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Dr. James K Gibb

@jameskgibb.bsky.social
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Biological Anthropologist | LGBTQ+ Health Researcher | He/Him/His | PhD Northwestern | 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 | Assistant Professor @ Indiana University

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 08/09/2026
DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is now published in the UK, Canada, and the US! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋🗃️ Every recommendation helps get this extraordinary history into more hands, so please ask your favourite libraries and bookstores to stock it. Thank you! 🙏 #booksky #reading #libraries #histsci #queerhistory
A copy of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science standing vertically on two others placed horizontally, with a vase of flowers behind them, on a table of other books. There's a bookmark visible in the vertical copy.
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Dr. James K Gibb @jameskgibb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m recruiting PhD students to join my lab in Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington for Fall 2027. Folks interested in biological anthropology, human biology, or LGBTQ+ population health please reach out! Happy to chat about potential projects! Applications are due Dec 1st!
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Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In case you missed it! These original illustrations of chimpanzee moms and infants in body contact are awesome. When fine art meets science, that's just the best thing, imo. 🧪🏺 P.S. Human-drawn by artist Raku Inoue. I can't believe we have to say that now onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Dr. James K Gibb @jameskgibb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
LOL I got my first piece of unsolicited mail in my faculty mailbox today from an “adoring fan” 🥳☺️🥹 it’s the haters that really tell you when you’ve made it 🏳️‍🌈
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Julia Bădescu @iuliabadescu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
By tracing how juvenile actions become evidence for adult roles & public claims about "human nature," I use primate play to examine evolutionary anthropology’s own acts of disciplined redescription. New paper in Evol Anth 🧪🏺 #Primatology #PhilSci onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Primate Play and the Classificatory Making of Human Nature
Primate play is often interpreted as a developmental activity through which immature individuals acquire capacities used later in life. This essay uses play to examine a wider process in behavioral r...
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NSF GRFP solicitation is live and anthropological disciplines are included in the appendix. I will be encouraging students to apply. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New paper in our special collection on scientific racism: Hereditarians consistently fail to engage with academic research, not just in genetics but also social science. @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social explains how they largely ignore the social brain hypothesis for the evolution of intelligence
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How the social brain hypothesis undermines hereditarianism | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
How the social brain hypothesis undermines hereditarianism
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Cross-national analysis without controlling for non-independence of data points is also the kind of exceedingly poor quality research which really shouldn't be getting published in 2026 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations - Nature Communications
Nations are connected in many ways, yet cross-national analyses often assume they are independent. Here, the authors show that previous studies may not have sufficiently accounted for this non-indepen...
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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Happy #PrideMonth! To celebrate, I'm starting a thread of readings on queerness in animals/evolution, and keep adding throughout the month. I'll include a mix of writing for popular audiences as well as some scientific articles and book recommendations! 🧪 🏳️‍🌈 (1/n) Nature has ALWAYS been queer! 🌈
Graphical abstract with a drawing of two bonobos copulating on branches with greenery in the background, and a researcher wearing a pride mask sitting with a clipboard observing. 


In the upper right text box above the researchers's head, the text has "Are bonobos just gal pals? (in bold), with bullet points:--same-sex "sociosexual" behavior is often treated as social rathan than sexual, --we overn overlook social functions in mixed-sex sexual behavior, --we should study social and sexual functions across all sex pairings!"

In the bottom left, under the bonobos, is another text box, with the bolded text: "LGBTQ+ scientists provide a situated perspective that expands our understanding of social and sexual behavior within queer frameworks."

