A Crash Course In Human Evolution
With Anthropologist Chris Stringer Chris Stringer
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In this quickfire special, anthropologist and Professor Chris Stringer gives Tristan Hughes a crash course in human evolution at the Natural History Museum

🚨 Postdoc position 🚨

Pete Heintzman is recruiting a postdoc to use sedimentary #ancientDNA 🧬 to better understand climate-associated impacts on an Arctic coastal ecosystem

Deadline: 15th June 2024
Based at #CpgSthlm & Stockholm University

Come join us! 😀

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Kicking off our annual KU Center for Genomics symposium !

🧬🚨New preprint alert🚨🧬

Robbi Davidson, PhD and Xavier Roca-Rada, PhD led a thorough benchmarking of the “Twist Ancient DNA” assay by Twist Bioscience, which enriches ancient DNA sequencing libraries for over 1.2M nuclear SNPs. 🧵1/n

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It's amazing to see my postdoc Surbhi recognized by the ASPB society!

29. The Resting Boxer, crafted more than 2,000 years ago, is one of the most realistic sculptures ever made and one of the finest examples of bronze sculptures to have survived from the ancient world.

It was excavated in Rome in 1885. Its incredible features, such as its pose,

Walked into the UPS to find an employee standing over a large open box, peering into its depths, muttering my god, we will ship anything.” Then he closed the box and taped it up in a fury like it contained horrors not imagined since Pandora. I must know what is in this box.

#OnThisDay in 1856, Charles Darwin noted in his journal 'began...writing species sketch.' This 'sketch' would form the base of his book On the Origin of Species.

In a collaboration between ManjushaChintalapati ,Laurits Skov , Alba Bosoms Mesa, Mateja Hajdinjak , Benjamin Peter and Priya Moorjani , we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 genomes spanning 50,000 years. A thread 🧵🧬
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Introducing Rita Levi-Montalcini this #WomeninSTEMWednesday

Thanks Dr. Campbell for making these fantastic info cards!' #neurobiology

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Sad to hear of Alice Munro's death. Do yourself a favor and read some of her stuff. newyorker.com/magazine/2003/…

My book 'They Came for the Schools' is out today.
It tries to make sense of America's school board wars by showing how & why that fight exploded in one Texas suburb.

To really understand the anti-DEI backlash, I needed to uncover a much longer history.

Here's what I found🧵

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Ackley, Dr. Justin Blumenstiel, Dr. Joanna Slusky for being promoted to full professor! news.ku.edu/news/article/k…

The Human Genetics Programme Wellcome Sanger Institute is looking for three postdocs to each lead on one of several cool projects co-mentored by two faculty, including PIs at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)-Cambridge (@hilsomartin Adam Butterworth Mike Inouye Gosia Trynka and me).

See: tinyurl.com/yh5euwrk.

I survived the Bosnian Genocide and then went on to spend 15 years collecting testimonials and researching those horrors and that of other genocides too.

& I can unequivocally say that what I am seeing come out of Gaza is some of the worst horrors I’ve seen.

I've written the first part of a chapter on the heritability of IQ scores. Focusing on what IQ is attempting to measure. I highlight multiple paradoxical findings demonstrating IQ is not just 'one innate thing'.

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I'll summarize the key points here. 🧵