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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 15h

attn @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social team, this is very important for Kansas. We train students and employ researchers in the state with SBE funding. These are devastating numbers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our archivist is at the Library of Congress and she sent me this photo. I want this image on everything I own

Beaux-Arts/Art Deco style painting of a woman in Greco-Roman dress looking at a large boom through a magnifying glass. At her feet is a ceramic pot. She is framed by decorative floral garlands. Above her is a red sign with the single word "Archaeology"

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down how a GOP senator tried to use a supposed Atlanta Hawks game to prove Jack Smith secretly colluded with Trump prosecutors—only to learn the texts were about the Iowa Hawkeyes game he attended 700 miles away in Maryland.

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'COMPLETE DOOFUS': GOP’s Jack Smith ‘smoking gun’ CRUMBLES over Caitlin Clark game

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Bat1K Genome Project @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Where did bats come from?🦇🌍 After decades of debate, the biggest bat genome + fossil study ever done has an answer - and it’s not where anyone expected! 🤩OUR PHASE 1 FLAGSHIP is out today in nature! doi.org/10.1038/s415... A thread 🧵

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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay I just wrote 2k words on it, so we'll see!

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I make an analogy in my book between squid guard from BJJ and population genetics will anyone get it?

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Confused White Dog

ALT: Confused White Dog

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Words to live by: “baby’s in his find out era.”

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'Nature of Wildworks', a rescue in Coarsegold, CA, shared this video of Cliff the Cougar purring in contentment. Cats that roar (lions, tigers) generally can't meow or purr for anatomical reasons. But let's explore WHY cats purr. We can start by asking: WHEN do they purr? (📷: Nature of Wildworks)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I put together a little Instagram video on the fantastic new paper by @jenniferraff.bsky.social and colleagues on the initial peopling of the Americas: www.instagram.com/p/DdrcOUfOZQq/

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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh hey I have a new paper out with my amazing co-authors 😃

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🦇 Bats! So cool! Love'em!

Since bat wings are just skin stretched between elongated finger bones, Bats fly through the power of jazz hands.

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 23/09/2026

Want to support the diversity you’d like to see in Biological Anthropology? Applications are open to join us as a 2027 AABA IDEAS Faculty (9 positions) or Student (15 positions) Scholar at our Annual Meeting in Philadelphia March 31 - April 3, 2027! Details are below! bioanth.org/about/divers...

This is a flyer providing details on the AABA IDEAS STUDENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM for 2027. It shares details on the program and eligibility to apply, along with an application link. Applications are due November 13th.

This is a flyer providing details on the AABA IDEAS FACULTY SCHOLAR PROGRAM for 2027. It shares details on the program and eligibility to apply, along with an application link. Applications are due October 14th.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not how stable governance works.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Broke the thread, sorry. We refreshed ourselves with root beer floats and are back for the debate between Adam Hamilton (D) and Roger Marshall.

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This guy is pointing the sign at Ty supporters and Ty himself

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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s going down at the Kansas State Fair today. We’re here early to watch the gubernatorial debate. This thread will be a mix of #politics and #culture.

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MinmiTheDino @minmi.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

There is actually something really beautiful to me about the conversation emerging around AI and the reminder that the tasks we set for ourselves are not for their own sake, but for our own human growth, learning, understanding and flourishing.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Go K.U. beat Mizzou

Colonel Charles R. Jennison, the original Jayhawker

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a bunch of totally normal people who were taking what was a totally normal flight found themselves in an impossible situation and said: we're going to do something about it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

essential listening for academics, especially my fellow biologists

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/08/2026

The lab is a mysterious place--where some people have "magic hands," and some experiments just won't work. Here's my story about the unspoken knowledge of science, and the struggle to share it. Gift link: nyti.ms/3UccF7Z

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UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Another poster from our institute, this time engaging with the important legacy of eugenics. Molly Gilbert and Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social explore how eugenic ideas became institutionalised and how echoes persist in debates around reproduction, genetics and demographic anxieties.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists @bioanth.org · 31/07/2026

The AABA is currently accepting proposals for Invited Symposia for the 96th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (March 31-April 3, 2027). Information on preparing and submitting a symposium proposal is available at the link below. The submission deadline is Monday, August 17, 2026, at 11:59 PM PDT.

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96th Annual Meeting Invited Symposia - AABA

The deadline for Invited Symposium proposals is August 17, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) The Symposium Proposal portal is now open! Please […]

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It broke the brain of so many people in the US because so many of them had already been primed by a deliberate partisan attempt to undermine the expertise of scientists and scholars

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Chaser bsky.app/profile/need...

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