Katie Starkweather

"We can feed 10 billion people nutritiously by mid-century without breaching critical planetary boundaries if we make decisive shifts in the way we produce & consume food", states PIK director Johan Rockström in @reuters.com on latest EAT-Lancet report. Read more www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The new leadership cancelled planned events for NSF’s 75th anniversary and tried to prevent staff from even taking a group photo to celebrate the landmark. These are the faces of the hardworking employees they’ve been treating as disposable.

NSF, we appreciate you even if your own leaders don’t ❤️

This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.

In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.

This is an extinction-level event.

Community-run food co-ops can reduce food insecurity and boost healthy diets, research shows Food co-ops are local groups where people join together to buy food in bulk, usually straight from farmers or wholesalers.

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We are happy to see folks in Congress stepping up, but we need more than sternly worded letters. We need action. The US scientific enterprise is at stake #resist

Congratulations!!!!!!

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

ASU expert in cultural evolution elected to National Academy of Sciences | ASU News A leading authority on cultural evolution, Robert Boyd, a professor in Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change and a research scientist with the Institute of Human Origi...

Join us in congratulating Robert Boyd, a SHESC professor and research scientist with the @asuiho.bsky.social, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — one of the highest honors a researcher can receive! 🌟

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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

What’s happening at NSF and other science agencies is AWFUL!! Here are some ways to fight back (please share far and wide!!):
www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...

Here’s a list of ways to fight for NSF. I haven’t read it thoroughly yet, but imagine much can apply to other scientific agencies, too!
www.savensf.com/nsf-at-75-to...

There's only one reason for Trump's massive deletion and closing of national climate, weather, ocean, & environmental data sets: to silence and turn a blind eye to evidence of major threats in order to protect the fossil-fuel industry. This is modern book burning.
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aw, come tf on

if they run these "through normal NIH processes," please don't volunteer to be on these review panels, people. This is utter rot.

Taiwan's exclusion from WHO leaves a critical gap in global health cooperation. WMA President Dr. @ashokphilip.bsky.social calls for Taiwan's inclusion. Global health security requires all health systems, not isolation. #HealthForAll #taiwaninwho #MedSky

1/7 Black women are at 3X times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes, and, nationally, Black infants have the highest rates of preterm birth and mortality. Now the fate of Black maternal health programs is at stake amid federal cuts.

@ronnielcohen.bsky.social reports:

The first paper from my dissertation is now available online!

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Congratulations to @bioanthmags.bsky.social on her new paper about authoritative knowledge (AK) & infant feeding! AK has been so helpful for understanding birth practices, it's exciting and innovative of Maggie to apply it to IYCF! w/ @laurenkeenan.bsky.social

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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.

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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Are humans naturally monogamous? Why is one partner usually the norm for humans around the world?

About 20% of us *admit* to cheating. Which left one CrowdScience listener wondering - are humans meant to be monogamous? 👩‍❤️‍👩👩‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍👨

I speak to the experts to find out: @kstark8.bsky.social and @kitopie.bsky.social.

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High wet-bulb temperatures, time allocation, and diurnal patterns of breastfeeding in Bangladeshi fisher-traders Climate change is a growing threat to population health, with dangerous combinations of heat and humidity increasing in frequency, particularly in South Asia. Evidence suggests that high temperatur...

📈GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

Human Biology, Climate Change & Sustainability

Read this OA study on WBT & b/feeding patterns in relation to maternal work - at the intersection of climate change and maternal & child health @bioanthmags.bsky.social @kstark8.bsky.social

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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

UMaine is hiring TWO faculty at the Assistant or Associate level in Political Science and International Affairs. One is the new Dan and Betty Churchill Professorship in Climate Policy. Please share widely!

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We know how to improve health

1. Universal healthcare
2. Stable housing
3. Access to food

I’ve had reports from colleagues in Bangladesh that major aid organizations are laying off 1000s of people because of this. It is irresponsible and cruel.

Yellow background. Different CDC websites that have been removed. Some are in black and white. Others are purple or red and green.

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#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪

Heat is an occupational health and a patient safety issue via ⁦‪@themercurycomau‬⁩ #climatehealth

The Cultural Anthropology Methods Program Director Team is thrilled to announce the launch of CAMP International Curriculum (methods4all.org/camp-interna...) 🧵

Thank you!!

I'm looking for guest speakers (paid, awaiting funding) for my Primate Behavior class. I'm hoping to find a couple people who work with primates in different settings (zoo, lab, field). Preference for in-country (field), historically excluded, & student/early career primatologists. Please reach out!

Fellow Anthropologists: does anyone have a good, sophomore-ish-level lecture on race that you’d be willing to share?? Or readings you like to assign on the topic?