Dr. Angie Achorn
@angachorn.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Primatologist. Assistant Professor @ UTRGV 🤠✌🏼 PhD from Texas A&M (2022). Fulbright (🇮🇩) alum. Books, sci-fi/fantasy, memes, & puns enthusiast 🏳️🌈✨ Views are my own.
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Dr. Angie Achorn
@angachorn.bsky.social
· Nov 14
First bluesky post! (No pressure). Hi, I’m Angie. I’m an anthropologist/primatologist. In the past, I’ve worked with captive lemurs, with wild crested macaques in Indonesia (briefly - thanks, COVID), and with savanna chimpanzee data (thanks, @jilldpruetz.bsky.social!).
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Did I spend about an hour making this title slide? Yes. Did it come at the cost of prepping the actual talk? It did. But.. was it all worth it in the end? No, no it wasn't.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Did I spend about an hour making this title slide? Yes. Did it come at the cost of prepping the actual talk? It did. But.. was it all worth it in the end? No, no it wasn't.
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Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
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Congrats to our coauthor Joseph Won (PhD Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center) on his 1st publication.
Curvature of the hand & foot proximal phalanges varies between two orangutan species consistent with differences in their substrate use (all trees vs. some ground use). 🧪
Curvature of the hand & foot proximal phalanges varies between two orangutan species consistent with differences in their substrate use (all trees vs. some ground use). 🧪
Pedal and Manual Proximal Phalangeal Curvatures Among Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus
Objectives Phalangeal curvature in hominoids correlates with locomotor behavior, with greater curvature associated with arboreality. Prior research using 2D geometric morphometrics (2DGM) demonstrat...
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December 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Congrats to our coauthor Joseph Won (PhD Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center) on his 1st publication.
Curvature of the hand & foot proximal phalanges varies between two orangutan species consistent with differences in their substrate use (all trees vs. some ground use). 🧪
Curvature of the hand & foot proximal phalanges varies between two orangutan species consistent with differences in their substrate use (all trees vs. some ground use). 🧪
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This World AIDS Day, the U.S. stepped back when it should have stepped up. People living with HIV deserve visibility, dignity, and commitment. We must not turn our backs on this fight. #WorldAIDSDay2025
www.forbes.com/sites/davewe...
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U.S., Trump administration won't commemorate World AIDS Day this year
The U.S. will not commemorate World AIDS Day this year. This action, along with recent federal funding cuts, could contribute to a resurgence of HIV/AIDS.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This World AIDS Day, the U.S. stepped back when it should have stepped up. People living with HIV deserve visibility, dignity, and commitment. We must not turn our backs on this fight. #WorldAIDSDay2025
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Today is World AIDS Day. We honor and recognize the hard-fought struggles and loss of all affected.
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
AIDS in One City: The San Francisco Story
Conceived in 1987 and supported early on by a grant from the National Archives, the archive at UCSF specializes in the history of AIDS in San Francisco, where many early cases were discovered and key ...
www.neh.gov
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today is World AIDS Day. We honor and recognize the hard-fought struggles and loss of all affected.
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
“AIDS is a global phenomenon, its ravages known everywhere.“
www.neh.gov/article/aids...
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I forgot to share that our paper came out a few months ago! We synthesise decades of research showing that conspicuous traits consistently predict attractiveness, condition, and fitness across animals. Check it out if you’re into sexual selection and signalling! doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Synthesis of Nature's Extravaganza: An Augmented Meta‐Meta‐Analysis on (Putative) Sexual Signals
Conspicuous traits like bright colours and elaborate displays are widely thought to evolve through sexual selection, but evidence has been scattered. This meta-meta-analysis of 41 studies across 375 ...
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I forgot to share that our paper came out a few months ago! We synthesise decades of research showing that conspicuous traits consistently predict attractiveness, condition, and fitness across animals. Check it out if you’re into sexual selection and signalling! doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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📢 Our new article entitled “With or without you: common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, personality expression is mediated by social setting” has just come out *open access* in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! ✨ 🥰🥳🐒 @asab.org
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A thread. 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A thread. 😊
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📢 Our new article entitled “With or without you: common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, personality expression is mediated by social setting” has just come out *open access* in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! ✨ 🥰🥳🐒 @asab.org
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A thread. 😊
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A thread. 😊
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🧠 Highlights from the A&D Special Issue: Advancing Dementia Care and Caregiving Science in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias 🧠
Explore more than 40 unique articles in this Alzheimer’s & Dementia Special issue!
Full Collection: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Explore more than 40 unique articles in this Alzheimer’s & Dementia Special issue!
Full Collection: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Advancing Dementia Care and Caregiving Science in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD): Alzheimer's & Dementia
Click on the title to browse this issue
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November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🧠 Highlights from the A&D Special Issue: Advancing Dementia Care and Caregiving Science in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias 🧠
Explore more than 40 unique articles in this Alzheimer’s & Dementia Special issue!
Full Collection: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Explore more than 40 unique articles in this Alzheimer’s & Dementia Special issue!
Full Collection: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Congrats @codyprang.bsky.social et al.! Burtele foot !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda - Nature
3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Congrats @codyprang.bsky.social et al.! Burtele foot !!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is a remarkable open access resource for genomic work on living great apes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - A curated dataset of great ape genome diversity
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is a remarkable open access resource for genomic work on living great apes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science 👩🔬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! 📚
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:25 AM
After many years of trying to combine my 2 passions, art 🎨 and science 👩🔬, into something meaningful, i have created an educational #ChildrensBook! 📚
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
✨ Meet The Rimba🦧, a gentle, lyrical tale about a wise orangutan guardian spirit who protects her rainforest home and the creatures who depend on it.
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Awesome new hominin fossils from Ethiopia 3.5 million years ago, by Yohannes Haile-Selassie & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The new juvenile hip bone 😍 (left in image) has a long ischium like other juvenile Australopithecus (center) and unlike later humans like Homo naledi (right)
The new juvenile hip bone 😍 (left in image) has a long ischium like other juvenile Australopithecus (center) and unlike later humans like Homo naledi (right)
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Awesome new hominin fossils from Ethiopia 3.5 million years ago, by Yohannes Haile-Selassie & co www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The new juvenile hip bone 😍 (left in image) has a long ischium like other juvenile Australopithecus (center) and unlike later humans like Homo naledi (right)
The new juvenile hip bone 😍 (left in image) has a long ischium like other juvenile Australopithecus (center) and unlike later humans like Homo naledi (right)
Some hairless guinea pig photos for your feed ❤️
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some hairless guinea pig photos for your feed ❤️
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The 3.4 million-year-old Burtele foot from Ethiopia had a grasping big toe & more flexible midfoot than seen in contemporaneous Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy's species). This suggested a mystery lineage parallel to A. afarensis. Now we might know who that foot belonged to. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda - Nature
3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The 3.4 million-year-old Burtele foot from Ethiopia had a grasping big toe & more flexible midfoot than seen in contemporaneous Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy's species). This suggested a mystery lineage parallel to A. afarensis. Now we might know who that foot belonged to. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
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Super proud of this fabulous team for challenging old comparative frameworks and rethinking what makes language language.
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Super proud of this fabulous team for challenging old comparative frameworks and rethinking what makes language language.
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Read more in the thread below 👇 or here 📖😊: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Do Africa’s Mass Animal Migrations Extend Into Deep Time?
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Do Africa’s Mass Animal Migrations Extend Into Deep Time?
Isotopes in fossil teeth suggest ancient animals traveled less—making researchers rethink past human societies and future conservation.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Do Africa’s Mass Animal Migrations Extend Into Deep Time?
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
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In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In this study, Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for allowing orangutans to acquire varied diets.
Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn
New research from the Egyptian Dementia Network (EDN) in A&D! Check out the first national dementia registry in Africa and the Arab world. EDN aims to be a platform for multi-omics and exposome research in resource-limited settings #AlzResearch
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Egyptian Dementia Network (EDN): Baseline characteristics from the first dementia registry in an African Arab country
Overview of the Egyptian Dementia Network (EDN) registry highlighting multiple centers’ inclusion, cohort demographics, dementia diagnosis, and interventions.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New research from the Egyptian Dementia Network (EDN) in A&D! Check out the first national dementia registry in Africa and the Arab world. EDN aims to be a platform for multi-omics and exposome research in resource-limited settings #AlzResearch
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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“The voices that matter most – trans young people, their families, the clinicians who work with them and trans health experts in Aotearoa – have been clear: access to puberty blockers is crucial.”
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent
The government’s ban on puberty blockers undermines clinical expertise and targets trans youth with a policy that lacks evidence, consistency and fairness.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
“The voices that matter most – trans young people, their families, the clinicians who work with them and trans health experts in Aotearoa – have been clear: access to puberty blockers is crucial.”
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
Young trans people need access to transition healthcare. We must listen to them, not to transphobes.
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Morphological variation in the manual distal phalanges of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in relation to tool-use behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Morphological variation in the manual distal phalanges of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in relation to tool-use behavior
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Morphological variation in the manual distal phalanges of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in relation to tool-use behavior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A poet and aspiring anthropologist in Indonesia reflects on the values reflected in rice cultivation in a traditional village in Southern Banten, West Java, Indonesia.
Read the full poem: www.sapiens.org/culture/padi...
Read the full poem: www.sapiens.org/culture/padi...
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A poet and aspiring anthropologist in Indonesia reflects on the values reflected in rice cultivation in a traditional village in Southern Banten, West Java, Indonesia.
Read the full poem: www.sapiens.org/culture/padi...
Read the full poem: www.sapiens.org/culture/padi...
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Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