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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 · 1d

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 · 1d

thank you so much!! 🟨🙆‍♀️🟨

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

omg thank you so much, Robin 🥲

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 1d

thanks, Austin! 💛💜💛

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 1d

thanks so much, Marc!

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

thank you! 💛💜💛

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

@jnrutherford.bsky.social 😬 yikes

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 2d

If she has a baby in her placenta, she has bigger problems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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