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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho

@vcampanacho.bsky.social
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Bioanthropologist interested in osteology, paleopathology, history of anthropology, ethics, curation practices, and women in science. Feminist and setting my own path in science. She/her

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 4h
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
timeshighereducation.com
Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 3h
this picture is from 10 years ago in October. as students we took it upon ourselves to organize bystander intervention and consent workshops because our institutions let survivors down. it popped into my head this week considering how in some ways students today have worse material conditions
Lex in 2016 in college, holding a white board reading “it’s on us to end sexual violence because as a 2x survivor I am seeking justice by creating an accountable, healing and radically loving community”
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 3h
Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online www.medievalists.net/2026/09/600-... #medievalmanuscripts
medievalists.net
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/09/600-medieval-manuscripts-online/
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 3h
Chimpanzees have been recorded applying insects to treat open wounds, while more than 200 bird species use ants to remove parasites or maintain feathers. Other birds build nests near wasps or other stinging insects, likely to gain protection from predators. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Insects play critical role in ecosystems beyond just providing food, new research shows
Insects provide protection, sanitation and even shelter to vertebrates, making them a priority for conservation efforts
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 3h
GRANTS ANNOUNCEMENT: Audrey Henshall Legacy Fund Reopens We are offering a grant of up to £10,000 for the successful applicant to develop and undertake a significant research project which supports research or fieldwork on pre-Roman antiquities in Scotland: www.socantscot.org/news/audrey-...
Woman sitting in a field with overlaid text that reads: Grants Announcement
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“No student should ever be left wondering whether the institutions meant to protect them will listen and act,” Hochul wrote. “There are also serious questions about Cornell’s campus culture and its systems for prevention, reporting, and response.”
cornellsun.com
Gov. Kathy Hochul Requests ‘Independent Review’ of Cornell's Response to Alleged Chi Phi Gang Rape
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has called for a review by "outside counsel" of the University's response to allegations of sexual assault and rape at the Chi Phi house in 2024.
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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 23h
Last year, Mike Lawler looked you in the eye and said “I will not cut Medicaid.” Then he was the deciding vote for Trump’s “Big Ugly Bill,” enabling the largest Medicaid cut in American history.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 7h
New Philly voice article on the fight to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences! www.phillyvoice.com/academy-natu...
phillyvoice.com
Academy of Natural Sciences is closed, but the fight for the museum continues
A grassroots group is urging Drexel's board to disaffiliate from the institution and calling for a public process to decide its future.
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Anna P. Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been compiling a list for @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social of small-grant sources - orgs with funds for UK-based students/researchers/teachers in #Classics & related fields to use for e.g. research trips, conferences, other professional development activities #ClassicsBluesky 🏺1/4
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Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields
Sources of small grant funding in classics & related fields The WCC UK’s Small Grants Scheme provides grants of up to £150 to support members’ academic activities relating to the study of classics (...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19h
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sneak peek at SLEUTH-HOUND this Wednesday! Bring your best questions!
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But Muse is just a cute little guy!
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta, the company that brought you: Election interference, Spying software, Metadata abuse, Damage to children, Pervert glasses.... Mark Zuckerberg knows Meta is doing terrible things but he makes a lot of money from it, so... The question is, why do we keep feeding the beast?
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mamdani: "To have a potential governor who embraces ICE and has gone so far as to create effectively a private militia in Nassau County, that is in many ways the antithesis of what people hope for is the future of the state, and yet that is exactly what Blakeman is offering."
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Bob Harvie @bobharvie-pa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congress shouldn't be a launchpad for a lobbying career, but too many lawmakers spend years building relationships they later cash in for million-dollar contracts. It’s time for a lifetime ban on former Members of Congress lobbying the federal government.
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Reproaction @reproaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kristan Hawkins, head of Students for Life of America, believes a nine-year-old should be forced to give birth to her rapists’ child. New and important reporting by @motherjones.com and @amylittlefield.bsky.social (1/3) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Kristan Hawkins helped kill Roe. Now she’s fighting to control the movement she created.
How the Charlie Kirk of abortion moved from the fringes to the mainstream.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/09/2026
Russell Vought is upset his ideas are overwhelmingly unpopular, but he won’t stop until he is the evil henchman for all NIH grants. 🧵
The graphic displays a photo of Russell Vought and the red Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic reads: "Update: Russell Vought joins the war on cancer, on the side of cancer."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
its part of the reason younger dems like aoc and maxwell frost and others are so much more hard edged vs the gop than establishment dems. when aoc was 14, bush invaded iraq. for her entire life she's seen gop going buck wild and then try to tear down a dem president. they know its war
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ani 🧹 say Ah-nee @zerokijz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hell yeah. Although the post makes it sound like it's already done. It's in progress. And if you need to check, here's the official .gov outlining it. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
A post in the WorkReform subreddit
Original poster says :The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is pretty obvious. They don't want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everybody would wa to happen everywhere.
Then they share a tweet that says the following. 

