It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Lecturing and stand-up comedy have some overlap in that sometimes you plan a joke and sometimes you come up with one on the spot that you know you'll be using over again for the next decade

This Homo naledi silhouette is sending me (Source: www.nature.com/articles/s42...)

muppetized book covers: thread

New faculty orientation: ✅ First selfie on campus: ✅ First V’s up photo with the Vaquero: ✅ So happy and honored to be starting as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UTRGV! 🤠🧡✌🏼

As someone also working on a book about trees and our relationship with nature, this delights me!

From the archive. An anthropologist goes back to see Sulawesi cave paintings he reported in Indonesia decades ago—and mourns their degradation and loss. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

This was a good idea for a study with cool results. I'm guessing the same doesn't explain dolphin brains. 🧪 #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #primates

Summer sale: $14.97 for my ebook www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Polloc... Ch2: social norms around sexuality, power and violence, and the role of social institutions Ch3: how this plays out in sex education curricular debates in TX public schools

Yeah let's use stronger words. Do say "Abolish ICE" Do say "Stop Republican Panty-Sniffers from Inspecting Kids' Genitals" Do say "No Weapons for Genocide" Do say "Big Bullshit Bill" Do say "Fuck A.i." Do say "Protect Trans Kids" Do say "Hands off our Immigrant Neighbors You Fascist Assholes"

How I feel after a 16-year-old referred to me as a “queer elder” (Kidding, I love it 😅🥹)

Don’t mind me - I’m just using all of my strength to overcome the temptation to wear this shirt on the first day of classes.

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've lived with in the past, showing the power of long-term relationships.

So happy that this paper lead by Joseph Mine is finally out! Was cool to be part of this project on the social learning of multi-modal communication in chimpanzees, which is slightly outside of my usual scope (and it’s my first co-authored paper too, yay!) :) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Move over chimps, it's the mountain gorillas' time to slide (carefully) into action as the true gesture gods they are! Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... 🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6

🔥New preprint from the lab! Led by @rileyirmen.bsky.social Tau pathology reprograms glucose metabolism to support glutamatergic activity and excitatory imbalance 📍 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666872v1 🧵 on how tau disrupts the metabolism–excitability balance in Alzheimer’s disease

Are you an anthropologist doing fieldwork? Take our survey and share YOUR opinion on how anthropologists interact with their environments! 🐒🌱✨💀 asu.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey... Videos courtesy of Sophia Kottke, Kayla Genord, and India Schneider-Crease

Foraging strategy and tree structure as drivers of arboreality and suspensory behaviour in savannah-dwelling chimpanzees www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

I’ve been following a modified pomodoro technique to prepare for the fall semester. Every time I finish one slide, I read my faerie book for 30 minutes. 10/10 would recommend 📖🧚🏻‍♀️

Now published! 📝✅📢 Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access). Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them! 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Our new article is out! We explored how early life social experiences and age affect social connectedness measures later in life for captive female olive baboons. Please feel free to message me if you have any questions / want to discuss anything 😊🐒 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)

The House GOP just passed Trump's scheme to cut millions of Americans' health insurance & food assistance—all to pay for billionaires' tax cuts. This bill will directly harm countless Americans and their families—that’s why every one of our members voted no.

Feeling profound sadness and anger for our nation. For the people who will suffer because of the greed of a few and the inability to stand up for our Constitution. It’s unclear we will make it to celebrate the 250th birthday of our nation. Enjoy this 4th.

Rethinking early hominin toolmaking through comparative primate models www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

I really do think this might be the worst Supreme Court of all time, which is saying something for an institution that coexisted with slavery These motherfuckers are even worse imo bc they are *also* out here using antebellum reasoning and pursuing antebellum goals but well post bellum!

Our new paper is out in #CurrentBiology! Here we show how wild #orangutans make up for their lost sleep using daytime naps. 😴🦧 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Primates #AcademicSky #Science #Anthropology #Biology

Looks like an interesting special issue on the evolution of cognition. Congrats to the editors. #psyscisky #ehbea 🧪

With Pride Month🏳️‍🌈 at its peak, it’s a good time to revisit this powerful piece by Kamran & Jennings (2023): fieldwork must be made inclusive and safe by recognising differences, rethinking planning, protocols, and hearing LGBTQ+ voices. Safety is inclusion. #PrideInSTEM 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

I love seeing my friends and community talked about! Great article.

📢New Publication Alert 📢 I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published: “Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Patricia Wright discusses discovering new lemur species and the latest subfossil finds from Madagascar, including clues to ancient ecosystems and early human presence:

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT NOW

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

Nothin but the facts

immigrants belong in our community. ICE doesn't.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

“I was hungry” and you cut SNAP. “I was thirsty” and you cut funding to ensure clean water. “I was sick” and you cut medicaid. “I was a stranger” and you deported me. “I was in prison” and you just left me there to rot. “Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus

😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/

Impeach him for treason. Impeach him for disregarding judicial orders. Impeach him corruption. Impeach him for dismantling agencies that he had no right to dismantle. Impeach him for conflict of interest. Remove him with the 25th for senility. Remove him for insanity. DO SOMETHING!!

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🚨Our study on mutual gaze and facial mimicry in rhesus macaques and their possible link to joint commitment is out!! :) doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Not my image but a friend sent me a picture of this shirt from Long Beach Pride and I want it so badly 🤣🏳️‍🌈