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I finally remembered that noise cancelling headphones and white noise exist. My focus exists again.

My 4yo is obsessed with dinosaurs and now this is the only song I sing in my head youtu.be/EMCAAF4L2z0?...

☀️😎 And then, slowly... the sun goes dark! Dragon bones, mysterious carvings and simple math reveal ancient eclipses. How Ancient Humans Studied —And Predicted— Solar Eclipses 🏺🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Solar eclipses have captivated the human imagination over the past 200 years. See archival photos of what eclipse-gazing has looked like over the years. nyti.ms/3U73cfA

Women who encounter a high level of misogyny and sexual harassment during their doctoral studies are less likely to remain in academia after completing their PhDs, a Danish study has found #AcademicSky #EduSky

Association between body mass index and pelvic shape changes during development Changes in plasticity of the pelvic girdle from infancy to late adulthood in Homo sapiens 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Showed a significant association between BMI and pelvic shape.

So, once again, it turns out that giving poor people money helps them to become not/less poor. But I repeat myself. Again.

Lost in the conversation about the "merits" of "talented" men creeping on young women is how whatever contributions they have made to the medium is completely drowned by all the contributions their creeping has impeded. Women creeped on by their mentors/idols often just quit their dreams, betrayed.

It's been a sad year for foundational ape researchers - very sorry to hear about the death of Frans de Waal. Chimpanzee Politics was pretty mind-blowing to baby primatologist Erin.

sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!

Human-like enamel growth in Homo naledi onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Enamel growth of H.naledi is most similar to recent humans though comparative data are limited for most fossil hominin species. The high Retzius periodicity values do not follow expectations for a small-brained hominin

My unassisted, unmedicated birth + baby care cost $28,336.25. Luckily, I have fantastic insurance, but this is a good reminder that many people do not. A natural, physiological event should not require people to save and pay off for years due to mediocre insurance.

It’s time to start New Girl again for my postpartum entertainment. Bluesky needs GIFs.

The PhD Long Game! UK study finds "doctoral graduates will only start to benefit financially from their PhD more than 30 years after embarking on their studies." #PhDSky #AcademicSky Few quotes 🧵👉

If you’ve never heard of fetal ejection reflex, I highly recommend looking it up.

Please be sure to check you kid's candy this year. I just found another project I have no time for in a Reese's cup

The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore” TURNS OUT we fixed it???

Would anyone be interested in seeing Kane Brown with me in concert at the end of March in Pittsburgh? Idk how much of a bioanth/country crossover set there is

And how their cities allocate money to richer vs poorer area schools. B

It’s not primates, but he’s getting into digging fossils 🥰

So the next time I’m “feeling swamped” I’ll just say I’m “immersed in nature” and it will all be OK. Right?

Too much time reviewing papers is taken up by explaining statistics to authors. I'm by no means a statistical expert, but this is getting tedious.

I thought I had a decent understanding of nutrition and macros Gestations diabetes has proved me wrong I ate a kale salad and 2 gulab jamun (fried dough in sugar syrup) for lunch and somehow my blood sugar is under 90 But when I ate a protein-heavy no-sugar snack and it was >150 I got nothing

I spent years following people and important institutions/societies on the old place. It feels empty here, but I know it will grow