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Amy Anderson

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NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at CU Boulder. Developing the future of the past as we know it. Anthropologist, skeletal biologist, part-time forager.

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · Apr 29

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University

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Amy Anderson @amy-anderson.bsky.social · Aug 25

*Excellent* plenary talk by Heidi Colleran on the (inescapable) role of culture in human fertility, and great example of how modeling and empirical work can strengthen each other.

EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · Aug 25

Starting the week strong 💪 we share now the plenary talk of @heidicolleran.bsky.social, which was part of @ehbea2025.bsky.social

Here, she talks about the misconceptions and the biases behind the idea of “natural fertility”👶

Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned!

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Heidi Colleran - EHBEA 2025

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Amy Anderson @amy-anderson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you Heidi!

Amy Anderson @amy-anderson.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Clinically ignored, archaeologically common. Are these holes in the head a thing of the past?

So glad to finally have this award winning research (@paleopathology.bsky.social ) out -- cribra orbitalia and its relationship to health in living Tsimane adults.

Childhood skeletal lesions common in prehistory are present in living forager-farmers and predict adult markers of immune function

Skeletal indicators of childhood stress are associated with cellular indicators of compromised immune function in adults.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 23

We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.

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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · Feb 14

We present a prospective framework for cognitive neuropragmatics!
Co-authored with:
@copla.bsky.social @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social @tiagotorrent.com @fredbelcavello.bsky.social
Susanne Triesch-Hermann
Helen de Andrade
Daniela Sammler

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Amy Anderson @amy-anderson.bsky.social · Jan 29

and Broader Impacts statements will now likely be used to identify existing grants for termination...

Amy Anderson @amy-anderson.bsky.social · Jan 29

would that be the SPRF, by chance?