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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 8d

Links to the positions (please share widely!):

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Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 8d

I'm co-chairing the reproductive ecology search, and for either search, I'm happy to answer questions about our department, Penn State, and living in PA. We look forward to reading your applications!

#highered #jobopportunity #jobopening #tenuretrack #anthropology #archaeology #anthropologyjobs

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 8d

We're located in State College, PA, a happy medium between city and country. You can live downtown and bike to restaurants and festivals, or live in the countryside with land and quiet -- and either way you're within 15 minutes of campus 💯

The Matson Museum of Anthropology - looking through the window at glass cases with pottery, textiles, and casts of hominin skulls

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 8d

Penn State is serious about interdisciplinarity. It's baked into performance reviews, stimulated by seed grants, and central to our research institutes -- they're the extra glue that bring and hold us together 🤝

The lobby in the Welch Building, with blue and green chairs and museum display cases

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 8d

Penn State Anthropology is an integrative anthropology program, and we mean it. We do lots of team science with real-world applications -- in a fancy new building! -- and we like to get things done 🔥

The sign for the Department of Anthropology, on a wooden wall

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 25d

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Sep 7

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students

Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

www.forbes.com

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jul 9

'“Reporting of bird banding from hunters is one of the best citizen science programs that is out there,” said Brad Bortner' - and is slated for a funding cut of 90%:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

Trump’s Budget Would Clip Bird Banding. Hunters Are Not Happy.

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 20

What if I told you that your friendships could help protect your local fisheries? In my op-ed in the Scranton Times-Tribune, I talk about how federal funding can support stewardship of US waterways - and how much taxpayers will lose from proposed cuts, including smart stewardship *and* $10bn a year.

Credit: Jon Flobrant. Underneath a blue sky studded with clouds, a river courses through a rocky gorge. From the rocky banks grow evergreens and cottonwoods. In the foreground, the river crosses some rapids before turning left in the distance

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 20

Read my op-ed here: www.thetimes-tribune.com/2025/06/13/f...

See the post that inspired it here: bsky.app/profile/anne...

and #SaveNSF!!

@pennstateuniv.bsky.social @psuanthro.bsky.social

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 20

What if I told you that your friendships could help protect your local fisheries? In my op-ed in the Scranton Times-Tribune, I talk about how federal funding can support stewardship of US waterways - and how much taxpayers will lose from proposed cuts, including smart stewardship *and* $10bn a year.

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

📢 On Friday, the NIH pulled funding for 10 centers monitoring infectious diseases around the globe -- diseases highly likely to cause the next pandemic (1). Let's look at just one of these diseases: Rift Valley Fever, monitored by my collaborators at WSU Global Health Kenya. 🧵

Researchers doing infectious disease surveillance in rural Kenyan communities that work closely with animals, including cattle, sheep, goats, and camels. It is common for infectious diseases to spill over from animals to humans and then spread via human-to-human transmission around the globe -- this happens with flu all the time. Image courtesy of WSU Global Health Kenya.

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

Sources:
(1) www.science.org/content/arti...
(2) www.cdc.gov/rift-valley-...
(3) www.science.org/content/arti...
(4) creid-network.org/research-cen...

Shout-outs:
@wsuvetmed.bsky.social
@wsunews.bsky.social
@pennstateuniv.bsky.social
@psuliberalarts.bsky.social
@science.org

NIH terminates network aimed at stopping pandemics before they start

Agency calls research to identify viral threats “unsafe”

www.science.org

Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

▶️ If you're able, show up and #standupforscience: www.standupforscience.net/take-action

Take Action — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

▶️ Call and write your representatives -- see here for script and tips: scilight.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

A Guide to Contacting Your Legislative Representatives

Take action to protect public health research!

scilight.substack.com

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

▶️ Sign the open letter supporting the Bethesda Declaration, calling on NIH to stop putting our health at risk by defunding research: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NIH Staff Now!

www.standupforscience.net

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

💡Our hands aren't tied, though: we *can* take action to support funding for infectious disease surveillance -- because if we don't know what's out there and if it's spreading, we won't be ready to stop it. Here's how you can take action right now to #SaveNIH:

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

When we cut funding to infectious disease research in one fell swoop, we lose all that boots-on-the-ground surveillance and work on therapies.

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

Kariuki Njenga, PI of CREID East & Central Africa, says, "We are also studying immune responses of Ebola survivors in Uganda to identity possible immunological components that can be used in the future for prevention or direct therapy. These are studies that cannot be conducted in the United States"

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

🔎 In Kenya, Uganda & the DRC, my collaborators were tracking Rift symptoms in hard-to-reach communities, testing for asymptomatic disease that could signal outbreaks & identifying precautionary behaviors people were already using - behaviors researchers can promote to reduce human transmission (4).

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

Gain of function research is part of the lab leak theory for COVID-19 and has been a focus of the Trump administration (3). 👀 But CREID centers don't *do* gain of function research -- instead, they're doing the monitoring and legwork to prevent the next pandemic.

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Jun 10

📨 Letters from the NIH to the 10 Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases told them to stop work now, suggesting their research is unsafe. Some speculate that this is a reference to gain of function research, on mutations that can lead to or accelerate human-to-human transmission (1).

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