Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.

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Happy New Year! 🎊 Thankful these two don’t get too anxious from the noises (this year’s celebrations have been very quiet here so far…🤞) 🎆🐾🎉✨☮️🕊️ #dachshunds #hounddogs

…practice photo shoot of their adorable new Christmas sweaters - it’s been too warm to wear them otherwise! 😞🎄🐾🧣🔥☀️🌡️🥵
#hounds #dachshunds #hounddogs

Looking for a masters in primatology? Northern Illinois University's Prof Leila Porter & Mitch Irwin are seeking students for next year!
www.niu.edu/clas/anthropology
#primates #gradschool #lemurs #tamarins #nutrition

Wonderful interview with @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social today on @scifri.bsky.social - looking forward to reading her intriguing new book! 📖 🪨 🌏 🌍🖊️🌎 #geology #earthscience

Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? We may have ditched the monkey-to-man meme, but the myth of humans as nature’s “pinnacle of evolution” persists in subtler ways.

Fascinating and so much more true and factual than the outdated inaccurate illustration below that we might be used to.

Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu... #ape #darwin #Evolution #human #monkey #naturalselection via @mitpress.bsky.social

It's cold and flu season here in the Northern Hemisphere - this cute #opossum says, "don't forget to wash your hands well...and often!"😀 🧼 🚿 🤧 👐 😷 🐾 🌬️ 🫖 🦠 🧬 🧪 🧫 💉 🩺 💊 🩻 #Mammalia #Marsupialia #Didelphimorphia #Didelphidae #Didelphis #urbanwildlife #wildlife

The news about moss spores surviving in space is one of my favorite stories of 2025…amazing. 💚 🛰️ 🤩

How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants.

"For centuries, engineers have turned to nature for inspiration." Read Carl Zimmer's exploration of "How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution" here! https://ow.ly/U6Js50Xt7tm

A set of orangey–yellow bands interrupted by darker bands, crossing the face of Jupiter in the infrared. The background is black.

This is what Jupiter looks like in the infrared.

Its hot, lower atmosphere shining through the cooler cloud layers above.

You show me Jupiter and I'll show you a planet that wants you dead.

Cute dachshund dogs with matching hotdog costumes for Halloween = Halloweenies! 🎃 🌭😀

Cute dachshund dogs with matching hotdog costumes for Halloween = Halloweenies! 🎃 🌭😀

Cute dachshund dogs with matching hotdog costumes for Halloween = Halloweenies! 🎃 🌭😀

Cute dachshund dogs with matching hotdog costumes for Halloween = Halloweenies! 🎃 🌭😀

Oh my goodness - forgot to post these of the HALLOWEENIES! 😀🍂🎃🐾🌭🥰 #dachshunds #hounds #hounddogs

Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology - Santa Clara, California (US) job with Santa Clara University | 37879320 Seeking for a teacher-scholar with an active field/lab based research program at the intersection of infectious disease/immunology/human growth & dev.

Full time, TT position in Biological Anthropology at Santa Clara University:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

We didn’t conquer the world alone. This is humanity’s untold origin story | BBC Science Focus Magazine We’re discovering there were more characters, and more acts, in the tale of how Homo sapiens spread across the globe.

Short article I wrote* on recent advances in the story of early Homo sapiens is now available online!

*commissioned as accompanying BBC Human series, although tbh I did not love their Neanderthal episode :-(

www.sciencefocus.com/science/huma...

Listening to soundscapes from Simon was a somber and moving example of how our natural world is changing around us, in so many ways.

Such an informing and moving interview for my @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social series ‘Symphony of the wild’

@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today.

A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):

For your Friday, another stunning view of the cosmos from JWST—this time of jets of plasma blasting out from a newly formed star.

It looks like a painting.

I love when random pics pop up - an adult male white-necked #jacobin (Florisuga mellivorais), aka the great jacobin or collared #hummingbird; I took these in Northern Honduras, 2016. 💚🇭🇳💙🥰 #birds #birdwatching #hummingbirds #wildlife

Assistant Professor - Environmental Change, Resilience, Precarity, and Justice in Archaeology/Bioanthropology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

New position announced: Assistant Professor - Environmental Change, Resilience, Precarity, and Justice in Archaeology/Bioanthropology at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 👇

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05077?fbc...

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My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15.

apply.interfolio.com/171196

This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion Recently, I exchanged views with a prominent Ivy League scientist who was complaining about the minority students and junior faculty applying to his program. He claimed that the university, through di...

Hear, hear Agustin 💥👊💥(@anthrofuentes.bsky.social)
Good op-ed piece in @science.org 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oh no, Ashley! I hope it heals quickly. Lots of rest is what you need right now! ❤️‍🩹 🫂

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World

Amazing find - with insightful comments by U.C. Berkeley archaeologist and Mesoamerican expert, @rajoyce.bsky.social #archaeology #Belize #Mesoamerica #anthropology
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...

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Hi folks. I'm not from the US, but I find what's happening to science over there right now absolutely *appalling*.

If you're working in the sciences, I can't imagine the dread you're probably feeling.

I can't do much. But I write a science newsletter, so I can, maybe, do *something*...

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What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

A long and depressing piece, but the answers are all in there: high school and college writing are not going to be destroyed by AI unless teachers and professors let it or help. They will only be revived by structuring classes around process and paper.

We will certainly miss your excellent reporting and familiar voice, @jackspeer1.bsky.social! Congratulations on your @npr.org retirement and best of luck with the next chapter! 🎉 Interview with @ari-shapiro.bsky.social here:
knpr.org/npr/2025-07-...

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia!

Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP!

Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon