Primates and why they are important! A short video to learn how #primates are connected to their ecosystems! 🧪 #science #primatology #BioAnth
Why do primates matter? And why is protecting them vital to the health of our planet? From their influence on forest growth to their connection with people and ecosystems around the world, this short video answers the big question: Why primates?
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WHY Primates—Heroes of Biodiversity
YouTube video by New England Primate Conservancy
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October 31, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Primates and why they are important! A short video to learn how #primates are connected to their ecosystems! 🧪 #science #primatology #BioAnth
Damn that's fucking shitty as hell.
I wish I was smarter with history because I get so easily lost on timescales, even in bioanth I struggle with even EPOCHS severely. I really hope it gets easier as I go.
That's to say I wish I was as smart as you are with that, you seem well read
I wish I was smarter with history because I get so easily lost on timescales, even in bioanth I struggle with even EPOCHS severely. I really hope it gets easier as I go.
That's to say I wish I was as smart as you are with that, you seem well read
November 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Damn that's fucking shitty as hell.
I wish I was smarter with history because I get so easily lost on timescales, even in bioanth I struggle with even EPOCHS severely. I really hope it gets easier as I go.
That's to say I wish I was as smart as you are with that, you seem well read
I wish I was smarter with history because I get so easily lost on timescales, even in bioanth I struggle with even EPOCHS severely. I really hope it gets easier as I go.
That's to say I wish I was as smart as you are with that, you seem well read
I've always wanted to add an ability/disability unit to my Intro to BioAnth class. I wonder if Helen Keller Trutherism would be a good hook for that? I've been tending more toward the eugenicist tech bros who are hyping autism as a super power.
Reading this, we live in a deeply weird world.
Reading this, we live in a deeply weird world.
October 27, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I've always wanted to add an ability/disability unit to my Intro to BioAnth class. I wonder if Helen Keller Trutherism would be a good hook for that? I've been tending more toward the eugenicist tech bros who are hyping autism as a super power.
Reading this, we live in a deeply weird world.
Reading this, we live in a deeply weird world.
Researchers just found chimps are less likely to steal from their friends. In some trials, good chimp pals refused to engage with the experiment at all.
The new work reveals novel norms around fairness and friendship in our hairy ape cousins.
#Primatology #BioAnth
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New at @nytimes.com
The new work reveals novel norms around fairness and friendship in our hairy ape cousins.
#Primatology #BioAnth
🧪🧪
New at @nytimes.com
Chimps Steal Less Often From Their Friends, Even When Offered Pineapple (Gift Article)
The discovery may hint at the roots of human norms around fairness and friendship.
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October 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Researchers just found chimps are less likely to steal from their friends. In some trials, good chimp pals refused to engage with the experiment at all.
The new work reveals novel norms around fairness and friendship in our hairy ape cousins.
#Primatology #BioAnth
🧪🧪
New at @nytimes.com
The new work reveals novel norms around fairness and friendship in our hairy ape cousins.
#Primatology #BioAnth
🧪🧪
New at @nytimes.com
Bioanth on🔥these days with queer + feminist science: "Using the lens of queer monster theory, I investigate the relationship between the study of callitrichid chimerism and the conceptualization of callitrichid and human bodies, with particular attention to the role of “queer” sex and reproduction."
Of Monsters and Monkeys: Queering the Study of Genetic Chimerism in Primates
Scientific research is a political enterprise, and is therefore susceptible to cultural biases. With its central role in understanding humans as a species, primatology is particularly vulnerable to t...
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October 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Bioanth on🔥these days with queer + feminist science: "Using the lens of queer monster theory, I investigate the relationship between the study of callitrichid chimerism and the conceptualization of callitrichid and human bodies, with particular attention to the role of “queer” sex and reproduction."
yeah inclusion criteria are finicky, but I guess my point is that publication approaches and standards in bioanth are fundamentally different from those that apply to, say, Dana's new paper on tetrapod necks.
