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Biological Anthropology Boston U ‘25
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FYI: You might know me as any number of things, but one of the things I am is a YouTuber who has been running a yearly charity event since 2007. That’s going to become apparent on my bsky feed over the next four or five days. You can learn more about it at projectforawesome.com.

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Everywhere I look I see his face

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Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh

submitted 23 days ago • 69 comments

Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Its so interesting to see how differently the people who make these puzzles think compared to me, I thought for sure the green was blue, yellow was green, and blue was yellow Connections Puzzle #593 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

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In a new paper Matthews, Tabery, & @ent3c.bsky.social articulate a value-harm trade off framework to distinguish controversial from abhorrent science. Concluding: "genomic race science is not just controversial science but, rather, abhorrent science... because it is both valueless and harmful."

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 PhD project: 4-year PhD project on human reproduction, mating strategies and gender roles. Funding is via BBSRC EastBio (i.e. funding not attached to specific project). Please get in touch with me (UK/international). Deadline for nominated applicant: 17 Jan 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

submitted 58 days ago • 60 comments

In high school they called her little legs Lucy

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This article highlights why more “crazy motherfuckers”are likely going to kill more extremely wealthy, “heartless, motherfuckers.” Society has reached the tipping point on inequities. Especially those leaving the masses to suffer and die. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

submitted 67 days ago • 1307 comments

#zooarchaeology people, does this mandible belong to a mule deer fawn? Northern California

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I love when scientists throw shade in papers, “our own sample size of 11 would allow no better than 50% reliability; however, we are … not making confident claims for a new locomotor mode, from what we know to be [an] … unsatisfactory sample size.” It’s too good

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

If you haven’t, watch the movie También la Lluvia (2010)

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