Dr. Angie Achorn
@angachorn.bsky.social
Anthropologist/Primatologist. Assistant Professor @ UTRGV 🤠✌🏼 PhD from Texas A&M (2022). Fulbright (🇮🇩) alum. Books, sci-fi/fantasy, memes, & puns enthusiast 🏳️🌈✨ Views are my own.
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Dr. Angie Achorn
@angachorn.bsky.social
· Nov 14
First bluesky post! (No pressure). Hi, I’m Angie. I’m an anthropologist/primatologist. In the past, I’ve worked with captive lemurs, with wild crested macaques in Indonesia (briefly - thanks, COVID), and with savanna chimpanzee data (thanks, @jilldpruetz.bsky.social!).
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Today is the Trans Day of Rememberance.
We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising.
We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR
We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising.
We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Today is the Trans Day of Rememberance.
We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising.
We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR
We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising.
We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
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Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...
Happy “International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM”!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🔬🧪🐒🧠 #LGBTQSTEM #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Happy “International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM”!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🔬🧪🐒🧠 #LGBTQSTEM #PrideInSTEM
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From the archive. A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the region’s history. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
The Vanishing Traces of Our Earliest Ancestors in Indonesia
A paleontologist travels through Indonesia in search of Homo erectus remains, uncovering how environmental destruction has erased the past.
www.sapiens.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
From the archive. A paleontologist journeys through Indonesia’s Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the region’s history. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
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people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.
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what do you want to leave to the next generation and loved ones when you go? i’d like them to still have trees, clean air, water, soil, biodiversity, wilderness, freedom, democracy. but also real good playlists, stories & enough money that they can take time off, process things, go adventuring.
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
what do you want to leave to the next generation and loved ones when you go? i’d like them to still have trees, clean air, water, soil, biodiversity, wilderness, freedom, democracy. but also real good playlists, stories & enough money that they can take time off, process things, go adventuring.
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“We report two obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged paleolandscape beneath Lake Huron that are conclusively attributed to the Wagontire obsidian source in central Oregon… dating to ~9,000 BP, represent the earliest and most distant reported occurrence of obsidian in eastern North America.”
Central Oregon obsidian from a submerged early Holocene archaeological site beneath Lake Huron
Obsidian, originating from the Rocky Mountains and the West, was an exotic exchange commodity in Eastern North America that was often deposited in elaborate caches and burials associated with Middle W...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“We report two obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged paleolandscape beneath Lake Huron that are conclusively attributed to the Wagontire obsidian source in central Oregon… dating to ~9,000 BP, represent the earliest and most distant reported occurrence of obsidian in eastern North America.”
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Hi! Many things are bad you can still have a great day. Try to plan something fun offline like a walk outside, picking up a favorite pastry, going to a local farmer's market or a nap. You still deserve joy and time to rest and recover.
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hi! Many things are bad you can still have a great day. Try to plan something fun offline like a walk outside, picking up a favorite pastry, going to a local farmer's market or a nap. You still deserve joy and time to rest and recover.
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✋I haven’t and won’t. Zero desire to use the water sucking, planet killing, thieving, plagiarism machine that gets things consistently wrong and has a tendency to convince people to kill themselves.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
✋I haven’t and won’t. Zero desire to use the water sucking, planet killing, thieving, plagiarism machine that gets things consistently wrong and has a tendency to convince people to kill themselves.
The 2025 Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting was a blast!!! It’s always a great conference, but it was so special to get to host it at UTRGV this year!!
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The 2025 Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting was a blast!!! It’s always a great conference, but it was so special to get to host it at UTRGV this year!!
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The four illustrations I have created so far for the series "Animals in the Move" for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
More coming soon!
#sciart #art
More coming soon!
#sciart #art
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The four illustrations I have created so far for the series "Animals in the Move" for @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
More coming soon!
#sciart #art
More coming soon!
#sciart #art
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A newly uncovered set of 1.5-million-year-old fossils that includes the first unambiguous Paranthropus boisei hand bones are reported in Nature. The findings offer insights into the evolution of hominin hands. go.nature.com/495cW1I 🧪 🏺
October 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A newly uncovered set of 1.5-million-year-old fossils that includes the first unambiguous Paranthropus boisei hand bones are reported in Nature. The findings offer insights into the evolution of hominin hands. go.nature.com/495cW1I 🧪 🏺
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Ancient proteins extracted from 2-million-year-old Paranthropus teeth reveal hidden genetic differences — suggesting our big-jawed cousin may have been more than one species.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#fossils #paleontology
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#fossils #paleontology
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Ancient proteins extracted from 2-million-year-old Paranthropus teeth reveal hidden genetic differences — suggesting our big-jawed cousin may have been more than one species.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#fossils #paleontology
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
#fossils #paleontology
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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From the archive. In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future? Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/anth...
Through Film, Discovering Hope in the Face of Environmental Destruction
In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future?
www.sapiens.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
From the archive. In the midst of acute eco-anxiety, can community-based filmmaking help young people imagine a different future? Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/anth...
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One of my Virtual Anthropology students is looking at primate endocasts using data from Morphosource, and they found this massive gorilla brain (630 ml) lurking inside a very cresty cranium
Original data here: www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
Original data here: www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One of my Virtual Anthropology students is looking at primate endocasts using data from Morphosource, and they found this massive gorilla brain (630 ml) lurking inside a very cresty cranium
Original data here: www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
Original data here: www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
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A video journey into the world of primates, their habitats, their lifestyles, and more. A collection of youth-friendly videos for understanding primates, primate conservation, and how everyone can help.
neprimateconservancy.org/discovering-...
neprimateconservancy.org/discovering-...
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A video journey into the world of primates, their habitats, their lifestyles, and more. A collection of youth-friendly videos for understanding primates, primate conservation, and how everyone can help.
neprimateconservancy.org/discovering-...
neprimateconservancy.org/discovering-...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
So proud to see our new paper out in PNAS spearheaded by @emilypigott.bsky.social She found a tiny 46,000 yr old Neanderthal bone at Starosele (Crimea). DNA work revealed long-distance connections across Eurasia, supported by stone tool evidence @heasvienna.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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On mountain gorillas: A biodiversity reporter "heads up into the Virunga mountains, guided by wildlife vets, to find out how they achieved this rare and extraordinary conservation success." A podcast with @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social from @theguardian.com #gorillas #conservation #anthropology 🧪
The comeback of the mountain gorilla – podcast
Patrick Greenfield hikes up the Virunga mountains in east Africa to trace the remarkable comeback of the mountain gorilla
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
On mountain gorillas: A biodiversity reporter "heads up into the Virunga mountains, guided by wildlife vets, to find out how they achieved this rare and extraordinary conservation success." A podcast with @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social from @theguardian.com #gorillas #conservation #anthropology 🧪
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Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Someone asked me the other day*:
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience
How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?
The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
1/ 🧪 #neuroscience