Dr Lia Betti

Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

This whole thread really resonates. Especially on a day I was told I might want to postpone going for promotion, while working on the latest set of revisions of a paper and trying to support friends currently in less-than-supportive teams.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Calling Medical Anthropologists - job at UCL Anthropology (cover for colleague who recently got ERC grant). Teaching to start in January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.

Apply by: 10 Oct

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Lucy Van Dorp is one of the best scientists and people that I know. Join her lab, and do amazing work.

Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Barley, Foragers, and the Forgotten Story of Central Asia Evidence from Uzbekistan pushes the roots of cereal exploitation deeper into Asia—and challenges what we thought we knew about the origins of farming.

Barley in a cave in Uzbekistan, 9,000 years old, suggests foragers far from the Fertile Crescent were harvesting cereals long before farming took hold. A mosaic of innovation, not a single birthplace. #Archaeology #Agriculture #HumanEvolution @pnas.org

Two Genetic Leaps That Set Us Walking New research traces the pelvic transformation that let humans rise from the trees

New research shows the human pelvis didn’t evolve gradually—it flipped its growth pattern 90° and rewired bone formation. These shifts let our ancestors walk upright and birth big-brained babies. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Bipedalism

Such a fantastic study by @tdcapellini.bsky.social's lab, showing how much pelvic bones development changed in humans in adapting to bipedalism. And so frustrating that their grant was terminated by the Trump administration less than half-way through, in retaliation to Harvard not playing along.

With alt-text: this will devastate US higher education in so many ways. And make US science, medicine and technology weaker but it will make it Whiter, which I suppose, is the goal. I did my PhD in Australia, with this same xenophobic 4-yr-PhD rule, and it was harrowing.

RFKJr is causing chaos with his disdain for scientific methods- after the CDC director would not endorse his directions for covid vaccines dramatically cutting access to the vax for many, the health dept announced her service was over 🧪🧵

The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps - Nature The human pelvis exhibits distinct spatiotemporal ossification patterns and an ilium cartilage growth plate that is shifted perpendicularly compared with those of other mammals and non-human primates—...

1) I am delighted to present this terrific tour de force research conducted by my post-doc Dr. Gayani Senevirathne @gayani.bsky.social and published today in Nature -
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Hungary banned Pride marches. This is the response ✊🏳️‍🌈

The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics

Our latest @britishacademy.bsky.social 10 Minute Talk is @rebeccasear.bsky.social on the depressing resurgence of eugenics
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podcasts/the...

Field drawing of Charaxes cognatus, also known as the Sulawesi blue nawab. The butterfly is shown from the front and side, with some parts of the wings coloured.

We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181).

You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com
#ArchivesAreAccessible

We are Nobel laureates, scientists, writers and artists. The threat of fascism is back | Open letter As in 1925, when Mussolini was in power, we must openly defy the brutal imposition of the fascist ideology

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The smarter AI gets, the more stuff it makes up ‘Hallucinations’, where the machines invent what they think we want to hear, are growing. Now that’s properly scary

Our AI future is less HAL and more Hitchhiker’s Guide @hugorifkind.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/2101...

Image of book Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

I have a new favourite heroine: Elizabeth Zott! I was guffawing on public transport this week reading this fantastic book. Unmissable, especially if you are a woman in science. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (her first book, written at age 65; so much to love)

An Entire Board Just Resigned After Accusing Trump Of Illegal Interference The board members say Trump denied Fulbright awards to several people they had selected for the 2025-2026 academic year.

The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Really looking forward to this workshop!

Everything’s set for the Perspectives on Human Variation Workshop!

Just 2 days to go! 🧪🏺

#philsky #evobio #HPS #humanevolution

The NHS Race and Health Observatory has signed a ground-breaking agreement with NICE to de-bias current clinical guidelines, and to ensure the development of future guidelines and interventions do not have bias built-in at design stage.

Learn more here: nhsrho.org/news/observa...

Liberation Day (Italy) - Wikipedia

Today was Liberation Day in Italy, when we celebrate the liberation by partisans in 1945 of Nazi-occupied Italy, the culmination of years (decades, really) of anti-fascist fighting. Worth reading about it: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberat...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

JOB OPPORTUNITY at Tubingen🌟 !
Senior professorship in Human Ecology at Inst. Arch. Sciences & Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment. Will include additional scientific & technical staff members & an annual budget for the working group.
DEADLINE: 22nd May 2025

tubular clear animal being held near a beach

I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina...
[a thread 🧵]
📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf
🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding White House claims university’s work exposed students to ‘climate anxiety’ and ‘exaggerated climate threats’

Attacks on universities and research continue by Trump now claiming $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding must be cut as “university’s work exposed students to ‘climate anxiety’ and ‘exaggerated climate threats’

Figure 1 from Berg et al (2025): Three-dimensional polygon models derived from surface scanning of DNH 43. A) sacrum (DNH 43A) with arrow indicating cranially-directed deformation of the left side of the sacral plateau; B) bisection and reflection of the relatively undistorted right side to reconstruct the left side; C) medial view of the two refit pieces of the os coxae (DNH 43B); D) anterior view of the articulated pelvis with the reconstructed sacrum and the right os coxae reflected to reproduce the left side; E) superior view of the articulated pelvis; F) lateral view of the articulated pelvis.

Our 3D scans of the ~2.0 million-year-old hominin pelvis (DNH 43) from Drimolen (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) publicly available at this link. Species is most likely Paranthropus robustus. Please use scans & cite Berg et al (2025). #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪
human-fossil-record.org/index.php?/c...

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