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Rebecca Siford

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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Yay! It’s a great day to hood some newly minted PhDs! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social @evmedasu.bsky.social @rebeccasiford.bsky.social #StoneLabVictory! #SciencePartyInTheDesert!
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya
The Turkana pastoralists of Kenya inhabit arid, water-limited environments and rely largely on livestock for subsistence. Working with Turkana communities, we sequenced 367 whole genomes and identifie...
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Yesterday, @rebeccasiford.bsky.social defended her dissertation on genetic research dissemination & views about DNA research, data privacy and governance among Turkana, Borana, Samburu and Rendille of Kenya. Congrats Dr. Siford!!
The newly minted Dr. Siford with committee chair Anne Stone & committee member Jason Robert (committee members Melissa Wilson & Sarah Mathew joined us online)! The cake is vanilla with chocolate icing and shows candy “beads” to represent the beads used in disseminating information about DNA.
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Nature @nature.com · 24/04/2025
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
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Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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Anne Stone @acstone.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The lab group this year! (Eric M. not shown) with Miriam, Maggie, @rebeccasiford.bsky.social, Erin, me, Maxine, Stevie and @marioapata.bsky.social
The molecular anthropology lab at ASU!
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