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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 23d

(2/2) Watch our full interview on the latest from the Rising Star team with extensive commentary from Erika here:

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Did Homo Naledi Bury Its Dead or Not? Where Do We Stand?

YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 23d

(1/2) Posting on behalf of Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, with whom I was on this panel.

“The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.”

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Homo naledi the lies

YouTube video by Jamie Hodgkins

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · May 24

Data time. Agree or disagree - In the age of AI, it is a reasonable teaching strategy for an online course to only derive grades from exams.

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Apr 20

Hello hive mind! Given the current state of *gestures wildly*, I’m looking for other sources than NSF who fund postdoc salaries through grants. Project could easily be categorized in anthro/archaeo, paleontology, geosci, environmental sci, or forensics. Any ideas welcome!

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Feb 27

They said it would make some sense to them that there would be a mechanism for hair to grow back to a certain length if the follicle was removed, but it doesn’t make sense that a hair could tell that it had been cut (or to what length it was cut). I agree, that’s weird! What gives? 2/2

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Feb 27

To break up all the terrible, I have a good question from a student, and I don’t know the answer! Scientists, help me out! My student is interested in hair, and wants to know what mechanism causes mammal body hair to grow to a finite length after it has been cut (shaved). 1/2

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Jan 30

One of my students told me today that my outfit is “old school.” Like girl please, you’re dressed like my mom in 1997 😂

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Dec 3

My living room bookshelves at home are full of cast hominin skulls, and I love them, but sometimes I am aggressively reminded how *not normal* this is when strangers…like electricians…come into my house. 🥴

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 30

Giving detailed editing and feedback on grad student class term papers is hella exhausting, but when a student drops in an assessment that doing a particular statistical test would not yield an informative result and completely correctly explain why makes it all worth it 🎉

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 22

Context: www.the-geyser.com/elifes-bad-m...

eLife’s Bad Model Defies Burial

Preprints used to promote a Netflix documentary get slammed again, but that changes nothing at eLife

www.the-geyser.com

Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 22

Impact factor using its powers for good, for once

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 21

We did it!! We all, as an academic community, helped push an actual change! 🎉

www.science.org/content/arti...

Open-access journal elife will lose its ‘impact factor’ over controversial publishing model

Web of Science index decides to strip key metric because elife’s unusual peer review doesn’t meet its criteria

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hi! I’d love to be in this one 😊

Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 18

They seemed to agree 😊

Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 18

We also have a causality issue. Are genetics/physiology the result of an altered diet, or do they co-occur for other reasons? Alternatively, was an altered diet a response to changing physiology? Lots of questions remain. Personally I am skeptical of nitrogen data as a result of my own work. 2/2

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 18

I’d have to go read the actual paper not just the media coverage but my impression of most studies like this is that we have a LOT of equifinality problems. Granted most paleoanth has equifinality problems, but in dietary studies in particular. 1/2

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 18

This week in Food and Human Evolution, my class knapped stone tools, used them to butcher a chicken, nut cracked, extracted marrow, milled their own corn meal, pressed their own olive oil, and imaged all the marks the processing made on things with a microscope! #ActiveLearning

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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An open letter to evolutionary and human sciences; statistics has moved on and so should we. A proposal for more transparent research, and some notes on p < 0.003

Statistical reasoning and inference have become integral to how we reach conclusions as scientists. Few papers in evolutionary, biological, and human …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 16

I love teaching and I often post about the adventures and misadventures of hands-on learning in my college classrooms. Follow along if you, like me, are wondering where my career is headed 😊

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 16

I used to work at the Smithsonian and I love public outreach and education! You can often find me doing formal and informal sci-comm, particularly in the area of human evolution. 3/

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 16

I’m a methods person, and I do a lot of method development using analytical methods (specifically in analysis of chemical elements and using stable isotopes). I spend a lot of time ranting about how we know what we think we know. Sometimes it ruffles feathers, but I’m ok with that. 2/

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 16

I went from 23 followers to more than 800 in a week, so I think it’s time for an intro! Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m a shiny brand new assistant professor (this is my first semester)! I mainly study the interplay between culture and environment in human paleoecosystem reconstruction. 1/

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 13

I am very pleased to report that amid all the uncertainty in the world there is still one sure constant: undergrads love breaking things for science.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Nov 11

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A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!

Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · Nov 11

Not as cool as THE Katharine Hayhoe commenting on my post! 🤩

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