Doing away with the PPFP would be devastating for the UC. Important 🧵 please read 👇

Biological Anthropologists! The AABA (US) IDEAS Program is welcoming applications for BOTH Student Scholars and Faculty Scholars. The Faculty Scholar deadline is October 15th, and the Student Scholar deadline is October 31st. Please share this call widely! Flyers for each, below:

Links to the positions (please share widely!): psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

🧬 Join us for an EvoChat on "How we define cancer matters" Oct 1: 8am PST/11am EST/5pm CEST Speakers: Carlo Maley, Lucie Laplane, Joel Brown & Benjamin Spada discuss universal cancer definitions across species and their clinical applications. Zoom: ucsb.zoom.us/j/8313111375... All welcome! 🔬

My first Perspective piece was just published in Science! I discuss the new findings by @amandalea.bsky.social and colleagues showing adaptations to water stress in the Turkana, and the implications of past adaptations for future disease risk.

Apply! @bioanth.org #AABA2026

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

New Sausage of Science episode! Dr. Luisa María Rivera is a critical biocultural anthropologist whose work examines how social inequality, trauma, and structural violence shape reproductive and maternal–infant health. Listen Here: soundcloud.com/sausageofsci...

Faculty Opening | University of Minnesota – Twin Cities The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology (Paleoanthropology), starting Fall 2026. 🗓️ Priority deadline: Oct 17, 2025 www.hbes.com/biological-a...

I’m having a great time in Bolivia with @mgurven.bsky.social, Jon Stiglitz, and Tsimane anthropologists investing the connection between different aspects of #sleep and Alzheimer’s and Dementia risk as part of my #postdoctoral research

One month before SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER is released! A prelim copy just arrived. I’m in Bolivia but my son opened the shipment and it appears that he approves. Preorder now (30% discount code: PUP30): press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

🚨 Job Post: Assistant Professor in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Focus on Indigenous & local knowledge for social & environmental sustainability. www.hbes.com/assistant-pr...