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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 5d

It is a bleak time and yet Jane Goodall has me tearing up from her wisdom, now beyond the grave. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

How Jane Goodall’s Death Initiated Netflix’s Newest Show

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 8d

Join our fantastic department at #Rutgers University. We are hiring an assistant professor in socio-cultural #anthropology who focuses on language and power. Ad here:

jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology, Tenure-Track

The Department of Anthropology seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in sociocultural anthropology, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic intersections of Language, Culture, and Power. ...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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pumpkin spice itati|agnostic to the optics @itativcs.bsky.social · 11d

🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

www.nsf.gov

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 11d

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular:

The joy.

One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

Huntington's progression slowed by experimental gene therapy

An experimental gene therapy slowed Huntington’s by up to 75 percent in a small clinical trial. While not a cure, it may give patients longer lives.

www.sciencenews.org

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13d

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

Infographic titled "AI Isn't a Ticket To an A," explaining how chatbots work, what the data show about the prevalence of these technologies and how they're used, what we know about the quality of their output, and what we know about the impact that frequent use of these technologies has on their users and on content creators, low-wage workers, and the environment.

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 13d

Beautiful article on #autism by Prof. Richard Grinker in the @nytimes.com Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.

www.nytimes.com

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 14d

Loving in the age of AI where I count fingers on photos to guess if they are AI generated.

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 18d

Call for Applications: The #Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge & Engagement

Honoring Lambros Comitas, this award celebrates ethnographic research that builds public knowledge & addresses human problems.

Details: appliedanthro.org/awards-prize...

#SfAA #socialscience #appliedanthropology

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 18d

An #NIH reviewer offers #grant-writing tips. #getfunded

www.the-scientist.com/an-nih-revie...

An NIH Reviewer Offers Grant-Writing Tips

Although securing grants in a competitive environment is challenging, researchers can ensure they put their best foot forward by following a few simple tips.

www.the-scientist.com

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 18d

Lee Cronk just made me aware of this Wiki that tracks places to study #evolutionary #behavioral #science. Check it out (and update as necessary). via #HBES

evosocialscience.wikidot.com/places-to-st...

Places to Study - Evolutionary Social Science wiki

evosocialscience.wikidot.com

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 19d

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Posting until I don’t have to anymore.

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 20d

Intensive writing classes were formative for me. Real feedback, too. So ya, maybe more written work if you can devote time and energy to doing it right. But not full elimination of AI cause that’s just not realistic?

Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 20d

AAC&U has list of high impact practices for teaching that was pre-AI but evidence-based and certainly resonates w my experience at Cornell and NYU.

www.aacu.org/trending-top...

High-Impact Practices | AAC&U

The teaching and learning practices listed and described below are designated as “high-impact practices,” based on evidence of significant educational…

www.aacu.org

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 20d

Following. Hard space. AI can be useful (if environmentally destructive) and I feel like the best is for students to realize themselves how it limits or aids learning.

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 20d

Madlibs for the left, except the last stanza. That one never changes.

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 21d

Ferris did not see me up with realistic expectations for adult sick days.

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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 21d

Anthropologist here and I wholeheartedly support this!

TUMBLR GRL🫧💴🩰🧪 @kumeslaboratory.bsky.social · 22d

humans r so interesting wlhi & anthropology should be a core class in high school

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 21d

I need to do the same. We are discussing chapters in lab group this week and I had to scan myself!

Tom Grunshaw 🏏🔶🧪 @tomgrunshaw.bsky.social · 22d

Discovered on #ChemSky on Wednesday
Discussed with manager on Thursday
Purchased Friday
In the Library on Tuesday

Going to be a very useful resource, thanks @jenheemstra.bsky.social!

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 21d

A friend asked a question. I sought an answer from science and found some really awful stuff in a journal that claims to be credible.

Personality and Individuals Differences, Published in 2013: Rushton's r-K life history theory of race differences in penis length and circumference examined in 113 populations

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 22d

A story on chemists with #disabilities. We need this for #anthropology. #Normalize #Disability

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco.

Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee:
Sarah Alami (co-chair)
Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair)
Zachary Garfield
Edmond Seabright

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ISHPSSB @ishpssb.bsky.social · Sep 7

We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 23d

Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 25d

A transcript is the only way to make video or audio content accessible to someone who is both deaf and blind. Transcripts can be converted into braille, to be read on a refreshable braille output device.

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