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Dr Lia Betti
@liabetti.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Quantitative Anthropology at UCL. Research interests in human diversity, health inequalities, bioarchaeology, and the evolution of the pelvis and childbirth.
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annepisor.bsky.social
🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology
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October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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ruthmace.bsky.social
'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
liabetti.bsky.social
This whole thread really resonates. Especially on a day I was told I might want to postpone going for promotion, while working on the latest set of revisions of a paper and trying to support friends currently in less-than-supportive teams.
pwgtennant.bsky.social Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Oct 14
Most academics who survive are the ones who had good luck early in their career. Like winning funding or publishing in a 'top journal'. This makes it easier to attract funding later & makes more room for failure.

Those early rolls of the dice will probably decide whether you survive or not.
October 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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ehemmott.bsky.social
Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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pengzell.bsky.social
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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adamrutherford.bsky.social
Lucy Van Dorp is one of the best scientists and people that I know. Join her lab, and do amazing work.
September 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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anthropology.net
Barley in a cave in Uzbekistan, 9,000 years old, suggests foragers far from the Fertile Crescent were harvesting cereals long before farming took hold. A mosaic of innovation, not a single birthplace. #Archaeology #Agriculture #HumanEvolution @pnas.org
Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Barley, Foragers, and the Forgotten Story of Central Asia
Evidence from Uzbekistan pushes the roots of cereal exploitation deeper into Asia—and challenges what we thought we knew about the origins of farming.
www.anthropology.net
August 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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anthropology.net
New research shows the human pelvis didn’t evolve gradually—it flipped its growth pattern 90° and rewired bone formation. These shifts let our ancestors walk upright and birth big-brained babies. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Bipedalism
Two Genetic Leaps That Set Us Walking
New research traces the pelvic transformation that let humans rise from the trees
www.anthropology.net
August 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
liabetti.bsky.social
Such a fantastic study by @tdcapellini.bsky.social's lab, showing how much pelvic bones development changed in humans in adapting to bipedalism. And so frustrating that their grant was terminated by the Trump administration less than half-way through, in retaliation to Harvard not playing along.
carlzimmer.com Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Aug 27
A genetic flip helped turn us into upright walkers. Here’s my evo-devo story about the ilium. Gift link: nyti.ms/45BOenz
An engraving of the pelvis from Gray’s Anatomy.
August 28, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
With alt-text: this will devastate US higher education in so many ways. And make US science, medicine and technology weaker but it will make it Whiter, which I suppose, is the goal. I did my PhD in Australia, with this same xenophobic 4-yr-PhD rule, and it was harrowing.
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it intends to publish a proposed rule that would limit the length of time foreign students are allowed to stay in the United States. Since 1978, foreign students, or F visa holders, could stay in the U.S. for their “duration of status,” meaning as long as they were enrolled as a full-time student. The proposed rule set to publish Thursday would allow for foreign students and exchange visitors to stay up to the duration of the program they are participating in, not to exceed a 4-year period.
August 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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sheencr.bsky.social
RFKJr is causing chaos with his disdain for scientific methods- after the CDC director would not endorse his directions for covid vaccines dramatically cutting access to the vax for many, the health dept announced her service was over 🧪🧵
August 28, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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tdcapellini.bsky.social
1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature
The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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luckytran.com
Hungary banned Pride marches. This is the response ✊🏳️‍🌈
payoub.bsky.social Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 28
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Our latest @britishacademy.bsky.social 10 Minute Talk is @rebeccasear.bsky.social on the depressing resurgence of eugenics
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/the...
The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
June 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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linneansociety.bsky.social
We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181).

You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com
#ArchivesAreAccessible
Field drawing of Charaxes cognatus, also known as the Sulawesi blue nawab. The butterfly is shown from the front and side, with some parts of the wings coloured.
June 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
liabetti.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter
As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Our AI future is less HAL and more Hitchhiker’s Guide @hugorifkind.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/2101...
The smarter AI gets, the more stuff it makes up
‘Hallucinations’, where the machines invent what they think we want to hear, are growing. Now that’s properly scary
www.thetimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
liabetti.bsky.social
I have a new favourite heroine: Elizabeth Zott! I was guffawing on public transport this week reading this fantastic book. Unmissable, especially if you are a woman in science. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (her first book, written at age 65; so much to love)
Image of book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
June 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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jbendery.bsky.social
The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
An Entire Board Just Resigned After Accusing Trump Of Illegal Interference
The board members say Trump denied Fulbright awards to several people they had selected for the 2025-2026 academic year.
www.huffpost.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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theramseylab.bsky.social
Everything’s set for the Perspectives on Human Variation Workshop!

Just 2 days to go! 🧪🏺

#philsky #evobio #HPS #humanevolution
June 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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drhnaqvi.bsky.social
The NHS Race and Health Observatory has signed a ground-breaking agreement with NICE to de-bias current clinical guidelines, and to ensure the development of future guidelines and interventions do not have bias built-in at design stage.

Learn more here: nhsrho.org/news/observa...
May 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
liabetti.bsky.social
Today was Liberation Day in Italy, when we celebrate the liberation by partisans in 1945 of Nazi-occupied Italy, the culmination of years (decades, really) of anti-fascist fighting. Worth reading about it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberat...
Liberation Day (Italy) - Wikipedia
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April 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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gbosslet.bsky.social
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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martamlahr.bsky.social
JOB OPPORTUNITY at Tubingen🌟 !
Senior professorship in Human Ecology at Inst. Arch. Sciences & Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment. Will include additional scientific & technical staff members & an annual budget for the working group.
DEADLINE: 22nd May 2025
April 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM