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Marcela Pfaff-Nash

@marcela-pfaff-nash.bsky.social

Biological anthropologist. PhD candidate Anthropology, Baylor University. Intestinal health + child growth + market integration.

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Baylor Anthropology @bayloranthro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Congratulation to one of our newest grad students My Linh Huynh-Lucero (@mylinhhulu.bsky.social) who has secured a highly competitive NSF GRFP award, recognizing outstanding graduate students in STEM. This year there was only a 5% acceptance rate in the life sciences, so very well done My Linh.

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Marcela Pfaff-Nash @marcela-pfaff-nash.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Thanks @evanthsociety.bsky.social for this recognition!

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Catalina I. Fernández, PhD (she/her) @catferna.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"The team’s analyses revealed that, eight years after the arrival of their first child, women were 29% less likely to be employed at a university than if they had not become mothers" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why

Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.

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Catalina I. Fernández, PhD (she/her) @catferna.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

🤩PREPRINT OUT! Using our causal model of 👫 growth, we test if model can estimate growth trajectories of pops. of 🚸 of uncertain age using cross-sectional data. Results: our model provide accurate estimates providing a solution for bioarcheological and other contexts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Baylor Anthropology @bayloranthro.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

New research lead by @marcela-pfaff-nash.bsky.social shows children living in low-resource, rural settings experience intestinal challenges that can persist well beyond early childhood, highlighting the role of globally varying intestinal function for childhood health and development.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Impaired Intestinal Function Among Indigenous Shuar Children of Amazonian Ecuador: Evidence From Lactulose:Mannitol Tests of Absorption and Permeability

Objectives Intestinal function is an important but often overlooked aspect of human biological variation, with the intestines serving as both a barrier against external pathogens/contaminants and th...

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