Adam Van Arsdale

One day you're grad school roommates in the dankest apt in Ann Arbor; 20 years later you write a paper together. To friendship and scholarship -

On populations & our poor operationalization of the concept w/
@apv2600.bsky.social

onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/doi/10.1002/...

The Population Problem: Biological Anthropology and the Many Definitions of a Population Objectives With a focus on variability, biological anthropology has nominally centered the population as a key unit of analysis and node of evolutionary change. In this paper, we examine constructio...

Excited to finally have this article out with @robingnelson.blacksky.app. Although we have nominally centered populations as our unit of evolutionary analysis in biological anthropology, we have no coherent understanding of what a population is. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Atlantic Crossings: Biosocial Interventions in African Diasporic Bioarchaeological Thought and Practice onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Evaluating the Evolvability of Paranthropus Cranial Morphology in Relation to Feeding Biomechanics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I suppose you could make the case that Straw was (and is) an active negative, moving him behind Clement for last on the list

I go Bieber, Gimenez, Naylor, Straw, Clement (though I always liked Clement)

Ha! We didn’t have a learning module on this. Though it is an essential field skill.

How to Open a Bottle Without a Bottle Opener, Using Everyday Items Instead At some point, everyone needs to open a bottle without a bottle opener—whatever the drink, these methods recommended by experts will save the day.

I recommend "table or ledge" (though watch for broken glass): www.marthastewart.com/how-to-open-...

Nuevo e importante Paranthropus boisei KNM-ER 101000: compartía adaptaciones manipulativas y bípedas con Homo, y su mano se parece a gorila para procesamiento de alimento y agarre poderoso para escalar.
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.

National Fossil Day (and World Anatomy Day) seems opportune timing to drop a couple of coauthored papers with great collaborators. Here's #2 for the day, this one led by colleague Cody Prang of Wash U. Ardipithecus is of critical importance for reconstructing the ancestral condition for hominins. 🏺🧪

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICYMI Notre Dame Anthropology will be hiring a post-doc for 2026-2028. This is part of a university-wide initiative to support early career scholars. Deadline is Oct. 31...sorry for late notice.

apply.interfolio.com/171503

I found the war on Christianity

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀

I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Incorporating Evolutionary Theory Into Forensic Anthropology Methods and Practice: A Proof‐of‐Concept Study Using Skeletal Sex Estimation This study shows measurements in the DSP2 sex-estimation method cluster into integrated modules. Selecting one measurement per module preserves accuracy while reducing redundancy, demonstrating the v...

Incorporating Evolutionary Theory Into Forensic Anthropology Methods and Practice: A Proof‐of‐Concept Study Using Skeletal Sex Estimation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Modern Human Dentognathic Remains From MIS 3–2 of Jianshan Cave, Southern China Objectives The evolution of modern humans in southern China during the Late Pleistocene is still poorly known. Well-preserved human fossils are scarce, and their chronological framework is often unc...

Modern Human Dentognathic Remains From MIS 3–2 of Jianshan Cave, Southern China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New Middle Pleistocene Hominin Dental Remains From Velika Balanica, Serbia Objective The cave site of Velika Balanica in Sićevo Gorge, Serbia, has previously yielded early Neanderthal dental remains from Layer 3a, dated by thermoluminescence to 285 ± 34 and 295 ± 74 ka. We...

New Middle Pleistocene Hominin Dental Remains From Velika Balanica, Serbia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

INBOX: an investigation by @annenbergmedia.bsky.social found that the United States Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 over the last seven years for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for Israel Defense Forces training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

Appear to have a jays vs grackles squabble in my backyard, and that is the energy I need right now

My neighborhood today.

From the Cleveland community on Reddit: And then they came for college radio DJs (WCSB 89.3FM) Explore this post and more from the Cleveland community

Post on r/Cleveland about the student radio station at Cleveland State University getting shut down for being "too woke," with the shut down attended by a state senator.

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 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