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Derek Boyd

@derekboyd.bsky.social
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Board-Certified Forensic Anthropologist • Assistant Professor of Anthropology • Co-Director of the UNLV Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Laboratory • #QueerInStem 🏳️‍🌈 Check out the FAB lab website! fablab.sites.unlv.edu

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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Excited to announce that I am officially a board-certified forensic anthropologist!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Getting really tired of the “we need to cut costs” rhetoric. We need billionaires to pay their taxes. That’s it.
science.org
NSF becomes third U.S. science agency to propose smaller overhead payments to universities
Courts have blocked attempts by NIH and DOE to impose a flat 15% rate for reimbursement
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
An amazing lab getting some well-deserved recognition. Grateful to have trained at the HIL!
forensicmag.com
How a Small Human ID Lab Built a Global Reputation
Members of the Human Identification Lab are deployed to private property or public lands, hiking across fields and ravines, and even boating or helicoptering into some of the most remote locations.
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Big congrats to my PhD student, @eliseadams.bsky.social, for receiving an AABA Pollitzer Student Travel Award!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I am very grateful to have received a Cobb Professional Development Grant for my proposed work on respiratory disease in industrial-era England this coming summer!
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Nothing says “I love you” to the working class like ending their health care coverage.
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Folks have been talking about how unhinged their con law classes have been the past three weeks and I’m over here trying to figure out how to articulate the dismantling of our federal healthcare and disease control/prevention systems to graduate students in my class on infectious disease dynamics…
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This new administration is making the US more and more vulnerable each and every day all to save a buck.
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Whatever vaccines you have been procrastinating to get, get them now.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
MAGA rn: Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!” Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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kjcon.bsky.social @kjcon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
cnn.com
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
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Sam Horwich-Scholefield @samhorwich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Not a bad day to start following state and local health departments on bluesky go.bsky.app/5RKapGo
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/01/2025
The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website. Pages removed include: - Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System - Social Vulnerability Index - Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
CDC Page:

The page you're looking for was not found.

Please try the CDC archives or the A-Z index.

Search CDC.gov
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Anyone else more nervous than usual about flying to academic conferences given the recent history of Boeing crashes, changes to the TSA and FAA, and now the tragedy in DC? #academicsky
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Marquisha Johns @marquishajohns.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
RFK Jr. wants to get rid of 600 employees at NIH "not doing their jobs." What does that even mean? It means the people working on infectious disease research, lifesaving drug development, and vaccine research.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sometimes I just love "THE BERN"
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
washingtonpost.com
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Students deserve to learn in safe environments where they can make mistakes and learn from them. Not where if they don’t dodge a gunman they die. Not where ICE agents can come and snatch them away. Something needs to change. Now. #academicsky
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My R1 university wasn’t able to reach a price agreement with Elsevier about maintaining access to peer-reviewed journals, so we lost access to 1,665 of them. #academicsky
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 21/01/2025
🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
desmog.com
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that ...
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If there is anything that I’ve learned from the temporary RedNote migration, it’s that billionaires and millionaires HAVE to pay their FAIR share of taxes if we are ever going to make meaningful progress towards equity beyond what we have managed to achieve within the last century. #tiktokrefugee
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Just so we are clear, the last TikTok video that I will probably ever watch was of a kindergarten teacher using M&Ms to explain that skin color doesn’t matter. That it is what’s on the inside that matters. But yes, clearly that was China trying to brainwash me. #tiktokrefugee
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
App banning is the new book burning
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I think the Founding Fathers of the United States of America would be proud of the pure pettiness underlying the mass migration to RedBook/RedNote. But also, as an anthropologist, I am living for the intercultural communication happening on that app right now.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Pete Hegseth is attacking mainstream media right now. The Trump Administration is about to launch one of the most unprecedented attacks on our media. As an independent media source, I will never back down. Subscribe for free to my newsletter today: aaronparnas.substack.com
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/01/2025
"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril" www.ft.com/content/63c3...

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	The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril.

