guichitarivera.bsky.social
@guichitarivera.bsky.social
Critical biocultural anthropologist studying intergenerational transmission of trauma and adversity. Currently focusing on menstrual DNAm. Emory and HPRS alumn, postdocing @Dartmouth. Boricua. On the market.
www.luisamariarivera.com
www.luisamariarivera.com
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Prenatal exposure to genocide and subsequent adverse childhood events are associated with DNA methylation of SLC6A4, BDNF, and PRDM8 in early adulthood in Rwanda
Scientific Reports - Prenatal exposure to genocide and subsequent adverse childhood events are associated with DNA methylation of SLC6A4, BDNF, and PRDM8 in early adulthood in Rwanda
rdcu.be
Publication day: I'm sharing our latest findings on epigenetic associations with prenatal genocide exposure in young adults in Rwanda, published today in Scientific Reports!
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Keep talking about Sudan.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Keep talking about Sudan.
Media are barely mentioning Sudan, where genocidal violence is accelerating. Yale researchers analyzing satellite data warn many of the 250K in El-Fasher may already have been killed-- there's no sign that they made it out. Link to the report:
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Media are barely mentioning Sudan, where genocidal violence is accelerating. Yale researchers analyzing satellite data warn many of the 250K in El-Fasher may already have been killed-- there's no sign that they made it out. Link to the report:
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...
files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...
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🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EHBEA-Public-Communication-Award-nomination-form 2026.docx
2026 EHBEA Excellence in Public Communication award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DEC...
docs.google.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences
📣 📣 📣
Deadline: December 19, 2025
Check the form below 👇
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Grateful to @resprofnews.bsky.social for doing a write-up of our call for action to incentivise the publication of negative results. Now looking for world-leading funders and institutions to show some leadership on this issue…
Research funders urged to drive culture shift on negative results.
Reform needed to improve trust in science, patient care and training of AI, advocates say.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
Reform needed to improve trust in science, patient care and training of AI, advocates say.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Grateful to @resprofnews.bsky.social for doing a write-up of our call for action to incentivise the publication of negative results. Now looking for world-leading funders and institutions to show some leadership on this issue…
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“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society…
..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere
www.cambridge.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society…
..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image”
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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488 arrests at a peaceful silent protest for "supporting a "proscribed organization." Despite all our problems, I'm glad to live under the protection of the U.S. constitution.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
488 arrests at a peaceful silent protest for "supporting a "proscribed organization." Despite all our problems, I'm glad to live under the protection of the U.S. constitution.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
October 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:
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1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity
Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research
A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.
www.tampabay.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪
I know it's a rough time to be talking science, but in case anyone wants some distraction, I wrote about the Tan et al (2024) analysis of heritability and polygenic indices for complex human behavior. Title: Is Tan et al The End of Social Science Genomics?
Is Tan et al. The End of Social Science Genomics?
What happens when everything is unconfounded?
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪
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Monday and Tuesday! Many open sessions and awesome participants. Please come and re-post to your networks!
@megancmoodie.bsky.social, Ian Wallace, and I will host a hybrid workshop on Disability Anthropology Across the Fields #DisAnthAF on 3/24 and 3/25 in Portland, OR. Please register to attend open sessions! Repost, please.
www.evolvedlab.net/events
www.evolvedlab.net/events
Events | Evolve D Lab
www.evolvedlab.net
March 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Monday and Tuesday! Many open sessions and awesome participants. Please come and re-post to your networks!
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Had a lovely time presenting to @femquant.bsky.social about how reflexivity in quantitative researcher may improve transparency and rigour. We talked about how open science frames "bias" as a problem to be stamped out, but feminist epistemological approaches offer a different (more nuanced) take
March 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Had a lovely time presenting to @femquant.bsky.social about how reflexivity in quantitative researcher may improve transparency and rigour. We talked about how open science frames "bias" as a problem to be stamped out, but feminist epistemological approaches offer a different (more nuanced) take
Who on here is going to the #AABA? I'm venturing out to Baltimore for my first big conference post baby now that my little one is weaned and walking and would love to reconnect 🫶
March 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Who on here is going to the #AABA? I'm venturing out to Baltimore for my first big conference post baby now that my little one is weaned and walking and would love to reconnect 🫶
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Chair’s Notes from Emory Admin:
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Chair’s Notes from Emory Admin:
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
“Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding”
Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall.
Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.
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Long but very interesting read on the junk science behind DNA-based face prediction for forensic purposes.
Parabon nanolabs is famous for solving hundreds of cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy and advancing the science behind the technique.
But...
theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...
Parabon nanolabs is famous for solving hundreds of cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy and advancing the science behind the technique.
But...
theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...
A Forensics Company Tells Cops It Can Use DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face. Scientists Worry the Tool Will Deepen Racial Bias.
Parabon NanoLabs sells police composite images of suspects built on DNA. Critics warn the tool can reinforce racial stereotypes and taint witness memories.
theintercept.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Long but very interesting read on the junk science behind DNA-based face prediction for forensic purposes.
Parabon nanolabs is famous for solving hundreds of cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy and advancing the science behind the technique.
But...
theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...
Parabon nanolabs is famous for solving hundreds of cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy and advancing the science behind the technique.
But...
theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...
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Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!
🚨JOB ALERT 🚨
Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27!
Please share widely!
#STS
#philsky
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27!
Please share widely!
#STS
#philsky
jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
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February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!
Come on friends of Akash. Tell me about how his ethics, his moral compass. Tell me about the time his coding was so good, he was able to undermine Lex Luthor’s plan from within, how he wrote a codebase that collapsed an attempted coup. Tell me, please.
Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding."
US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.
February 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Come on friends of Akash. Tell me about how his ethics, his moral compass. Tell me about the time his coding was so good, he was able to undermine Lex Luthor’s plan from within, how he wrote a codebase that collapsed an attempted coup. Tell me, please.
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Are you a PhD student whose funding is in jeopardy because of recent executive actions, or a faculty member in a program dealing with these considerations? @mkhaw.bsky.social and I want to hear from you @chronicle.com. DM or email! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd
February 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Are you a PhD student whose funding is in jeopardy because of recent executive actions, or a faculty member in a program dealing with these considerations? @mkhaw.bsky.social and I want to hear from you @chronicle.com. DM or email! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd
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I'm hiring a postdoc to join my new lab at UTEP. It's very difficult to focus on science these days, but I am excited to support a junior scholar looking to grow their research program. A full job description is linked. Please circulate with junior colleagues looking for a postdoc position.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Position - AABA
University of Texas at El Paso Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Position Department: Sociology & Anthropology Dr. Kyle Wiley’s newly created lab at the University of Texas at El Paso is s...
bioanth.org
February 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm hiring a postdoc to join my new lab at UTEP. It's very difficult to focus on science these days, but I am excited to support a junior scholar looking to grow their research program. A full job description is linked. Please circulate with junior colleagues looking for a postdoc position.
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Penn State's Center for Black Digital Research is hiring a Data Scientist: www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...
Center for Black Digital Research Data Scientist - HigherEdJobs
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February 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Penn State's Center for Black Digital Research is hiring a Data Scientist: www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...
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Maybe niche, but if you received a PhD after January 2022, have one degree from National University of Ireland, and are looking for an anglophone university without fascist oversight/mass redundancy, here's a 2-year postdoc fellowship scheme for humanities/social sciences: www.nui.ie/awards/PostD...
NUI Awards: Post-Doctoral and Early Career Awards and Grants
Information on the Post-Doctoral and Early Career Awards and Grants offered by the National University of Ireland.
www.nui.ie
February 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Maybe niche, but if you received a PhD after January 2022, have one degree from National University of Ireland, and are looking for an anglophone university without fascist oversight/mass redundancy, here's a 2-year postdoc fellowship scheme for humanities/social sciences: www.nui.ie/awards/PostD...
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There will be a protest on SUNDAY Feb. 2 at 3:00 p.m. outside the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the government's computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Spread the word to DC area folks!
February 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
There will be a protest on SUNDAY Feb. 2 at 3:00 p.m. outside the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the government's computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Spread the word to DC area folks!