Sean's FAB Lab
@fablabbu.bsky.social
Sean Tallman heads the Forensic and Bioanthropology Laboratory (FAB Lab) at Boston University's Program in Forensic Anthropology #LGBTQ #Fulbrighter
A Halloween well spent with Mrs. Scarlett! 1+2+1+1+2
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A Halloween well spent with Mrs. Scarlett! 1+2+1+1+2
Bout sums it up--debuted my new protest shirt from @dansavage.bsky.social at the invigorating No Kings protest in Boston today. Fantastic turnout--the Common was full! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Bout sums it up--debuted my new protest shirt from @dansavage.bsky.social at the invigorating No Kings protest in Boston today. Fantastic turnout--the Common was full! #NoKings
Cannot get over how fantastic Good Boy is!
October 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Cannot get over how fantastic Good Boy is!
A big thank you to Dr. Jon Bethard from the University of South Florida for speaking to my Biological Anthropology History, Method, and Theory class on academic and job planning and embracing failure!
October 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A big thank you to Dr. Jon Bethard from the University of South Florida for speaking to my Biological Anthropology History, Method, and Theory class on academic and job planning and embracing failure!
A big thank you to former FAB Lab-er Sam Kelley for speaking to my Biological Anthropology History, Method, and Theory class today on the ethical stewardship and care of archaeological objects and human/non-human skeletons!
September 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A big thank you to former FAB Lab-er Sam Kelley for speaking to my Biological Anthropology History, Method, and Theory class today on the ethical stewardship and care of archaeological objects and human/non-human skeletons!
Finally hung these beauties up on my office door! @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Finally hung these beauties up on my office door! @sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Happy to see former FAB Lab-ers and graduates of our program, Giulia Dunn and Sydney Martin, busy at work at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency!
September 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Happy to see former FAB Lab-ers and graduates of our program, Giulia Dunn and Sydney Martin, busy at work at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency!
Got the Covid and flu shots today at CVS--glad I live in a state (MA) that values health!
September 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Got the Covid and flu shots today at CVS--glad I live in a state (MA) that values health!
Can't believe it's my 10th first day of class as a professor! Happy fall y'all!
September 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Can't believe it's my 10th first day of class as a professor! Happy fall y'all!
A big congratulations to FAB Lab-ers Victoria Conquest, Alysa Ehlers, Mae Gibson, Elizabeth Poplavska, and Caroline Schilling for successfully defending their MS theses today! Great job!! 🎉🍾🎉💀
July 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A big congratulations to FAB Lab-ers Victoria Conquest, Alysa Ehlers, Mae Gibson, Elizabeth Poplavska, and Caroline Schilling for successfully defending their MS theses today! Great job!! 🎉🍾🎉💀
Happy to finally have this paper on improving forensic anthropological theory, method, and practice in trans and gender diverse identification in Current Anthropology @wennergrenorg.bsky.social with wonderful anthropology and medical coauthors! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736355
July 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Happy to finally have this paper on improving forensic anthropological theory, method, and practice in trans and gender diverse identification in Current Anthropology @wennergrenorg.bsky.social with wonderful anthropology and medical coauthors! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736355
The @wennergrenorg.bsky.social may be shuttering @sapiens.org. Please consider submitting a letter in support of Sapiens. We need public-facing publications like this now more than ever.
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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The @wennergrenorg.bsky.social may be shuttering @sapiens.org. Please consider submitting a letter in support of Sapiens. We need public-facing publications like this now more than ever.
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Happy Pride month and beyond!
June 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Happy Pride month and beyond!
A big congratulations to the Boston University Forensic Anthropology Master's Program graduates!!
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
A big congratulations to the Boston University Forensic Anthropology Master's Program graduates!!
Just ordered!
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.
4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.
Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just ordered!
A slight glimmer of hope today...
"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."
April 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A slight glimmer of hope today...
Once had my students read this with "onion" redacted as a part of their weekly readings--most got the joke 🥴
theonion.com/archaeologic...
theonion.com/archaeologic...
April 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Once had my students read this with "onion" redacted as a part of their weekly readings--most got the joke 🥴
theonion.com/archaeologic...
theonion.com/archaeologic...
Reposted by Sean's FAB Lab
it's #TransDayofVisibility & #TransDayofRemembrance and providing love, support & solidarity to our trans & nonbinary family, friends, & colleagues is more important than ever 💙💗🤍💗💙 💛💜🤍🖤
I stand w @bioanth.org Statement Support of Trans Lives by Archer, @zacharydubois.bsky.social, Kralick, & Smith
I stand w @bioanth.org Statement Support of Trans Lives by Archer, @zacharydubois.bsky.social, Kralick, & Smith
AABA Statement in Support of Trans Lives - AABA
The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, the Dental Anthropology Association, the Paleopathology Association, The PaleoAnthropology...
bioanth.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
it's #TransDayofVisibility & #TransDayofRemembrance and providing love, support & solidarity to our trans & nonbinary family, friends, & colleagues is more important than ever 💙💗🤍💗💙 💛💜🤍🖤
I stand w @bioanth.org Statement Support of Trans Lives by Archer, @zacharydubois.bsky.social, Kralick, & Smith
I stand w @bioanth.org Statement Support of Trans Lives by Archer, @zacharydubois.bsky.social, Kralick, & Smith
Had a great time yesterday speaking to the Boston University Forensic Science Society on my 11-month Fulbright experience in South Africa! Here's hoping *they* don't fully gut Fulbright programs...
March 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Had a great time yesterday speaking to the Boston University Forensic Science Society on my 11-month Fulbright experience in South Africa! Here's hoping *they* don't fully gut Fulbright programs...
Excited to see the 2024 @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social issue is out now with some great free and open access articles! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/26927691...
American Journal of Biological Anthropology: Vol 186, No S78
is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Excited to see the 2024 @yearbookbioanth.bsky.social issue is out now with some great free and open access articles! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/26927691...
Ever the cutting edge research happening at BU’s SPH!
Report: You Could Just Lose An Arm One Day
A new study from Boston University’s School of Public Health has found that anyone, including you, could feasibly lose an arm at any moment due to a vast number of possible events outside your control.
A new study from Boston University’s School of Public Health has found that anyone, including you, could feasibly lose an arm at any moment due to a vast number of possible events outside your control.
March 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Ever the cutting edge research happening at BU’s SPH!
Proud of FAB Lab-ers Victoria Conquest, Ali Lear, and Caroline Schilling for presenting their thesis research at the @bioanth.org meeting in Baltimore! Another excellent conference! #AABA2025
March 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Proud of FAB Lab-ers Victoria Conquest, Ali Lear, and Caroline Schilling for presenting their thesis research at the @bioanth.org meeting in Baltimore! Another excellent conference! #AABA2025
Rejuvenated by Standing up for Science in Boston!! Great turnout despite the howling winds...
March 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Rejuvenated by Standing up for Science in Boston!! Great turnout despite the howling winds...
BU's Student Spotlight on FAB Lab-er Elizabeth Poplavska!
www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/2025/03/...
www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/2025/03/...
Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Poplavska ’25 | Graduate Medical Sciences
www.bumc.bu.edu
March 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
BU's Student Spotlight on FAB Lab-er Elizabeth Poplavska!
www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/2025/03/...
www.bumc.bu.edu/gms/2025/03/...