 NYC Mayor Mamdani converts a city-owned office building into approximately 4,000 new homes, with around 1,000 permanently affordable and rent-stabilised At no cost to the city, the project will nearly double the number of affordable homes built in the area over the last decade
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look at what Mamdani has accomplished in NYC in 9 months! Memphis needs an Mamdani! #momsky#sheshed
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh. My. God.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
really sad to see colleges are still protecting rapists. kudos to the students exposing Cornell's institutional betrayal.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
“Cofnas is often presented as someone doing research on race and IQ. This is incorrect. Cofnas has two academic papers related to the topic (here and here), but these are articles in the field of philosophy of science….In other words: Cofnas is not a scholar doing research on race and IQ.” 🧪
skeptic.org.uk
Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic
"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Democratic majority should understand that while trying to get bills through Congress is going to be important to address the tanking of the American economy, their job for the next two years is to Unleash the Constitutional Kracken.
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Isto vai ter consequencias catastróficas para a ciência Portuguesa...
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Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oakhampton castle was constructed about the same time as the one we are about the dig up, except the one in Great Torrington has no standing ruins above ground. It’s great to have a comparative example to explore before excavations start tomorrow! 🪏🏰 #archaeology #castle
Two women smile at camera in front of ruinsWoman smiles at camera in front of ruinsLarge high wall ruins of castle plus grass in foreground
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BBC's Today programme is currently contemporary fertility decline to the Black Death, and blaming women for the "disaster" because they're refusing to have kids with men under 6 feet tall <screams in demographer>
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Velhacos!
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shame on him
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
If you want a six minute summary of how to support trans+ fieldworkers, then why not check out this video we made (voiced by the incredible @izzyvalkyrie.bsky.social)?
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No. He is a republican true and true. Look how he has voted in the past. He is just mad he lost is position because of the tangerine. So now he is attacking Republicans and the tangerine for revenge while he is still in congress.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I know the weather's going to be kinda gross tomorrow, but I need to see you on the parkway. luma.com/9pkktiw5
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Save the Academy Family Rally · Luma
Save the Academy Family Rally Roar for the Academy 🦕 Join us for an afternoon of arts-and-crafts, bubbles, face painting, music, dancing, and more— right in…
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There is something very nefarious behind the movement to force the closure of the academy of natural sciences...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:
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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?...
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The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Nearly half of the letters had the same language as campaigns run by tobacco giants Altria Group Inc. or Reynolds American, researchers found… The tactic of showering regulators with the same talking points is not new. The tobacco industry has done it since at least the 1980s”
statnews.com
How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban
Virtually all of the 175,000 public comments on a 2022 FDA proposal to ban menthol cigarettes were form letters, most echoing tobacco industry talking points.
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Lemur Conservation Network @lemurnetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Walking into the weekend like... Did you know Mongoose lemurs show a clear color difference between males and females on their "beards." Males have reddish-orange fur there, while females have white. #FunFactFriday 📷: Cheryl Antonucci
A mongoose lemur walks along a thin branch towards the camera. It has grey fur and a redish beard, and light brown eyes.
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T Revathe @revathe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thrilled that our research is featured on the cover! There is also a perspective piece. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Observation and exploration widen the menu
Orangutans expand their foraging skills by combining observation with trial-and-error learning
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧪🌏❤️👇
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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AW Stiles @awstiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Inskeep keeps making these intentional choices to platform complete racists & convicted felons. Last week, Bannon. This week, Carlson. And it's always with little pushback, barely a fact check.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
This November, you’ll see five questions on your ballot about making government work faster for New Yorkers. Make sure you’re registered to vote by Oct. 24 and learn what’s on the ballot at nyc.gov/fast.
This November, New Yorkers will be able to vote on how fast our government runs. There will be 5 questions on your ballot on November 3rd.Simplifying construction to speed up housing.
Making it easier for small businesses to start outdoor dining.
Speeding up city contracting.
Fast-tracking street safety projects 
And strengthening our city’s savings. 
Register to vote by October 24th.
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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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