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Biological Anthropology | Evolutionary Medicine & Public Health | Binghamton U (SUNY) | she/her | Dr/Prof/Mom
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The chaos for sure is the point.

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

How does iron nutrition affect risk for COVID-19? 🧪 Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

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

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

A stuffie Salmonella seemed like a cute conversation starter for my lab office but now somehow I’m arguing with the 11 yo about whether gonorrhea is an appropriate Christmas present

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95

submitted 98 days ago • 84 comments

For bio anthros interested in the immune system of milk, here is our latest: doi.org/10.1002/ajhb... Maternal age and previous pregnancies seem to be the primary predictors of in vitro milk responses to bacteria.

submitted 348 days ago • 2 comments

Just returned from the 2023 Stakeholders’ Meeting for the Child Health and Development in Kilimanjaro project’s iron deficiency research, funded by NSF Bio Anth. We discussed initial findings, plans for disseminating results, and future research directions. SO happy to see everyone again!

submitted 439 days ago • 0 comments

Cambridge is glad to remind everyone that this edited volume, Human Behavioral Ecology, will be available in February. While summarizing the state of the field, it also looks ahead to rising cohorts of early-career behavioral ecologists and the insights that await. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

submitted 502 days ago • 1 comment

Female academics less likely to win prizes, even when the award is named after a woman. Analysis: 9,000 awardees & 346 scientific prizes, medals published in Nature Human Behaviour, found men win 8 prizes for every 1 won by a woman. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (it isn't) phys.org/news/2023-11...

submitted 459 days ago • 2 comments

My baby is out: #NSF DCL requesting conferences and supplements to support access and engagement in fundamental #disabledinSTEM research. Apply and spared the word! nsf.gov/pubs/2023/ns...

submitted 513 days ago • 0 comments

Please share. We're looking for a Cultural Anthropologist with a specialty in Native North America at UMass Boston. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...

submitted 488 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s the thing This kind of threat only has to happen a few times to have a chilling effect on all academic lecturing. With this in your head, how do you NOT think: “Anything dangerous in my lecture?” as you write/deliver it? Threats of violence can be as effective—even MORE—than real violence.

submitted 487 days ago • 2 comments

Anybody else using their sabbatical cross “jury duty” off of your to-do list? 😒

submitted 488 days ago • 0 comments

Searching for a new colleague! Please help spread the word. Assistant Professor, Biological Anthropology, University of Alberta www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

submitted 490 days ago • 1 comment

“The grim statistics are there for all to see — and yet the political establishment has largely skirted the issue.” This story is scary and heartbreaking, but completely unsurprising www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...

submitted 508 days ago • 0 comments