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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I guess I haven't mentioned it here, but I have a new professional scicomm job working as a Lava Master at Iceland's Lava Show! I get to spend every day teaching people from around the world about Iceland's volcanic landscape and maybe coolest of all, I get to play with real lava!

Person dressed in black with protective arm sleeves, standing next to a small river of lava. The person is holding one end of a long metal pole over the lava and the other end has a glob of lava dripping down and forming a very thin string of volcanic glass

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Hopefully I'll start to post more often on here again 😅 but tonight's aurora show over my workplace was truly the best I've seen since moving to Iceland. I only caught the tail end of it with my camera, unfortunately.

Northern lights in Iceland over a geothermal lagoon

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The northern lights were amazing tonight over Reykjavík ❤️ Live video (not time-lapse) from around 19:45 this evening

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Thanks to the Nordic Network for Human Remains in Collections for letting me talk about our current work at the University of Iceland!

Title slide for a PowerPoint, reading "Documenting the Disarticulated and Disrupted at the University of Iceland"

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Dr. Smiti Nathan @smitinathan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

What can human remains reveal about connection, identity, and community in Iceland? 🏺 🧪 🎙️ Biomedical anthropologist, Dr. Adam Netzer-Zimmer @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social, shares how overlooked human remains are unearthing Iceland’s multifaceted relationship with the dead. youtu.be/hmtd0vNI7aw

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What the Dead Still Mean to the Living in Iceland

YouTube video by Dr. Smiti Nathan

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Bridget Alex @bridgetalex.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!

We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Officially done with my PhD in biomedical anthropology! Shout-out to my PhD supervisor Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste for keeping me on track for over a decade at @umassamherst.bsky.social 🧪⚕️🤓

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I've had a great couple days leading an educational tour for middle school students from the US around Reykjavík, the Golden Circle, Þórufoss, Hveradalir Geothermal Area, & the 2021 Reykjanes eruption site❤️ The pic is me talking about the history of Iceland's parliament at Þingvellir National Park.

Person in grey rain gear giving a talk to a group of teenagers and their teachers at Iceland's Þingvellir National Park. In the background is a tall basalt cliff and the Icelandic flag.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Curieux de savoir comment archéologie et volcans se croisent en Islande? 🌋💀 Découvrez mon article pour SAPIENS à propos des recherches de Joe Walser sur les effets sur la santé des éruptions volcaniques, désormais traduit en français! 🧪 www.sapiens.org/fr/biology-f...

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Mort lente par volcan

Un anthropologue bioculturel partage de nouvelles recherches sur les risques à long terme des volcans en Islande —et comment y remédier.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Are any other bioarchs heading to the AAAs in New Orleans this coming fall? I'm hoping to find a session to present my PhD work on the skeletal collection housed at the Uni of Iceland’s medical school

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Women anthropologists, please apply!!! I did a Bibliometric analysis of the AJBA from 1918 to 2023. Recently, there was a more equal number of papers between women and men with the current editor Dr. Trudy Turner. Another woman anthropologist will hopefully continue the momentum

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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

SAPIENS is a free digital magazine devoted to popularizing anthropological research and ideas for an international, general audience. Each March 1, the editorial team considers “pitches” from anthropologists about contributing to the magazine. buff.ly/3WDep8s

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lee mi artículo "Muerte lenta por volcán" 🌋🧪💀 sobre el envenenamiento por metales pesados en esqueletos islandeses aquí sapiens.org/es/biology-es/iceland-volcanoes-anthropology-hazards/

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Muerte lenta por volcán

Un antropólogo comparte nuevas investigaciones sobre los sorprendentes peligros a largo plazo de los volcanes en Islandia y cómo afrontarlos.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

And if you're following because of Iceland’s recent volcanic eruptions 🌋 ... Check out this piece I wrote about how our skeletons can reveal the hidden dangers of volcanoes www.sapiens.org/biology/icel...

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Slow Death by Volcano

A biocultural anthropologist shares new research on the surprising long-term hazards of volcanoes in Iceland—and how to address them.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Wow, I was not expecting a sudden influx of followers! Welcome, all! If you're curious about my work, check out "A Story of Icelandic Skulls" that I produced through the SAPIENS science communication fellowship: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

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A Story of Icelandic Skulls

An anthropologist journeys to the Arctic Circle and finds a surprising story about the human remains that end up in museum collections.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Museum/anatomy peeps - Does anyone have experience with conserving and/or restoring the hardware on an antique Beauchēne mount (an "exploded skull")?

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

CALL OUT 🏺 We'd be grateful to hear of any opportunities in New Mexico for Trans folks with paleobotanical expertise so they can relocate. Please email: blacktrowelcollective@gmail.com

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Caroline VanSickle (she/her) @cvansickle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Forgot to add: U Wisconsin’s Gender & Women’s Studies Dept. is accepting applications for their Wittig Postdoc in Feminist Biology, due Feb. 14. It’s been a minute (omg nearly a decade 😱) since I was in this role, but if my experience can answer any questions, let me know.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I'm very excited to check this new book out!

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The dissertation is defended, the paperwork is filed, and my manuscript is formatted for @umasslibraries.bsky.social . There always seems to be another step in any PhD program, but (I think?) I'm now truly done!

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

BioAnth students - Are you interested in getting more involved in our national organizations? Run for the Biological Anthropology Section Student Seat of AAA! I've been our Student rep for 2 years now & it's been great learning the ins and outs and is great for networking! #AAA2024Tampa

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An unpleasant side effect of the flare up of the “science isn’t political” discourse is folks recommending defenses of that position from harassy/assaulty science guys.

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Adam Netzer Zimmer, PhD @anetzerzimmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My BlueSky intro! My name is Adam and I'm a newly-minted anthropology PhD. I document the ancestral human remains acquired by medical schools and research institutions for anatomy courses, and research the histories of race-based science and medicine in 🇮🇸 and 🇺🇸

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