Carrie Mongle
@carriemongle.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Stony Brook University studying human evolution and phylogenetics
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✨NEW INTERVIEW!✨
RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE
@carriemongle.bsky.social
@trentonholliday.bsky.social
#evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils
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RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE
@carriemongle.bsky.social
@trentonholliday.bsky.social
#evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils
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youtu.be/kcGgfUbbkwE
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
✨NEW INTERVIEW!✨
RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE
@carriemongle.bsky.social
@trentonholliday.bsky.social
#evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils
👇🏿👇🏽
youtu.be/kcGgfUbbkwE
RETURN OF THE TOOLMAKER - Hands of Paranthropus ~ with DR CARRIE MONGLE
@carriemongle.bsky.social
@trentonholliday.bsky.social
#evolutionsoup #evolution #paleoanthropology #science #fossils
👇🏿👇🏽
youtu.be/kcGgfUbbkwE
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National Fossil Day (and World Anatomy Day) seems opportune timing to drop a couple of coauthored papers with great collaborators. Here's #2 for the day, this one led by colleague Cody Prang of Wash U. Ardipithecus is of critical importance for reconstructing the ancestral condition for hominins. 🏺🧪
Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology
Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
National Fossil Day (and World Anatomy Day) seems opportune timing to drop a couple of coauthored papers with great collaborators. Here's #2 for the day, this one led by colleague Cody Prang of Wash U. Ardipithecus is of critical importance for reconstructing the ancestral condition for hominins. 🏺🧪
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Today, on his birthday, we celebrate an inspirational Black anatomist whose legacy guides #BlackinAnat to this day.
Please enjoy this tribute to Dr. W. Montague Cobb shared during our first #BlackinAnatWeek in October 2021!
blackinanatomy.org/dr-w-m-cobb-video
#AnatomyArtAdvocacy #CobbPanel
Please enjoy this tribute to Dr. W. Montague Cobb shared during our first #BlackinAnatWeek in October 2021!
blackinanatomy.org/dr-w-m-cobb-video
#AnatomyArtAdvocacy #CobbPanel
October 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today, on his birthday, we celebrate an inspirational Black anatomist whose legacy guides #BlackinAnat to this day.
Please enjoy this tribute to Dr. W. Montague Cobb shared during our first #BlackinAnatWeek in October 2021!
blackinanatomy.org/dr-w-m-cobb-video
#AnatomyArtAdvocacy #CobbPanel
Please enjoy this tribute to Dr. W. Montague Cobb shared during our first #BlackinAnatWeek in October 2021!
blackinanatomy.org/dr-w-m-cobb-video
#AnatomyArtAdvocacy #CobbPanel
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#BlackinAnatWeek kicks off today! From Oct 13-18, join us for impactful webinars, community, art, and reflection celebrating anatomy and the #BlackinAnat mission! Come connect, learn, and grow with us!
Register at: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy &
Visit: blackinanatomy.org/black-in-anatomy-week-25
Register at: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy &
Visit: blackinanatomy.org/black-in-anatomy-week-25
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#BlackinAnatWeek kicks off today! From Oct 13-18, join us for impactful webinars, community, art, and reflection celebrating anatomy and the #BlackinAnat mission! Come connect, learn, and grow with us!
Register at: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy &
Visit: blackinanatomy.org/black-in-anatomy-week-25
Register at: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy &
Visit: blackinanatomy.org/black-in-anatomy-week-25
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For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
October 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
For anyone who happens to be on Long Island next week, please come...
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Awesome papers out today by some awesome colleagues of mine.
Ardipithecus ramidus ankle provides evidence for African ape-like vertical climbing in the earliest hominins - Communications Biology
Morphometric analyses of ankle bones provide evidence that humans evolved from an ancestor with vertical climbing adaptations like those of chimpanzees and gorillas.
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Awesome papers out today by some awesome colleagues of mine.
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Let's give @carriemongle.bsky.social and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Let's give @carriemongle.bsky.social and her colleagues a big hand for these informative new fossils of Paranthropus just published in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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A fossilized hand reveals 'Nutcracker Man' Paranthropus boisei, thought to have made the Oldupai gorge tools until Homo habilis was found, would also have been able to make and use those. Based on the @nature.com paper by @carriemongle.bsky.social et al. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Discovery of fossilized hand may unlock a 1.5-million-year-old mystery
Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking.
www.nationalgeographic.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
A fossilized hand reveals 'Nutcracker Man' Paranthropus boisei, thought to have made the Oldupai gorge tools until Homo habilis was found, would also have been able to make and use those. Based on the @nature.com paper by @carriemongle.bsky.social et al. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
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Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
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Announcing the 2025 #BlackinAnatWeek presenters! Join us for connection, celebration and inspiration.
