Derek Boyd
@derekboyd.bsky.social
Board-Certified Forensic Anthropologist • Assistant Professor of Anthropology • Co-Director of the UNLV Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Laboratory • #QueerInStem 🏳️🌈
Check out the FAB lab website!
https://fablab.sites.unlv.edu
Check out the FAB lab website!
https://fablab.sites.unlv.edu
Excited to announce that I am officially a board-certified forensic anthropologist!
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Excited to announce that I am officially a board-certified forensic anthropologist!
Getting really tired of the “we need to cut costs” rhetoric. We need billionaires to pay their taxes. That’s it.
NSF becomes third U.S. science agency to propose smaller overhead payments to universities
Courts have blocked attempts by NIH and DOE to impose a flat 15% rate for reimbursement
www.science.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Getting really tired of the “we need to cut costs” rhetoric. We need billionaires to pay their taxes. That’s it.
An amazing lab getting some well-deserved recognition. Grateful to have trained at the HIL!
How a Small Human ID Lab Built a Global Reputation
Members of the Human Identification Lab are deployed to private property or public lands, hiking across fields and ravines, and even boating or helicoptering into some of the most remote locations.
www.forensicmag.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
An amazing lab getting some well-deserved recognition. Grateful to have trained at the HIL!
Big congrats to my PhD student, @eliseadams.bsky.social, for receiving an AABA Pollitzer Student Travel Award!
🥁 Congratulations to the 76 awardees of the 2025 William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award! The Pollitzer Student Travel Awards are designed to help students defray the costs of attending the AABA meetings. bioanth.org/about/willia... #AABA2025
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 […]
bioanth.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Big congrats to my PhD student, @eliseadams.bsky.social, for receiving an AABA Pollitzer Student Travel Award!
I am very grateful to have received a Cobb Professional Development Grant for my proposed work on respiratory disease in industrial-era England this coming summer!
💡 AABA supports early career researchers through the Cobb Professional Development Grant. Congratulations to this year’s Cobb Professional Development Grant awardees: Derek Boyd, Stephanie Canington, Arianna Harrington, Sharon Kuo, and Megan Petersdorf! bioanth.org/about/cobb-p... #AABA2025
March 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I am very grateful to have received a Cobb Professional Development Grant for my proposed work on respiratory disease in industrial-era England this coming summer!
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Nothing says “I love you” to the working class like ending their health care coverage.
February 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Nothing says “I love you” to the working class like ending their health care coverage.
Folks have been talking about how unhinged their con law classes have been the past three weeks and I’m over here trying to figure out how to articulate the dismantling of our federal healthcare and disease control/prevention systems to graduate students in my class on infectious disease dynamics…
February 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Folks have been talking about how unhinged their con law classes have been the past three weeks and I’m over here trying to figure out how to articulate the dismantling of our federal healthcare and disease control/prevention systems to graduate students in my class on infectious disease dynamics…
This new administration is making the US more and more vulnerable each and every day all to save a buck.
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This new administration is making the US more and more vulnerable each and every day all to save a buck.
Whatever vaccines you have been procrastinating to get, get them now.
February 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Whatever vaccines you have been procrastinating to get, get them now.
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Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.
February 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.
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MAGA rn:
Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!”
Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”
Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!”
Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”
February 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
MAGA rn:
Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!”
Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”
Diversity: “Boooo bad, only strict qualifications (as defined by me) matter!!!”
Loyalty: “Yes, perfect, this was in fact the only qualification I cared about.”
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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Ooo this is a good one ☺️
February 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/h...
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January 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
January 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website.
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
Pages removed include:
- Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System
- Social Vulnerability Index
- Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
Anyone else more nervous than usual about flying to academic conferences given the recent history of Boeing crashes, changes to the TSA and FAA, and now the tragedy in DC? #academicsky
January 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Anyone else more nervous than usual about flying to academic conferences given the recent history of Boeing crashes, changes to the TSA and FAA, and now the tragedy in DC? #academicsky
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RFK Jr. wants to get rid of 600 employees at NIH "not doing their jobs." What does that even mean? It means the people working on infectious disease research, lifesaving drug development, and vaccine research.
January 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
RFK Jr. wants to get rid of 600 employees at NIH "not doing their jobs." What does that even mean? It means the people working on infectious disease research, lifesaving drug development, and vaccine research.
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Sometimes
I just love
"THE BERN"
I just love
"THE BERN"
January 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Sometimes
I just love
"THE BERN"
I just love
"THE BERN"
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
Students deserve to learn in safe environments where they can make mistakes and learn from them. Not where if they don’t dodge a gunman they die. Not where ICE agents can come and snatch them away. Something needs to change. Now. #academicsky
January 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Students deserve to learn in safe environments where they can make mistakes and learn from them. Not where if they don’t dodge a gunman they die. Not where ICE agents can come and snatch them away. Something needs to change. Now. #academicsky
My R1 university wasn’t able to reach a price agreement with Elsevier about maintaining access to peer-reviewed journals, so we lost access to 1,665 of them. #academicsky
January 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
My R1 university wasn’t able to reach a price agreement with Elsevier about maintaining access to peer-reviewed journals, so we lost access to 1,665 of them. #academicsky
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🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that ...
www.desmog.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🔴 MAPPED: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
Politicians, donors, think tanks, and media outlets in the UK and U.S. are working increasingly closely to scupper climate policies and promote fossil fuel extraction.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social