That such a cluster of organizations whose primary focus is the biology, evolution, and biocultural realties of Humans developed this statement indicates where contemporary understandings of both science and justice are right now. bioanth.org/about/position….

#Archaeology peeps! I now have a space for a new PhD student...if you know (or are) someone get in touch! Can be on any of my favourite topics...

Are you a woman in biological anthropology attending #AABA2024? Meet us at our annual happy hour! #BAWMN2024 🐒💀🦷🧬👩‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬

Are you a woman in biological anthropology attending #AABA2024? Meet us at our annual happy hour! #BAWMN2024 👋🥂⬇️

Headed to American Association for Anatomy for Anatomy Connected 2024 in Toronto? Come to our Symposium Exploring the Scale of Skeletal Muscles using the latest 3D Visualizations. Thanks to Brian Glancy and Andrea Taylor for participating and AAA for supporting us.

The important new "Recommendations for the Management of Legacy Anatomical Collections" from American Association for Anatomy provides specific recommendations for each aspect of inventory, use, and potential disposition of legacy anatomical materials. Cornwall, DeLeon, et al doi.org/10.1002/ar.254…

Are you attending #AABA2024? Are you interested in reconstructing locomotor behaviors in the fossil record? Come check out my talk (w/ Jamie B. Hall Jacob Thomas, PhD Trent Guess, PhD and Carol Ward) in the Paleoanthropology: Morphological Signatures of Locomotion session Friday morning!

Lots of credit to John Kappelman for pushing this along and including all those involved. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thank you American Association for Anatomy for programming this important content. It’s been a long time coming. A perfect way to commemorate #Purim. #anatomyconnected24

If you're still at #AABA2024 and interested in functional anatomy, stop by my MS student Tara Hobbs' poster on interdigit variation in phalangeal curvature & dorsal canting this evening in the Diamond Ballroom. She's a great student who will be applying for PhD programs.

Research that bypasses scientific norms in favour of media blitz should raise questions, says our Dr Robyn Pickering & @UJPalaeo’s Dr D.W. Kgotleng. In this SAJournalofScience opinion, they call for reflection on the future of human evolution in #SouthAfrica. bit.ly/3PCO1Ii

Exactly what we were discussing last night 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Big international conferences are not even playing fields. Some delegates just arrive to present their work. Some delegates go through a long, arduous, expensive and dehumanising visa process just to be able to show up.

Helicopter science - illustrated! Just an example of what you can expect from the EGU EDI Committee artists in residence. Join them to have your experience navigating neo-colonial #research structures visualised. Happening at #EGU24 Hall X2 every AM & PM coffee break!

📣Opportunity alert! #BlackinAnat members, apply for this 12 week, paid, remote, summer internship and help improve ED&I and anatomy!

Thanks to the generous support of The Leakey Foundation, PAST AFRICA, and U.S. National Science Foundation, we have 18 incredible students lined up for the 2024 field season at Boomplaas Cave. Ready for a season of exploration, discovery, and unforgettable experiences starting May 12th.

Non-violent protest & civil disobedience is meant to be disruptive. It is meant to challenge injustice & engender change.

HERI's Winter Seminar is back tomorrow with a session on decolonising the story of human origins. We're joined by Dr Wendy Black & colleagues from Iziko_Museums who we collaborated with for the Humanity exhibition (now on in #CapeTown!). Tuesday 7 May at 1300 - Details 👇🏾

Honored that my team's recent research on facial expression muscles in African wild dogs was featured in Nature News! We found African wild dogs have the same well-developed "puppy dog eye" expression muscles found in domestic dogs. nature.com/articles/d4158… -with Leigha Lynch

Congratulations to Dr. Yeganeh Sekhavati, Ph.D.! She successfully defended her dissertation, "The Evolution of Bipedalism in Phylogenetic and Environmental Context", and is heading off to a postdoc at the University of Chicago! WUSTL Bioanthro WashU Anthropology