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Kathy Wander

@kwander.bsky.social
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Biological Anthropology | Evolutionary Medicine & Public Health | Binghamton U (SUNY) | she/her | Dr/Prof/Mom

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The Human Biology Association @humbioassociation.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New research by @kwander.bsky.social, @kristinsznajder.bsky.social, & colleagues found lower odds of diabetes among men who regularly chew betel quid in rural Bangladesh. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
New paper with Mary Shenk's team out, demonstrating inverse association between betel quid use and diabetes in Bangladesh. w/ @kwander.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Inverse Association Between Betel Quid Use and Diabetes in Rural Bangladesh
Objectives Betel quid is used as a mild stimulant in many parts of South and East Asia and the Pacific. In observational studies, its use has been associated with elevated risk for diabetes, but stu...
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Our latest in EMPH - an #evolutionarymedicine perspective on betel nut chewing in Bangladesh: academic.oup.com/emph/article...
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An evolutionary perspective on the use of betel nut and its effects on health outcomes
AbstractBackground and objectives. The use of psychoactive substances appears to be a consistent behavior throughout human evolutionary history. In contemp
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Thanks to all who have signed so far. We have 73 signatories across a variety of disciplines. Let's see if we can break 200 before we send it off next week. Please re-post and send on to your colleagues. Thank you!
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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Longer thread here. bsky.app/profile/drto...
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Many of you are aware that NSF has terminated DDRIs for anthropologists and archaeologists. This is obviously a blow to these fields. It means we need to be proactive in revising expectations and training programs. This sort of thing reminds us again how important it is to be able to pivot.
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
A sign of the times:
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Gutting basic science WON'T make America great. It WILL hurt our understanding of the world around us, and make us vulnerable to propaganda and misinformation. It will make it harder to see that history is repeating itself. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I am so clear with students: if they are sick, they should keep their germs at home, their absence will be excused. They get it, and mostly comply. The critical second part of the message is, I do not need or want a thorough run down of their symptoms. They don't always remember this part
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Chris I saw someone this very morning say “we don’t need NOAA, there’s weather apps on my phone” I am so tired.
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Measles kills: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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Unvaccinated Child Dies of Measles in Texas, Officials Say (Gift Article)
At least 124 cases of measles have been identified in Texas since late January, mostly among children and teenagers who are either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, officials say.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The chaos for sure is the point.
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Need To Know Basis is launched ! The team is now working on data collection in the Farafenni region of The Gambia. Thank you to the team for all their work in the field and for their sensitivity asking men and women about information sharing and FGC!
8 men and women stand together in front of a hospital building
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Shout out to the PI team: @kwander.bsky.social @johnhshaver.bsky.social Bettina Shell-Duncan and Carla Cerami. Our awesome collaborating institution is: MRC Unit The Gambia @LSHTM. Funded by the NSF. Finally, learn more: laurespake.netlify.app/project/
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
How does iron nutrition affect risk for COVID-19? 🧪 Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
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Iron nutrition and COVID-19 among Nigerian healthcare workers
AbstractBackground and objectives. The optimal iron hypothesis (OIH) posits that risk for infection is lowest at a mild level of iron deficiency. The exten
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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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Athena Aktipis @athenaaktipis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Curious grad students: ready to reimagine how societies understand & manage risk? DM me if you're game. #gradresearch #riskscience #interdisciplinarywork Spread the word!!
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Chris Carroll, MD @chriscarrollmd.com · 26/11/2024
But then the pandemic hit. And we sent all those children with asthma home to their supposedly dirty homes. And guess what? Severe asthma WENT AWAY! During quarter 2 2020, when there would typically be 1400 kids in #pedsICU’s around the US, there were 241. 6/17 journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...
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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A stuffie Salmonella seemed like a cute conversation starter for my lab office but now somehow I’m arguing with the 11 yo about whether gonorrhea is an appropriate Christmas present
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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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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
For bio anthros interested in the immune system of milk, here is our latest: doi.org/10.1002/ajhb... Maternal age and previous pregnancies seem to be the primary predictors of in vitro milk responses to bacteria.
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Just returned from the 2023 Stakeholders’ Meeting for the Child Health and Development in Kilimanjaro project’s iron deficiency research, funded by NSF Bio Anth. We discussed initial findings, plans for disseminating results, and future research directions. SO happy to see everyone again!
About 20 CHDK stake holders seated at tables during a presentation, many writing in notebooksA group photo of about 20 meeting participants, standing outdoors
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Cambridge is glad to remind everyone that this edited volume, Human Behavioral Ecology, will be available in February. While summarizing the state of the field, it also looks ahead to rising cohorts of early-career behavioral ecologists and the insights that await. www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...
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Human Behavioral Ecology
Cambridge Core - Evolutionary Biology - Human Behavioral Ecology
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Female academics less likely to win prizes, even when the award is named after a woman. Analysis: 9,000 awardees & 346 scientific prizes, medals published in Nature Human Behaviour, found men win 8 prizes for every 1 won by a woman. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (it isn't) phys.org/news/2023-11...
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
My baby is out: #NSF DCL requesting conferences and supplements to support access and engagement in fundamental #disabledinSTEM research. Apply and spared the word! nsf.gov/pubs/2023/ns...
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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Please share. We're looking for a Cultural Anthropologist with a specialty in Native North America at UMass Boston. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Here’s the thing This kind of threat only has to happen a few times to have a chilling effect on all academic lecturing. With this in your head, how do you NOT think: “Anything dangerous in my lecture?” as you write/deliver it? Threats of violence can be as effective—even MORE—than real violence.
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Cara Ocobock @caraocobock.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
We contend that a strict sex binary is useful in some circumstances (evolutionary questions about sexual reproduction or utilizing historical demographic data, for example), but in others it is inadequate (e.g., associations between the sexes, hormones, and athletic performance).
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Anybody else using their sabbatical cross “jury duty” off of your to-do list? 😒
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Lesley Harrington @laharrin.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Searching for a new colleague! Please help spread the word. Assistant Professor, Biological Anthropology, University of Alberta www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...
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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Biological Anthropology - Competition No. A107351962
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Kathy Wander @kwander.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
“The grim statistics are there for all to see — and yet the political establishment has largely skirted the issue.” This story is scary and heartbreaking, but completely unsurprising www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter...
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America’s epidemic of chronic illness is killing us too soon
Among people under 65, chronic illnesses erase more than twice as many years as overdoses, homicides, suicides and car accidents combined, a Post examination found.
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