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Hannah Oliver 🐒

@hannah-ollies.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Biological Anthropology Interested in non-human primate skeletal variation

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What’s your fake starwars academic paper
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero new archaeology grants this year. 🏺🧪🫠
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Hannah Oliver 🐒 @hannah-ollies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As a student directly impacted by the loss of the DDRIG, thank you for drawing attention to this.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 04/07/2026
This hits heavy.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 01/07/2026
President Donald Trump’s administration wants to enlist the public in attacking what it sees as wasteful spending. scim.ag/4gKrp76
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Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research
White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/06/2026
sewing machines are just like video games... you have the main mechanic (sewing stuff together, keeping seams tidy) but every once in a while it mixes in a minigame (thread the bobbin, untangle the birds nest you created by not holding your leads taut, the dreaded needle threading)
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Hannah Oliver 🐒 @hannah-ollies.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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Hannah Oliver 🐒 @hannah-ollies.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2
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Share Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Kelsey Jenkins, PhD @reptiliferous.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Idk about you, but the this is my favorite stage of writing a manuscript.
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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
In light of what is happening in Kansas, I want to reup this @sciam.bsky.social article on the world's first trans clinic destroyed in Nazi Germany. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences 7/11
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
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Buffalo Human Evolutionary Morphology Lab (BHEML) @bheml.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
BHEML makes headlines yet again! Our PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel was interviewed by New Scientist magazine on her work investigating the human chin, which can also be found in her most recent PLOS One publication. Take a look! www.newscientist.com/article/2515...
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Humans are the only primates with a chin – now we finally know why
Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a by-product of other traits shaped by natural selection
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Rob O'Malley (he/him) @robomalley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The Art/Culture/SciComm Expo returns for the 2026 @bioanth.org meeting! #Science -related #SciArt photography, poetry, needlepoint, painting, sculpture, games, posters about podcasts or local engagement work…all these and more are welcome! Submission deadline is Mar 7. forms.gle/kk7qCfQGXe6h...
A graphic reading "AABA Art, Culture and Science Engagement Exhibition" with stylized DNA, skulls, and primate faces.  Art by Michelle Bezanson
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Buffalo Human Evolutionary Morphology Lab (BHEML) @bheml.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New paper by PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel and former BHEML postdoc Dr. Lauren Schroeder! The human chin is a unique; investigating why and how it formed helps us to better understand ourselves and our lineage! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Is the human chin a spandrel? Insights from an evolutionary analysis of ape craniomandibular form
Humans are unique among primates in possessing a chin, yet it is currently unclear whether the form of the symphyseal region of the mandible where the chin is located is the product of direct selectio...
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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Gravettian woman sketch
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Hannah Oliver 🐒 @hannah-ollies.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Did you still need a speaker? I know someone who'd love to give a talk!
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
While we’re being bombarded with weather maps, I thought I’d revisit one of my favorite color palette tricks. Sometimes it’s important to emphasize a boundary, perhaps between moderate (< 6") and severe (>8") snowfall. You could reset the palette, like the NYT, but there’s a better way. 📊🗺️🎨
3-day snow accumulation forecast with a palette that resets from dark blue to light yellow at the boundary between 4–6 and 6–8 inches accumulation. This over-emphasizes the transition and may cause confusion.
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
Salary to living wage plot with only 4 programs falling aprove the 1:1 line and paying a living wage.
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linda2.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
What a Princess! Plumage intact and ruffled while stepping out. A show-off! #BirdOfTheDay #Walking #UKWildlife #Birds #Ornithology #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
A grey heron stepping through water in the hope of disturbing fish to eat. Yes, she was successful.
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Krista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶 So pretty! www.featherbase.info/zh/home
A picture of green jay feathers (Cyanocorax luxuosus). They are all lined up and organized: primaries, secondaries, coverts, tail feathers. Most of the feathers are gray with a green tip.
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Hannah Oliver 🐒 @hannah-ollies.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Malene Friis Hansen @mfhansen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation
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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Quick guide to exploring CT scans on MorphoSource
YouTube video by Gray's Vertebrate Anatomy
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Caroline VanSickle (she/her) @cvansickle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image! www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas... #BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
A page from the ebook version of "A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development" by Kyra Stull and Heather Garvin. This page features an image of acetabular development from newborn to 17.5 years. Each of the 19 acetabulae shown are yellow 3D models based on CT scans and oriented in lateral views such that the image focuses on the acetabulum. The upper part of the ilium is cropped out in hipbones after the age of 1.5 years. The age labels and title of the image ("Acetabular Development") are light blue boxes with black text. The bottom of the page has the caption "Figure 4.1 Acetabular development, newborn to 17.5 yoa. Lateral views presented at each designated age."
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Caroline Hu @hudrewthis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 15/08/2025
The skull according to ChatGPT: Mandible mandible mandible!
A terrible diagram of the skull courtesy of ChatGPT.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14/08/2025
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 13/08/2025
The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.
Grade F level diagram of an ostrich skeleton. The pelvis is labelled as a humerus, and sternum appears to be labeled as the pelvis.
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Blue Appaloosa @blueappaloosa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close? Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color. #SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Climbing into my #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection: a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) 🦎 this large male was getting up there in age when he was collected, as shown by his worn down teeth and bone pathologies. Find the model here: www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...
Image of a 3D model of a veiled chameleon skull, with bones colored to demonstrate skull anatomy, on a black background. Model is shown in lateral (top), antero-lateral (middle), and anterior (bottom) views. A small image of the whole museum specimen is shown with a scale bar in the bottom right corner.
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Serjoscha Evers @sirjoscha.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New paper by Guilherme Hermanson & me out: we explore ontogenetic shell shape change in turtles to check if there is a size threshold at which turtles reach adult shapes. This started for a different (in prep) study & was a fun little project w preliminary data link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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PG-18: turtles reach adult shell shapes at about 65% maximum carapace length - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Ontogenetic shell shape changes of turtles are often only documented for individual species. It is currently unclear how shell shape changes during ontogeny across species, if there are common trends,...
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Bill Ryerson @billryerson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...
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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Messy start
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Brooke Fitzwater, PhD (she/her) 🐟🪱🏳️‍🌈♾️ @oceanfilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
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Chris Law @chrislaw.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
After 11 months in review, grateful to learn that my NSF proposal examining the ecomorphology and evolution of mammalian skull dimorphism was awarded! Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social
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Habiba Chirchir @chelachir.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
cemas.osu.edu/news/2025/07... our work featured in Ohio State’s On Campus Newsletter
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MicroCT for bone density discoveries
Professor Habiba Chirchir uses CEMAS' Heliscan to get a closer look at mammal and primate bones
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18/06/2025
Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
Artist's reconstruction of the Harbin skull Denisovan. Image by Chuang Zhao
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Dr. Jaimi Gray @jaimiagray.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
Graphical abstract for "The Diffusion Diaries: Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced CT for Vertebrate Natural History Specimens", showing the number of scans : "252 scans of 205 specimens from 7 natural history collections" a plot showing how staining time increases with mass, log-transformed (bottom left), a pie chart showing the Tissue Condition scores (TCS) recorded for all specimens (bottom middle), and a screenshot of a lab protocol for diceCT'ing museum specimens (bottom right)Cover image for Integrative Organismal Biology, showing cross sections through a fish, a tenrec, a frog, and a lizard at the bottom of the image, and a 3D rendering of each animal at the top of the image (colored in teal, grey, yellow, and pink, respectively)
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025
Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/02/2025
Archive Request xkcd.com/3052
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