Helen Kurki

Helen Kurki

@hkkurki.bsky.social

Biological Anthropologist, UVic prof, sometimes I paint, draw, or pastel, occasionally I run.

463 Followers 226 Following 24 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 weeks ago

Well that sucks.

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2 weeks ago

SCORE! Go Canada!!
#olympichockey

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2 months ago

Congratulations! I look forward to reading this!

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3 months ago
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'It is the most exciting discovery in my 40-year career': Archaeologists uncover evidence that Neanderthals made fire 400,000 years ago in England Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more than 400,000 years ago.

UVic Anthropology's April Nowell was interviewed for this story on Neanderthals making fire using pyrite in the UK 400,000 yrs ago: www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology #Neanderthals

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3 months ago
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The Archaeology Centre welcomes Dr. Andrew Roddick for a lunch-time talk titled:  “Encountering Desconocidos: Learning to See Proto-Urban Tiwanaku Image Systems.” See poster for details. All welcome.

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3 months ago
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The AIA (Toronto society) and the Archaeology Centre welcome Dr. Andrew Roddick for a talk titled: “A High Altitude Big Bang: The Development of the Tiwanaku ‘State’ in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia." You can join in person, or on Zoom: https://shorturl.at/zJIKY.

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4 months ago
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Capellini Laboratory of Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics Laboratory of Dr. Terence D. Capellini....

Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply.

academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15449

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5 months ago

Great thread! I too was diagnosed with breast cancer before 50 (@47, so closer to 50 than you), but in BC we start screening at 40 (how mine was caught early). I also suffered the guilt that I caused my cancer, can confirm that it sucks to feel that way! Hope you are doing well!

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5 months ago

Congratulations! Looking forward to reading this!

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5 months ago

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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5 months ago

Great! Thanks for that detailed information! Gets me thinking it might be worth purchasing…and keeping at 3D work.

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5 months ago

How is the accuracy of models? Would you consider the models research grade? Ease of model fusing? The latter takes so much time on my current set up!

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5 months ago
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Biological Anthropologists! The AABA (US) IDEAS Program is welcoming applications for BOTH Student Scholars and Faculty Scholars.

The Faculty Scholar deadline is October 15th, and the Student Scholar deadline is October 31st. Please share this call widely!

Flyers for each, below:

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6 months ago

Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

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6 months ago

Excited to read this! Looks like really interesting and important findings!

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6 months ago

Very cool! Thanks for the thorough summary!

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8 months ago
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

New paper alert! Pleased to have this finally out. Great work by Marla MacKinnon and my fellow co-authors Libby Cowgill and @laharrin.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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8 months ago
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Salish Sea re-centred: new map highlights Indigenous treaties and rights  - UVic News Maps are traditionally seen as colonial tools that lay claim to lands, lakes and rivers; however, a new map in UVic's Mearns - McPherson Library tells a

🗺️ Historically, maps have shaped land and power through a colonial lens. A new map at UVic is changing that narrative by centring Indigenous communities and the complex treaty and non-treaty relationships that shape the Salish Sea.

➡️ Learn more: ow.ly/14ky50We9aA

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8 months ago

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9 months ago
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Discover the untold stories of Japanese Canadians through the award-winning work of UVic's Djuna Nagasaki. #JapaneseCanadianHistory #Anthropology www.uvic.ca/socialscienc... @uvicanthro.bsky.social
Image Credit: Djuna

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11 months ago

Great name too!

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11 months ago
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
This is amazing! Come study in Canada!

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1 year ago
Photo of book by Jennifer Raff titled  Original: A Genetic History of the Americas

I haven’t read it either, but look at what I am currently enjoying reading!

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1 year ago

Congratulations Austin, Ashley, and Carol! Added to my “to read” folder!

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

You can do it! I believe in you!

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1 year ago

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1 year ago
Golden retriever puppy walking in forest with person.

I’ve passed 30 followers! Guess it’s time to actually start posting! Here is 4.5 month old Ember for your enjoyment.

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1 year ago
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,568,072, Helen Kurki ‪@hkkurki.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 17, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,568,072!

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