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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho

@vcampanacho.bsky.social

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Bioanthropologist interested in osteology, paleopathology, history of anthropology, ethics, curation practices, and women in science. Feminist and setting my own path in science. She/her

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 15d

My webinar talk about digital ethics on the display of human ancestors on Youtube for the BeFRAIL webinar series is now live on my Youtube channel BioantTalks #ethics #bioanthropology #anthropology
youtu.be/Ne0YC1x6QwQ

Exploring Digital Ethics and Public Opinion on the Display of Human Ancestors on YouTube

YouTube video by BioantTalks

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18h

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

Just wrapped a great conversation with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social. Watch tonight at 9pm on @cnn.com.

Zohran and Kaitlan Collins on set at CNN sitting next to each other and smiling.

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Siân Halcrow @ancientchildren.bsky.social · 1d

The Invisible Evidence of Birth: Evaluating the Relationship Between Pelvic Shape and Parity with a Pelvic Pattern Index www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

The Invisible Evidence of Birth: Evaluating the Relationship Between Pelvic Shape and Parity with a Pelvic Pattern Index

It is well known that parity indirectly and directly affects the human skeleton through biomechanical strain during pregnancy, birth, lactation, and sexual steroid hormone expression. Pelvic features ...

www.researchsquare.com

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 23h

Yes!

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 1d

She makes a good summary of the dark enlightenment technobros wants to bring to society worldwide youtu.be/MXt993TvBtU?...

This is the hope I didn’t know I needed.

YouTube video by things your mom should’ve told you

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

A large new study confirms: Age and gender biases are deeply baked into what we see online

It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce

Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.

www.motherjones.com

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 1d

As a woman who was once a girl, I can say with 100% security that "mommy skills" are not innate in girls! These stupid stereotypes hurt girls and society

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 2d

Dude posted this saying his daughter will be his "second mom" thinking this is a positive message about little girls. 😒

pregnant woman asks her husband: "What are you expecting, a boy or a girl?" "

The husband replies: "If it's a boy, I'll teach him math, we'll work out together, teach him how to fish, etc." "

The woman, laughing, asks: "What if it's a girl?" "

The husband smiles and says, "If it's a girl, I won't have to teach her anything." She will teach me everything: how to dress, how to eat, what to say and what not to say. Very soon, she'll become like a second mom to me, and even without doing anything special, she'll always consider me as her hero. She'll understand when I tell her no and she'll still compare her future husband to me. No matter how old she gets, she will always want me to treat her like my little princess. She'll fight for me against the world, and if anyone hurts me, she'll never forgive them. "

The woman, a little intrigued, asks: "You mean your daughter would do all this, but not your son?" "

The husband says, "No, no! My son could do this too, but he will have to learn

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

"On Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, rode the full route of the M57, a crosstown bus that traverses Midtown Manhattan and is one of the city’s slowest, to remind New Yorkers that he wanted to speed up their commutes."

Mamdani Rides Slow Bus to ‘Fast and Free’ Buses Event

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 3d

Yes, bring back manliness like the 1790s
- wigs
- tights
- frills
- powder
- filler
- rouge
- hips out
- legs crossed

George Washington dancing, in tights and heels, powdered wig, frilly lace sleeves.

Return of George Washington painting with washington's coat flicked back, hand on his hip like a manly man. All powdered up. Bunch of men sitting in front with their legs crossed

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 5d

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim

You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck Prime Day. PDFs of GHOST DAYS and IN THE SNOW, THE JUNGLE are on sale for just 3$ today, which means you can grab this fully illustrated short story collection AND its followup novella for just $6.

Get your Appalachian historical folklore/horror fix here!

www.asherelbein.com/store

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Democratic Women’s Caucus @demwomencaucus.bsky.social · 3d

So what happens to public schools during a government shutdown?

You asked. @mcbride.house.gov answered.

Have a question for DWC? Submit through the link in our bio.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: Important new open access publication ...

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

The real goal of 'Make America Healthy Again'? Woo-woo treatments for the rich, shrinking healthcare for the poor | Alexander Avila

A new coterie of advisers around Robert F Kennedy Jr is shaping the US’s already exclusionary health system for the worse, says video essayist Alexander Avila

www.theguardian.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 5d

They should go bankrupt. This is appalling speech. Personally, I won't be spending any money there

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 6d

Ah yes the "radical left" is why the private equity firm decided to close a bunch of stores to garner higher profit margins, okay Claire's that MUST be it.

claire's

NOTICE OF STORE CLOSURE

To Our Valued Customers,

This Claire's location has been permanently closed. The decision reflects both external pressures & internal restructuring. In recent months, repeate repeated attacks of ridicule by radical left agitators have gone beyond mere criticism, escalating into a deliberate effort to destabilize our company - conduct we recognize as Domestic Economic Terrorism.

At the same time, our transition under new private equity ownership required difficult financial choices. Protecting the stability of shareholders was prioritized, & this store - along with its local workforce - was deemed expendable in service of that obligation.

Despite these challenges, Claire's remains committed to our identity as a traditional American company rooted in values of family & community. We will not be silenced by those who attempt to undermine that mission, & we continue to move forward with confidence in our future.

Here at Claire's, we look forward to wo

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 6d

It used to be that reflecting on life choices ‘Nobody wishes they’d spent more time in the office’ was the go to. Maybe we should move on to ‘Nobody wishes they’d spent more time shouting at people online who they’ve never met’. Spawned from this excellent @theguardian.com article on enshitification

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

We have two further Starter Packs, also updated for the new academic year, covering:

> Societies & groups for historians, international go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc

> UK institutes and research centres for historians go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm

Again, recommendations for additional contacts are welcome 2/2

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UoL EvoAnth Seminar Series @liverpoolevoanth.bsky.social · 8d

Please join us next week, 9th October 2025, at 13:00 BST, for our next seminar of the semester. We will be joined by @professorlacy.bsky.social, University of Delaware - more details 👇

If you'd like to join, please register here: liverpool-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We hope to see you there!

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 8d

Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.

‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution

theconversation.com

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