The graphical abstract is from Graham and Rodrigues (2026), "Just Gal Pals! The Differential Treatment of Sexual Behavior Among Nonhuman Great Apes,'" in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Next, @mebenitez.bsky.social article "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in @tvolmag.bsky.social! She uses examples from her own research about how using established ethograms prevented recording and studying same-sex sexual behaviors! (4/n) 🧪🏳️‍🌈 #PrideMonth www.prosocial.world/posts/dont-a...
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: How Science Keeps Animal Sexuality in the Closet
Scientific bias has obscured how common same-sex behavior is across the animal world.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If you would like the government to know what you think about their proposal to put federal science funding, communication, and travel under strict political control, you can tell them in the public comment section here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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Robin G Nelson @robingnelson.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026
My new paper on time and studies of human behavior and evolution is out - Just FYI it's a theory paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Adjusting the Aperture: Decolonizing Time in Studies of Human Behavior and Evolution
Biological anthropology has long positioned foraging and often pastoralist populations as the most appropriate referent communities for the rigorous study of human behavior and evolution. With this, ...
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Cara Ocobock @caraocobock.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Hear me talk about how we biologically and culturally deal with the cold on BBC CrowdScience: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
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BBC Audio | CrowdScience | How do we adapt to the cold?
Why do people react so differently to cold weather?
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Jennifer Cullin, PhD @jennifercullin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Our new paper is now out in SS&M! In a sample of US youth attempting weight loss, we found that those motivated to lose weight because of teasing engaged in riskier weight loss strategies and had higher BP and CRP compared to those citing other motivations authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltOu-CmV5...
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Impact Institute at Northwestern University @impactinstitute.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Exposure to conversion therapy is associated with high blood pressure and increased systemic inflammation, according to a new paper from Northwestern researchers @jameskgibb.bsky.social, @mustanski.bsky.social, et al.
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Dr. Brian Mustanski @mustanski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging local and state laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth. Our new study in @JAMANetworkOpen is first to show these discredited practices increase risk for later heart disease. Free article: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Conversion Therapy Exposure and Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk
This cohort study assesses whether exposure to sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts is associated with cardiovascular disease risk in sexual and gender minority young adults assigned ...
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📣 NIH reinstating some terminated grants Exclusive via @chronicle.com 🔗👇 confirms what we’ve seen for weeks Piece asks: what’s “secret sauce”? As an early-impacted PI, I know strategy matters Now I'm advising orgs on appeals, “orderly” closeout & reinstatements: brittanycharlton.com/consulting
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Consulting — Brittany Charlton
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
New from Arline Geronimus: “findings suggest that structural economic changes over the past half-century have had profound, long-term effects on health—especially for less-educated workers” medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04...
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50 years of US economic change linked to poorer health, shorter lives for less-educated Americans
Fifty years of economic change have taken a heavy toll on some Americans, especially those with less education who not only have been left behind but also are sicker and living shorter lives, accordin...
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The Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Not every university has something like the Kinsey Institute. But then again, not every university is IU. Support our research with a gift this #IUDay 🎁 knsy.in/IUDAY25
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Support the Kinsey Institute at IU
For nearly 80 years, the world-renowned Kinsey Institute at Indiana University has been the trusted source for scientific knowledge and research on critical issues in sexuality, gender, and reproducti...
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🚨 Scientists: If your NIH grant was terminated like all of mine, help us uncover why 👇👇👇 We've been monitoring terminations from the start & are now diving into the data 🔍 Your research is crucial for health & a thriving democracy! ✊ #HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth #NIH #Autocracy #Democracy
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Grateful to @katherinejwu.com of @theatlantic.com for being responsive, thorough, and reflective when I asked if she'd tackle this story! In the hours since publication, however, our work has entirely changed... 1/🧵
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The NIH’s Grant Terminations Are ‘Utter and Complete Chaos’
The Trump administration is rapidly canceling hundreds of grants, in the most aggressive attack yet on American science.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
very likely that they’re about to find a constitutional right to forced conversion therapy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Americans (myself included) tend to laugh off the Trump noises about annexing Canada as obvious nonsense, but the rest of the world is taking the threat seriously. Our media should reflect that reality and hold him accountable for the serious damage he’s causing.
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Again please share our study on the executive orders in academia iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
6/ 🏳️‍🌈 Same-sex marriages aren’t new but often sidelined in evolutionary research. From Igbo women in Nigeria marrying wives to male-male unions in the Azande of Central Africa, diverse family forms have long existed - despite modern biases in research.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 17/11/2024
"New PrEP medications are heavily marketed, yet, generic PrEP dominated the market... This could be attributed to a 2021 fed. guidance directing insurers to cover the cost of generic PrEP medication w/o pt cost-sharing, suggesting that effective health policy can result in lower... expenditures." 🛟📈
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Trends in Oral and Injectable HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Prescriptions in the US, 2013-2023
This study examines the prescribing trends of 3 oral preexposure prophylaxis medications and a long-acting injectable option from 2013 to 2023.
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95
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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A reminder that the wonderful @prideinstem.bsky.social has created two starter packs of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM: part 1: go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf part 2: go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ
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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We have started a second Starter Pack - if you are LGBTQ+ in STEM and want to be in it do let us know #QueerinSTEM go.bsky.app/Cw9bRYZ
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Jennifer Cullin, PhD @jennifercullin.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Deadline Dec 1
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