@mctowner
Human behavioral ecologist at OSU where I get to have fun teaching human anatomy. Research in historical demography (fertility, migration), cultural evolution, and quantitative methods. Just a bit obsessed with genealogy.
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
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Good morning! We have just learned that our article on experiences and recommendations for faculty with disabilities has been published:
www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15...
Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Greg Bovino…there are evil men in the story of what’s happening in Minnesota. But there’s also a legal system that’s made this possible. I wrote for @ballsandstrikes.org about how structural change is the only true path forward.
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Could it be a Geronimo Stilton book?
<dusts off the ol' blog> to say something about "celebrating science" in the age of AI & current political context.
EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
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Can confirm
Were you not in Jr. High in the early-80s?
And another.
Hits close to home. My uncle was treated by his doctor for painful "gout" for quite some time before a scan finally showed cancer in his foot. Testing later identified the cell line as having originated as lung cancer. He survived about 10 months.
A screen shot of an email reading: Dear Dr. Gill, Jacquelyn, I am writing to let you know that given the current budgetary projections and recent adjustment of NSF’s over-arching priorities, NSF/BIO will not be making any new awards through the Biology Integration Institutes Program. Therefore, the solicitation has been archived, and NSF has returned your proposal without review so you can re-submit it, or portions of it, to appropriate BIO programs that currently are receiving new proposals, if you wish. Sincerely, Jim Deshler Division Director (Acting) Division of Biological Infrastructure
Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed.
With a form email.
From Colossals. Including novel bones like the "Scapila" and the "Metacarpul bones". Also the patella on the back of the knee. And not ONLY "tail vertebrae" but ALSO "cadual vertebrae".
$millions and they didn't think to copy edit...
A line of foam gravestones taped to the fence at granary burying ground with slogans like in memory of trans rights and here lies ye constitution
The gravestones are up at Granary
A painting of a nude man with long curly hair. He is on the floor and his back is severely arched. His fists are clenched in agony. He stares up at the ceiling. The painting is on display at Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh.
The final stage of tetanus when the nerves fire continuously and the body contorts into an agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles also clamp down to form the hallmark of the disease, lockjaw. This 19th-century painting is on display @surgeonshall.bsky.social. #vaccineswork
Here is some of your good old days, all died of measles in just over 1 mth: Israel FRANCIS - 7 Mar 1830 - 4 mths old Sarah ADAMS - 12 Mar 1830 - 7 mths old Henry SAGGS - 14 Mar 1830 - 2 yrs 3 mths old Henry MULLINER - 20 Mar 1830 - 8 mths old Eliza BARKER - 1 Apr 1830 - 4 yrs 3 mths old Richard STEVENS - 11 Apr 1830 - 2 yrs old This was a small village in a rural area, what would have large cities been like?
#genealogy people, do you have examples like this in your family history?
Thinking of all those American families, including mine, who sent a loved one to fight in WWII. Many never came back.
Today was a vile desecration of their memories and legacies.
Along with all the other signs of fascism seems we are doing eugenics (openly) again. I am so angry that we have to engage in the same terrible fights over and over again.
🚨 New publication!
We found rising temperatures are reducing daily breastfeeding time allocation among Shodagor women.
Thanks to @kstark8.bsky.social & @haleyrags.bsky.social for leading this analysis.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A wax self-portrait of a woman in a pink dress with lace, wearing pearls and jewels dissecting a human brain
Self-portrait of Bolognese anatomist, lecturer, and wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774) dissecting a human brain, 1755 (Museo di Palazzo Poggi, Università di Bologna) #earlymodern #18thc
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
This is what I expected of you @asm.org. Way to go SICB.
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NEW: We obtained the directions NSF program officers are following to review all grants for compliance with the Trump EOs and the turmoil it has created in an agency mandated to broaden STEM participation. Our story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Yellow background. Different CDC websites that have been removed. Some are in black and white. Others are purple or red and green.
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#medsky #pedsky #IDsky 🛟🧪
12 Mar 1836 Crawfordsville Record (Indiana) newspaper clipping with names for five people who died of measles.
"The above deaths were all of measles." This includes my 4th great grandfather, Peter Smith, who was under 30 and left behind a widow and five young children. The Crawfordsville Record, Montgomery County, Indiana, 12 Mar 1836.
As RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya threaten to dismantle our best national defense against infectious disease, It seems like a good time to re-up this post from this past summer.
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CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960.
Until today.
Today the Trump admin abruptly and indefinitely terminated many of the activities of the National Institutes of Health, the $50B/year collection of agencies that power the US biotech and health ecosystems. Even if these orders were lifted tomorrow, the disruption would be enormous.
Why care? 🧵
Our universities are so good that our adversaries send their children to be educated here. We’re dismantling that unbelievable strategic advantage, hurting our own children and our own health in the process.
"This is a story about human connection, acts of solidarity and care between Indigenous people and communities, and the possibility of repair within anthropology."
#Indigisky #Pasifika #anthropology #Vanuatu
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“For women, cousin marriages are often “marrying down” financially, keeping women’s wealth in the family” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....