Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Biological Anthropologists! The AABA (US) IDEAS Program is welcoming applications for BOTH Student Scholars and Faculty Scholars.

The Faculty Scholar deadline is October 15th, and the Student Scholar deadline is October 31st. Please share this call widely!

Flyers for each, below:

If you are post-PhD 🎓 and interested in biological anthropology 🧬🦠🦴💀, consider becoming a "Faculty Scholar" in the AABA IDEAS Program!

IDEAS = Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Biological Anthropology

Check out the link below 👇

Free to access! Download Dr. Sievert's article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dr. Lynnette Sievert - a short video summary of her Yearbook pub, ""Evolutionary Perspectives, Comparative Approaches, and the Lived Experience of Menopause."

youtu.be/dm3IDoDyWPw

Want to hear more about comparative studies in primate behavior? Read Aaron Sandel, Jeremiah Scott, & Jason Kamilar's new paper in the 2024 Yearbook!

Katy Weisensee made a short, fun, and informative video summarizing her just-out Yearbook paper (with Madeline Atwell) on PMI estimation in Forensic Anthropology.

Check it out: youtu.be/LMrm1dI4slI

Interested in qualitative analyses but don't quite know how to approach it?

Read "Rigorous and Systematic Qualitative Data Analysis in Biological Anthropology" from an incredible line-up of authors from multiple bioanthropological fields.

Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

The 2024 Yearbook of Biological Anthropology issue is finally out!

We have five great articles that are free to access and free to download (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/26927691...)

Stay tuned for more content on each of the papers!

Hi everyone! The Yearbook of Biological Anthropology is now on BlueSky! Please give the journal a follow: @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social

📣 Students: applications for Pollitzer Student Travel Awards to attend #AABA2025 in Baltimore are due on January 6! Apply now! bioanth.org/about/willia...

📣 Early career researchers: Applications for the Cobb Professional Development Grant are due January 6! Apply now! bioanth.org/about/cobb-p...

Students attending AABA2024: we have a volunteer program! Help the association during the conference and
@biologicalanth.bsky.social
will waive your meeting registration fee! More info here and application due by Feb 20, 2024: bioanth.org/meetings-and...

What? I'm intrigued. How did you manage that? Who makes the course pack?

I gotcha. Sending it your way.

Listened to Ned Blackhawk discuss his book The Rediscovery of America at UConn. Can't wait to read this history of Natives from a Native point of view, from a source of strength!

#Smithsonian #NMAI is hosting a #workshop for #teachers wanting to incorporate classes on #indigenous and American Indian peoples into their curriculum www.teachingforchange.org/native-knowl...

Magical

Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics 17 - 20 Sep 2024

This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, with the option to attend virtually.
Registration is not yet open for this event. If you are interested in receiving more information please register your interest.

Are you a student interested in biological anthropology? Do you identify as a member of a systematically marginalized group?

Then consider joining us at the AABA IDEAS Program Workshop! Student applications are now open!

Apply here: tiny.utk.edu/IDEAS_Student_apply

I am ✨manifesting✨ my desire to admit a new graduate student into my lab this year - in particular scholars who are interested in working on our covid vax/menstrual changes project. HMU if you have excellent undergrads who would be a good fit! 🧪 #AcademicSky

What happened?

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics:
web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...

"An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

BioAnth Post-PhDs:
Apply to the IDEAS Program now includes a "Faculty Scholars" Program! Apply if you are post-Phd (any level), even if you are an IDEAS alum.

The Faculty Scholars application link is now live (forms.gle/gmAF7Sy6Nx9x...)