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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17h

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 13h

Absolutely! True in most macrostomatan snakes, and especially true in vipers.

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🏳️‍🌈CloudyPetrel @macronecteshalli.bsky.social · 13h

Wait, do their mouths seriously go past their neck vertebrae that far!?!?

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 13h

I know you are curious about replacement teeth. Seven replacements on each side of the rhinoceros viper. Whoa!!

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 15h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 15h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 1d

yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want…

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so much!! 🟨🙆‍♀️🟨

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

omg thank you so much, Robin 🥲

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thanks, Austin! 💛💜💛

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thanks so much, Marc!

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thank you for reading, if you decide to check it out - I hope you enjoy it! 🟨🙆‍♀️🟨 #intersex #SexualPolymorphism

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

I certainly don't answer all those questions, but this was a first step in estimating skeletal morphological expression in #intersex individuals

publishing this study is so important to me bc I thought I might never be able to study intersex AND be supported by my colleagues in doing so

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

as an evolutionary bio & bioanthro, I've often wondered how my skeleton differs from typical M and F

my form of intersex, CAIS = my body doesn't use androgens. also, my gonads were removed just after my 1st bday - so I had NO sex hormones from age ~1-8 yr. how does that affect bone growth/dev? 🧪💀🦴

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀

I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thank you! 💛💜💛

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thank you also to other bioanthros & evolutionary bios studying sex & sex variation whose work informs this study, including @sexchrlab.bsky.social, @simonedsun.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social, @genderscilab.bsky.social, @dunsworth.bsky.social, & @zacharydubois.bsky.social

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thank you to all of the researchers whose previous work on #intersex was foundational to this study, including @birdlady.bsky.social, Judith Butler, @karkazis.bsky.social, @lzreis23.bsky.social, @georgianndavis.bsky.social, Morgan Holmes, @sharonpreves.bsky.social, & @amandaswarr.bsky.social

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

excited for this paper to be published in print soon, along w other papers from the "Queering Research" symposium @bioanth.org #AABA 2023 annual meeting in Reno! 🧪💀🦴🧬🐒🦧

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

to see supplementary figures (S1 - S10) depicting the traits & developmental processes associated with each form of #intersex, scroll down to Supporting Information! 🧪 💀

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀

I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so sorry - I hope that your family is okay and safe!

no one should have to go through a storm of the century TWICE in consecutive years 😞

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d

Another "storm of the century" is hitting Kotzebue, for the second year in a row. Last year's storm almost took out my dad's house. Woke up to videos of the flooding and it's already bad. They are expected to get another storm after this one passes.

www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...

Kotzebue has issued a mandatory evacuation order as flooding from coastal storm begins

Water could rise as much as 10 feet above the high tide line, according the National Weather Service

www.kotz.org

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

@jnrutherford.bsky.social 😬 yikes