Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

Neanderthal Cranio-Cervical Features: Morphological Integration and Functional Evaluation of Their Early Appearance

At a time when scientific institutions face growing political pressure, incoming NAS President Neil Shubin reaffirms a simple but essential principle: evidence-based scientific counsel matters most when it's hardest to uphold. Read more from him here: zurl.co/zVEQe

yes i know this is engagement bait but it's so fucking infuriating. "are the transes *too* visible??" is the shit that leads to people who were just daring to exist in public to lose their jobs, their housing, and sometimes even their lives. shame on you.

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

Hello Hello, If you have some downtime and want to read something excitingly odd, read on the enamel proteins of Homo naledi: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Working closely with Alberto, @clairekoenig.bsky.social, @ipatramanis.bsky.social, and the rest of our collaborators was just so wonderful.

Investigating ancient human DNA preservation on cave walls and in rock art🏺🧪 Alba Bossoms Mesa @elenaessel.bsky.social, @janetk.bsky.social, @matejahajdi.bsky.social et al www.nature.com/articles/s41... Shows traces of human mtDNA and nuclear DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years.

Nice comprehensive article in the Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/not-...

A unique and intriguing finding... Out of 20 individuals screened, analysis of the teeth from Homo naledi skeletons in the South African cave system found they were all female. Proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 Homo naledi individuals shows no male markers🏺🧪 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Like extremely well-paid - this is where all that money that is supposed to be used to hire actual humanities scholars at public universities to do actual peer-reviewed research and teach courses that aren't geared toward ideological indoctrination is going careers.historians.org/jobs/rss/223...

Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating arstechnica.com/science/2026...

First protein analysis of Homo naledi fossils finds no male markers & adds to the mystery of how these bones ended up deep underground. New study @cellpress.bsky.social by an intl. team led by @palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social & Enrico Cappellini. See: tinyurl.com/4efmxn7m & www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The first molecular evidence of Homo naledi from at least 20 individuals shows that none are male. I've taken a deep dive into how the paleoproteomics works, what it says about naledi relationships, and why this result is less surprising than it sounds. www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...

Best brief overview of the new H. naledi paper: key points and excellent framing from @johnhawks.net www.johnhawks.net/p/the-first-...

Let me know what you think | www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WOW!! over 27k actions taken to fight against the OMB proposal through the #StandUpforScience action portal. Americans are taking action across the country, because scientific funding decisions should be guided by the expertise & the evidence, not political appointees & political ideology. 🧵:

Nice summary of our recent paper on the brain of Homo naledi www.iflscience.com/homo-naledis...

Dr. Killgrove does an excellent job (IMO) of explaining the latest weird, unexpected results from Rising Star and H. Naledi research. Well worth a read! Also, not to humble brag, but I’ve had beers with two of the people quoted in the article (and the author too, IIRC)

This so much 👇

Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social

"We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting...we also have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump administration."

A travesty. Springer Nature offloads SciAm—the most storied science magazine in the US—onto a content mill consortium, LabX, during an almost certainly successful union vote. LabX now says it will lay off 15 people, over 1/3rd of the unit and 60% of the bargaining committee. Pure union busting.

This is painfully embarrassing.

this is awful

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

This might throw up some surprises 🦣🏺

excited about this one: using longitudinal movement data and dyadic models, we show that orangutan moms adjust their ranging patterns so their kids can play with age-mates independent of kinship, at personal costs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Ancient human DNA from the cave walls! 🤯 Wonderful new paper led by Alba Bossoms Mesa and a great team of people that made this work possible.

i'm at the death of american journalism. i'm at the death of american science. i'm at the combination deaths of american journalism and science.

I had a terrific conversation with the awesome @jenshahade.bsky.social for the Curiosity Entangled podcast--"What Chess Reveals About Gender, Intelligence, and Culture" check it out- www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H0...

This excellent piece is unfortunately relevant again, as another incel manifesto - claiming Western societies are "hypergamous hellscapes" - has emerged. Here an evolutionary psychologist is calling on his colleagues to do more to counter the misappropriation of their field in the manosphere

"What the report calls distortion is, in many cases, methodological diversity doing its normal work" www.chronicle.com/article/who-...

Basic science funding slashed to free up funds for ~6 labs to get up to $300 million apiece.

New paper where we explore social and environmental health correlates. We use a citizen science approach (Monkey Health Explorer on Zooniverse) to score ~2000 images of blood smears collected during annual health checks

I recently found a tick on my body and didn't know what to do. I went into journalist mode to find out. Here's what I learned about how to manage tick bites, with illustrations of the tick species that cause diseases in humans by Diogo Guerra and maps of where they occur by @jenchristiansen.com 🧪

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

tech capture of the NSF: “it allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.”

We are thrilled to be in Cleveland for the @evolmtg.bsky.social! Come say hi to us at Booth 7 and check out our latest evolution titles. Plus, we're giving away code EXH30 for 30% off (in the US & Canada), valid through July 15th! #EVOL2026 @sse-evolution.bsky.social @asn-amnat.bsky.social

It's #FathersDay! ‘"Nursing Fathers": A Humorous Commentary,’ The Sphere, April 1927. It depicts good king penguin and seahorse dads. The seahorse fry are being eaten by a jellyfish, though. Not sure what's humorous about that, but it's nice that male parenting in nature was celebrated in 1927! 🌈🐧🗃️

“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

In America, U.S.A., Princeton historian Eddie Glaude Jr. looks at the country through the lens of its previous anniversaries and centennials. "The divided soul of the nation is in full view," he says.

Given the growing evidence on cognitive offloading and skills erosion, this may be very prudent policy. And it will make for an informative social experiment, with much of the US serving as an counterexample

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

Next, same-sex sociosexual interactions in male narwhal! (18/n) 🧪🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth link.springer.com/article/10.1...

And third, a blog post on same-sex sociosexual behaviors in bottlenose dolphins! (19/n) 🧪🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk/diving-into-...

Shout out to every kid who had a copy of this and would just pour over the pages planning to read stuff with various aliens they found in it all excited. God this was such a formative book.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

We let Silicon Valley engage in mass human experimentation without having the ethical or social discussions of whether we should or should not do certain things. OpenAI forced everyone’s hand into the AI space despite significant warnings from some. And now we have to clean up at scale.