October 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
yeah inclusion criteria are finicky, but I guess my point is that publication approaches and standards in bioanth are fundamentally different from those that apply to, say, Dana's new paper on tetrapod necks.
FWIW hominins is a whole different discipline though (bioanth) and that honestly should be considered separately.
October 14, 2026 at 8:44 PM
FWIW hominins is a whole different discipline though (bioanth) and that honestly should be considered separately.
In a new paper, I argue that studying dogs has many benefits in anthropology, from bioanth to archaeology to cultural anthropology to the study of human health. doi.org/10.1002/evan...
October 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
In a new paper, I argue that studying dogs has many benefits in anthropology, from bioanth to archaeology to cultural anthropology to the study of human health. doi.org/10.1002/evan...
Just browsing 2026 in Nature, there are 2 stem tet papers, 4 mammal papers, 3 dino/bird papers, 1 early amniote paper, 1 snake paper, 3 fish papers, 7 invert papers, and a handful of bioanth papers. No taxonomic acts in the stem tet and early amniote papers though.
October 14, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Just browsing 2026 in Nature, there are 2 stem tet papers, 4 mammal papers, 3 dino/bird papers, 1 early amniote paper, 1 snake paper, 3 fish papers, 7 invert papers, and a handful of bioanth papers. No taxonomic acts in the stem tet and early amniote papers though.
Well, we all started our choices off with whether we were natural brachiators or clingers-and-leapers, with additional reference to our apparent pre-coffee speed - vaguely remember BioAnth was first thing Mondays? Good singing voices always lean towards gibbonhood, of course. 😀
October 13, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Well, we all started our choices off with whether we were natural brachiators or clingers-and-leapers, with additional reference to our apparent pre-coffee speed - vaguely remember BioAnth was first thing Mondays? Good singing voices always lean towards gibbonhood, of course. 😀
Anyway I showed my bone drawings to my prof before the exam and she said I should submit them for the extra credit drawing slot and also what if you stayed an extra semester just to take osteology in the spring LOL which I told my boss who was like “I’ll give you osteology materials” (she’s bioanth)
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately but it takes so long) the best way to learn anatomy is to draw it 💀 🩻✍️
October 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Anyway I showed my bone drawings to my prof before the exam and she said I should submit them for the extra credit drawing slot and also what if you stayed an extra semester just to take osteology in the spring LOL which I told my boss who was like “I’ll give you osteology materials” (she’s bioanth)
great new bioanth publication in PNAS about the founding myth of admixture narratives from colonial Montreal www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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October 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
great new bioanth publication in PNAS about the founding myth of admixture narratives from colonial Montreal www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I spend a bunch of time on the history of race “science” in my intro to BioAnth class. I always explain to the students I am doing so because these theories are like cockroaches. No matter how thoroughly squashed (cringe - I didn’t see where that metaphor was going) they keep popping back up.
October 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
I spend a bunch of time on the history of race “science” in my intro to BioAnth class. I always explain to the students I am doing so because these theories are like cockroaches. No matter how thoroughly squashed (cringe - I didn’t see where that metaphor was going) they keep popping back up.
Henrich treats bioanth as the healthy foil, counting statistics as rigor.
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
Spent yesterday working on a detailed critique of some of the "methods" that Joseph Henrich used in his recently released report attacking sociocultural anthropology. He was the sole anthropologist involved with the Vanderbilt Report. It's long, but the more I looked the more issues I noticed.
Rigor for thee, but not for me! – Notebook
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September 30, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Henrich treats bioanth as the healthy foil, counting statistics as rigor.
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
He should have had Claude plot the distribution of p-values in the top bioanth journals over the past 4 decades.
Shrinking faculty numbers contribute, but can't fully explain why huge swaths of bioanth silently resist reform
Embargo lifts on a paper this evening and I'm SO EXCITED to share it I might explode.
But instead of exploding I'm gonna go talk about Neanderthals to my intro to bioanth class.
But instead of exploding I'm gonna go talk about Neanderthals to my intro to bioanth class.
