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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · May 22

Stay strong @harvard.edu

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The Human Biology Association @humbioassociation.bsky.social · May 21

📚 Call for Nominations: HBA Book Award 📚
Know a book that’s made a major impact on human biology? Nominations are now open for the 2026 Human Biology Association Book Award! This award recognizes outstanding contributions to our field—advancing theory, methods, practice, or teaching.

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Grazyna Jasienska @grazynajasienska.bsky.social · May 15

I will be looking for a PhD student for a project on sleep quality and reproductive hormones in women. szkoladoktorska.cm-uj.krakow.pl/pl/how-to-ap...
Join our great team in Krakow.
evoecogroup.wordpress.com/grazyna-jasi...

Szkoła Doktorska Nauk Medycznych i Nauk o Zdrowiu

szkoladoktorska.cm-uj.krakow.pl

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · May 7

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle

After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

news.cornell.edu

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 5

Page One must have been crowded.

So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡

@schooley.bsky.social

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · May 4

"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

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Richard Bribiescas @rbribiescas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Congratulations!🍾 Richly deserved!!

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Richard Bribiescas @rbribiescas.bsky.social · Apr 19

📢 Folks. It’s not “underrepresented”, it is “historically excluded”. There is a big difference. One can just happen. The latter more accurately describes the active systemic efforts that keep some out of science and academia. 📢

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · Apr 19

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts.

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Apr 19

Nice to see an old friend actually standing up to the insanity. Kudos to John and the MacArthur Foundation.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’

Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Kamilar @jasonkamilar.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ranking Member Lofgren Urges NSF to Ignore Inflammatory Cruz Report, Releases Democratic Staff Report in Rebuttal democrats-science.house.gov/news/press-r...

Ranking Member Lofgren Urges NSF to Ignore Inflammatory Cruz Report, Releases Democratic Staff Report in Rebuttal | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

democrats-science.house.gov

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Richard Bribiescas @rbribiescas.bsky.social · Apr 18

University faculty are not powerless. Explore, identify, discuss and share opportunities for leverage.

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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

youtu.be/dm3IDoDyWPw

Sievert 2024

YouTube video by Yearbook of Biological Anthropology

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 16

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Richard Bribiescas @rbribiescas.bsky.social · Apr 15

doi.org/10.1002/ajhb...

Testosterone, 8‐Oxo‐2′‐Deoxyguanosine (8‐OHdG) and Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase (SOD) in Adult Shuar Males of Amazonian Ecuador: A Test for Evidence of Trade‐Offs Between Reproductive Effort and Oxidative Stress

Objectives Reproductive effort incurs the cost of biological aging and morbidity by compromising somatic maintenance when key resources are limited. Oxidative stress is positively correlated with re...

doi.org

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Apr 15

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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AAUP @aaup.org · Apr 14

Harvard will not comply.

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
— Harvard President Alan M. Garber

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garb...

www.thecrimson.com

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Richard Bribiescas @rbribiescas.bsky.social · Apr 13

👏😋

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 13

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted.

But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway

https://go.nature.com/4jNRukb