Leslea Hlusko

Erin Dunn standing beside a large print-out of the Ratón Pérez character

Wonderful science week @cenieh.bsky.social for the Tied2Teeth @erc.europa.eu project & @coleccionrp.bsky.social

@erindunnscd.bsky.social came to #Burgos talk about her research into how teeth can tell us about risk for #Depression

Ratón Pérez's collaborators got to meet the Science Tooth Fairy!

Tale teeth tell: development, evolution and behavior - Diálogos Sapiens - Sapiens Dialogues - Podcast en iVoox Escucha y descarga los episodios de Diálogos Sapiens - Sapiens Dialogues gratis. 21st episode of Sapiens Dialogues. This is the third dialogue of the fourth season. The CENIEH researcher Leslea Hlusko...

Looking for a 23 minute diversion? Take a listen to the fun conversation I had about teeth with @drtanyamsmith.bsky.social for the @cenieh.bsky.social podcast Sapiens Dialogues 🧪
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Leslea on stage

List of the 3 distinguished lecturers: Leslea, Ahmed Ogwell, and Nobuhiko Kamada

A joy & honor to give a Distinguished Lecture at #IADR2025, sharing Tied2Teeth @etc.europa.eu research. Evolution provides a rich source of new ideas about biology.
#Science 🧪
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Photo thanks: @nicholaslab.bsky.social

Fantastic #IADR2025 Distinguished Lecture by @hlusko.bsky.social So great to see some evolutionary biology represented!

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Disabled people should be involved from the outset in developing digital tools and services that are fundamental to work, life and play to maximise the transformative benefits they can bring says our new report on #DisabilityTechnology, released today.

@hlusko.bsky.social‬ @mpilloud.bsky.social‬ @mmartinont.bsky.social‬ @paleomariomm.bsky.social‬ @cenieh.bsky.social @sgn.one‬ @harvatilab.bsky.social‬ ‬picture from: https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/cenieh-develops-dental-morphological-database

Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology.
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Fellow scientists, I have a question about authorship order. If you are the PI on the grant and the leader of the research group, who goes into the last/senior author position on a paper you took the lead on? Are you ever first author if you run the lab?

Screen cap of NYTimes article with the title: Trump team cites ’de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list. The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections

This NY Times story really hits home on how careful scientists need to be when hyping their research.

Here’s a question I have long had for this de-extinction effort:

Should we spend lots of time and money on genome-mixing or invest those resources in conservation of the animals still alive?
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Such a helpful thread. Thanks Fernando!

The Science Behind the Return of the Dire Wolf Here's how Colossal Biosciences brought the dire wolf back after more than 10,000 years.

Let's pull apart the genetics behind this dire wolf clone story because the lack of transparency and accuracy displayed by Colossal Biosciences PR is going to do a lot of harm to public trust in genetics and genomics. A thread 🧵

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There are obvious ways in which Open Access has augmented inequity rather than mitigating it, for instance in relation to Author Publishing Costs and the dif... PCI webinar - Sabina Leonelli - When Open Publishing Is Not Fair

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of listening to Sabina Leonelli's talk on "When Open Publishing Is Not Fair". If you missed it, the video is now available online! Check it out here:

Association of EDARV370A with breast density and metabolic syndrome in Latinos The ectodysplasin receptor (EDAR) is a tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNF) superfamily member. A substitution in an exon of EDAR at position 370 (EDARV370A) creates a gain of function mutant present ...

And this one too

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Based on this #openaccess research

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Mother’s milk holds the key to unlocking an evolutionary mystery from the last ice age Why was one gene mutation that affects hair, teeth, sweat glands and breasts ubiquitous among ice age Arctic people? New research points to the advantage it provided for ancestors of Native Americans.

I will be talking about this discovery

theconversation.com/mothers-milk...

