he/they. Assistant Professor. Paleoanthropologist, anatomist. Hominin hip and pelvis evolution, biomechanics. 🏳️🌈 Ace. Bikes, drums, dogs. Views mine.
Chicago, IL
Joined December 2012
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It’s #AceWeek2021! If you want to learn more about asexuality and our experiences as asexual people, check out this episode of the @queer_science podcast I did with @ProfessorKira, @kassthefish, and Mackenzie Carter! queerscience.show/podcasts/6…
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The hobbit book is finally real and you can preorder it, which feels completely wild. Coming August 2027. #Homofloresiensis
There is a single line of code that I’ve been wrestling with for almost two years that has been holding up progress on one of my major research projects.
Today, I finally figured out the problem. It finally worked.
Tomorrow, I actually get to do the fun stuff.
#science
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As an epidemiologist, I often hear about COVID in past tense.
COVID-19 is very much still here. The last two years were the mildest COVID-19 seasons to date, but they caused a similar level of hospitalizations as two very severe flu seasons.
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Two Black lawmakers were arrested for their opposition against white state legislators eliminating Black representation in the state of Tennessee.
Absolutely insane things are happening in the year 2026.
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Can anyone guess why they would remove the requirement to notify voters of polling place changes
NEW: In passing their aggressive gerrymander, Tennessee Republicans also removed a state requirement for election commissioners to alert voters of polling place changes when electoral lines are redrawn.
Now, lawmakers and voting advocates warn the move could exacerbate voter confusion caused by the newly adopted map. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Roundup often gets a bad rap since it, you know, causes cancer and other terminal illnesses. But don’t forget it played a huge role in collapsing the bee population, which may lead to the most deaths in the long run.
The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates.
We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Hey, so, fuck this for real.
The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates.
We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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One of the wackiest things is how we publicly subsidize the creation of a shit ton of knowledge and then allow it to be locked away behind journal paywalls and entirely useless as an input to citizen knowledge and democratic deliberation.
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Nothing for parks.
Nothing for health care.
Unlimited billions for ICE and for war.
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they'll put a woman in prison for a miscarriage but you can state your intent to let your kids die from a preventable disease and its fine
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This is bad, folks. We won't have the data we need to help prevent future fire without a strong forest research program and the @forestservice is key to that. ktvu.com/news/us-forest-serv…
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I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/
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But not for voting.
Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December
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A Vietnamese immigrant died in government custody last week, according to a notification sent to lawmakers from ICE, marking the latest detainee death during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. abcnews.link/AuR2iLJ
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I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.
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I have not seen a single mainstream media outlet give this the attention it deserves.
Israel blew up an entire Lebanese town, an ancient place. It should be headline news. There’s footage of it happening.
Imagine this was your town, and you saw every building blown up by a terrorist army to prevent you from ever returning. You would at the very least expect wall to wall coverage. Instead it passes without a word.
It’s not the only town Israel has blown up. And sadly it probably won’t be the last.
