Kymberley Chu
@dialecticprimates.bsky.social
Anthropology PhDing @ Princeton University. I dish out hot takes on monkeys, urban development, and capitalism. Views my own. "Get in good trouble". She/her/they/them. https://kymberleychu.com
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Gentle reminder that John Odling-Smee, who is now in his 90s (!) published his big update on #NicheConstruction last year.
It's open access and can be downloaded here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
( #pleasecite )
It's open access and can be downloaded here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
( #pleasecite )
Niche Construction: How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution
How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their e
direct.mit.edu
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Gentle reminder that John Odling-Smee, who is now in his 90s (!) published his big update on #NicheConstruction last year.
It's open access and can be downloaded here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
( #pleasecite )
It's open access and can be downloaded here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
( #pleasecite )
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This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪
“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
www.nature.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪
“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”
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Just out "Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes" with @johnhawks.net @marckissel.bsky.social Penny Spikins, Jennifer French and me. Open access in Journal of Archaeological Science... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes
Patterns and processes of social cognition underlie much of the behavioral and ecological flexibility and adaptive capacity that characterizes the pri…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Just out "Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes" with @johnhawks.net @marckissel.bsky.social Penny Spikins, Jennifer French and me. Open access in Journal of Archaeological Science... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
If you’re going to shop today, buy a Sally Rooney novel while you still can. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I'm honored to be organizing and presenting at our roundtable entitled "Asian/American Hauntings: Ghosts in/as
Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.
Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I'm honored to be organizing and presenting at our roundtable entitled "Asian/American Hauntings: Ghosts in/as
Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.
Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.
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The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
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Join us: Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
![[Penn Anthro Colloquium] Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender
Monday, October 13, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v3n2f5r2qe3bduym3r7x2ucv/bafkreibs2dyogahe2tpvsszel4khy6gwtumitsse4upx3xfh6xtt32w7du@jpeg)
October 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Join us: Beyond the Binaries: The New Science of Sex and Gender gsws.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/...
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“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”
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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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September 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Dialectics meets the enactive approach!
Join us for Dialectics and the Embodied Mind
📍 Univ. of Luxembourg | Sept 22–23
dialecticalsystems.eu/events/inter...
Join us for Dialectics and the Embodied Mind
📍 Univ. of Luxembourg | Sept 22–23
dialecticalsystems.eu/events/inter...
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Dialectics meets the enactive approach!
Join us for Dialectics and the Embodied Mind
📍 Univ. of Luxembourg | Sept 22–23
dialecticalsystems.eu/events/inter...
Join us for Dialectics and the Embodied Mind
📍 Univ. of Luxembourg | Sept 22–23
dialecticalsystems.eu/events/inter...
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Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi.
"the detailed reviews (both rounds) and comprehensive author response are commendable and consequential parts of the scientific record of this study."
Please do read. This is truly fascinating science elifesciences.org/articles/89106
"the detailed reviews (both rounds) and comprehensive author response are commendable and consequential parts of the scientific record of this study."
Please do read. This is truly fascinating science elifesciences.org/articles/89106
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi
Remains of the extinct hominin species Homo naledi were interred by members of their own species, the first time that burial has been documented in populations other than modern humans and Neanderthal...
elifesciences.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi.
"the detailed reviews (both rounds) and comprehensive author response are commendable and consequential parts of the scientific record of this study."
Please do read. This is truly fascinating science elifesciences.org/articles/89106
"the detailed reviews (both rounds) and comprehensive author response are commendable and consequential parts of the scientific record of this study."
Please do read. This is truly fascinating science elifesciences.org/articles/89106
For the first time, I'm teaching an introductory workshop on ethnography for scientists. Anthropologists and STS scholars, what short readings and group activities do you recommend? Thank you for your ideas! #Anthropology #STS #ethnography
September 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For the first time, I'm teaching an introductory workshop on ethnography for scientists. Anthropologists and STS scholars, what short readings and group activities do you recommend? Thank you for your ideas! #Anthropology #STS #ethnography
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
@kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Read the piece and then go below to keep up with efforts to defend People’s Park: linktr.ee/Peoplespark
August 26, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Read the piece and then go below to keep up with efforts to defend People’s Park: linktr.ee/Peoplespark
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Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists.
