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It’s not goodbye, but see you later. 😭🥰🦷

This is what NativeBio is trying to fight. DNA is a business, estimated to be worh $172 billion/year by 2035. We live in a glut of information, including disinformation. The Genomics field already has a history of racism, power dynamics, data theft, surgical/chemical sterilization and murder.

Academics should really start thinking about whether it makes sense to continue operating in states where a girl can turn in a physics paper that just says, “Jesus never talked about atoms,” and you’ll be fired for giving her an appropriate grade.

Got an invite to review a manuscript yesterday (a U.S. holiday) and snarky email today that said invite is revoked because I hadn’t responded. 🫠🙄

"We conclude that adult individuals are composed of a mosaic spectrum of sex characteristics in their somatic tissues that should not be cumulated into a simple binary classification." elifesciences.org/articles/99602

Want to hear what’s going on in the Chew Lab? Come to my Innovate & Advance talk tomorrow! UIC College of Dentistry. dentistry.uic.edu/events/innov...

The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131

Want to support undergrad research & travel AND look adorbs? Check out our fundraising store for the LUC Department of Anthropology! (Just in time for the holidays!) www.bonfire.com/support-futu...

Oh how I will miss this Chew Crew pup! She heads back to Barcelona next week. 😭 Thankfully, Berta is still here! ❤️

Berta & I tried creating plangi today in Dr. Nichols’s museum class! Chew crew members Lily & Gavin carved pumpkins! 🎃 Happy Friday, y’all!

Channeling my Neolithic German ancestors today. (It’s actually quite relaxing.) 🌾

We got our Halloween on today! 🎃 👻 🧟‍♀️

Stop by our table today! 10/22! BE IN YOUR ANTHRO ERA!

JOB! Santa Clara Uni is hiring a Bio Anth! I visited their dept in Sept and they are an amazing group of scholars!! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Official Chew Lab pup Elna is hard at work distracting us with her cuteness. 11/10 good dog.

Check out what LUC’s Department of Anthropology is bringing to Spring semester, and be in your anthro era!

Loyola University Chicago is greatly saddened to confirm the death of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM. This is a tremendous loss of someone who touched the lives of so many people. We appreciate everyone’s thoughts & prayers during this difficult time. For more information: https://bit.ly/4o7eIUk

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

RIP Dr. Goodall. 😓 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Non‐Carious Cervical Lesions in Wild Primates: Implications for Understanding Toothpick Grooves and Abfraction Lesions - Towle - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tracking Molar Wear in Captive Baboons: Sex and Age Effects Using a Modified Scott Scoring System - Krueger - 2025 - American Journal of Biological Anthropology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@andreazupancich.bsky.social And so, we begin!

Elna runs on Dunkin’. 🐶☕️

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Let’s go Neolithic!

So much happening in the Chew Lab! A dear friend, Dr. Jacopo Cerasoni, is making us Neolithic millstones - stay tuned! And after 350,000 chews, this is what almonds did to the enamel surface - no abrasives required.

Walking around a rock quarry in ballet flats was not on my bingo card, but looks like we’re going to make some millstones!

So excited to have Fulbright Scholar Dr. Berta Morell Rovira in the Chew Lab this semester!

I want to know the physics involved with this situation. (On campus this morning.)

LUC takes away email access if you don’t do annual mandatory training. Sounds like a win-win (win) to me.

Visiting the dire wolves today at La Brea! 🐺

AMAZING new paper by my wonderful LUC ANTH colleague Dr. Hallett! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It was a very special day in the Chew Lab. Former student turned academic sister, Alex Peterson, was in town, & she helped out with Chewie! 🥳😃

Super proud of Chew Crew member Gavin, who gave his USRE presentation today! 🦷

This is a big deal! A game changer for Indian Country. Thank you to @nativenewsonline.bsky.social Online for reporting on it and thank you to @macfound.org for listeng to Tribal Leaders and Professionals in the creation of this new fund! nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

Making my pre-teen clean the lab. 😂

Chew Crew hard at work!

Can I put my cat in my paper acknowledgments? Just know, Kirby was helping me through this R&R when it comes out. 😂

Nothing like a random dust storm in Chicago to make you wonder if the apocalypse is near. (It was nothing compared to the one I was in in Egypt.)

Federal funds frozen? See below and please forward to anyone who might need this! www.evidenceforaction.org/funding/rapi...

Chewie is simulating what every American scientist is doing lately: bruxism.

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Benny, our official scientist pupper! (He’s apparently not pleased I’m interrupting his focus.)

#WithoutNSF I couldn’t be doing innovative, experimental work on tooth wear. Science helps our communities!

Almond microwear! (And a HV ♦️)