Katie Ranhorn
@kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
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Asst Professor ASU SHESC & Research Scientist IHO deep time social-technological systems in a digital world—Open Science & community-driven paleoanthro research 🪷🐶
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kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
New essay about our collaborative deep history work in Tanzania!

Thanks to @sapiens.org for inviting me to contribute & for editorial support

Fidelis Masao, Husna Mashaka, Sam Porter, & many more contribute to this work. Thanks @leakeyfoundation.org @asubeinghuman.bsky.social & @asuiho.bsky.social
sapiens.org
“To truly safeguard and understand human origins in this region, we need a new model—one grounded in collaboration, mutual respect, and shared stewardship.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
note about studying evolution (esp of human behavior):

Variation = differences in traits
Variability = how those differences arise

✨ Methods ✨
Variation: morphometrics, typologies, stats
Variability: experimental & developmental studies, behavioral observations, modeling
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
the way the 1-day slack outage has forced me to... call people (gasp)
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roceeh.bsky.social
💼Open position in the ROCEEH Project!
Join the team as Data Curator for Paleolithic Archaeology and help expand the ROAD database!
🔍Details: www.hadw-bw.de/aktuelles/au...
📅Deadline: 28.02.2025
The project "The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (interner Link)" (ROCEEH) is a research project of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences within the framework of the Academy Program of the German Federal and State Governments. It explores the changing interactions of cultural and ecological developments as well as spatiotemporal expansions in the course of human evolution between 3 million and 20,000 years ago in Africa and Eurasia. ROCEEH is projected to run until 2027.

The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is seeking for the project ROCEEH at the work place of the University of Tübingen starting on 01.05.2025 a
Data Curator (m/f/d) with a background in Palaeolithic Archaeology

(TV-L E13, 100% for two years)

Your tasks: 

    Data maintenance and quality control of the project's database ROAD
    Support of archaeological areas of the ROAD database, incl. compilation of relevant data on material culture (e.g. stone tools, organic artefacts etc.)
    Conceptual development of the database applications
    Input of literature and maintenance of literature data in ROAD
    Coordination of work on ROAD between the research centres in Tübingen and Frankfurt
    Technical supervision of students working on the ROCEEH project
    Participation in the preparation of specialist publications
    Presentation of the database at conferences, as part of training courses and in public relations work
    Involvement in university teaching is possible.

Your profile:

    A university degree with a doctorate in the field of material culture in Palaeolithic archaeology
    Experience in working with relational databases
    Experience with SQL and R programming is an advantage
    Experience in the completion of specialist publications
    Very good knowledge of written and spoken English, other language skills are an advantage
    Very good communication and teamwork skills

The position is limited to two years. Severely disabled applicants will be given …
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
quantum *community* paleoecology 😛
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
have archaeology chemistry samples but no funding yet to process them? Andrew Zipkin shares a new award where students can receive up to $3000 credit toward analytical chemistry lab work
socarchsci.org/awards/eag-l...
EAG Laboratories–SAS Student Pilot Research Award - Society for Archaeological Sciences
Society for Archaeological Sciences
socarchsci.org
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katharv.bsky.social
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Journal editors’ mass resignation marks ‘sad day for paleoanthropology’
Exodus from the Journal of Human Evolution leaves a flagship journal in crisis
www.science.org
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anatomyorg.bsky.social
Funded by our Innovations Grant, check out how
@chelachir.bsky.social is breaking barriers for students and teachers, making anatomy accessible, exciting, and impactful for communities that need it most! ow.ly/tvKj50UAKWa
#Anatomy25 #anatomy #science #research #education #AAA
Dr. Habiba Chirchir: Bringing Anatomy to Life for High School Students
Anatomy Now - January 8, 2025
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kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
what's one more form? "it's only one page" is the new "it's only wafer-thin!"
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
thank you! I'm co-creating a new course atm and these are very helpful!
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kevinhatala.bsky.social
Reminder: The deadline for AABA Pollitzer travel award applications is 1 week away (Jan 6). If you are a student traveling to the Annual Meeting in Baltimore, please apply!
bioanth.org
The William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award topic has been announced! This year we are increasing the amount of the award and the number of awards given. Students, submit your essay to apply for #AABA2025 travel awards! bioanth.org/about/willia...
William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award - AABA
The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. The awards are named in honor of […]
bioanth.org
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flintdibble.bsky.social
This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs

Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives

@cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
thanks to the leadership of the JHE EB - their decision to resign reflects what many of us have experienced over the years. Given these challenges, what advice to people have for ECRs to share their work? Resources for workflows appreciated! what's your favorite repository and why? #courseprep #TT
markgrabowski.bsky.social
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
kathrynranhorn.bsky.social
slowly coming back to academic socials after a 2+ year hiatus

*emerges from cocoon*

hello world!