So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

this is really grim

On my way to the AAA travelling solo with my rambunctious 2 year old and have been helped by strangers on the Thameslink, the Elizabeth line, Heathrow and not that I have ever lost my faith in people but I really do feel it today.

Keep talking about Sudan.

Media are barely mentioning Sudan, where genocidal violence is accelerating. Yale researchers analyzing satellite data warn many of the 250K in El-Fasher may already have been killed-- there's no sign that they made it out. Link to the report: files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences 📣 📣 📣 Deadline: December 19, 2025 Check the form below 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Grateful to @resprofnews.bsky.social for doing a write-up of our call for action to incentivise the publication of negative results. Now looking for world-leading funders and institutions to show some leadership on this issue…

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society… ..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

488 arrests at a peaceful silent protest for "supporting a "proscribed organization." Despite all our problems, I'm glad to live under the protection of the U.S. constitution. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

📢 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:

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Join us! go.bsky.app/AByvxiY

When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪

Monday and Tuesday! Many open sessions and awesome participants. Please come and re-post to your networks!

Had a lovely time presenting to @femquant.bsky.social about how reflexivity in quantitative researcher may improve transparency and rigour. We talked about how open science frames "bias" as a problem to be stamped out, but feminist epistemological approaches offer a different (more nuanced) take

Who on here is going to the #AABA? I'm venturing out to Baltimore for my first big conference post baby now that my little one is weaned and walking and would love to reconnect 🫶

Chair’s Notes from Emory Admin: “Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding” Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall. Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.

At #anthro #altac folks: I'm looking to create a panel of 4-5 folks that I will make available to the public to discuss alt ac careers that make use of anthropology degrees. If you are interested in being a panelist, please let me know. A Tuesday in late April. TIA.

Long but very interesting read on the junk science behind DNA-based face prediction for forensic purposes. Parabon nanolabs is famous for solving hundreds of cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy and advancing the science behind the technique. But... theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...

Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!

Come on friends of Akash. Tell me about how his ethics, his moral compass. Tell me about the time his coding was so good, he was able to undermine Lex Luthor’s plan from within, how he wrote a codebase that collapsed an attempted coup. Tell me, please.

Are you a PhD student whose funding is in jeopardy because of recent executive actions, or a faculty member in a program dealing with these considerations? @mkhaw.bsky.social and I want to hear from you @chronicle.com. DM or email! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd

I'm hiring a postdoc to join my new lab at UTEP. It's very difficult to focus on science these days, but I am excited to support a junior scholar looking to grow their research program. A full job description is linked. Please circulate with junior colleagues looking for a postdoc position.

Penn State's Center for Black Digital Research is hiring a Data Scientist: www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...

Maybe niche, but if you received a PhD after January 2022, have one degree from National University of Ireland, and are looking for an anglophone university without fascist oversight/mass redundancy, here's a 2-year postdoc fellowship scheme for humanities/social sciences: www.nui.ie/awards/PostD...

There will be a protest on SUNDAY Feb. 2 at 3:00 p.m. outside the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the government's computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Spread the word to DC area folks!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Bravo Dr. Clancy! A clear and technical explanation of why the EO is not based in biology.

why does everyone have a teeny tiny mic that they hold in their little fingertips now?

Here's some folks very good at squirreling away info old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Pura mierda.

The way in which anti blackness is operating in through ICE in Puerto Rico. If you black you must me illegal. Fuck ICE!

All NSF panels have been cancelled until further notice.

If I could clone myself, I would apply for this and let my clone do my current job. Looks like a great chance and challenge for someone committed to the long game of institutional reform

Are any academic professional organizations doing any organizing? Instead of a million people flailing about individually, can we work together somehow?

And so it begins. Thumbs up to those who were pontificating just weeks ago about how we can work with these people.

Reading today: The Ted Cruz committee report targeting research that advances health/racial/environmental equity and justice funding to be cut from the NSF/NIH. An important read: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

Washington Post (and lots of redditors) reporting that the Trump admin has ordered CDC, NIH, FDA to pause all external communications, including avian flu updates and the MMWR. No updating of social media, websites permitted.

“Here, we—two early-career psychologists from Germany and India and one global health researcher from the UK who all conducted field work in LMICs—summarize key questions and concerns that we wish someone would have told us before conducting our research in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India”

Excited to share that the 2nd edition of my first book, Nighttime Breastfeeding: An American Cultural Dilemma, has been published with a new introduction & postscript. 🎉Anthropology provides unique insight into why negotiating breastfeeding & sleep remains a key concern in the US. bit.ly/4gBrE12

A dress, linen-cotton, covered in handmade lace. Dates from the 30's. Made by my grandmother. She made the lace from a spool of thread and a cushion covered in pins. When I got divorced, my mom gently asked me to remove all the lace grandma had made from my wedding dress and send it back.

Available to new homesteads soon!

I'm grateful to be embarking on a year of sabbatical! I'll be joining the team @taskforce.bsky.social Focus Area on Compassion and Ethics in Global Health to learn and support efforts to build a more equitable global health. I'll also be thinking about scalability of co-design codesign.emory.edu

Again, it seems like women are not "choosing" to delay parenthood whilst achieving higher financial/career outcomes, but that they cannot establish relationships that allow them to become mothers 👇👇 www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/lack...

“Our findings highlight that both self-report accuracy and selective participation are competing biases and sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"The estimated death toll in Gaza is more than 44,000 and a recent assessment by the UN Human Rights Office found that 44% of the fatalities it was able to verify were children." at least "17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied ...." (very likely higher) www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

To what extent will the millenial preoccupation with delaying aging be related to widening generational time? If first births are in the late thirties for both generations, that means first grandchildren when millenials are pushing 80.