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Joined April 2017
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I am excited about this workshop @KinleyRussell and I are leading at #AABA2024 in LA on Thursday 4:30-6:30pm! Come for the hilarious Up Goer Five talks (I hope I can get through mine with a straight face), stay for the #scicomm best practices.
Attending #AABA2024 in LA? Join @BrianaPobiner and me for our Up Goer Five workshop on Thursday, March 21st from 4:30-6:30 pm PDT.
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Hi academic friends. Is anyone familiar with a publisher called Cognella? They contacted me about authoring a text book and I am trying to figure out whether or not they are a predatory publisher.
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Newly discovered Plio-Pleistocene sites in west Mt. Kenya: Potential tropical high elevation refugia? | PAGES pastglobalchanges.org/public…
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A new study by Prof. Thomas Plummer, alumna @francesforrest5, and Ph.D. candidate Raquel Lamela-Lopez challenges our picture of the origins of toolmaking, suggesting that early humans may not have been the sole makers or users of stone tools qc.cuny.edu/communications/p… @gccunyanthro
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@FrancesForrest5 of @FairfieldU is a paleoecologist on the KFFS. She is interested in figuring out the role of meat eating in human evolution. Have your own ? about diet and human evolution? Join us for #KFFS2023 #fieldwork #research bit.ly/KFFS2023 #fellowships available
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Working with Charley and Chelle was a wonderful experience for all of us too! We’re all really excited to see what comes out of our first NSF-RET program
"It was very exciting. We participated in field research, and the excitement of it all was palpable ..." —@lswhs' Charley Bittle, on attending the Koobi Fora Field School (@koobiforafs) bit.ly/3Gz5Sw0 #Nebraska #UNL #LNK @UNL_CASNR @UNL_IANR @LPSorg
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Applications for #KFFS2023 are open TODAY! bit.ly/KFFS2023
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Apply today for #KFFS2023!
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#KFFS2022 Workshop participants! Thanks for the wonderful presentations and the great field season! Stay tuned for applications for next years field school!
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Presented my summer KFFS research at GW today, it's been so awesome to see everyone and talk about my anvils! Thank you @koobiforafs and @gwCASHP!
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We have inspiring student research presentations happening at our @NSF REU Koobi Fora Fieldschool student conference and workshop happening in Washington DC. Later today we do a remote outreach event with @AMNH youth programs. So wonderful to be reunited and SCIENCING!
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#TeamFire student Madison Fortier of Franklin and Marshall College talks about her research from this summer’s @koobiforafs #4Goats1Curse
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Hi twitter folks, I’m looking for some good resources highlighting African researchers and fossil hunters that have contributed to human evolution research. Anyone have any they can share?
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Looking for ways to incorporate lessons about scientific racism in biological anthropology. Anyone have any good resources/ideas?
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Maddie joined in 2019 looking at faunal communities in the Turkana Basin, and is now at UChicago studying hominin paleoecology using isotopes
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Join me (and superhumans Nancy Simmons and Jessica Ware) for #AskACurator Day on September 15!
📢Sept. 15 is #AskACurator Day! This online event started over a decade ago, with the intention of giving the public access to experts who work in museums. You'll have the chance to talk to three of our scientists from 10 am - 1 pm ET on Twitter! Meet the curators, below 👇(1/5)
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