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Professor of Anthropology at Boise State University https://johnziker.github.io/

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Boise State Anthropology is recruiting applicants for our graduate program. The program has a focus on human behavioral ecology. We'll have two fully funded graduate teaching assistantships available. The GTAships are not sufficient (by themselves) to support international students. DM for details!

24.10.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by AgustΓ­n Fuentes – Grasshoppermouse Blog posts and talk slides

My review of Sex is a Spectrum, by AgustΓ­n Fuentes πŸ§ͺ #BioAnth blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...

23.08.2025 01:25 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

An excellent and informative review!

23.08.2025 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Review of: "Psychosocial Predictors of Suicidal Ideation in Mexican Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Bullying, and Intrafamilial Violence" The paper analyzes the effect of a number of social variables on a suicidal ideation measure among adolescents in secondary school in Veracruz, Mexico. The sample includes 278 students, and the analys...

What do you think of this preprint/open peer-review platform? Apparently AI powers reviewer invitations. Even comes with a DOI. doi.org/10.32388/KIR...

20.05.2025 17:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a version of this code to generate bibtex for books (i.e., with ISBNs)?

17.05.2025 19:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The second funniest thing about How to Train Your Dragon is that it's not training at all in terms of operant conditioning, but reciprocity.

11.05.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One, two, three ... sauna!

23.04.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What happened when Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply Earlier this month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to end the federal recommendation that municipalities add fluoride to their drinking water. Amid the renew...

Results from a large scale study
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

19.04.2025 02:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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March Napness 2025 Inspired by March Madness, a contest to see which bear will be the champion of sleep.

Time for a nap.
"... hibernating bears β€œcompete” to see who will remain in hibernation the longest. The sleepiest bear wins!"
www.fourpawsusa.org/our-stories/...

31.03.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALBERTA OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. 43 Alberta Obsidian Project chronicles: Obsidian research within Alberta's Eastern Slopes PDF | Obsidian research in Alberta has revealed traces of long-distance trade by Indigenous peoples prior to European contact. Previous publications... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

Also this can be downloaded here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

31.03.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Parental concerns for their children’s safety align with predictions from life history theory about the effects of early and middle childhood stress." doi.org/10.3390/socs...
@mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social

29.03.2025 00:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"American farmers have put a lot more of their eggs in a relatively small number of baskets."

18.03.2025 22:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry to hear this, Jeremy. When I read about the cuts I thought of you, and was hoping you dodged that bullet. Excellent response.

19.02.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Application Process

www.boisestate.edu/eeb/prospect...

18.02.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Boise State's President, Provost, and Vice President for Research have provided sufficient funds for 3 NEW Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Ph.D. students. If you know of any Master's students finishing up, looking for a Ph.D. program and interested in working with me, please have them contact me.

18.02.2025 21:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This paper was originally drafted for Phil Trans B special issue "Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture."

11.02.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Adaptive Strategies of Indigenous Nenets Reindeer Herders for Climate Change in Yamal Abstract Nenets reindeer pastoralists of Yamal in the Russian Arctic, successfully deal with rapidly changing climate and natural gas industrialization. We present results from our long-term ethnograp...

"responses...are extremely diverse and every household chooses...depending on its exact location, the size of their herd, labor power available, financial resources, social networks, ...qualifications and skills of household members, and individual preferences and character." doi.org/10.3167/sib....

10.02.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Convergence Science Approach to Understanding the Changing Arctic Arctic research demands convergence science as essential method to understand impacts from novel stressors An integrative approach is developed by a diverse team to formulate questions that canno...

"how convergence research questions can be developed via a holistic view of system interactions that are then parsed into material links and concrete inquiries of disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature" #sustanability #Arctic #climateadaptation
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

11.12.2024 19:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0