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
In Memory of Rosebud, Defender of People's Park
On the 30th anniversary of her death at the hands of police, a poster in memory of anarchist and People’s Park defender Rosebud Abigail Denovo.
crimethinc.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists.
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here:
crimethinc.com/Rosebud
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Five travel awards for scholars from low & middle income countries are available for this years ASAA/NZ #anthropology Conference in Whāingaroa, Raglan! www.asaanz.org/conference Priority will be given to applicants from #Oceania and #SoutheastAsia
ASAA/NZ Annual Conference — Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand
ASAA/NZ ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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July 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Five travel awards for scholars from low & middle income countries are available for this years ASAA/NZ #anthropology Conference in Whāingaroa, Raglan! www.asaanz.org/conference Priority will be given to applicants from #Oceania and #SoutheastAsia
I'm honored to announce my ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia will be funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute's Emslie Horniman Scholarship. Thank you @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and my dissertation committee for their kindness and intellectually generous support!
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I'm honored to announce my ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia will be funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute's Emslie Horniman Scholarship. Thank you @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and my dissertation committee for their kindness and intellectually generous support!
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One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...
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Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. Speak up and push back. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. Speak up and push back. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Call for Pitches: As a contributing editor for @castac.bsky.social, I'm interested in
Scientific paradigms 📚- How do fields such as veterinary medicine and ecology impact the ways we interact with animals and the environment?
Urban ecologies 🌿 - How do animals retool urban infrastructure?
Scientific paradigms 📚- How do fields such as veterinary medicine and ecology impact the ways we interact with animals and the environment?
Urban ecologies 🌿 - How do animals retool urban infrastructure?
January 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Call for Pitches: As a contributing editor for @castac.bsky.social, I'm interested in
Scientific paradigms 📚- How do fields such as veterinary medicine and ecology impact the ways we interact with animals and the environment?
Urban ecologies 🌿 - How do animals retool urban infrastructure?
Scientific paradigms 📚- How do fields such as veterinary medicine and ecology impact the ways we interact with animals and the environment?
Urban ecologies 🌿 - How do animals retool urban infrastructure?
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Happy New Year from Platypus!
Check out our first post of 2025 to meet our team, including new and continuing Contributing Editors. Also, learn how to get in touch if you're interested in publishing on the blog.
All the information at: blog.castac.org/2025/01/plat...
Check out our first post of 2025 to meet our team, including new and continuing Contributing Editors. Also, learn how to get in touch if you're interested in publishing on the blog.
All the information at: blog.castac.org/2025/01/plat...
January 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Happy New Year from Platypus!
Check out our first post of 2025 to meet our team, including new and continuing Contributing Editors. Also, learn how to get in touch if you're interested in publishing on the blog.
All the information at: blog.castac.org/2025/01/plat...
Check out our first post of 2025 to meet our team, including new and continuing Contributing Editors. Also, learn how to get in touch if you're interested in publishing on the blog.
All the information at: blog.castac.org/2025/01/plat...
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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
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Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
www.psypost.org
January 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
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It's me, a person who does scientific research on and with humans - federally funded research no less! - telling you that if you define sex as about gamete size or chromosomes but collect data on it using baby genitals (aka assigned sex) as your measured variable, definition /= measurement.
January 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It's me, a person who does scientific research on and with humans - federally funded research no less! - telling you that if you define sex as about gamete size or chromosomes but collect data on it using baby genitals (aka assigned sex) as your measured variable, definition /= measurement.
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Great essay "Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care" by @dialecticprimates.bsky.social www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...
Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care - Anthropology News
Pseudonyms have been issued for ethnographic interlocutors, monkeys, and locations. In Polyphony, an urban neighborhood in Penang, Malaysia, a woman
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January 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Great essay "Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care" by @dialecticprimates.bsky.social www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...