In light of what is happening in Kansas, I want to reup this @sciam.bsky.social article on the world's first trans clinic destroyed in Nazi Germany.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.
Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
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BHEML makes headlines yet again! Our PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel was interviewed by New Scientist magazine on her work investigating the human chin, which can also be found in her most recent PLOS One publication. Take a look!
www.newscientist.com/article/2515...
A graphic reading "AABA Art, Culture and Science Engagement Exhibition" with stylized DNA, skulls, and primate faces. Art by Michelle Bezanson
The Art/Culture/SciComm Expo returns for the 2026 @bioanth.org meeting! #Science -related #SciArt photography, poetry, needlepoint, painting, sculpture, games, posters about podcasts or local engagement work…all these and more are welcome! Submission deadline is Mar 7.
forms.gle/kk7qCfQGXe6h...
New paper by PI Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel and former BHEML postdoc Dr. Lauren Schroeder! The human chin is a unique; investigating why and how it formed helps us to better understand ourselves and our lineage!
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Gravettian woman sketch
Did you still need a speaker? I know someone who'd love to give a talk!
3-day snow accumulation forecast with a palette that resets from dark blue to light yellow at the boundary between 4–6 and 6–8 inches accumulation. This over-emphasizes the transition and may cause confusion.
While we’re being bombarded with weather maps, I thought I’d revisit one of my favorite color palette tricks. Sometimes it’s important to emphasize a boundary, perhaps between moderate (< 6") and severe (>8") snowfall. You could reset the palette, like the NYT, but there’s a better way.
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Salary to living wage plot with only 4 programs falling aprove the 1:1 line and paying a living wage.
Happy recruitment/interview season for PhD students! Recruiting students in ecology & evolutionary biology? Make sure your department's stipend is accurate in our database: rhettrautsaw.app/shiny/Biolog...
A grey heron stepping through water in the hope of disturbing fish to eat. Yes, she was successful.
What a Princess! Plumage intact and ruffled while stepping out. A show-off!
#BirdOfTheDay #Walking #UKWildlife #Birds #Ornithology #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
A picture of green jay feathers (Cyanocorax luxuosus). They are all lined up and organized: primaries, secondaries, coverts, tail feathers. Most of the feathers are gray with a green tip.
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation
A page from the ebook version of "A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development" by Kyra Stull and Heather Garvin. This page features an image of acetabular development from newborn to 17.5 years. Each of the 19 acetabulae shown are yellow 3D models based on CT scans and oriented in lateral views such that the image focuses on the acetabulum. The upper part of the ilium is cropped out in hipbones after the age of 1.5 years. The age labels and title of the image ("Acetabular Development") are light blue boxes with black text. The bottom of the page has the caption "Figure 4.1 Acetabular development, newborn to 17.5 yoa. Lateral views presented at each designated age."
#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image!
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
A terrible diagram of the skull courtesy of ChatGPT.
The skull according to ChatGPT: Mandible mandible mandible!
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
Grade F level diagram of an ostrich skeleton. The pelvis is labelled as a humerus, and sternum appears to be labeled as the pelvis.
The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.
Testing the movement for the Shark Cranial Kinesis model. Think this is pretty close?
Shark/marine/anatomy people, I'd love your feedback! Intended for outreach for "general public". In the final version the parts will each be a different color.
#SciArt #SciComm #SharkWeek
Image of a 3D model of a veiled chameleon skull, with bones colored to demonstrate skull anatomy, on a black background. Model is shown in lateral (top), antero-lateral (middle), and anterior (bottom) views. A small image of the whole museum specimen is shown with a scale bar in the bottom right corner.
Climbing into my #ColorsOfSkullAnatomy collection: a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) 🦎 this large male was getting up there in age when he was collected, as shown by his worn down teeth and bone pathologies.
Find the model here:
www.graysvertebrateanatomy.com/veiled-chame...
New paper by Guilherme Hermanson & me out: we explore ontogenetic shell shape change in turtles to check if there is a size threshold at which turtles reach adult shapes. This started for a different (in prep) study & was a fun little project w preliminary data
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access!
doi.org/10.59319/YHF...
Messy start
With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵
After 11 months in review, grateful to learn that my NSF proposal examining the ecomorphology and evolution of mammalian skull dimorphism was awarded!
Stay tuned for research on intraspecific effects on maroevolution and more undergrad-led projects! @uwbiology.bsky.social
cemas.osu.edu/news/2025/07... our work featured in Ohio State’s On Campus Newsletter
Artist's reconstruction of the Harbin skull Denisovan. Image by Chuang Zhao
Dragon Man was a Denisovan! DNA and proteins both confirm it, giving this mysterious human lineage a face at long last. Here’s my story. [Gift link] nyti.ms/44nQq1i
Graphical abstract for "The Diffusion Diaries: Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced CT for Vertebrate Natural History Specimens", showing the number of scans : "252 scans of 205 specimens from 7 natural history collections" a plot showing how staining time increases with mass, log-transformed (bottom left), a pie chart showing the Tissue Condition scores (TCS) recorded for all specimens (bottom middle), and a screenshot of a lab protocol for diceCT'ing museum specimens (bottom right)
Cover image for Integrative Organismal Biology, showing cross sections through a fish, a tenrec, a frog, and a lizard at the bottom of the image, and a 3D rendering of each animal at the top of the image (colored in teal, grey, yellow, and pink, respectively)
🚨New publication alert!🚨 A big one! It might just be my *biggest* one: doi.org/10.1093/iob/... IMPORTANT THREAD! From the moment Dave Blackburn set me loose at the Florida Museum, I had a marvelous time using diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced CT (diceCT) to create anatomical datasets 🧪1/6
Lungfish xkcd.com/3064
