Dr. Kim Foecke

YouTube video by Gutsick Gibbon Did Homo Naledi Bury Its Dead or Not? Where Do We Stand?

(2/2) Watch our full interview on the latest from the Rising Star team with extensive commentary from Erika here:

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YouTube video by Jamie Hodgkins Homo naledi the lies

(1/2) Posting on behalf of Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, with whom I was on this panel.

“The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.”

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Data time. Agree or disagree - In the age of AI, it is a reasonable teaching strategy for an online course to only derive grades from exams.

Hello hive mind! Given the current state of *gestures wildly*, I’m looking for other sources than NSF who fund postdoc salaries through grants. Project could easily be categorized in anthro/archaeo, paleontology, geosci, environmental sci, or forensics. Any ideas welcome!

They said it would make some sense to them that there would be a mechanism for hair to grow back to a certain length if the follicle was removed, but it doesn’t make sense that a hair could tell that it had been cut (or to what length it was cut). I agree, that’s weird! What gives? 2/2

To break up all the terrible, I have a good question from a student, and I don’t know the answer! Scientists, help me out! My student is interested in hair, and wants to know what mechanism causes mammal body hair to grow to a finite length after it has been cut (shaved). 1/2

One of my students told me today that my outfit is “old school.” Like girl please, you’re dressed like my mom in 1997 😂

My living room bookshelves at home are full of cast hominin skulls, and I love them, but sometimes I am aggressively reminded how *not normal* this is when strangers…like electricians…come into my house. 🥴

Giving detailed editing and feedback on grad student class term papers is hella exhausting, but when a student drops in an assessment that doing a particular statistical test would not yield an informative result and completely correctly explain why makes it all worth it 🎉

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Impact factor using its powers for good, for once

Open-access journal elife will lose its ‘impact factor’ over controversial publishing model Web of Science index decides to strip key metric because elife’s unusual peer review doesn’t meet its criteria

We did it!! We all, as an academic community, helped push an actual change! 🎉

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Hi! I’d love to be in this one 😊

They seemed to agree 😊

We also have a causality issue. Are genetics/physiology the result of an altered diet, or do they co-occur for other reasons? Alternatively, was an altered diet a response to changing physiology? Lots of questions remain. Personally I am skeptical of nitrogen data as a result of my own work. 2/2

I’d have to go read the actual paper not just the media coverage but my impression of most studies like this is that we have a LOT of equifinality problems. Granted most paleoanth has equifinality problems, but in dietary studies in particular. 1/2

This week in Food and Human Evolution, my class knapped stone tools, used them to butcher a chicken, nut cracked, extracted marrow, milled their own corn meal, pressed their own olive oil, and imaged all the marks the processing made on things with a microscope! #ActiveLearning

An open letter to evolutionary and human sciences; statistics has moved on and so should we. A proposal for more transparent research, and some notes on p < 0.003 Statistical reasoning and inference have become integral to how we reach conclusions as scientists. Few papers in evolutionary, biological, and human …

Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking
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I love teaching and I often post about the adventures and misadventures of hands-on learning in my college classrooms. Follow along if you, like me, are wondering where my career is headed 😊

I used to work at the Smithsonian and I love public outreach and education! You can often find me doing formal and informal sci-comm, particularly in the area of human evolution. 3/

I’m a methods person, and I do a lot of method development using analytical methods (specifically in analysis of chemical elements and using stable isotopes). I spend a lot of time ranting about how we know what we think we know. Sometimes it ruffles feathers, but I’m ok with that. 2/

I went from 23 followers to more than 800 in a week, so I think it’s time for an intro! Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m a shiny brand new assistant professor (this is my first semester)! I mainly study the interplay between culture and environment in human paleoecosystem reconstruction. 1/

I am very pleased to report that amid all the uncertainty in the world there is still one sure constant: undergrads love breaking things for science.

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A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!

Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)

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Not as cool as THE Katharine Hayhoe commenting on my post! 🤩

Haha fair - one summer in high school, I (being privileged to live near a government facility) worked a wage job in a lab and I helped on a project creating a method to identify modern contaminants in oil paint. That methods was (is) able to ID forgeries of renaissance artwork and trace origin!

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:

-Data entry for a faceless corporation
-Running tests on airport runway de-icers
-Helping catch painting forgers

Hi! I’m Kim, I’m a paleoecologist studying the context of human evolution using analytical chemistry. I’m a new assistant professor, and I’m also in the Washington DC area!

The amount of confusion I just caused in a grocery store cashier by purchasing 5 lbs of popcorn kernels, 3 huge bags of whole unshelled nuts, 4 whole raw chickens, a bag of tootsie rolls and a peach Bellini…

(My students are doing experimental archaeology tomorrow, and tonight is self care Sunday)😂

A look at geochemical methods and best practices as it relates to the claims that Homo naledi buried their dead.Chapters3:31. Why critique the still-to-be-pu... The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke. Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?

NEW VIDEO. An update on the Homo naledi controversy!
"The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke (@kimfoecke.bsky.social). Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?"

A great chat that covers open science, replicability, geosciences, and Homo naledi

Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Wd...