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Scientific racism is a blight on science & isn’t going to go away if scientists ignore it. So I’ve teamed up w/ Magdalena Hurtado, @drsarahmyers.bsky.social & @abbeyepage.bsky.social to highlight & counter this problem by editing a special collection of Evolutionary Human Sciences. Please share CfP👇

EHS special collection on scientific racismwww.cambridge.org Evolutionary Human Sciences special collection on scientific racism

Author guidelines for reporting sex-based and gender-based analyses and reporting on race and ethnicity @TheLancet This is how change happens. www.thelancet.com/pb-assets/La...

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super excited for new article from multinational/multidisciplinary collaboration and @theltmproject in @ScienceAdvances "A model for the noninvasive, habitat-inclusive estimation of upper limit abundance for synanthropes, exemplified by M. fascicularis" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A model for the noninvasive, habitat-inclusive estimation of upper limit abundance for synanthropes, exemplified by M. fasciculariswww.science.org A flexible model estimates the upper limit of animal population sizes by accounting for habitat diversity and species’ behavior.

Anthropology Now, Volume 15, Issue 2-3 @AnthroNow Just dropped. Check it out!!! www.tandfonline.com/toc/uann20/1...

Anthropology Nowwww.tandfonline.com All journal articles featured in Anthropology Now vol 15 issue 2-3

Just dropped: "Exploring Environmental Violence Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement" @CambridgeCore with Richard "Drew" Marcantonio, John Paul Lederach, a terrific group of contributors, and me. Will be open access in June!!! www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Exploring Environmental Violencewww.cambridge.org Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Exploring Environmental Violence

Calvin Keys played his last encore and exited the stage. An amazing musician, incredible friend, and the definition of cool. He left us with more than 50 years of magic sounds...listen to them. Here is BK18 from Blue Keys to start you off... www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9RH...

Bk 18www.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesBk 18 · Calvin KeysBlue Keys℗ 2022 Wide Hive RecordsReleased on: 2022-08-19Producer: Gregory HoweMusic Publish...

Michelle Bezanson has left the building. We all owe Michelle so much. She was an amazing colleague, a wonderful teacher and mentor, and the most generous and caring friend anyone could have. Read her work, marvel at her art, listen to what she had to say, and try to be like her.

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Hope everyone has been enjoying #2024MMM! @mammalssuck.bsky.social invited me to make an updated phylogeny poster of *every* life form that has ever competed in March Mammal Madness! Over 600 species have been in MMM so far. Can you find your favorite? keep.lib.asu.edu/items/191966 🧪

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👉 There is no such thing as value-free science. “Genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories.” Statements by scientific organizations can, and should, shape society 🧪 by Agustin Fuentes @anthrofuentes.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mi pequeño homenaje a Frans de Waal en @elpais_espana elpais.com/ciencia/2024...

Frans de Waal nos enseñó que todos “los primates somos familia” | Tribunaelpais.com La muerte del reconocido primatólogo debe llevarnos a leer su obra para que siga dando forma a nuestra forma de pensar y actuar

In a time when a multiplicity of political groups and forces seek to disempower science as a form of knowledge and eviscerate its ability to contribute to the development of more just and equitable societies, scientific organizations should be loud. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Statements by scientific organizations can, and should, shape societywww.science.org Statements based on the best current scientific data and analyses that bear directly on societal issues, especially ones that are critical to societal justice, equity, and health, are practical respon...

"Sex contextualism in laboratory research"..."sex is not in and of itself a causal mechanism..." really amazing article from @ProfessorManey @MiriamMiyagi Sarah Richardson and colleagues READ THIS! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sex contextualism in laboratory research: Enhancing rigor and precision in the study of sex-related variableswww.sciencedirect.com Understanding sex-related variation in health and illness requires rigorous and precise approaches to revealing underlying mechanisms. A first step is…

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woooo it's live! very excited to share this piece in Cell, where we lay out how transphobia is deeply intertwined with other forms of oppression, how it shapes the way we frame research, and what other scientists + institutions can do to support trans scientists:

Rigorous science demands support of transgender scientistswww.cell.com To build a just, equitable, and diverse academy, scientists and institutions must address systemic barriers that sex and gender minorities face. This Commentary summarizes (1) critical context informi...

"We journal editors concur broadly with the consensus study recommendations that population descriptors such as race, ethnicity, and geographic origin should no longer be used as proxies for genetic ancestry groups in genomic science." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Guidance on Race, Ethnicity, and Origin as Proxies for Genetic Ancestry in Biomedical Publicationjamanetwork.com In March 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a consensus study report titled Using Population Descriptors in Ge

Paredro Podcast - charla sobre La Chispa Creativa, y del arte y la cultura en nuestra evolución. bit.ly/ParedroFuentes

T10 E8 Agustín Fuentes, "La chispa creativa. Cómo la imaginación nos hizo humanos"bit.ly Listen to this episode from Paredro Podcast on Spotify. Hoy volvemos con un capítulo en el que traemos otros campos de estudio para comprender más sobre la naturaleza del arte y la cultura en nuestra ...