Photo of Leslea and a brief bio that says she is a professor and researcher at the Spanish National Research Center on Human Evolution, supported by an ERC grant

And if you don’t know me, I am an @erc.europa.eu supported scientist at @cenieh.bsky.social and past president of @bioanth.org

Register here

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Overview of the seven talks with speaker photos

I am excited to be the first speaker in AABA Argentina’s Primer Ciclo de Conferencias

April 8
“Human adaptation to the Arctic: a mystery solved by teeth”

This online series of *amazing* talks (incl @anthrofuentes.bsky.social) raises funds to support Argentinian science

Don’t miss out!

Want to move to Spain?

Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?

Looking for postdoc position?

Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH???

Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025

www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

Yellow flyer featuring Kay Behrensmeyer, the 2025 recipient of the The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award. Her foundational work on the environments of fossil hominins, and the processes that led to their fossilization and preservation, have shaped the way that modern paleoanthropologists conduct their field research. Nomination materials emphasized Dr. Behrensmeyer’s trailblazing career, expansive mentorship, and outreach efforts.

Kay Behrensmeyer is the 2025 recipient of the The Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award. bioanth.org/about/the-ch... #AABA2025

Congratulations to the 2025 AABA Award Winners! This year we honor Dr. Kay Behrensmeyer, Dr. Lorena Madrigal, and Dr. Sang-Hee Lee. Thank you for your contributions to biological anthropology! #AABA2025

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Donate to the AABA STUDENT AUCTION!

The event will be held in Baltimore on Thursday March 13th from 3-7pm. All proceeds support student travel awards to the annual meeting. Help us reach our $13,000 goal this year by donating items big and small! bioanth.org/94th-annual-... #AABA2025

The American Journal of Biological Anthropology (AJBA), the official Journal of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, published by Wiley, seeks a new Editor-in-Chief. The submission deadline is March 31, 2025. bioanth.org/jobs/editor-...

Yellow flyer featuring Lorena Madrigal, the 2025 recipient of the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award. Over the course of her forty years of continuous involvement with the AABA, Dr. Madrigal has served in nearly every leadership role available in the association. One of her most poignant and forward-looking contributions as President of the AABA was elevating the Ethics Committee to a standing committee.

Lorena Madrigal is the 2025 recipient of the Gabriel W. Lasker Service Award. bioanth.org/about/the-ga... #AABA2025

Yellow flyer featuring Sang-Hee Lee, the 2025 recipient of the AABA and Leakey Foundation Communication & Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. For more than a decade, Dr. Lee has been one of the most impactful researchers communicating the science of biological anthropology to the global public. Her public influence is especially notable via the success of her YouTube channel and her Korean-language books for both children and adults.

Sang-Hee Lee is the 2025 recipient of the AABA and Leakey Foundation Communication & Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith. bioanth.org/about/the-aa... #AABA2025

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If you are going to #AABA2025 don't miss the #BAWMNHappyHour on Thurs. 3/13 from 5:30-7:00 at Lebanese Taverna (right across from the conference hotel). The food/drinks are really good there and who doesn't like a happy hour? #BAWMN

I go to the @nationalaquarium.bsky.social about every other weekend to satisfy the demands of my 4-year-old who really really loves fish and reptiles. I like them too but really love the sloths. So #AABA2025, if you like 🐠 🐊 🐢🦥🦈🐬🐟🐡 🦜 etc. go to the aquarium. Its just down the street from the hotel!

📣The AABA election for the positions of Treasurer, Membership Chair, and Professional Development Chair ends February 28! All Regular members are eligible to vote by logging into your member portal: www.xcdsystem.com/aaba/member/...

The Bio Anthro Section of the AAA is looking for graduate students to run for a position on our exec comm- It's a 2 year term.

Do you study craniodental evolution in human and non-human primate evolution?

Looking for postdoc position?

Interested in working with my @Tied2Teeth group here @CENIEH in lovely #Burgos Spain???

Deadline to apply: 28 March 2025
www.cenieh.es/en/about-cen...

A Macaque Model for the Effects of Hybridization on Body Size Virtual measurements from CT scans of living monkeys were used to capture size and shape data on the effects of hybridization in size and variation.

Hot off the presses, my new paper: A macaque model for the effects of hybridisation on body size! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.25062