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psuanthro.bsky.social
We’re at the PREMIERE of “A Century after Nanook!” A documentary film by our own Dr. Kirk French!
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paleosol.bsky.social
What does US tax money (via #NSF research grants) pay for?

Example:
I employ 3-5 UG researcher in my lab w/NSF $$.
- They quit jobs in retail,
- Spend more time in scientific spaces,
- Gain confidence,
- GPAs rise,
- They graduate and join the workforce,

... and we get competent geoscientists.
🧪
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by Aaron Sojourner — Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird, John Parker, Eli D. Lazarus , and 3 more

jeremykoster.bsky.social
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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jaydaronson.bsky.social
Michael Roth is one of the few university president who actually gets the urgency of the moment. slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
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newseye.bsky.social
US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.

- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID
- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.
- Food stranded in Houston
- Aid stopped in transit.

The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
www.washingtonpost.com
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americanopposition.org
On February 17, we hope to see the largest peaceful protest event in American history. We want Donald Trump and his supporters in Congress to know that the American people will not surrender to fascism. Share this widely. Take your friends. Show up for your nation. #NotMyPresidentDay
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dwbird.bsky.social
This is how homelands are built go.nature.com/4eXyApf
Seed dispersal by Martu peoples promotes the distribution of native plants in arid Australia
Many Indigenous peoples recognise that the abundance and fertility of some local ‘wild’ plants are dependent on their intervention. The loss of these types of ecological services due to the spread of ...
go.nature.com
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Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird, Cheryl Peters, Brooks Kaiser , and 2 more

miriamgoldstein.bsky.social
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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by Norbert Schwarz — Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird, Aili M. Tripp, Tom Ginsburg , and 57 more

darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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by Rebecca Bliege Bird

parnajarlpa.bsky.social
Surprisingly (!!) we (Penn State) appear not to be capitulating. Yet.

by Families — Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird

jessicacalarco.com
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
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Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
www.psypost.org
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Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin

plieningerlab.bsky.social
"The people shepherding livestock across the continent's great open grasslands have been widely seen as the enemies of its charismatic wild mammals — to be fenced out of protected areas and policed by armed rangers. But that image is outdated..." @yalee360.bsky.social. e360.yale.edu/features/afr...
How African Communities Are Taking Lead on Protecting Wildlife
A new analysis shows that African wildlife increasingly depend on lands managed by villagers and herders. In many areas, locally-run conservancies now more effectively protect wildlife than national p...
e360.yale.edu
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Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird, Paulo M. Fernandes

sjpyne.bsky.social
The Hollywood Reporter asked for 700 words for a special section on the fires they have just published. Something looking at the fire itself.So I repurposed some sentences on 'fire as biology' and gave the notion a long leash. Alas, the title is *not* mine. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-n...
What Fire Wants: Understanding the Enemy
What long has been considered merely a chemical reaction perhaps is best compared to another all-too-familiar scourge — a virus.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
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uvicanthro.bsky.social
New open publication in @annualreviews.bsky.social on
"Including People in Our Models of Nature and Modes of Science" by anth faculty member @iainmckechnie.bsky.social & co-author Anne Salomon #historicalecology
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Ecological functions (gold arrows) and feedbacks (teal arrows) of contemporary place-based coastal ocean societies. These reciprocal relationships, which develop over time through trial and error from ancestral practices, are mediated by governance principles, social norms, decision-making protocols, and intentional caretaking (i.e., management and conservation) actions. Illustration inspired by Bliege Bird & Nimmo (2018) and created by Arianna Augustine, Stz'uminus Nation. Ancestral sea gardens across the Pacific Ocean, from the Pacific Sea Garden Collective (https://www.seagardens.net). Artwork by Lilly Crosby, design by Heather Earle, base map © Mapbox, © OpenStreetMap Makah fishers congregating on Tatoosh Island, Neah Bay, Washington State, in the late 1800s. This island was also the site of Robert T. Paine's foundational research on keystone predation and trophic cascades for more than 40 years. In the late 1960s, Paine moved his research program from its original location in Makah Bay to this exposed outer coast island in part to reduce human influence on his experiments. Tatoosh is one of many ancestral settlements of the Makah Tribe and has a thousand-year-old shell midden that includes many of the macroinvertebrates (Friedman 1976) that were studied by Paine and his students and are still harvested by the Makah today. Photo reproduced with permission from the Bert Kellogg Collection of the North Olympic Library System, Port Angeles, Washington.
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saganfriant.bsky.social
Anthropological Research in Science Education (ARISE) at Penn State is a summer institute in integrated anthropological sciences for historically underrepresented and underserved undergraduate students from the United States. APPLY NOW!
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by Rebecca Sear — Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird

rebeccasear.bsky.social
Gender roles have always been complex and flexible; time to retire for good the idea of “traditional” gender roles www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Iron age men left home to join wives’ families, DNA study suggests
Study highlights role of women in Celtic Britain and challenges assumptions most societies were patrilocal
www.theguardian.com
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fabiozuker.bsky.social
Happy to share that we're publishing in at Science this article, fruit of two years of work between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists on how to indigenize conservation in the Amazon. A direct result of my time at Princeton, alongside the brillant co-authors.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Indigenizing conservation science for a sustainable Amazon
Dialogues between Western and Indigenous systems are critical
www.science.org
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saimihanma.bsky.social
I'm realizing a lot of you probably aren't familiar with March Mammal Madness so here's what it's all about. You fill out your bracket of animal 'battles'. Then each battle will be narrated live by scientists here on Bsky in the most absurd and nerdy way possible.

libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
LibGuides: March Mammal Madness: How to Play
The official location for March Mammal Madness tournament information and resources! If you're learning, you're winning!
libguides.asu.edu
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psuanthro.bsky.social
🚨 New paper coauthored by Dr. Sagan Friant and colleagues in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B!! “Towards a ‘people and nature’ paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease” royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Towards a ‘people and nature’ paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases are among the most direct human health consequences of biodiversity change. The COVID-19 pandemic increased health policymakers’ attention on the links between ecological degradation and disease, and sparked ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
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archaeojake.bsky.social
🚨🏺🍑 Nature Ecology & Evolution (@natureecoevo.bsky.social) chose our work tracking the spread of peaches through Indigenous networks as one of ten ecology papers published in 2024 to be included in their Year in Review set! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Original: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Indigenous networks map peach spread - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Indigenous networks map peach spread
www.nature.com
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by Chris Stringer — Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird

‘A new vision for how evolution works is long overdue’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A new vision for how evolution works is long overdue
The idea that evolution is driven by an organism’s development — not just the natural selection of its genes — challenges a dearly held orthodoxy among evolutionary biologists.
www.nature.com
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archaeojake.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
Day 15
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Cover of Elinor Ostrom’s book: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
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archaeojake.bsky.social
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
Day 3
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
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by Rebecca Bliege Bird

parnajarlpa.bsky.social
#booksky
Changes in the land by William Cronon
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Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird, Kostas Kampourakis

gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
🎉Publication day! The third edition of my book 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour' co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social is now available!

Paperback and eBook formats (Kindle etc):
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#evolsky #philsci #philbio #PsychSciSky #HPbio #EHBEA🧪🏺
Stack of books with bright red cover and a Franz Marc image of monkeys running through a landscape with red mountains in the background.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social
read the article and check out the table in the supplementary materials for actionable goals and possibilities...
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chansenwheat.bsky.social
Brilliant paper demonstrating that dingoes represent a unique canid lineage that contrary to popular belief is not hybridized with dogs.

Dingoes should be protected as the unique animals they are, not persecuted.

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🧪🌍🦊🐶 #AcademicSky
Genetic structure and common ancestry expose the dingo-dog hybrid myth
Abstract. The evolutionary history of canids has been shown to be complex, with hybridization and domestication confounding our understanding of speciation
academic.oup.com
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by Erle C. Ellis — Reposted by: Rebecca Bliege Bird

erleellis.bsky.social
Biomes are history!
Welcome to Anthromes! 🌆🌾 🌍
From urban jungles to cropland vistas, humans have reshaped the planet so much that we’ve created our own ecosystems. Nature + humanity = anthromes. The Anthropocene in action. #Anthromes #Ecology #ScienceFacts”
anthroecology.org/anthromes/gu...
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johnhawks.net
The term “modern humans” really did originate in the late 19th century at a time when biologists and anthropologists took seriously the idea of end-directed evolutionary process.

johnhawks.net/weblog/there...
There are no “anatomically modern” elephants. Why do we treat humans differently?
A quote from Phillip Tobias illustrates the strange way that we talk about human variation compared to other species.
johnhawks.net
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annepisor.bsky.social
Sustainability requires collective action. The bigger the thing to be sustained, the more people have to work together. We find having friends in different communities predicts more participation in resource management: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... 🧵 on why & implications /1
Long‐distance Friends and Collective Action in Fisheries Management
Much received wisdom in the conservation literature is that individual connections across community boundaries undercut natural resource management. However, when multiple communities access the same....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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