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A fantastic new issue of Phil Trans on animal culture and conservation is just out. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

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#GreatAdaptations Soon our only unique attribute will be scale of harm that we can do to the planet.

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Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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#GreatAdapations Curiosity + Data = Knowledge Flamingos Make Underwater Vortexes to Suck Up Prey www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

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#GreatAdaptations An excellent paper for Mother's Day. Chimpanzees are really very good moms.

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40 years on, this statement still resonates. The bitter theoretical conflicts persist, but the breadth of vision persists.

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Impassioned defence of four-field anthropology from the closing paragraph of Blurton-Jones' 1982 paper 'Unity and Disunity in the Study of Human Behaviour'.

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Happy to share the news that Rob Boyd was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He's not on social media, but I am happy to pass along messages.

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#GreatAdaptations Tradeoffs in action Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...

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Michael Crow, ASU President, and Marcia McNutt, NAS president, talk about why SCIENCE MATTERS to all of us. issues.org/interview-mc...

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STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. Every grant cancelled is an attack on all of us. Every fellowship terminated is an attack on all of our students. Every program killed is an attack on all of our programs.

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#WithoutNSF the next generation of scientists is at risk. #NSF supports graduate training & research. This includes my current student @marioapata.bsky.social who is studying ancient population history in N. Chile & how they adapted to high arsenic levels in H2O www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4P6...

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GreatAdaptations: Female bonobos team up to boss males around. One more awesome piece of data to add to the enduring mystery of why bonobos and chimps are so different. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Who will stand up for science? National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

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#GreatAdaptations Which of Darwin's hostile forces shape zebra sociality? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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#GreatAdaptations But do they make toasts? Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Totally endorse defending your dissertation in appropriate style.

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Standing up for all of us: Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump is ‘of Momentous Significance’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Bonobo Sanctuary, Lola Ya Bonobo, is flooded. Financial help is needed to help them restore their facilities and keep the bonobos safe.

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The evidence speaks for itself: Vaccines save lives www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Cutting off the pipeline of young scientists is a great way to destroy American scientific capacity. Hard to imagine a more short-sighted policy (at least until I see tomorrow's headlines)

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Science is being starved...

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I support the Smithsonian's statement on race which is based on compelling scientific evidence

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#GreatAdaptations Surely, this qualifies for the hashtag. And they do it with no movable limbs underwater.

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#GreatAdaptations Who do chimps ape?

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Yohannes Haile Selassie, Director the the Institute for Human Origins makes a powerful statement for inclusivity in the study of human origins www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00695-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202503&sap-outbound-id=F5E8493EC49A5A7A599C4A9CA2D5898F57CCC092

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#GreatAdaptations As someone who spends a lot of time looking for lost possessions, this tracks: www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

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A problem for Monday: writing my first letter of recommendation since the BigDisruption to academic life as we know it. Before, I would have said, "In addition to their academic research, X is a strong advocate for women in science and an active mentor for a diverse lab." Do I still say this?

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It is so much easier to break something than to build it. The impact of disrupting critical research at NIH (and other federal agencies) will last for decades. ‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

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My new retirement goal: petting senior penguins. At a Penguin ‘Retirement Home,’ a Slower Pace and Plenty of Fish www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/s...

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#GreatAdaptations The evolution of guacamole. Humans Have Been Perfecting Avocados for 7,500 Years www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/s...

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Doing science is becoming an act of resistance. Let's do more of it.

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These octopuses inject their lovers with one of the world’s deadliest toxins | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Vaccines work. The expanded vaccine program saved 154 million lives since 1974, 95% of these in children younger than 5 years www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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These octopuses inject their lovers with one of the world’s deadliest toxins | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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#GreatAdaptations It’s just self-defense. These octopuses inject their lovers with one of the world’s deadliest toxins | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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The other shoe drops.

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