As many as 80 new gas-fired power plants will be built in the US by 2030, said energy consultancy Enverus, adding 46 gigawatts of capacity — the size of the electricity system in Norway and nearly 20 per cent more than was added in the past five years.

The capacity surge is expected to unfold during the second presidential term of Donald Trump, who has vowed to keep fossil fuels at the centre of the US economy, and signals a reversal of earlier forecasts for natural gas capacity to fall in the next five years.

“Gas is actually growing faster now, and in the medium term, than ever before,” said Corianna Mah, a research analyst at Enverus.

The expansion will imperil Biden administration climate targets, which called for greenhouse gas emissions to fall by 50-52 per cent from 2005 levels by the end of the decade and the grid to be 100 per cent carbon-pollution free by 2035.

“For natural gas to have a role in a decarbonised energy system, its emissions must be mitigated to the maximum extent possible,” said Armond Cohen, executive director at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental non-profit.



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	US gas power plants emitted more than 1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide last year, up nearly 4 per cent in a year and the highest on record, according to data from Ember, an energy think-tank.

None of the planned gas plants tracked by Enverus will come equipped with carbon capture systems. While the Biden administration required new facilities to include the technology starting in 2032, Trump is expected to scrap or weaken the rule.

Wood Mackenzie and S&P Global Market Intelligence said US capacity growth in total could increase even more quickly, by 35 per cent and 66 per cent, respectively, over five years, compared with the buildout in the previous half decade.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/01/2025
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
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New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Not me blocking Elon Musk as fast as humanly possible after getting a notification that he started following me 🙄
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
apnews.com/live/matt-ga... Is this what the power of social critique looks like? 💁🏻‍♂️🦋
apnews.com
Live updates: Matt Gaetz withdraws his name from consideration as Trump's attorney general
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation.
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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
80 people now on the bioarch starter pack 🤩 great to see so many of us here! go.bsky.app/N5yfURb
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I feel seen!
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
newskies, some culture notes: don't be a jerk don't quote-skeet to dunk on ppl don't do stuff for clout / clicks don't argue with dinguses, just mute/block/report (this is NOT a nazi bar) amplify good folks cheer ppl on we're glad to cheer you & your work on you are not a brand be a human being
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi there! I’m an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I model health and disease in archaeological populations and provide forensic anthropology consultation services. I anticipate that the bulk of my engagement will be with #academicsky
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New research laboratory website is live. Check it out! humanhealthandskeletalbiologylab.sites.unlv.edu
humanhealthandskeletalbiologylab.sites.unlv.edu
Human Health and Skeletal Biology Lab
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Excited to announce that I will be joining the faculty at UNLV in July as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology! I will be directing research through the new Human Health and Skeletal Biology Lab focused on exploring health in marginalized groups through time.
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
New article out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Big thanks to @dryaussy.bsky.social for giving a guest lecture on famine, climate change, and medieval plague in my Plagues and Peoples course. The students had a blast!!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Last week, the students in my course, Bodies of Evidence: The Science of CSI, completed their final activity, a mock crime scene recovery. They worked in teams to assess, document, and recover (plastic) human remains. I had a blast working with them this semester. Onto Forensic Anth in the spring!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Big thanks to Dr. Becca George for talking to my UTC students about dental anthropology and forensic science!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Had a fantastic time at the Mountain, Swamp, and Beach Regional Forensic Anthropology Conference with my students last weekend. We heard several great talks about current research in forensic anthropology in the southeast!
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
My undergraduates had a blast in my class, Bodies of Evidence: The Science of CSI, this morning. Can you say arterial spurt?
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Derek Boyd @derekboyd.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
Finally found a use for these postcards of old anatomical illustrations I got from the Getty Museum in LA last summer. Did you know that they have a collection of old medical illustrations from the 18th-19th centuries?? Excited to integrate these documents into my future teaching and research!
Office door with postcards depicting old drawings of the human body from the 18th and 19th centuries.
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