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Graciela Cabana

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Prof @UTK_Anth. Editor-in-Chief YearbookBioAnth. Anth Genetics in STS. She/her/ella

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.
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Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed
According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.
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Graciela Cabana @gscabana.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Biological Anthropologists! The AABA (US) IDEAS Program is welcoming applications for BOTH Student Scholars and Faculty Scholars. The Faculty Scholar deadline is October 15th, and the Student Scholar deadline is October 31st. Please share this call widely! Flyers for each, below:
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Graciela Cabana @gscabana.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If you are post-PhD 🎓 and interested in biological anthropology 🧬🦠🦴💀, consider becoming a "Faculty Scholar" in the AABA IDEAS Program! IDEAS = Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Biological Anthropology Check out the link below 👇
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The IDEAS Program - AABA
AABA 2026 IDEAS PROGRAM The AABA IDEAS Program provides a team, a space, and a suite of activities to engage issues of scholarship, professional preparation, […]
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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Free to access! Download Dr. Sievert's article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Evolutionary Perspectives, Comparative Approaches, and the Lived Experience of Menopause
The purpose of this synthesis is to review age at menopause, symptom experience at midlife, and the evolution of menopause in a way that is helpful for biological anthropologists who are interested i...
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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Dr. Lynnette Sievert - a short video summary of her Yearbook pub, ""Evolutionary Perspectives, Comparative Approaches, and the Lived Experience of Menopause." youtu.be/dm3IDoDyWPw
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Sievert 2024
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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Want to hear more about comparative studies in primate behavior? Read Aaron Sandel, Jeremiah Scott, & Jason Kamilar's new paper in the 2024 Yearbook!
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Primate Behavior and the Importance of Comparative Studies in Biological Anthropology
Biological anthropology seeks to understand humans from an evolutionary perspective. Namely, what makes humans different from other animals, and how did we get this way? Many relevant traits are phys...
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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Katy Weisensee made a short, fun, and informative video summarizing her just-out Yearbook paper (with Madeline Atwell) on PMI estimation in Forensic Anthropology. Check it out: youtu.be/LMrm1dI4slI
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Weisensee & Atwell 2025
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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Interested in qualitative analyses but don't quite know how to approach it? Read "Rigorous and Systematic Qualitative Data Analysis in Biological Anthropology" from an incredible line-up of authors from multiple bioanthropological fields. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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“Rigorous and Systematic Qualitative Data Analysis in Biological Anthropology”
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yearbookbioanth.bsky.social @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The 2024 Yearbook of Biological Anthropology issue is finally out! We have five great articles that are free to access and free to download (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/26927691...) Stay tuned for more content on each of the papers!
2024 YBA cover image: Interview on menopause being conducted as part of Lynnette Sievert's work (covered in Menopause piece)
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Graciela Cabana @gscabana.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Hi everyone! The Yearbook of Biological Anthropology is now on BlueSky! Please give the journal a follow: @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social
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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 03/01/2025
📣 Students: applications for Pollitzer Student Travel Awards to attend #AABA2025 in Baltimore are due on January 6! Apply now! bioanth.org/about/willia...
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William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award - AABA
The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. The awards are named in honor of […]
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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 03/01/2025
📣 Early career researchers: Applications for the Cobb Professional Development Grant are due January 6! Apply now! bioanth.org/about/cobb-p...
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Cobb Professional Development Grants - AABA
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists recognizes that the professional development of talented scientists in the early stages of their careers is critical to the […]
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Kristi Lewton 🏳️‍🌈 @lewton.bsky.social · 13/01/2024
Students attending AABA2024: we have a volunteer program! Help the association during the conference and @biologicalanth.bsky.social will waive your meeting registration fee! More info here and application due by Feb 20, 2024: bioanth.org/meetings-and...
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Interested in being a student volunteer?
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Listened to Ned Blackhawk discuss his book The Rediscovery of America at UConn. Can't wait to read this history of Natives from a Native point of view, from a source of strength!
Book cover of The Rediscovery of America, Native People and the Unmaking of US HistoryBook cover of The Rediscovery of America, Native People and the Unmaking of US History with Ned Blackhawk, a Native man with long white hair, speaking at a podium behind the book.Ned Blackhawk, a Native man with long white hair, speaking at a podium. A sign on the window says you are on Indigenous land
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Zuzana Chovanec @zuzchovanec.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
#Smithsonian #NMAI is hosting a #workshop for #teachers wanting to incorporate classes on #indigenous and American Indian peoples into their curriculum www.teachingforchange.org/native-knowl...
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Native Knowledge 360֯ and Teaching for Change Teach-In - Teaching for Change
National curriculum teach-in for educators held online on Saturday, November 4th, 2023. A day of online conversation, curriculum highlights, workshops, and idea exchange to promote improved teaching ...
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics 17 - 20 Sep 2024 This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, with the option to attend virtually. Registration is not yet open for this event. If you are interested in receiving more information please register your interest.
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Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics
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Graciela Cabana @gscabana.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Are you a student interested in biological anthropology? Do you identify as a member of a systematically marginalized group? Then consider joining us at the AABA IDEAS Program Workshop! Student applications are now open! Apply here: tiny.utk.edu/IDEAS_Student_apply
AABA IDEAS Student Scholar Program
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
I am ✨manifesting✨ my desire to admit a new graduate student into my lab this year - in particular scholars who are interested in working on our covid vax/menstrual changes project. HMU if you have excellent undergrads who would be a good fit! 🧪 #AcademicSky
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"
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An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome
An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome
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Graciela Cabana @gscabana.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
BioAnth Post-PhDs: Apply to the IDEAS Program now includes a "Faculty Scholars" Program! Apply if you are post-Phd (any level), even if you are an IDEAS alum. The Faculty Scholars application link is now live (forms.gle/gmAF7Sy6Nx9x...)
IDEAS Program Faculty Scholars Info
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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Join us!
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Rori! @roricomics.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
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