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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀

I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 1d

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely! True in most macrostomatan snakes, and especially true in vipers.

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🏳️‍🌈CloudyPetrel @macronecteshalli.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, do their mouths seriously go past their neck vertebrae that far!?!?

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 1d

I know you are curious about replacement teeth. Seven replacements on each side of the rhinoceros viper. Whoa!!

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 2d

yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want an iced coffee yes I know it’s fall. yes I want…

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 2d

thank you so much!! 🟨🙆‍♀️🟨

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 3d

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

omg thank you so much, Robin 🥲

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

thanks, Austin! 💛💜💛

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

thanks so much, Marc!

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

thank you for reading, if you decide to check it out - I hope you enjoy it! 🟨🙆‍♀️🟨 #intersex #SexualPolymorphism

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

I certainly don't answer all those questions, but this was a first step in estimating skeletal morphological expression in #intersex individuals

publishing this study is so important to me bc I thought I might never be able to study intersex AND be supported by my colleagues in doing so

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

as an evolutionary bio & bioanthro, I've often wondered how my skeleton differs from typical M and F

my form of intersex, CAIS = my body doesn't use androgens. also, my gonads were removed just after my 1st bday - so I had NO sex hormones from age ~1-8 yr. how does that affect bone growth/dev? 🧪💀🦴

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

thank you! 💛💜💛

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

thank you also to other bioanthros & evolutionary bios studying sex & sex variation whose work informs this study, including @sexchrlab.bsky.social, @simonedsun.bsky.social, @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social, @genderscilab.bsky.social, @dunsworth.bsky.social, & @zacharydubois.bsky.social

Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

thank you to all of the researchers whose previous work on #intersex was foundational to this study, including @birdlady.bsky.social, Judith Butler, @karkazis.bsky.social, @lzreis23.bsky.social, @georgianndavis.bsky.social, Morgan Holmes, @sharonpreves.bsky.social, & @amandaswarr.bsky.social

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

excited for this paper to be published in print soon, along w other papers from the "Queering Research" symposium @bioanth.org #AABA 2023 annual meeting in Reno! 🧪💀🦴🧬🐒🦧

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Claudia Astorino @claudistics.bsky.social · 3d

to see supplementary figures (S1 - S10) depicting the traits & developmental processes associated with each form of #intersex, scroll down to Supporting Information! 🧪 💀

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