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Want to read @kateclancy.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @cvansickle.bsky.social and Catherine Clune-Taylor's awesome article debunking the myth of binary sexes? Now's your chance! Today through March 8 you can read the entire Jan-Feb and March-April 2024 issues of AmSci for free!

Biology Is Not Binarywww.americanscientist.org How scientists define sex has evolved over the centuries, and the concept is still incredibly difficult to pin down.

"Follow the citations: Tracing pathways of “race as biology” assumptions in medical algorithms in eGFR and spirometry" --latest article from @UJEspinoza, Virginia Cobbs and me. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Follow the citations: Tracing pathways of “race as biology” assumptions in medical algorithms in eGFR and spirometrywww.sciencedirect.com Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the concept of 'race' as a biological unit continues to persist in various scientific disciplines, nota…

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Calling philosophers of science, STS scholars, and feminist biologists🚨We are hiring a postdoc! Come join us for 2 years to think about the wide ranging, wild world of sex operationalizations in the laboratory. Review begins Mar 18. www.genderscilab.org/blog/gsl-is-...

The GenderSci Lab is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow! — GenderSci Labwww.genderscilab.org We are recruiting for a 2-year postdoctoral associate for an NSF-funded project about operationalizations of sex in laboratory science! We especially welcome applications from philosophers of biolog...

"It should embrace Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock’s vision of the genome “as a highly sensitive organ of the cell” , with even the most fundamental elements of gene regulation not fixed and subject to both environmental and genetic influence" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The genomic case against genetic determinismjournals.plos.org This Perspective suggests that a deeper understanding of genotype by environment interactions at the molecular level could be a potent antidote to societal concerns of genetic determinism. Developing ...

As Anthropologists have been saying for decades, Diamond was wrong. "Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Corewww.cambridge.org Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis - Volume 6

"When describing sex/gender groups as uniform, or as composed of different types, biology textbooks are expressing essentialist views that are inconsistent with scientific reality" great policy forum @ScienceMagazine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sex and gender essentialism in textbookswww.science.org Several widely used high school biology texts depart from established science

More Than Ethics: Changing Approaches to Research in Human Biology -preprint of my forthcoming essay in @HumanBioJournal digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_prep...

More Than Ethics: Changing Approaches to Research in Human Biologydigitalcommons.wayne.edu Work in biological anthropology and human biology that engages with, extracts, manipulates, analyzes and disseminates biological data from and associated with people requires serious ethical investmen...

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New issue! Artist-biologist Caryn Babaian looks beyond double helix. @kateclancy.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @cvansickle.bsky.social & C. Clune-Taylor dismantle the myth that sex is binary. @whysharksmatter.bsky.social on tensions between sharks and anglers. www.amsci.org/magazine/iss...

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Ever been confused by scientists talking about sex? Our AmSci piece "Biology Is Not Binary" explains it all, à la Clarissa! Link (paywalled): www.americanscientist.org/article/biol... Shout-out to my awesome co-authors: @kateclancy.bsky.social, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, & Catherine Clune-Taylor

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Really proud of this one: me, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, @cvansickle.bsky.social & Catherine Clune-Taylor wrote a perspective piece for American Scientist on why sex isn't (and never was) binary. It's paywalled but if you are a Sigma Xi member/have a library card/email me you can read it. Why? 1/n

Biology Is Not Binarywww.americanscientist.org How scientists define sex has evolved over the centuries, and the concept is still incredibly difficult to pin down.

The sociopolitical in human genetics education www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The sociopolitical in human genetics educationwww.science.org Education must go beyond only countering essentialist and deterministic views of genetics

"Univariate, binary sex is insufficient for explaining sex diversity in nature..Measuring sex at multiple biological levels using diverse organisms is critical." great article from @prolactingrl and colleagues www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sex diversity in the 21st century: Concepts, frameworks, and approaches for the future of neuroendocrinologywww.sciencedirect.com Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex …

Bisexuality is complicated and GWAS don't tell us that much. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-b...

Is Bisexuality Genetic? It's More Complex Than Some Studies Implywww.scientificamerican.com The controversy over a recent paper on human bisexual behavior emphasizes how important it is not to overinterpret genetic studies of sexuality—and how easy it is to do so

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Pretty clear that it was a racist hit job. But here's one of the smoking guns. #blacksky #blackinstem #histsci www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journalwww.theguardian.com Christopher Rufo recommends a newsletter to his readers that has published several supporters of discredited genetics theory

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#primates

🧪🐒 Why monkeys attack people - a primate expert explains (theconversation.com/why-monkeys-attack-people-a-primate-expert-explains-221547)

Why monkeys attack people - a primate expert explainstheconversation.com Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.