My favorite neuroanatomy topic to teach is chemosensation - olfaction, gustation, chemesthesis. At our One Health-oriented medical school, I get to talk about mammalian olfactory genetics and the evolutionary ecology of hot peppers. Also, I bring lab to the classroom!
Putrefied meat, maggots, and stable isotopes, oh my! 🧪💀 Cara and Chris chat with Dr. Melanie Beasley about forensic isotopes, media chaos, and the anthropology of tomorrow. 🎧 soundcloud.com/sausageofsci...
Decorative Image Array of the Bracket Guide, the Combatant Logo and the 2026 Bracket. Screen-reader materials available at the LibGuide.
BRACKET DROP DAY!!!!
Get yours now at the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
Pick your portal: Players, Learners, or Educator!
#2026MMM
One of the many formative early 90s albums my cool older cousin dubbed for me onto cassette tape!
my cool older cousin dubbed that onto cassette for me
Need help finding the pterion? Look no further! #MemeMonday
The study shows how individual fingerprint ridges deform when we touch different textures, revealing how subtle stretching and shifting along the ridge flanks may drive our remarkably fine tactile sensitivity.
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This sheds so much light on a really hot topic and will ignite a lot of discussion debate :)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I thought parking at Colorado State was expensive! Big yikes, sorry Jamie, that's BS.
years and years ago a colleague sent a draft exam to the wrong printer, and found out when a student brought it to her.
in a remarkable display of teamwork, we re-wrote the exam in 90 minutes. its psychometrics were not great, but acceptable.
H(e)BD Robin! I will have a drink in your honor. Cheers!
(e = early)
the photos are hilariously low-res as they seem to have been taken with a potato-grade digital camera
Never ceases to amaze me how our ancient relatives stuck with the same technology for hundreds of thousands to millions of years, while in my lifetime, we've gone from dial-up internet and Microsoft Encarta on a CD-ROM to wirelessly accessing Wikipedia on a slightly subsonic airliner.
En route to #AABA2025 and this plane's display has a feature that shows locations' Wikipedia entries as you fly over them. What a time to be alive!
Just discovered Journal of Geek Studies (not peer reviewed), and it is pure joy.
jgeekstudies.org/2025/03/08/i...
Bighorn sheep in the Big Thompson Canyon.
Tibia, femur, and partial hip bone of SWT1/HR-2 fossil Paranthropus robustus. Photo: Pickering and coworkers 2025
Exciting new discovery of fossil leg and partial pelvis from Swartkrans, South Africa, by Travis Pickering and coworkers.
Attributed to Paranthropus robustus, this individual may have been the shortest fossil human relative known, just over a meter tall.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago"
really interesting stuff here:
"early Acheulean toolmakers unravelled technological repertoires that were previously thought to have appeared routinely more than 1 million years later."
Target display with a bag labeled “PARTY TIME BOAS” containing boas with yellow, green, and purple feathers.
Happy Mardi Gras, fellow anthropologists! IYKYK
(From a Target display I saw years ago that confused me for a hot minute.)
"While the small joint sizes [of H. naledi] are not well-suited to repeated high impact loads, the long legs and particularly long tibia would have been useful for walking substantial distances without such high loads." #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
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Do you like ANIMALS? Do you like #WORDLE ? Then you should try... www.animordle.com The Wordle Game with Animals Names
Thank you Rohit Singhal for creating word.rodeo & @mammalssuck.bsky.social for making March Mammal Madness #2025MMM. They served as inspiration for #animordle.
Also has one of my favorite satirical quotes, "if the cash is there, we do not care!"
In partnership with the #AABA conference in Baltimore, Friend of Darwin and paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner will be hosting a workshop examining the concept of race, its meaning, and how ‘socialized race’ came to be.
Circles of Voices will take place on 3/15 in Baltimore. Pay what you wish.
A+ department; 10/10 would recommend!
Sketch of a skinny, bearded man dressed in a suit facing a bearded monkey caricature who is seated on a desk atop a stack of books including origin of species. on the floor is the book descent of man.
Charles Darwin published his book Descent of Man #OnThisDay in 1871. In it he wrote: "It has often been asserted that man’s origin can never be known, but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
For teachers, especially outside universities, I can point to the Human Evolution Teaching Materials Project with printable 3D models of 35 fossil hominin skulls and jaws.
This collection does include the model Australopithecus afarensis skull based on the fossils from A.L. 333.
hetmp.com
Steggy!
A Lady Professor with brown hair and glasses, wearing a scarf in red, green, yellow, & black, a gift from an incredible lactation consultant, sitting in in front of cactus.
I escaped poverty because I am a scientist.
And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation.
A 🧵:
Oblique views of two brains, with corresponding features labeled. The brain in the left panel is a color-coded fossil brain mold, and that on the right is from a chimpanzee, rendered in grayscale.
Shawn Hurst & colleagues reanalyze the brain endocast of the iconic Taung (Australopithecus africanus) fossil – variability in a large sample of chimpanzee brains shows possible anatomies not known to previous researchers.
Read free for 50 days with this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kdEeAlZXX...
Looking forward to catching up with colleagues and everyone's interesting work!
