Dr. Angie Achorn
@angachorn.bsky.social
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Anthropologist/Primatologist. Assistant Professor @ UTRGV 🤠✌🏼 PhD from Texas A&M (2022). Fulbright (🇮🇩) alum. Books, sci-fi/fantasy, memes, & puns enthusiast 🏳️‍🌈✨ Views are my own.
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First bluesky post! (No pressure). Hi, I’m Angie. I’m an anthropologist/primatologist. In the past, I’ve worked with captive lemurs, with wild crested macaques in Indonesia (briefly - thanks, COVID), and with savanna chimpanzee data (thanks, @jilldpruetz.bsky.social!).
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Job Alert!

Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection.

👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...
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charlenegemard.bsky.social
🚨 Calling researchers, students, technicians in cognition 🚨

We’re running a 10-min anonymous survey on how animal cognition is defined and studied across disciplines (from ecology, ethology, psychology, neurology, etc). 🧠✨

Scan the QR code & share widely

#AnimalCognition #ResearchSurvey #Science
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levostregc.bsky.social
[Depeche Mode voyce]:

🎶
REACHE OUT
TOUCHE GRASS
🎶
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deadbovids.bsky.social
The world has lost one of the biggest figures in Anthropology, Biology, and Conservation to have ever lived. Science will be an emptier place without her, and I can only take solace in knowing that she has inspired entire new generations of researchers who will continue her work. Rest in peace, Jane
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NPR @npr.org · 7d
JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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angachorn.bsky.social
Sounds super neat!! I can’t wait to read it!
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mgurven.bsky.social
Released today!
SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER
Now available at your favorite bookseller.

Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can.

Please help spread the word!

#sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social
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arepublicif.bsky.social
Gender-affirming care is suicide prevention.

Please get clear on that.
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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drlmrobinson.bsky.social
Lecturing and stand-up comedy have some overlap in that sometimes you plan a joke and sometimes you come up with one on the spot that you know you'll be using over again for the next decade
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dizachster.bsky.social
This Homo naledi silhouette is sending me

(Source: www.nature.com/articles/s42...)
Evolutionary tree with different human fossil species represented as silhouettes, all of which are standing like normal ppl except for Homo naledi which is apparently running for its life arms flailing
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riotgrlerin.bsky.social
muppetized book covers: thread
Snuffleupagus on the cover of Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
angachorn.bsky.social
New faculty orientation: ✅
First selfie on campus: ✅
First V’s up photo with the Vaquero: ✅

So happy and honored to be starting as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UTRGV! 🤠🧡✌🏼
Selfie on UTRGV campus. A photo of myself in a polka dotted shirt with the Vaquero, UTRGV’s mascot. We are both making peace signs with one hand - the UTRGV “V’s up” hand signal. A photo of a water bottle, bag, and notebook from UTRGV faculty affairs. A photo of the directory of one of the liberal arts buildings.
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marspidermonkey.bsky.social
As someone also working on a book about trees and our relationship with nature, this delights me!
paulrosenberg.bsky.social
There's so much terrible news today, like—every day lately. But there are things we need to hold onto in the long run. Our relationship with nature—and trees, specifically—can be a source of wisdom, strength, learning & inspiration for creating a better pathway in the future. This book can show how:
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Once 4 billion chestnut trees spanned most of the Eastern US, before a blight destroyed them. Restoration efforts began in 1985, with story-telling as a key component. It's the most far reaching example of trees in public history in a new essay collection: 1/x
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From the archive. An anthropologist goes back to see Sulawesi cave paintings he reported in Indonesia decades ago—and mourns their degradation and loss. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi
An anthropologist returns to Sulawesi cave paintings he reported in Indonesia decades ago. What shape are they in now?
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drsarahp.bsky.social
Summer sale: $14.97 for my ebook
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Polloc...
Ch2: social norms around sexuality, power and violence, and the role of social institutions
Ch3: how this plays out in sex education curricular debates in TX public schools
Sex, Risk, and Society: When Is Sex Dangerous? | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
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gregpak.net
Yeah let's use stronger words.

Do say "Abolish ICE"
Do say "Stop Republican Panty-Sniffers from Inspecting Kids' Genitals"
Do say "No Weapons for Genocide"
Do say "Big Bullshit Bill"
Do say "Fuck A.i."
Do say "Protect Trans Kids"
Do say "Hands off our Immigrant Neighbors You Fascist Assholes"
sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
Don't say "birthing person."
Don't say "incarcerated person."
Don't say "the unhoused."
Don't say "chest feeding."
Don't say "centering.
Don't say "Latinx."

When voters hear this, they think Democrats are out of touch crazy people. Just talk normal. Be normal.
angachorn.bsky.social
How I feel after a 16-year-old referred to me as a “queer elder”

(Kidding, I love it 😅🥹)
A picture of a computer screen showing an ebook chapter titled “Archaic Homo.”
angachorn.bsky.social
Don’t mind me - I’m just using all of my strength to overcome the temptation to wear this shirt on the first day of classes.
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NPR @npr.org · Aug 6
When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've lived with in the past, showing the power of long-term relationships.
Study finds female mountain gorillas prefer to join 'buddies'
When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've lived with in the past, showing the power of long-term relationships.
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lauradees.bsky.social
So happy that this paper lead by Joseph Mine is finally out! Was cool to be part of this project on the social learning of multi-modal communication in chimpanzees, which is slightly outside of my usual scope (and it’s my first co-authored paper too, yay!) :) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocal–visual communicative behavior
The influence of social versus genetic factors on communication in non-human hominids is not well understood. This study shows that, in line with their central caretaking role, chimpanzees exhibit pre...
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nakedprimate.bsky.social
Move over chimps, it's the mountain gorillas' time to slide (carefully) into action as the true gesture gods they are!

Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

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