Dr. Angie Achorn

UK researchers discover brain’s energy ‘hijacked’ by Alzheimer’s protein Scientists at the University of Kentucky have uncovered a new reason why people with Alzheimer’s disease often struggle with sleep, long before memory loss begins. The study, led by researchers at the...

Proud to have our work on tau, metabolism, and sleep highlighted by the University of Kentucky!

Thanks again to the NIH, CART Fund, and @brightfocus.bsky.social for supporting our work.

uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

Wars can only be declared by Congress.

Taxes can only be levied by Congress.

Spending can only be appropriated by Congress.

Laws can only be passed by Congress.

Any President who refuses to work with Congress is an enemy of the Constitution and the rule of law.

2023: 63 cases. 2024: 283 cases. 2025: 2,279 cases. 2026: 1,111 cases (so far).

DENYING YOUR CHILD OF VACCINATION IS CHILD ABUSE.

This is data on measles cases in the USA by year.

Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage - Nature New hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologicall...

Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chimpanzee calls trigger unique brain activity in humans, revealing shared vocal processing skills The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our auditory cortex respond specifically to the vocalizations of chimpanzees, ...

Chimpanzee calls trigger unique brain activity in humans, revealing shared vocal processing skills phys.org/news/2025-12...

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Senegal's spear-wielding savannah chimps yield clues on humanity's past A shriek broke the dawn on the savanna, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel.

Senegal's spear-wielding savannah chimps yield clues on humanity's past @jilldpruetz.bsky.social phys.org/news/2026-01...

A deep record of unknown hominins from Sulawesi A cave known as Leang Bulu Bettue provides a record from the Middle Pleistocene across the arrival of modern people.

A deep record of unknown hominins from Sulawesi @johnhawks.net open.substack.com/pub/johnhawk...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda - Nature 3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.

New finds shed light on diet and locomotion in Australopithecus deyiremeda www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.

Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

In a 'race against time,' archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away Archaeologists raced against the tide to record a unique set of footprints made 2,000 years ago on a Scottish beach.

Man, I love ancient footprints. 👣🏺🧪

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations Organic items from the Great Basin broaden understanding of complex technologies in the Pleistocene.

Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ah congrats! This is awesome!!!

What’s better to read about on Valentine’s Day than our new paper on same-sex sex in Rwenzori colobus? ❤️❤️ Monkey love knows no bounds. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The evolution of the concepts of ‘primate culture’ in Western science - Primates While most scholars across the social and biological sciences acknowledge that human culture is distinctive in the comparative context there is widespread acknowledgment that some form of culture does...

Article w/ @mfhansen.bsky.social out and open access. In it we outline key historical patterns and the changes in primatology and the behavioural sciences regarding the concepts of primate culture.
Interested in primatology and culture (and history)? check it out!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congrats!!

Everyone knows the "very poorly" quote, but I was unfamiliar with the extent of his game...

Charles Darwin, wearing a party hat, pops out of a birthday cake with his arms in the air, surrounded by confetti.

What day is it? It's #Darwin's birthday! Happy 217th to our boy Charles.

YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine

Imagination in bonobos!

I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org

We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative

youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Keep making art. Even now. Especially now.

I'm happy to present our paper in which we describe hominin postcrania from Drimolen. Many of these specimens sat in a drawer at Wits Uni for > 20 years. It's amusing to me that the image here includes two fossils in that drawer that were labeled "hominin" but that we decided are not! 1/

New paper from our Rwenzori colobus & Sam Stead's dissertation. We examined female glucocorticoids & found a U-shaped distribution with unit size! Females also had increase to parturition & a decrease throughout lactation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whole-genome sequencing provides insights into the evolutionary adaptation and conservation of gibbons Gibbons are small, arboreal apes that play a critical role in tropical biodiversity and ecosystem ecology. However, nearly all species of gibbons are …

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