Anne Stone
@acstone.bsky.social
Prof at ASU, anthropological geneticist, gardener, mom of 1. I dabble in stained glass, embroidery, and print making in my copious free time.
Opinions my own
Opinions my own
A super fun way to unwind over the holidays = making paperweights with molten glass! Note: Steve at Inspired Fire glass studio in W. Lafayette was a terrific teacher!
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A super fun way to unwind over the holidays = making paperweights with molten glass! Note: Steve at Inspired Fire glass studio in W. Lafayette was a terrific teacher!
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Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices. www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent
Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.
www.statnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices. www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Review: Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts by @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social, Verena J. Schuenemann & @acstone.bsky.social
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Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts
Nature Reviews Genetics - Ancient DNA techniques are being applied to study increasingly diverse pathogens of the past. The authors review the latest insights into pathogen–host coevolution,...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Review: Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts by @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social, Verena J. Schuenemann & @acstone.bsky.social
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Yay! It’s a great day to hood some newly minted PhDs! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social @evmedasu.bsky.social @rebeccasiford.bsky.social #StoneLabVictory! #SciencePartyInTheDesert!
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Yay! It’s a great day to hood some newly minted PhDs! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social @evmedasu.bsky.social @rebeccasiford.bsky.social #StoneLabVictory! #SciencePartyInTheDesert!
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Do you have unprovenienced human remains in your teaching or research collection? Do you want to learn how to reconstruct their histories, and how to be ethical stewards of them? We're holding a workshop on this on December 11th! More information here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Do you have unprovenienced human remains in your teaching or research collection? Do you want to learn how to reconstruct their histories, and how to be ethical stewards of them? We're holding a workshop on this on December 11th! More information here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN
Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts
Nature Reviews Genetics - Ancient DNA techniques are being applied to study increasingly diverse pathogens of the past. The authors review the latest insights into pathogen–host coevolution,...
rdcu.be
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Lovely to work with @blevinske.bsky.social, @paleogenomics.bsky.social & Verena Schuenemann on " Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts"! Read it at rdcu.be/eSVPN
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On Giving Tuesday, we appreciate everyone who transforms our understanding of disease and achieves new approaches to improving human health.
Thank you researchers, funders, learners, & donors.
Learn more: evmed.asu.edu
Contribute: tinyurl.com/5td5vx6s
Thank you researchers, funders, learners, & donors.
Learn more: evmed.asu.edu
Contribute: tinyurl.com/5td5vx6s
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
On Giving Tuesday, we appreciate everyone who transforms our understanding of disease and achieves new approaches to improving human health.
Thank you researchers, funders, learners, & donors.
Learn more: evmed.asu.edu
Contribute: tinyurl.com/5td5vx6s
Thank you researchers, funders, learners, & donors.
Learn more: evmed.asu.edu
Contribute: tinyurl.com/5td5vx6s
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This #GivingTuesday, support the AABA community fund. Your donation supports student funding awards and other community initiatives. Even a small gift helps! bioanth.org/donate
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This #GivingTuesday, support the AABA community fund. Your donation supports student funding awards and other community initiatives. Even a small gift helps! bioanth.org/donate
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Please join us on December 11 at 12pm EST for the AABA Webinar, "Tracing Forgotten Histories: Identifying Unprovenienced Human Skeletal Remains and Establishing Best Practices for their Ethical Treatment." Registration here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Please join us on December 11 at 12pm EST for the AABA Webinar, "Tracing Forgotten Histories: Identifying Unprovenienced Human Skeletal Remains and Establishing Best Practices for their Ethical Treatment." Registration here: burkinc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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📆 Reminder: The deadline for Pollitzer Student Travel Awards to attend #AABA2026 in Denver is December 5. Be sure to submit your application! bioanth.org/about/willia...
William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award - AABA
The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. The awards are named in honor of […]
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November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
📆 Reminder: The deadline for Pollitzer Student Travel Awards to attend #AABA2026 in Denver is December 5. Be sure to submit your application! bioanth.org/about/willia...
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EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y...
If you like milk science...
<dusts off the ol’ blog> On Thanksgiving, a Facebook “human interest story pages” dropped an essay about mother’s milk and me as a milk rese...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
EVEN THOUGH I HAD OTHER THINGS I WANTED TO DO THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND.
mammalssuck.blogspot.com/2025/11/if-y...
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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We are feeling incredibly grateful and energised this week on beautiful Gunditjmara Country.
Deepest thanks to GMTOAC for hosting us and for everyone for travelling from far and wide to join together again. We even managed to have the sunshine breakthrough for this lovely group shot!
Deepest thanks to GMTOAC for hosting us and for everyone for travelling from far and wide to join together again. We even managed to have the sunshine breakthrough for this lovely group shot!
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
We are feeling incredibly grateful and energised this week on beautiful Gunditjmara Country.
Deepest thanks to GMTOAC for hosting us and for everyone for travelling from far and wide to join together again. We even managed to have the sunshine breakthrough for this lovely group shot!
Deepest thanks to GMTOAC for hosting us and for everyone for travelling from far and wide to join together again. We even managed to have the sunshine breakthrough for this lovely group shot!
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AABA/AAAG folks! Want to reach more people with your awesome science 👩🔬👨🏿🏫💀🧬🦍? Check out this upcoming writing workshop by @bioanth.org on Nov 19🗓️ ! A great way to prepare for this year's Politzer Prize op-ed style competition 👩🏿💻 📝(bioanth.org/about/willia...) Register here: shorturl.at/7cf9J
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
AABA/AAAG folks! Want to reach more people with your awesome science 👩🔬👨🏿🏫💀🧬🦍? Check out this upcoming writing workshop by @bioanth.org on Nov 19🗓️ ! A great way to prepare for this year's Politzer Prize op-ed style competition 👩🏿💻 📝(bioanth.org/about/willia...) Register here: shorturl.at/7cf9J
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1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
6 ways evolutionary medicine can transform our health
Evolutionary medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field with huge potential to improve human health and tackle a broad scope of major health challenges.
www.weforum.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
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Noon Thursday, November 6th, join us for David Engelthaler's lecture "Cocci and Crypto: Evolving fungi in an evolving world". Prof. Engelthaler is Executive Director of the Health Observatory at ASU & the Director of TGen North
@tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
@tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Congrats to Professor Megan Jehn for receiving the 2025 Arizona Public Health Research Award! 🎉
Since 2020, she has led the Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT), training over 400 case investigators to help improve public health.
azpha.org/2025/10/15/a...
Since 2020, she has led the Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT), training over 400 case investigators to help improve public health.
azpha.org/2025/10/15/a...
Arizona Public Health Association Announces 2025 Public Health Awards – AZ Public Health Association
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October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Congrats to Professor Megan Jehn for receiving the 2025 Arizona Public Health Research Award! 🎉
Since 2020, she has led the Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT), training over 400 case investigators to help improve public health.
azpha.org/2025/10/15/a...
Since 2020, she has led the Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT), training over 400 case investigators to help improve public health.
azpha.org/2025/10/15/a...
A beautiful day at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A beautiful day at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
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The best antidote to despair is ACTION! As we inch our way into another day of the Republican shutdown that threatens to plunge millions of Americans into a food insecurity crisis, we are mobilizing to Keep America Fed.
Join us on 11/3 at our ACTION HOUR to learn how to get involved. tr.ee/UF24dV
Join us on 11/3 at our ACTION HOUR to learn how to get involved. tr.ee/UF24dV
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The best antidote to despair is ACTION! As we inch our way into another day of the Republican shutdown that threatens to plunge millions of Americans into a food insecurity crisis, we are mobilizing to Keep America Fed.
Join us on 11/3 at our ACTION HOUR to learn how to get involved. tr.ee/UF24dV
Join us on 11/3 at our ACTION HOUR to learn how to get involved. tr.ee/UF24dV
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A spectacular recovery: feral cats and fox exclusion dramatically reshapes a small mammal community in an Australian desert. Join us 5 Nov 8:00 AM (London, UK time) to hear #ProcB author Katherine Moseby talk about her research. Reserve your space: cassyni.com/events/RtW3T... #ecology
October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A spectacular recovery: feral cats and fox exclusion dramatically reshapes a small mammal community in an Australian desert. Join us 5 Nov 8:00 AM (London, UK time) to hear #ProcB author Katherine Moseby talk about her research. Reserve your space: cassyni.com/events/RtW3T... #ecology
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50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry.
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
October 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry.
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
My friends, my loves, my dears.
Don't start.
JOIN.
These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
Great “CEMinar” at @evmedasu.bsky.social by @avanzich.bsky.social about her research on the evolutionary history of the pathogens causing leprosy! (& a nice evening afterwards at a local brewpub!)
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Great “CEMinar” at @evmedasu.bsky.social by @avanzich.bsky.social about her research on the evolutionary history of the pathogens causing leprosy! (& a nice evening afterwards at a local brewpub!)
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Interested in giving a talk at PAG 2026 in the Wildlife Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, OneHealth, Ancient DNA, or Domestication Genomics sessions? We are extending our abstract submission by a few days. We'd love to hear from you! Submit here and please repost! forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...
PAG 2026 Abstract Submission: Ancient DNA, Domestication Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, Wildlife Genomics, One Health Hologenomics
****DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12, 2025****
This is the abstract submission form for the following PAG 33 workshops:
Paleogenomics and Degraded DNA
Domestication Genomics
Comparative Genomics of Animals
Wildl...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Interested in giving a talk at PAG 2026 in the Wildlife Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, OneHealth, Ancient DNA, or Domestication Genomics sessions? We are extending our abstract submission by a few days. We'd love to hear from you! Submit here and please repost! forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...