"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." "That's correct."

Happy #NationalChocolateDay! 🍫 “A scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.” 🧪 – Claude Lévi-Strauss

Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15449

Look at all these “tools” that aren’t tools! Raymond Dart’s ostedontokeratic tool culture, on display at the Evolutionary Sciences Institute at Wits University. #paleoanthropology #archaeology

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

#Paleoanthroplogy #3Dscanning I am beyond pleased with my new Revopoint Pop 3 scanner. It’s even easier to use than their MINI2 that I bought previously! It’s rare that I can get new equipment to work as expected (or better) immediately, so this is a total success! Plus it’s so portable!

I wonder if ancient hominins ever felt self doubt or like they weren’t important. Little did they know that one day whole teams of scientists would dedicate years of research to understanding the fragments of the skeleton they left behind. #Paleoanthropology

Showing some work in progress at #ESHE2025 - Homo naledi inner ears, inside-out #FossilFriday (with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social Gideon Chinamatira and @johnhawks.net)

#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image! www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas... #BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis

Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this

I am this old.

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

My latest and last essay for @science.org expert voices: “This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion” a short 🧵 (link at end)

Excellent thread that everyone who thinks gender and sex are as simple as you learned in school should read before they ever offer up an opinion of any kind on trans or intersex people

TIL the clavicle isn't just another long bone #Anatomy #AnatomyEd #Embryology #MedEd #PaleoSky #Skeletal #Skeleton #Bones #Biology #Physiology #Histology #HumanAnatomy

I may study pelvic #anatomy for my research, but my favorite bone in the body is definitely the #clavicle (collarbone). It’s one of the first bones to ossify (become bone) before birth, yet it continues to grow with us all the way to adulthood, making it one of the last bones to finish ossifying.

I visited @dogearedbooksames.bsky.social today and bought @anthrofuentes.bsky.social’s new book, Sex is a Spectrum. Here I am having a dorky moment in the store after realizing I’m listed in the acknowledgments by an author whose work has informed my own ideas about sex and society. Thanks, Agustín!

I would like to attend this Ted talk

A really really really important thing for cis people to understand is that the emphasis on sexual dimorphism, aka the "binary gender model" in humans is, quite literally, white supremacist propaganda. A deeply important brief thread. 🧵 (1/10)

qualitative data is incredibly important and incredibly informative - check out @awutich.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social et al. for the many ways qualitative data is essential in biological anthropological studies!

New #OpenAccess article alert! @paleonicole.bsky.social led this first description of a partial right #Neandertal hipbone from El Sidrón, Spain that expands the range of morphological variation in Neandertals. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Paleoanthropology #TeamPelvis

It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...

For #FossilFriday an image of a 2 million year old #hominin humerus freed from the rock just today so you are among the first humans in the world to see it! Prepared by Zandile Ndaba or "Ma Zandi" the work on this skeleton has involved her for years. We owe her and our other preparators a great deal

We have been busy in the last two years since I joined @Natgeo full time the Rising Star project has grown to an on the ground staff of technicians, explorers, scientists and support staff of over 60 with over 160 collaborating scientists from 40 institutions worldwide. Tons of infrastructure to!

Gladysvale is a site led by Dr Keneiloe Molopyane. A mockup of the cave has been created & our technicians, scientists and explorers can sort breccia for specific types and colors that indicate sedimentary layers we are seeking. We sort those blocks and then preparators extract specific fossils.

A great global team is being assembled to prepare, record, study and analyze what will be perhaps the most complete, undistorted ancient hominin ever discovered. Watch this space! #sediba

Our revision of the Homo naledi burial paper is out. A massive amount of work by the whole team. Grateful to @elife.bsky.social and the reviewers for input; for a change (the oft dreaded) Reviewer 2 made my day. This is a huge paper (literally) & sets the evidential bar high. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Thoughtful, and important, musings from @johnhawks.bsky.social

Many people have been asking what the status of the Homo naledi engravings paper is. We were waiting for the burial paper to be reviewed before submitting and now the revised version has been submitted to eLife for review but you can read it here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

excellent timing for a new publication to come out in #AJBA! 🧪 proud to be a co-author on this! @awutich.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @cvansickle.bsky.social @awrgenes.bsky.social @ethnoprimate.bsky.social @jradovicfanta.bsky.social @kstsosie.bsky.social et al.!

Writing a LoR for a student's med school application? DON'T repeat their resume, the application covers that already. DON'T focus on their intellectual curiosity. I'm not sure I've ever met a student who isn't curious. Instead, think about info you can provide that the student can't. 1/2

Hey does anyone want to postdoc with me? :)

Trans people exist, have always existed, and will loved and valued, no matter what their government tells them. (Also, I’m a part of the government, and I’m here to tell you I love you + I won’t stop fighting for you no matter what!)

Because I keep seeing questions about when it’s ok to block someone on here: If an account makes you ask that, they are dodgy and disrupting your experience on this app. Block. Life is too short to give a random account the benefit of the doubt at the expense of your mental health.

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.

The Wittig Postdoc in Feminist Biology was one the best experiences in my career. I developed my teaching & research skills, while deepening my understanding of feminist epistemology. And I witnessed what a functional & inclusive dept looks like (rare in academia). crgw.gws.wisc.edu/scholarships...

Duh!

tl;dr New JHE Editorial Board are in charge of all pending manuscripts.

“We found that a single iron infusion in the third trimester can achieve what oral iron tablets taken every day during a pregnancy cannot.” #ReproSky #ObGynSky 🧪 medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01...

Fascinating stuff with excellent graphics explaining the danger. Link: www.hhs.gov/surgeongener...

I can relate – my own adventures in brewing included some nearly undrinkable experimental brews! It made me appreciate that people figured out beer making at all without modern equipment.

I keep thinking about how many institutional failures symptomatic of our society led to this doctor being able to cause such harm. This @propublica.org piece is long, wild, sad, terrifying, and definitely worth reading! #MedicalEthics #MedEthics

Also essential for #MedEd #Anatomy slides!

5+ authors I’ve read 5+ books by: NK Jemisin Naomi Novik Trudi Canavan Octavia Butler Ursula Le Guin Margaret Atwood

"I will submit copies to the committee as soon as I locate a library that still has the funds to subscribe to journals" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f...

#TeamPelvis #Anatomy #Paleoanthropology #Bioanth #OpenAccess My shortest article to date!

In 2023, I had a bad day in the Wits hominin fossil vault. I mistakenly thought a fossil I wanted to study had gone missing. A deep dive into old #anatomy texts revealed a clue to the seemingly missing StW 431 pubic body. #paleoanthroplogy hdl.handle.net/10539/40427

Are any #BioAnthsky / #Anthrosky folks writing about how the changing landscapes of #anthropology training, funding, & career paths will affect #BioAnth theory & knowledge production in the future? My Google scholar search isn’t going well. #Paleoanth #BioAnthropology

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.