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Laure Spake

@lspake.bsky.social
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Biological anthropologist studying children, growth, stress, socioecology. Asst/Prof at Binghamton (SUNY). Runner/climber/modern primate. France > US > Canada > US. PNWer at heart. Slowly transitioning from the other apps.

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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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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Back in the field after a month break at home -- nice to be back in The Gambia !
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We've got two groups presenting growth-related research at #AABA2026 today! These were their term projects for our Growth and Development course this fall. Go check the posters out ! @harpurcollege.bsky.social
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
All, Agustin Fuentes and I, with the help of numerous others, have drafted a letter to Congress regarding the recent archiving of NSF/ SBE DDRI (doctoral dissertation research improvement) grants, which you can find here: docs.google.com/document/d/1....
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DDRI Congress Letter
Dear [Senator/ Representative], Alternate CCs (SBE Assistant Director, etc.) We write to urge the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to reinstate its Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (...
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Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/ #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 28/12/2025
The fourth most popular @royalsocietypublishing.org paper of 2025 finds that children and chimps share a curious trait: both are fascinated by social interactions. bit.ly/4pCSRW1
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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions
Abstract. Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the ac
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Bernadette Arnaud @narudaaarnaud.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
L’exposition « Momies » au Musée de l’Homme à Paris (du 19 novembre 2025 au 25 mai 2026) explore la momification à travers le monde et les époques, bien au-delà des clichés ! x.com/narudaaarnau...
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Bernadette Arnaud on X: "L’exposition « Momies » au Musée de l’Homme à Paris (du 19 novembre 2025 au 25 mai 2026) explore la momification à travers le monde et les époques, bien au-delà des clichés ! Pour les 10 ans de sa réouverture, le musée présente neuf corps momifiés exceptionnels (issus d’Égypte," / X
L’exposition « Momies » au Musée de l’Homme à Paris (du 19 novembre 2025 au 25 mai 2026) explore la momification à travers le monde et les époques, bien au-delà des clichés ! Pour les 10 ans de sa réouverture, le musée présente neuf corps momifiés exceptionnels (issus d’Égypte,
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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Konstanz school of Collective Behavior will take place again from 20th July to 7th August , 2026. We have an amazing line up of speakers covering state of the art research on collective behavior across systems. Application deadline : March 15th Details here: www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/applica...
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David Haimes @haimes.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The entries for the Western States 2026 lottery are closed, a new record number of tickets, but still under 100,000 www.wser.org/lottery2026.... #WSER #running #ultrarunning #trailrunning #WesternStates
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Benjamin Pitt @benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Another great PhD opportunity: An ERC-funded project on “Children as agents of cultural evolution,” lead by @sheinalew.bsky.social at Durham University. Come do fieldwork with Mayan groups in Belize with her, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, and I! One of three, 3-year PhD positions starting Fall 2026.
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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David W Lawson @davidwlawson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
New paper out today with Zhian Chen. We argue that modern intensive parenting is not only exhausting for parents, but in some cases disrupts healthy child development. What is 'overparenting'? And can evolutionary theory help us understand how we got here? academic.oup.com/emph/advance...
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When parental care hurts: Extended parental care and the evolution of overparenting
Abstract. In recent years, childrearing in high-income countries has become described as ‘relentless’ in its demands on parents. In response to growing del
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 20/10/2025
Gorillas likely experience menopause, according to an analysis of over 30 years of data from wild mountain gorillas in Uganda, which shows that females can live for a decade or more after their last baby. In PNAS: ow.ly/kxyz50Xf1ER
Female mountain gorilla (G. beringei beringei).
CREDIT: Martha M. Robbins
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/
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An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
An Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
All scientists can easily respond to this and you can choose to stay anonymous. I modified my comment from the FASEB response. We all know that international scientists are essential to US science and that these proposed rules are cruel to our colleagues. www.regulations.gov/comment/ICEB...
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Rachel Logan @rmslogan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I've been thinking for a while that humans have expanded beyond the scale of the individual and need to start thinking about emergence when dealing with social issues. Today, I'm reading this paper...
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Cultural inheritance is driving a transition in human evolution
Abstract. Previous research on a transition in human evolution has been befuddled by the complexity of adaptive culture and made little effort toward empir
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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social
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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society
Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Fees and Funding - Durham University
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“Overall, the message from this survey is positive; evolutionary biologists are readily employable outside of academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction
Many who have obtained PhDs in evolutionary biology will ultimately pursue careers that fall outside a narrow definition of an academic career. At the same time, PhD students and supervisors of PhD st...
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“there is a particular servitude in parenting without your people”… on the brutal demands of the nuclear family www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Being a mother in the west would be a dream, I was told. But compared to Uganda, it was a nightmare | Patience Akumu
Nothing prepared me for the reality of mothering without my extended family to help. How have western women managed like this for so long?
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Tim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Court invalidates NSF 15% indirect cost cap. Strong ruling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 10/06/2025
This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5163 Ethiopian Arsi Oromo adults. @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Social clustering of preference for female genital mutilation/cutting in south-central Ethiopia - Nature Human Behaviour
Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15–19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influenc...
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Are you a forensic anthropologist or other biological anthropologist who considers skeletal trauma interpretation part of your skill set? We are running a study (survey, ~15 min) on how practitioners interpret skeletal trauma. It's kinda fun to do! Sharing this with others is much appreciated 🤩
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useR! - The R User Conference @user-conf.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Registration is open for the useR! 2025 Virtual Program! The program features speakers from a diverse range of industries and parts of the world, covering topics from the basic to the advanced. Registration is free with options for suggested donations. user2025.r-project.org/register #RStats
A promotional image for the useR! 2025 Virtual Registration. The image features a laptop with a YouTube logo on the screen, placed on a wooden table. In the background, green leaves are visible through a window. Above the laptop, a blue banner with yellow text reads "useR! 2025 Virtual Registration." On the bottom left corner, a logo displays "useR! 2025" alongside a blue bull. On the bottom right corner, there is a QR code.
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🚨 Seeking practitioners, researchers, or students involved in forensic anthropology and/or skeletal trauma interpretation 🚨 Help us understand how forensic practitioners interpret gun shot and other trauma on long bones by participating in a short survey! binghamton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Sabrina Little @sabrinablittle.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Making running smaller. New column at iRunFar: www.irunfar.com/when-competi...
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When Competitive Days End
Sabrina Little's thoughts on when running takes a back seat to other priorities.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/05/2025
Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Julie has been such an instrumental part of our team over the last year. It's been a joy to watch her blossom in the field and figure out her career path - can't wait to see what she gets up to next as she pursues a career in nursing! www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5...
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Finding purpose in people: A grad’s path to anthropology - Binghamton News
Julie Efremenkova found deeper purpose in anthropology’s human focus. Drawn to fieldwork, she now studies biomedical anthropology and coordinates projects in The Gambia, which revealed a passion for c...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/04/2025
Perhaps the core of the document is the redefining on NSF's Broader Impacts criterion. Here's a key excerpt. ("do not effectuate NSF priorities" is a masterful use of the exoneration tense)
NSF's broadening participation activities, including activities undertaken in fulfillment of the Broader Impacts criterion, and research on broadening participation, must aim to create opportunities for all Americans everywhere.

These efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups. Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities.
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thanks 🤩 Paper just accepted today 👀 and can’t wait to explore the many unanswered questions about reproductive and child rearing overlap further ❤️
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Andy Grogan-Kaylor @agrogankaylor.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I’d like to share that my book, Multilevel Thinking: Discovering Variation, Universals, and Particulars in Cross-Cultural Research is available for pre-order at Oxford University Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro... * Includes appendices for estimating MLMs in #Stata, #Rstats, and #Julialang.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!! But...good news and bad news. 👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now. 👎 # of fellowships went down by 51% (1000 this year vs. 2036 last year) See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🤩📣 New paper on participant-led methodological development for collecting high-resolution data on the post-natal period 👩‍🍼 with @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @ehemmott.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social and the Best Beginnings Team ❤️ funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social summary 🧵👇
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Collecting real-time infant feeding and support experience: co-participatory pilot study of mobile health methodology - International Breastfeeding Journal
Background Breastfeeding rates in the UK have remained stubbornly low despite long-term intervention efforts. Social support is a key, theoretically grounded intervention method, yet social support ha...
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Postdoc at LSE with @eapower.bsky.social - modelling social dynamics to explore possible mechanisms fuelling social inequality. Deadline May 4th jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Research Officer in Modelling Social Dynamics
Research Officer in Modelling Social Dynamics, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="tex...
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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Tim Landy is still on Loop 2 and has timed out. Whenever he returns to camp he will be tapped out. Four runners are on Loop 3. #BM100
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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
After multiple failed attempts, the conch was blown at 10:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.
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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
For folks attending #HBA2025 or #AABA2025, the #EvAnthSoc will be hosting a (cash bar) mixer at McCormick's and Schmick's, Inner Harbor, 7pm, Friday, 3/14. Room is supposedly quiet. Ramps available for #access. Hope to see you there. www.mccormickandschmicks.com/location/mcc...
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Baltimore, MD | McCormick & Schmicks Seafood & Steaks
Inner Harbor seafood and steak restaurant offering waterfront dining with a view of the Lighthouse. View Menu: Dinner, Lunch, Happy Hour
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Team Bing Anthro at #AAFS2025 in Baltimore! Alex and Biannet presented results from their dissertation projects 📚🧑‍🔬 Well done to both of them!! @binghamtonu.bsky.social @harpurcollege.bsky.social
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Great ideas can come from anywhere, and congressional legislation (e.g., CHIPS and Science Act) has directed the NSF toward the goal of broadening participation in science. Researchers can organize and approach the legal counsel at their universities for clarifications on their activities. (14)
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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
February 18th! Come say hi and talk about the evolution of a particularly odd species for the Bristol Humanists #DarwinDay lecture --- yes, it's you ;) wegottickets.com/event/643698...
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Darwin Day Lecture - Growing up Human with Dr Brenna Hassett
Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science has begun to unravel one particular feature that sets us apart from the many, many animals that came before us – our uniquely long ...
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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025
The Santa Fe Institute has a call for applications for resident #research #faculty: (initially 5 years) santafe.edu/about/jobs/resident-fac… deadline Friday, March 28, 2025
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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource www.umass.edu/news/federal...
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Federal Actions | UMass Amherst
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Amber Wutich @awutich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Announcing the launch of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program's International Curriculum & Community of Practice (methods4all.org/camp-interna...) 🧵 This represents 5 years of work led by our global team, building on our proud 50 year history of NSF-funded methods programs in anthropology
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CAMP International – Methods4All: Home of the Cultural Anthropology Methods Program (CAMP) and CAMP International
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not). Please respond to this post with your institution and materials. THANK YOU!
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Authenticating into Manuscript Central with Clavirate is a step BACKWARDS in convenience/efficiency. It stalls out during login 100% of the time, so we're back to journal-specific logins - and having to figure out which no longer accessible old institutional email is linked to which journal.
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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!
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩 With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺 #Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych
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