Adam Van Arsdale

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Biological anthropologist (Pleistocene human evolution), Professor @Wellesley College, dad, outdoor-lover, sport enthusiast

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Lynn's "national IQ" dataset is egregiously flawed; he never described methods for its construction & there is evidence the dataset is systematically biased. Journals should retract papers which have used the data, yet are reluctant to do so, as our @statnews.bsky.social piece describes👇

Richard Lynn’s racist national IQ data sets and papers that use them should be retracted. New piece in Stat News from @dsamorod.bsky.social, @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, @jedidiahcarlson.com, James Lingford, @rebeccasear.bsky.social, Cathryn Townsend, and me

Journals that published Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles should retract themwww.statnews.com Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.

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I've said this so many times but coverage of the protests really underscores it: A lot of political reporting is just bad travel writing, nothing more. Feigning interest in a group or culture, only to write a story based on existing biases and stereotypes.

once again, this is a skill issue

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In fond tribute to the insight of ⭐Dr Michelle Bezanson "The terms are offensive if they result in erasing Indigenous voices and history..." News and Perspectives: Words matter in primatology 🏺🧪 Michelle Bezanson et al link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Cool new item in Science about the symposium @evoroseman.bsky.social and I organized at AABA. www.science.org/content/arti...

Anthropologists take up arms against ‘race science’www.science.org At their annual meeting, biological anthropologists began to build a playbook to thwart racist misuse of research

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Dominique Baker

In case you do not know about Bhagat Singh Thind, check out this very good episode of Throughline, NPR's historical show, that explains how the US created political and legal boundaries on whiteness www.npr.org/2023/02/08/1...

The Whiteness Myth : Throughlinewww.npr.org In 1923, an Indian American man named Bhagat Singh Thind argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that he was a white man and was therefore eligible to become a naturalized citizen. He based his claim on ...

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Behavioral thermoregulation in primates: A review of literature and future avenuesonlinelibrary.wiley.com American Journal of Primatology is a broad-scope primates journal publishing studies from all areas of the field, from behavioral ecology to molecular genetics.

"Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters" 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

PNASwww.pnas.org Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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3 great pieces on genetics education in the latest issue of Science: Curriculum to reduce racism: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Embracing the sociopolitics of genetics research & education: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Sex & gender essentialism in biology ed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪 Combinatoriality and Compositionality in Everyday Primate Skills link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Combinatoriality and Compositionality in Everyday Primate Skills - International Journal of Primatol...link.springer.com Human language, hominin tool production modes, and multimodal communications systems of primates and other animals are currently well-studied for how they display compositionality or combinatoriality....

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It's conference application season! We in the Rosenberg Lab recently assembled a list of conferences and I thought it could be helpful for other folks doing theoretical population biology. List is below -- feel free to add any we missed!

🧪 Evaluating the muscle attachment hypothesis for sagittal cresting in Gorilla and Pongo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪 "Ghosts of extinct apes: genomic insights into African hominid evolution" Robert Foley ?& @martamlahr.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New Neanderthal remains from Axlor cave (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula) 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Neanderthal remains from Axlor cave (Dima, Biscay, northern Iberian Peninsula)www.sciencedirect.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom

As someone who lives in WA state if you have "simple" taxes you can participate in the IRS Direct File pilot program this year. I don't qualify but this might reach a lot of people who genuinely can't afford tax software. www.irs.gov/about-irs/st...

Direct File | Internal Revenue Servicewww.irs.gov In 2024, we're launching a new pilot tax filing service called Direct File. If you're eligible and choose to participate, file your 2023 federal tax return online, for free, directly with IRS. It will...

Teaching a pure primate course this semester for the first time and I'm curious if anyone here has ever used www.bioanthtree.org for a primate academic phylogeny project before?

Academic Phylogeny of Biological Anthropologywww.bioanthtree.org Tracing the academic lineages of Biological Anthropology PhDs.

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I'm giving a (hybrid!) talk about my new project at Berkeley in March! 🏺♿ events.berkeley.edu/arf/event/23...

Disability Justice and Community Archaeology at a 20th Century Eugenic Institution in Western Massac...events.berkeley.edu This talk will take place in person at the ARF and on Zoom (you must have a Zoom account to attend). Register for online attendance here. Abst...

Biomechanics in anthropology 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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A lineage perspective on hominin taxonomy and evolution 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Inflation Reduction Act + 17 months My students at Wellesley College and I are tracking the growth of the domestic EV supply chain. 🔌💡 Here is our current post-I.R.A. tally for the US: 81 new projects $78.7B in planned investments 50,607 new jobs A short🧵 1/8

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Very sad news from @taichimpproject.bsky.social, with the passing of Christophe Boesch. His decades-long work with tool-using chimpanzees in west Africa shaped many of the ideas about how our own species came to be tool-users.

Walked past a garter snake basking in the sun here today. I live in Massachusetts. It’s the first half of January….😬

The look my dog gives me when I am processing receipts…

Whether it’s the last storm or the next one that the birds are responding to, it’s a busy morning at the feeder. Eight species and counting….

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The phylogenetic position of Homo habilis is central to debates over the origin and early evolution of the genus Homo. Dental morphology in Homo habilis and its implications for the evolution of early Homo 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

That time of the year where I lean hard into that extra one minute of daylight each day

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Randomized exposure to high school biology curriculum shows that moving curriculum beyond simple Mendelian treatments of genetics in ways that highlight the true patterns of human variation (e.g. Lewontin's famous results) & the multi-factorial basis of complex traits can reduce genetic essentialism

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This mornings neighborhood drama—a murder of crows trying to get in on a fresh hawk murder

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The morning paper, January 5, 2024:

Walked past a patch of skunk cabbages that seem confused by our continuing mild conditions…normally I look to them as an early harbinger of spring, not as a sign of our first real snow forecast

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Awesome job, Harvard, awesome job. Thanks to your cravenness, the anti-academic authoritarians are now issuing bounties. Did you think this would be the one time appeasement would pay off? I hope other schools find their spines, and fast.

Great. People with zero ethical standards are now setting bounties on academics.