Hopefully I'll start to post more often on here again 😅 but tonight's aurora show over my workplace was truly the best I've seen since moving to Iceland. I only caught the tail end of it with my camera, unfortunately.

The northern lights were amazing tonight over Reykjavík ❤️ Live video (not time-lapse) from around 19:45 this evening

Thanks to the Nordic Network for Human Remains in Collections for letting me talk about our current work at the University of Iceland!

What can human remains reveal about connection, identity, and community in Iceland? 🏺 🧪 🎙️ Biomedical anthropologist, Dr. Adam Netzer-Zimmer @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social, shares how overlooked human remains are unearthing Iceland’s multifaceted relationship with the dead. youtu.be/hmtd0vNI7aw

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Officially done with my PhD in biomedical anthropology! Shout-out to my PhD supervisor Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste for keeping me on track for over a decade at @umassamherst.bsky.social 🧪⚕️🤓

I've had a great couple days leading an educational tour for middle school students from the US around Reykjavík, the Golden Circle, Þórufoss, Hveradalir Geothermal Area, & the 2021 Reykjanes eruption site❤️ The pic is me talking about the history of Iceland's parliament at Þingvellir National Park.

Curieux de savoir comment archéologie et volcans se croisent en Islande? 🌋💀 Découvrez mon article pour SAPIENS à propos des recherches de Joe Walser sur les effets sur la santé des éruptions volcaniques, désormais traduit en français! 🧪 www.sapiens.org/fr/biology-f...

Are any other bioarchs heading to the AAAs in New Orleans this coming fall? I'm hoping to find a session to present my PhD work on the skeletal collection housed at the Uni of Iceland’s medical school

Women anthropologists, please apply!!! I did a Bibliometric analysis of the AJBA from 1918 to 2023. Recently, there was a more equal number of papers between women and men with the current editor Dr. Trudy Turner. Another woman anthropologist will hopefully continue the momentum

SAPIENS is a free digital magazine devoted to popularizing anthropological research and ideas for an international, general audience. Each March 1, the editorial team considers “pitches” from anthropologists about contributing to the magazine. buff.ly/3WDep8s

Lee mi artículo "Muerte lenta por volcán" 🌋🧪💀 sobre el envenenamiento por metales pesados en esqueletos islandeses aquí sapiens.org/es/biology-es/iceland-volcanoes-anthropology-hazards/

And if you're following because of Iceland’s recent volcanic eruptions 🌋 ... Check out this piece I wrote about how our skeletons can reveal the hidden dangers of volcanoes www.sapiens.org/biology/icel...

Wow, I was not expecting a sudden influx of followers! Welcome, all! If you're curious about my work, check out "A Story of Icelandic Skulls" that I produced through the SAPIENS science communication fellowship: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Museum/anatomy peeps - Does anyone have experience with conserving and/or restoring the hardware on an antique Beauchēne mount (an "exploded skull")?

CALL OUT 🏺 We'd be grateful to hear of any opportunities in New Mexico for Trans folks with paleobotanical expertise so they can relocate. Please email: [email protected]

Forgot to add: U Wisconsin’s Gender & Women’s Studies Dept. is accepting applications for their Wittig Postdoc in Feminist Biology, due Feb. 14. It’s been a minute (omg nearly a decade 😱) since I was in this role, but if my experience can answer any questions, let me know.

I'm very excited to check this new book out!

The dissertation is defended, the paperwork is filed, and my manuscript is formatted for @umasslibraries.bsky.social . There always seems to be another step in any PhD program, but (I think?) I'm now truly done!

BioAnth students - Are you interested in getting more involved in our national organizations? Run for the Biological Anthropology Section Student Seat of AAA! I've been our Student rep for 2 years now & it's been great learning the ins and outs and is great for networking! #AAA2024Tampa

An unpleasant side effect of the flare up of the “science isn’t political” discourse is folks recommending defenses of that position from harassy/assaulty science guys.

My BlueSky intro! My name is Adam and I'm a newly-minted anthropology PhD. I document the ancestral human remains acquired by medical schools and research institutions for anatomy courses, and research the histories of race-based science and medicine in 🇮🇸 and 🇺🇸