com/joe-morrison Joe is reflecting on how Indigenous leadership can help meet #NaturePositive goals, in particular through the Caring For Country movement.

The narrowing academic career path for women - POSTER! This seems to have struck a chord with #WomenInStem, and we've even had a few requests for a poster-sized version so here it is: zenodo.org/records/1424... From our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @janethering.bsky.social

My new book A Natural History of Empty Lots is released today. I hope you like it—it distills 20 years of exploring the edgelands, working on rewilding projects, and trying to understand what such places teach us about our lives, history and future: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chris...

A PERFECT example of how science has ALWAYS been political: “This was [a time] of colonialism, and you had all of these assumptions about what variation meant amongst humans and what it meant for potentially taking over other cultures and extracting resources from them.”

“a culture of aggressive egalitarianism may have thwarted the emergence of enduring wealth inequality until the Late Neolithic, when new farming technologies raised the value of material wealth relative to labor” www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🚨 New paper out in Population and Development Review by Dr Mary Shenk and colleagues! “Intensive Kinship, Development, and Demography: Why Pakistan has the Highest Rates of Cousin Marriage in the World.” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper by Drs. @parnajarlpa.bsky.social, @dwbird.bsky.social, and colleagues in Nature Communciations! “Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia” 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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In Alaska 8-12kya, people had mutualistic and predatory interactions with a wide range of canids: pet wolves, pet coyotes, pet dogs descended from wolves, wolves and coyotes feeding on human refuse, people eating wolves. Very cool work on the messy ecology of domestication.

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We humans are more helpful than you might currently be thinking. @leahshaffer.bsky.social wrote about our work looking at need-based helping across societies as part of The Human Generosity Project in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a...

We extended an agent-based model from Aktipis et al., & similarly found that in interdependent groups, as long as some (but not all) requests for help involved genuine need, always sharing was individually beneficial, but stinginess was individually detrimental: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to write an effective journal peer review using a staged writing approach: a best-practice guide for early-career researchers academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

I'm so excited about our (>60 contributors) forthcoming edited volume! A Field Guide to Doing Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning journeys through history, theory, fieldwork near or far, and policy, with loads of personal stories in between. tinyurl.com/mvxxus55

Great Abandonment? Nature Needs People 🌍 www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...