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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · Aug 14

📣 The deadline to submit proposals for Invited Symposia at #AABA2026 is tomorrow, August 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

The deadline for submitting Invited Symposium proposals is August 15, 2025. - AABA

Be sure to read the instructions below. Have all materials ready to enter prior to starting the submission process as you cannot save a draft […]

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Aug 14

Uh-oh, yet more evidence that sex and sex determination are, er, more complicated than many would have us believe.

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‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests

Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

and so much more! Check out my research group's webpage

www.lesleahlusko.org

Fossils, Genes, & Teeth

Exploring how genes influence variation and how that relationship has evolved through time.

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

One of my favorite photos of a baboon
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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

Linear dimensions and 2-d landmark data for 608 monkeys from 6 taxa:
Cercopithecus mitis,
Colobus guereza,
Macaca fascicularis,
Papio hamadryas,
Presbytis melalophos and
Presbytis rubicunda
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Dryad | Data: A modular framework characterizes micro- and macroevolution of Old World monkey dentitions

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

82 standard linear dimensions of maxillary and mandibular teeth from 126 individuals of baboons, Papio cynocephalus from Kenya
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Dryad | Data: Dental linear metrics from a wild population of baboons (Papio cynocephalus), Kenya

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

Scaffolding for how a SciComm project that takes the students from primary literature to finished project, incorporating Universal Design concepts from the outset
serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/a...

Creative Discovery Project: Developing Accurate & Accessible Science Communication

The aim of this project is for students to gain experience in communicating scientific evidence to a public audience. For example, how is it that science journalists, museum experts, podcasters, and d...

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

The human bio videos are nicely organized here
www.lesleahlusko.org/teaching/

Teaching Human Variation

From 2005 through to 2020, every fall semester, I taught a course introducing students to the science of human biological variation within the context of American history (IB35ac Human Biological V…

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Aug 13

Hello instructors!

As you prepare courses, please check out my publicly shared resources to see if any might be helpful:

Creative Discovery Project: Accurate & Accessible Science Communication

YouTube videos on human bio variation

Datasets
www.lesleahlusko.org/publicly-sha...

Publicly Shared Resources

Please look through the resources below to see if any of these could be helpful with your own research and teaching. Databases: Olduvai Vertebrate Paleontology Database (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) De…

www.lesleahlusko.org

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Jul 3

Wonderful science week @cenieh.bsky.social for the Tied2Teeth @erc.europa.eu project & @coleccionrp.bsky.social

@erindunnscd.bsky.social came to #Burgos talk about her research into how teeth can tell us about risk for #Depression

Ratón Pérez's collaborators got to meet the Science Tooth Fairy!

Erin Dunn standing beside a large print-out of the Ratón Pérez character

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Jul 3

Looking for a 23 minute diversion? Take a listen to the fun conversation I had about teeth with @drtanyamsmith.bsky.social for the @cenieh.bsky.social podcast Sapiens Dialogues 🧪
go.ivoox.com/rf/151201863

Tale teeth tell: development, evolution and behavior - Diálogos Sapiens - Sapiens Dialogues - Podcast en iVoox

Escucha y descarga los episodios de Diálogos Sapiens - Sapiens Dialogues gratis. 21st episode of Sapiens Dialogues. This is the third dialogue of the fourth season. The CENIEH researcher Leslea Hlusko...

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Jun 27

A joy & honor to give a Distinguished Lecture at #IADR2025, sharing Tied2Teeth @etc.europa.eu research. Evolution provides a rich source of new ideas about biology.
#Science 🧪
@erc.europa.eu
Photo thanks: @nicholaslab.bsky.social

List of the 3 distinguished lecturers: Leslea, Ahmed Ogwell, and Nobuhiko Kamada

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Nicholas Lab, UIC College of Dentistry @nicholaslab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Fantastic #IADR2025 Distinguished Lecture by @hlusko.bsky.social So great to see some evolutionary biology represented!

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Jun 23

Disabled people should be involved from the outset in developing digital tools and services that are fundamental to work, life and play to maximise the transformative benefits they can bring says our new report on #DisabilityTechnology, released today.

Text over an abstract background, text reads:

Disability technology
How data and digital assistive technologies can support independent, fulfilled lives.

Read the report online.

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Hannes Rathmann @hannesrathmann.bsky.social · Jun 6

Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology.
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...

@hlusko.bsky.social‬
@mpilloud.bsky.social‬
@mmartinont.bsky.social‬
@paleomariomm.bsky.social‬
@cenieh.bsky.social
@sgn.one‬
@harvatilab.bsky.social‬
‬picture from: https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/cenieh-develops-dental-morphological-database

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · May 21

Fellow scientists, I have a question about authorship order. If you are the PI on the grant and the leader of the research group, who goes into the last/senior author position on a paper you took the lead on? Are you ever first author if you run the lab?

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Apr 10

This NY Times story really hits home on how careful scientists need to be when hyping their research.

Here’s a question I have long had for this de-extinction effort:

Should we spend lots of time and money on genome-mixing or invest those resources in conservation of the animals still alive?
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Screen cap of NYTimes article with the title: Trump team cites ’de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list. The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections

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Leslea Hlusko @hlusko.bsky.social · Apr 7

Such a helpful thread. Thanks Fernando!

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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · Apr 7

Let's pull apart the genetics behind this dire wolf clone story because the lack of transparency and accuracy displayed by Colossal Biosciences PR is going to do a lot of harm to public trust in genetics and genomics. A thread 🧵

time.com/7275439/scie...

The Science Behind the Return of the Dire Wolf

Here's how Colossal Biosciences brought the dire wolf back after more than 10,000 years.

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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · Mar 25

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of listening to Sabina Leonelli's talk on "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair". If you missed it, the video is now available online! Check it out here: