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Nothing says “I love you” to the working class like ending their health care coverage.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Folks have been talking about how unhinged their con law classes have been the past three weeks and I’m over here trying to figure out how to articulate the dismantling of our federal healthcare and disease control/prevention systems to graduate students in my class on infectious disease dynamics…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This new administration is making the US more and more vulnerable each and every day all to save a buck.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever vaccines you have been procrastinating to get, get them now.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

submitted 12 days ago • 569 comments

MAGA rn: Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!” Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 13 days ago • 3912 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 79 comments

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

submitted 15 days ago • 1200 comments

Not a bad day to start following state and local health departments on bluesky go.bsky.app/5RKapGo

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website. Pages removed include: - Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System - Social Vulnerability Index - Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

Anyone else more nervous than usual about flying to academic conferences given the recent history of Boeing crashes, changes to the TSA and FAA, and now the tragedy in DC? #academicsky

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

RFK Jr. wants to get rid of 600 employees at NIH "not doing their jobs." What does that even mean? It means the people working on infectious disease research, lifesaving drug development, and vaccine research.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Sometimes I just love "THE BERN"

submitted 25 days ago • 130 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 26 days ago • 1664 comments

Students deserve to learn in safe environments where they can make mistakes and learn from them. Not where if they don’t dodge a gunman they die. Not where ICE agents can come and snatch them away. Something needs to change. Now. #academicsky

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

My R1 university wasn’t able to reach a price agreement with Elsevier about maintaining access to peer-reviewed journals, so we lost access to 1,665 of them. #academicsky

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

On this day of national disgrace, I will limit myself to a single comment: I stand with the transgender community. ❤️

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments

If there is anything that I’ve learned from the temporary RedNote migration, it’s that billionaires and millionaires HAVE to pay their FAIR share of taxes if we are ever going to make meaningful progress towards equity beyond what we have managed to achieve within the last century. #tiktokrefugee

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Just so we are clear, the last TikTok video that I will probably ever watch was of a kindergarten teacher using M&Ms to explain that skin color doesn’t matter. That it is what’s on the inside that matters. But yes, clearly that was China trying to brainwash me. #tiktokrefugee

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

App banning is the new book burning

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I think the Founding Fathers of the United States of America would be proud of the pure pettiness underlying the mass migration to RedBook/RedNote. But also, as an anthropologist, I am living for the intercultural communication happening on that app right now.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth is attacking mainstream media right now. The Trump Administration is about to launch one of the most unprecedented attacks on our media. As an independent media source, I will never back down. Subscribe for free to my newsletter today: aaronparnas.substack.com

submitted 40 days ago • 33 comments

"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril" www.ft.com/content/63c3...

submitted 40 days ago • 10 comments

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

submitted 42 days ago • 302 comments

Not me blocking Elon Musk as fast as humanly possible after getting a notification that he started following me 🙄

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

apnews.com/live/matt-ga... Is this what the power of social critique looks like? 💁🏻‍♂️🦋

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

80 people now on the bioarch starter pack 🤩 great to see so many of us here! go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

I feel seen!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

submitted 97 days ago • 21 comments

newskies, some culture notes: don't be a jerk don't quote-skeet to dunk on ppl don't do stuff for clout / clicks don't argue with dinguses, just mute/block/report (this is NOT a nazi bar) amplify good folks cheer ppl on we're glad to cheer you & your work on you are not a brand be a human being

submitted 101 days ago • 37 comments

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

submitted 100 days ago • 236 comments

Hi there! I’m an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I model health and disease in archaeological populations and provide forensic anthropology consultation services. I anticipate that the bulk of my engagement will be with #academicsky

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

New research laboratory website is live. Check it out! humanhealthandskeletalbiologylab.sites.unlv.edu

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to announce that I will be joining the faculty at UNLV in July as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology! I will be directing research through the new Human Health and Skeletal Biology Lab focused on exploring health in marginalized groups through time.

submitted 325 days ago • 0 comments

New article out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 350 days ago • 0 comments

Big thanks to @dryaussy.bsky.social for giving a guest lecture on famine, climate change, and medieval plague in my Plagues and Peoples course. The students had a blast!!

submitted 387 days ago • 1 comment

Last week, the students in my course, Bodies of Evidence: The Science of CSI, completed their final activity, a mock crime scene recovery. They worked in teams to assess, document, and recover (plastic) human remains. I had a blast working with them this semester. Onto Forensic Anth in the spring!

submitted 440 days ago • 0 comments

Big thanks to Dr. Becca George for talking to my UTC students about dental anthropology and forensic science!

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments

Had a fantastic time at the Mountain, Swamp, and Beach Regional Forensic Anthropology Conference with my students last weekend. We heard several great talks about current research in forensic anthropology in the southeast!

submitted 495 days ago • 0 comments

My undergraduates had a blast in my class, Bodies of Evidence: The Science of CSI, this morning. Can you say arterial spurt?

submitted 520 days ago • 0 comments

Finally found a use for these postcards of old anatomical illustrations I got from the Getty Museum in LA last summer. Did you know that they have a collection of old medical illustrations from the 18th-19th centuries?? Excited to integrate these documents into my future teaching and research!

submitted 530 days ago • 0 comments

Hi there! I am a queer biological anthropologist and full-time lecturer at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga specializing in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology. I integrate skeletal and archival data to examine health among marginalized groups through time.

submitted 531 days ago • 0 comments