Leslea Hlusko

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📣 The deadline to submit proposals for Invited Symposia at #AABA2026 is tomorrow, August 15! bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg

Uh-oh, yet more evidence that sex and sex determination are, er, more complicated than many would have us believe.

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Fossils, Genes, & Teeth Exploring how genes influence variation and how that relationship has evolved through time.

and so much more! Check out my research group's webpage

www.lesleahlusko.org

One of my favorite photos of a baboon
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Linear dimensions and 2-d landmark data for 608 monkeys from 6 taxa:
Cercopithecus mitis,
Colobus guereza,
Macaca fascicularis,
Papio hamadryas,
Presbytis melalophos and
Presbytis rubicunda
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82 standard linear dimensions of maxillary and mandibular teeth from 126 individuals of baboons, Papio cynocephalus from Kenya
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Scaffolding for how a SciComm project that takes the students from primary literature to finished project, incorporating Universal Design concepts from the outset
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Teaching Human Variation From 2005 through to 2020, every fall semester, I taught a course introducing students to the science of human biological variation within the context of American history (IB35ac Human Biological V…

The human bio videos are nicely organized here
www.lesleahlusko.org/teaching/

Publicly Shared Resources Please look through the resources below to see if any of these could be helpful with your own research and teaching. Databases: Olduvai Vertebrate Paleontology Database (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) De…

Hello instructors!

As you prepare courses, please check out my publicly shared resources to see if any might be helpful:

Creative Discovery Project: Accurate & Accessible Science Communication

YouTube videos on human bio variation

Datasets
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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 🧪
@erc.europa.eu
Photo thanks: @nicholaslab.bsky.social

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

Text over an abstract background, text reads: Disability technology How data and digital assistive technologies can support independent, fulfilled lives. Read the report online. The Royal Society

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

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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

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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

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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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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