ποΈ This week on the SAPIENS podcast: As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy.
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Forensic Anthropologist and Archaeologist passionate about recovery, identification, and repatriation of the dead. Also a big fan of π and π
ποΈ This week on the SAPIENS podcast: As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy.
π§ Listen now: www.sapiens.org/culture/milp...
Pepsi has withdrawn from sponsorship of βgay prideβ events, no explanationβ¦
You know what to do. ππβ¨
#BoycottPepsi
"It has been reported that one of the drugβs many ingredients is human bones and that security has been tightened in graveyards in Sierra Leone to stop people digging up skeletons."
24.05.2025 23:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0PERSPECTIVE: As UK working class academics, Arbuckle et al. discuss the under-recognised challenges resulting from low #socioeconomic status backgrounds in #academia - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #EDI #DEI
24.04.2025 15:35 β π 10 π 9 π¬ 0 π 1Andry JosΓ© HernΓ‘ndez Romero, as a teen, sewing costumes for his townβs Three Kings Fest.
Andry JosΓ© HernΓ‘ndez Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 65 days.
As vigil, Iβm posting a photo* of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
*as a teen, sewing
Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh Univ in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where they originated.
The remains of the Ainu people - donated by Scottish anthropologist Dr Neil Gordon Munro - were held in the univ's anatomy museum. www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - Edinburgh University returns indigenous skulls to Japan
www.bbc.com/news/article...
That'll be a hard pass π
15.04.2025 23:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An AI generated colorful image, trying to catch the eye of potential PhD students.
Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at Auckland Uni!
Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity.
#linguistics #evolution #academia #phd
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
π₯ OBAMA: βIMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THISβ¦ I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious β who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?β πΊπΈ
04.04.2025 23:55 β π 30372 π 9673 π¬ 808 π 793Just posted this an hour ago and already need to update it.
Netherlands has joined Ireland, Finland, Denmark, UK, Germany, and Canada in issuing a U.S. travel warning. Belgium is about to.
The warning is for βLGBTQ+ citizens and all people traveling to the U.S.β
www.newsweek.com/netherlands-...
**SAVE THE DATE - 2025 CONFERENCE! **
We are thrilled to announce that our 2025 Conference will be held in Auckland, New Zealand, from 10-12 December!
More information will be available on our website soon: www.australasianhumanbiology.com/
This is going to kill the US tourist industry.
23.03.2025 08:11 β π 17 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0It's definitely time to boycott trips to the US. The increasing number of these stories is dystopian, to say the least
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.
21.03.2025 17:20 β π 29390 π 7456 π¬ 170 π 204The corner of a brass plate with a skeleton holding an arrow. He looks very cheerful even though he clearly doesnβt have enough ribs.
Hereβs a cheerful brass skeleton for a Wednesdayβ¦
(Rotherham Minster)
Literally whitewashing history.
The Civil War was peak wokeness.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
God this is sad.
15.03.2025 22:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hit me with your best alternative and accurate headline.
14.03.2025 11:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You're right. I was thinking of this as I was falling asleep. I really meant in the context of institutions such as museums. Context is important, in which case we can't presume to know what that individual would have wanted.
13.03.2025 20:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yes, that's a good point but ignoring the debate about if they constitute human (homo spaien) remains, surely now there are other more interesting, innovative, and insightful ways of teaching.
12.03.2025 23:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Me: posts about unethical curation of murder victim at university
Professors: You can't post that! Outrageous.
Time passes....
Professors: Look at our amazing publication on unethical curation of human remains. Amazing!
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As much as I 'enjoyed' looking at mummies when I was a child I can not think of ANY good reason human remains should be on public display unless those deceased persons requested it.
12.03.2025 22:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Postdoctoral Position in Human Osteology and Isotopic Analyses at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (Urbnet)
University of Aarhus - The Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies #skystorians ποΈwww.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV599/p...
Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
09.03.2025 15:17 β π 3677 π 1263 π¬ 41 π 68Dumb f*cks
03.03.2025 01:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If you see Dr Jonny Geber ask him for a cheese roll.
26.02.2025 07:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Correct!
20.02.2025 23:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot of a National Park Service webpage in a browser window. At the top is the NPS.gov header with the U.S. Department of the Interior logo on the right. The page title reads 'Page In-Progress,' followed by text stating 'This page is currently being worked on. Please check back later.' Below is a link labeled 'NPS Home.
The National Park Service just took down Marsha P. Johnson's page.
www.nps.gov/people/marsh...