Highlights:
Oct 14: Dr. Ketema Paul
Oct 15: Marcelo Oliver of Body Scientific
Oct 16: Ni-ka Ford of Enlight Visuals
Oct 17: Dr. Kerrie S. Lashley
Register: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy
#BlackinAnat
Highlights:
Oct 14: Dr. Ketema Paul
Oct 15: Marcelo Oliver of Body Scientific
Oct 16: Ni-ka Ford of Enlight Visuals
Oct 17: Dr. Kerrie S. Lashley
Register: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy
#BlackinAnat
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Announcing the 2025 #BlackinAnatWeek presenters! Join us for connection, celebration and inspiration.
Highlights:
Oct 14: Dr. Ketema Paul
Oct 15: Marcelo Oliver of Body Scientific
Oct 16: Ni-ka Ford of Enlight Visuals
Oct 17: Dr. Kerrie S. Lashley
Register: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy
#BlackinAnat
Highlights:
Oct 14: Dr. Ketema Paul
Oct 15: Marcelo Oliver of Body Scientific
Oct 16: Ni-ka Ford of Enlight Visuals
Oct 17: Dr. Kerrie S. Lashley
Register: linktr.ee/blackinanatomy
#BlackinAnat
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I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
News
PhD and MSc positions in Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology [Posted September 2025. Deadline is January 15, 2026. See below for information about the lab, student opportu…
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September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm hoping to take 1 MSc & 1 PhD student next year in the areas of Phylogenetic, Computational, and/or Evolutionary Paleobiology. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the @oupaleobiology.bsky.social, especially if interested in working on fossil echinoderms. Link for more info below. 🧪
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Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community.
Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
September 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Pastoralism remains central to survival in the Turkana of northwest Kenya, where heat and water scarcity pose constant challenges. New research uncovers the genetic signatures that underlie adaptation to arid living in this pastoralist community.
Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
Learn more this week: https://scim.ag/4nxcJbx
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NEW: NIH leadership has denied the existence of a list of banned words for grantmaking purposes, but I have seen such a list circulating among staff. It has lots of words relating to gender and diversity, of course. Also things like "climate change," "vaccine hesitancy," "ethnic origin," and others.
September 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
NEW: NIH leadership has denied the existence of a list of banned words for grantmaking purposes, but I have seen such a list circulating among staff. It has lots of words relating to gender and diversity, of course. Also things like "climate change," "vaccine hesitancy," "ethnic origin," and others.
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It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
July 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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New paper from my lab & Drimolen team (@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social) on the DNH 43 hominin pelvis. I first saw it in 2019. Given the importance of the pelvis in the evolution of human locomotion and birth, I was surprised only a basic description had been published. 1/ #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪
Analysis of an understudied 2-million-year-old fossil pelvis from the site of Drimolen, South Africa provides additional insights into the anatomy of early human relatives. doi.org/10.17159/saj... @caleyorr.bsky.social @ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New paper from my lab & Drimolen team (@ozarchaeomaglab.bsky.social) on the DNH 43 hominin pelvis. I first saw it in 2019. Given the importance of the pelvis in the evolution of human locomotion and birth, I was surprised only a basic description had been published. 1/ #paleoanthropology 🏺🧪
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This new review by Sandel et al in @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social is a nice summary of the approach by which we can best link primate behavioral data to questions in #humanevolution using a more formalized comparative framework.
#biologicalanthropology #paleoanthropology #primatology
#biologicalanthropology #paleoanthropology #primatology
Primate Behavior and the Importance of Comparative Studies in Biological Anthropology
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March 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This new review by Sandel et al in @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social is a nice summary of the approach by which we can best link primate behavioral data to questions in #humanevolution using a more formalized comparative framework.
#biologicalanthropology #paleoanthropology #primatology
#biologicalanthropology #paleoanthropology #primatology
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Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown
Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Reading for today: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Despite the recovery of 100s of fossils of Paranthropus robustus (a human cousin) in the last ~75 years, there's a lot we don't know for sure about its anatomy below the neck. This beautiful specimen contributes significantly to our knowledge of P. robustus hindlimb morphology. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa
Since paleontological work began there in 1948, Swartkrans (South Africa) has yielded hundreds of Early Pleistocene hominin fossils, currently attribu…
www.sciencedirect.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Despite the recovery of 100s of fossils of Paranthropus robustus (a human cousin) in the last ~75 years, there's a lot we don't know for sure about its anatomy below the neck. This beautiful specimen contributes significantly to our knowledge of P. robustus hindlimb morphology. #paleoanthropology 🧪🏺
Door sign official, I'm excited to introduce the SHaPE lab!
March 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Door sign official, I'm excited to introduce the SHaPE lab!
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For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
February 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
For every dollar of federal research funding in the United States, universities generate between $2.30 and $3.00 of economy activity, much of that in local communities.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.
That doesn’t even include the return on investment of getting a college or graduate degree, which research also dollars support.