September 30, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Embargo lifts on a paper this evening and I'm SO EXCITED to share it I might explode.
But instead of exploding I'm gonna go talk about Neanderthals to my intro to bioanth class.
But instead of exploding I'm gonna go talk about Neanderthals to my intro to bioanth class.
sometimes i think bioanth is my weakest subject but then i start doing linguistic analysis and like dude i love linguistics but it might just be more confusing to grasp concepts more than memorizing evolution
September 27, 2026 at 3:04 AM
sometimes i think bioanth is my weakest subject but then i start doing linguistic analysis and like dude i love linguistics but it might just be more confusing to grasp concepts more than memorizing evolution
And AnSci had all of the bioanth vs. cultural vs. archaeological squabbles that are common in anthropological departments. To say that it was epistemological is also not quite on the mark, however. In terms of the methods and evidentiary standards, many of the cultural 3/18
September 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM
And AnSci had all of the bioanth vs. cultural vs. archaeological squabbles that are common in anthropological departments. To say that it was epistemological is also not quite on the mark, however. In terms of the methods and evidentiary standards, many of the cultural 3/18
1. Stanford anthropology: File this under “AIl Politics are Local.” I got my degree from the Dept. of Anthropological Sciences (AnSci), one of the fruits of the anthropological split. Henrich is right that this was not a topical split. AnSci was not bioanth heavy. 2/18
September 26, 2026 at 8:55 PM
1. Stanford anthropology: File this under “AIl Politics are Local.” I got my degree from the Dept. of Anthropological Sciences (AnSci), one of the fruits of the anthropological split. Henrich is right that this was not a topical split. AnSci was not bioanth heavy. 2/18
Yale also has bioanth type people in EEB and the medical school, and one ling anth (and I am in linguistics with a secondary appointment and am linganth adjacent)
September 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Yale also has bioanth type people in EEB and the medical school, and one ling anth (and I am in linguistics with a secondary appointment and am linganth adjacent)
Me any time a student accidentally reminds me that Before COVID I was going to do Roman bioanth and they unleash my alternate identity as a Bone Lady
September 21, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Me any time a student accidentally reminds me that Before COVID I was going to do Roman bioanth and they unleash my alternate identity as a Bone Lady
forwarding this to my bioanth professors to instantly kill them
September 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
forwarding this to my bioanth professors to instantly kill them
September 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
"Violence was endemic in Neolithic Europe, sometimes reaching levels of intergroup hostilities that ended in the utter destruction of entire communities" 🧪 #BioAnth www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Conflict, violence, and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe | PNAS
Bioarchaeological evidence of interpersonal violence and early warfare presents important
insights into conflict in past societies. This evidence i...
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September 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"Violence was endemic in Neolithic Europe, sometimes reaching levels of intergroup hostilities that ended in the utter destruction of entire communities" 🧪 #BioAnth www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Why do humans keep eating other?! This documentary investigates the curious topic of cannibalistic behavior found in Homo sapiens and our ancestors. Featuring Briana Pobiner, a recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award. youtu.be/ox1MNehE9MM?... #paleosky #bioanth 🧪🏺
Why Did Humans Eat Humans?
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September 6, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Why do humans keep eating other?! This documentary investigates the curious topic of cannibalistic behavior found in Homo sapiens and our ancestors. Featuring Briana Pobiner, a recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award. youtu.be/ox1MNehE9MM?... #paleosky #bioanth 🧪🏺
I’m reading an article about the evolution of menopause (by Lynette Sievert, in the Yearbook of Bio Anth, 2024, for the Bioanth nerds), and I have to laugh at the point where she mentions that periodically, a new generation “discovers” menopause and thinks it’s “new”.
September 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I’m reading an article about the evolution of menopause (by Lynette Sievert, in the Yearbook of Bio Anth, 2024, for the Bioanth nerds), and I have to laugh at the point where she mentions that periodically, a new generation “discovers” menopause and thinks it’s “new”.