📣 The deadline to submit proposals for Invited Symposia at #AABA2026 is tomorrow, August 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

Uh-oh, yet more evidence that sex and sex determination are, er, more complicated than many would have us believe. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hello instructors! As you prepare courses, please check out my publicly shared resources to see if any might be helpful: Creative Discovery Project: Accurate & Accessible Science Communication YouTube videos on human bio variation Datasets www.lesleahlusko.org/publicly-sha...

Wonderful science week @cenieh.bsky.social for the Tied2Teeth @erc.europa.eu project & @coleccionrp.bsky.social @erindunnscd.bsky.social came to #Burgos talk about her research into how teeth can tell us about risk for #Depression Ratón Pérez's collaborators got to meet the Science Tooth Fairy!

Looking for a 23 minute diversion? Take a listen to the fun conversation I had about teeth with @drtanyamsmith.bsky.social for the @cenieh.bsky.social podcast Sapiens Dialogues 🧪 go.ivoox.com/rf/151201863

A joy & honor to give a Distinguished Lecture at #IADR2025, sharing Tied2Teeth @etc.europa.eu research. Evolution provides a rich source of new ideas about biology. #Science 🧪 @erc.europa.eu Photo thanks: @nicholaslab.bsky.social

Fantastic #IADR2025 Distinguished Lecture by @hlusko.bsky.social So great to see some evolutionary biology represented!

Disabled people should be involved from the outset in developing digital tools and services that are fundamental to work, life and play to maximise the transformative benefits they can bring says our new report on #DisabilityTechnology, released today.

Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology. www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...

Fellow scientists, I have a question about authorship order. If you are the PI on the grant and the leader of the research group, who goes into the last/senior author position on a paper you took the lead on? Are you ever first author if you run the lab?

This NY Times story really hits home on how careful scientists need to be when hyping their research. Here’s a question I have long had for this de-extinction effort: Should we spend lots of time and money on genome-mixing or invest those resources in conservation of the animals still alive? 🧪

Let's pull apart the genetics behind this dire wolf clone story because the lack of transparency and accuracy displayed by Colossal Biosciences PR is going to do a lot of harm to public trust in genetics and genomics. A thread 🧵 time.com/7275439/scie...

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of listening to Sabina Leonelli's talk on "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair". If you missed it, the video is now available online! Check it out here:

I am excited to be the first speaker in AABA Argentina’s Primer Ciclo de Conferencias April 8 “Human adaptation to the Arctic: a mystery solved by teeth” This online series of *amazing* talks (incl @anthrofuentes.bsky.social) raises funds to support Argentinian science Don’t miss out!

Want to move to Spain? Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution? Looking for postdoc position? Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH??? Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025 www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

Kay Behrensmeyer is the 2025 recipient of the The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award. bioanth.org/about/the-ch... #AABA2025

Congratulations to the 2025 AABA Award Winners! This year we honor Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Dr. Lorena Madrigal, and Dr. Sang-Hee Lee. Thank you for your contributions to biological anthropology! #AABA2025

Donate to the AABA STUDENT AUCTION! The event will be held in Baltimore on Thursday March 13th from 3-7pm. All proceeds support student travel awards to the annual meeting. Help us reach our $13,000 goal this year by donating items big and small! bioanth.org/94th-annual-... #AABA2025

The American Journal of Biological Anthropology (AJBA), the official Journal of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, published by Wiley, seeks a new Editor-in-Chief. The submission deadline is March 31, 2025. bioanth.org/jobs/editor-...

Lorena Madrigal is the 2025 recipient of the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award. bioanth.org/about/the-ga... #AABA2025

Sang-Hee Lee is the 2025 recipient of the AABA and Leakey Foundation Communication & Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. bioanth.org/about/the-aa... #AABA2025

📣The AABA election for the positions of Treasurer, Membership Chair, and Professional Development Chair ends February 28! All Regular members are eligible to vote by logging into your member portal: www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/member/...

The Bio Anthro Section of the AAA is looking for graduate students to run for a position on our exec comm- It's a 2 year term.

Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution? Looking for postdoc position? Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH in lovely #Burgos Spain??? Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025 www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

Hot off the presses, my new paper: A macaque model for the effects of hybridisation on body size! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25062

Find out how phylogenetic proximity between parental taxa & time since admixture influence hybrid morphology. With Tim Weaver, David Katz, @hlusko.bsky.social, Becky Ackermann & Sree Kanthaswamy.

Super excited to see this #SciComm project out through @nagtgeo.bsky.social’s Teach the Earth! Developed by @hlusko.bsky.social with input from me and a great team, this project became a big part of my dissertation. Hope others will enjoy this project in their #STEM and #STEMEd classes!

Undergrad teachers! Looking for a new #SciComm project? I developed this for my human variation class at UC Berkeley in a bio dept. With @taorminalepore.bsky.social, it incorporates concepts from universal design & accessibility. I hope you find it useful! serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/a...

New paper with @tsengzj.bsky.social and @hlusko.bsky.social! We investigated the adaptive landscape of skeletal form & function in carnivorans and tested how trade-offs among skeletal regions contribute to adaptations & landscape topology. @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/iob/obaf001

📣 Early career researchers: Applications for the Cobb Professional Development Grant are due January 6! Apply now! bioanth.org/about/cobb-p...

Murmurations of birds near #DavisCA. I recorded for like 20 minutes. This is a selection of some of the best bits. It was stunning. Awe insirpingly stunning. #Birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvrv...

Interested in human evolution? Want to get a great Master's education, provided by two stellar teams? Apply now for Fall 2025 entry into the Joint MSc in Human Evolution, from the U of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores U - info below and here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Sending all my best wishes to everyone in the #tsunami zone in Northern California. OMG if it isn’t one thing it is another.

Best day ever as President of the AABA! We have 2 new funds to support community-oriented programs for the long term. This #GivingTuesdaycampaig, please donate! bioanth.org/donate/

As President of @bioanth.org, it has been such an honor and adventure to get these funds set up. As you think about #GivingTuesday2024, please donate and help us build the financial support for the longevity of AABA's community-oriented programs! 🧪

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrated here in Spain by streaming the Macy’s Day parade while eating homemade cinnamon rolls and video calling with family in the US. So much I am grateful for these days, and I love having this day to pause and think about it all.

"Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of the honour of an FRS is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone... who has immeasurable wealth & power which he will use to threaten scientists who disagree with him." I do hope the RS is engaging with this🧪 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hi. Everyone! Nice to see all the new colleagues here. As you look for accounts to follow, be sure add to your list @bioanth.org 🧪

A question for the Spanish speakers anthropologists: is 'restos humanos' a term you commonly use or are there other more terms you use that might be more ethical? thanks

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🧪Please come discuss funding priorities for @biologicalanth.bsky.social at #AABA2024! Saturday at 12.30pm here in Los Angeles ¡¡¡Voice your opinion!!!

🧪With Cat Taylor in the analytical lead, we just published on OH 89, a new 1.8Ma hominid clavicle from #OldupaiGorge. New method with #tSNE and you have a broad-shouldered individual clustering near KSD-VP-1/1, KNM-ER 1808, and OH 48 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Another gorgeous winter day in #Burgos, perfect for doing some ⁦‪@ERC_Research‬⁩ funded 🧪#Science! ⁦‪@CENIEH‬⁩

Love this equation. I have been operating on the assumption that I should review at least 2-3 more manuscripts and grants as I publish/submit each year. The problem is that I complete this count way too early in the year, and then feel guilty for too many months. The system is unsustainable…

Academia (the website) is looking out for my aging brain. I probably should re-read my past papers as I likely forgot a lot of what I have written before. 😂 At least the algorithm shows my interests have been consistent for a loooong time! 🧪

16 days into #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth & decided to share what #BreastCancer looks like. Scar from my skin-sparing mastectomy. Scar from the sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNL). My first tattoos: dots that mark position for the 25 radiation treatments that start on Wednesday. #ElRosaEsMásQueUnColor 🎀