Kathy Wander
@kwander.bsky.social
Biological Anthropology | Evolutionary Medicine & Public Health | Binghamton U (SUNY) | she/her | Dr/Prof/Mom
A sign of the times:
September 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A sign of the times:
Gutting basic science WON'T make America great. It WILL hurt our understanding of the world around us, and make us vulnerable to propaganda and misinformation. It will make it harder to see that history is repeating itself.
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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May 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Gutting basic science WON'T make America great. It WILL hurt our understanding of the world around us, and make us vulnerable to propaganda and misinformation. It will make it harder to see that history is repeating itself.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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I am so clear with students: if they are sick, they should keep their germs at home, their absence will be excused. They get it, and mostly comply. The critical second part of the message is, I do not need or want a thorough run down of their symptoms. They don't always remember this part
March 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I am so clear with students: if they are sick, they should keep their germs at home, their absence will be excused. They get it, and mostly comply. The critical second part of the message is, I do not need or want a thorough run down of their symptoms. They don't always remember this part
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
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Chris I saw someone this very morning say “we don’t need NOAA, there’s weather apps on my phone”
I am so tired.
I am so tired.
How many times do you look at the temperature on your phone?
Most of those temperatures are from weather stations NOAA/NWS helps maintain…or they are a model interpolation from a model NOAA/NWS helped develop.
The radar data, satellite data, every single watch and warning…that’s NOAA/NWS.
Most of those temperatures are from weather stations NOAA/NWS helps maintain…or they are a model interpolation from a model NOAA/NWS helped develop.
The radar data, satellite data, every single watch and warning…that’s NOAA/NWS.
February 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Chris I saw someone this very morning say “we don’t need NOAA, there’s weather apps on my phone”
I am so tired.
I am so tired.
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The chaos for sure is the point.
People who are scholars of European history, as I am not, point out parallels to 1930s rise of fascism there.
I have spent more time learning about China. Which is why I keep thinking about parallels to Cultural Revolution nihilism. (Article Jeremy Mayer)
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
I have spent more time learning about China. Which is why I keep thinking about parallels to Cultural Revolution nihilism. (Article Jeremy Mayer)
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
February 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The chaos for sure is the point.
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Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!
January 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!
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Shout out to the PI team: @kwander.bsky.social @johnhshaver.bsky.social Bettina Shell-Duncan and Carla Cerami. Our awesome collaborating institution is: MRC Unit The Gambia @LSHTM. Funded by the NSF. Finally, learn more: laurespake.netlify.app/project/
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January 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Shout out to the PI team: @kwander.bsky.social @johnhshaver.bsky.social Bettina Shell-Duncan and Carla Cerami. Our awesome collaborating institution is: MRC Unit The Gambia @LSHTM. Funded by the NSF. Finally, learn more: laurespake.netlify.app/project/
How does iron nutrition affect risk for COVID-19? 🧪
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
Iron nutrition and COVID-19 among Nigerian healthcare workers
AbstractBackground and objectives. The optimal iron hypothesis (OIH) posits that risk for infection is lowest at a mild level of iron deficiency. The exten
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January 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
How does iron nutrition affect risk for COVID-19? 🧪
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
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Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Curious grad students: ready to reimagine how societies understand & manage risk?
DM me if you're game. #gradresearch #riskscience #interdisciplinarywork
Spread the word!!
DM me if you're game. #gradresearch #riskscience #interdisciplinarywork
Spread the word!!
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Curious grad students: ready to reimagine how societies understand & manage risk?
DM me if you're game. #gradresearch #riskscience #interdisciplinarywork
Spread the word!!
DM me if you're game. #gradresearch #riskscience #interdisciplinarywork
Spread the word!!
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But then the pandemic hit. And we sent all those children with asthma home to their supposedly dirty homes. And guess what? Severe asthma WENT AWAY! During quarter 2 2020, when there would typically be 1400 kids in #pedsICU’s around the US, there were 241. 6/17 journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...
November 26, 2024 at 11:42 AM
But then the pandemic hit. And we sent all those children with asthma home to their supposedly dirty homes. And guess what? Severe asthma WENT AWAY! During quarter 2 2020, when there would typically be 1400 kids in #pedsICU’s around the US, there were 241. 6/17 journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...
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🎉IAS is recruiting🎉
UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):
Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866
Please retweet!
Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):
Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866
Please retweet!
Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
November 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
🎉IAS is recruiting🎉
UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):
Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866
Please retweet!
Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):
Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866
Please retweet!
Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
A stuffie Salmonella seemed like a cute conversation starter for my lab office but now somehow I’m arguing with the 11 yo about whether gonorrhea is an appropriate Christmas present
November 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
A stuffie Salmonella seemed like a cute conversation starter for my lab office but now somehow I’m arguing with the 11 yo about whether gonorrhea is an appropriate Christmas present
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A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95
November 16, 2024 at 2:11 PM
A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95
For bio anthros interested in the immune system of milk, here is our latest: doi.org/10.1002/ajhb... Maternal age and previous pregnancies seem to be the primary predictors of in vitro milk responses to bacteria.
March 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
For bio anthros interested in the immune system of milk, here is our latest: doi.org/10.1002/ajhb... Maternal age and previous pregnancies seem to be the primary predictors of in vitro milk responses to bacteria.
Just returned from the 2023 Stakeholders’ Meeting for the Child Health and Development in Kilimanjaro project’s iron deficiency research, funded by NSF Bio Anth. We discussed initial findings, plans for disseminating results, and future research directions. SO happy to see everyone again!
December 11, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Just returned from the 2023 Stakeholders’ Meeting for the Child Health and Development in Kilimanjaro project’s iron deficiency research, funded by NSF Bio Anth. We discussed initial findings, plans for disseminating results, and future research directions. SO happy to see everyone again!
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Cambridge is glad to remind everyone that this edited volume, Human Behavioral Ecology, will be available in February. While summarizing the state of the field, it also looks ahead to rising cohorts of early-career behavioral ecologists and the insights that await.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Human Behavioral Ecology
Cambridge Core - Evolutionary Biology - Human Behavioral Ecology
www.cambridge.org
October 9, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Cambridge is glad to remind everyone that this edited volume, Human Behavioral Ecology, will be available in February. While summarizing the state of the field, it also looks ahead to rising cohorts of early-career behavioral ecologists and the insights that await.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Female academics less likely to win prizes, even when the award is named after a woman. Analysis: 9,000 awardees & 346 scientific prizes, medals published in Nature Human Behaviour, found men win 8 prizes for every 1 won by a woman. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (it isn't) phys.org/news/2023-11...
November 22, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Female academics less likely to win prizes, even when the award is named after a woman. Analysis: 9,000 awardees & 346 scientific prizes, medals published in Nature Human Behaviour, found men win 8 prizes for every 1 won by a woman. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (it isn't) phys.org/news/2023-11...
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My baby is out: #NSF DCL requesting conferences and supplements to support access and engagement in fundamental #disabledinSTEM research. Apply and spared the word!
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September 28, 2023 at 3:27 PM
My baby is out: #NSF DCL requesting conferences and supplements to support access and engagement in fundamental #disabledinSTEM research. Apply and spared the word!
nsf.gov/pubs/2023/ns...
nsf.gov/pubs/2023/ns...
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Please share. We're looking for a Cultural Anthropologist with a specialty in Native North America at UMass Boston.
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October 23, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Please share. We're looking for a Cultural Anthropologist with a specialty in Native North America at UMass Boston.
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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Here’s the thing
This kind of threat only has to happen a few times to have a chilling effect on all academic lecturing.
With this in your head, how do you NOT think: “Anything dangerous in my lecture?” as you write/deliver it?
Threats of violence can be as effective—even MORE—than real violence.
This kind of threat only has to happen a few times to have a chilling effect on all academic lecturing.
With this in your head, how do you NOT think: “Anything dangerous in my lecture?” as you write/deliver it?
Threats of violence can be as effective—even MORE—than real violence.
This is chilling. Texas A&M chancellor & Lt. Governor Dan Patrick pushed to fire a professor after she said critical things about Patrick at a lecture about opioid crisis. A 1st-year med student whose mom is a Patrick political ally complained.
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Pat…
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularl�...
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October 24, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Here’s the thing
This kind of threat only has to happen a few times to have a chilling effect on all academic lecturing.
With this in your head, how do you NOT think: “Anything dangerous in my lecture?” as you write/deliver it?
Threats of violence can be as effective—even MORE—than real violence.
This kind of threat only has to happen a few times to have a chilling effect on all academic lecturing.
With this in your head, how do you NOT think: “Anything dangerous in my lecture?” as you write/deliver it?
Threats of violence can be as effective—even MORE—than real violence.
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We contend that a strict sex binary is useful in some circumstances (evolutionary questions about sexual reproduction or utilizing historical demographic data, for example), but in others it is inadequate (e.g., associations between the sexes, hormones, and athletic performance).
October 24, 2023 at 4:37 PM
We contend that a strict sex binary is useful in some circumstances (evolutionary questions about sexual reproduction or utilizing historical demographic data, for example), but in others it is inadequate (e.g., associations between the sexes, hormones, and athletic performance).