Kyle Clark
@kjclark.bsky.social
Anthropologist and assistant professor at the University of Evansville
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Being a professor is so weird. You are constantly having to act like you know things.
September 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Being a professor is so weird. You are constantly having to act like you know things.
Reposted by Kyle Clark
My new paper "Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic" is now published in Evolutionary Anthropology!
Please check it out at the link below!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Please check it out at the link below!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My new paper "Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic" is now published in Evolutionary Anthropology!
Please check it out at the link below!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Please check it out at the link below!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This is an interesting piece on therapeutic tattooing complete with emic accounts of the power of tattoos for breast cancer survivors.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why are so many people getting therapeutic tattoos?
Many cancer survivors get therapeutic tattoos to allow them to carve out a new interpretation of their changed bodies
www.rte.ie
July 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This is an interesting piece on therapeutic tattooing complete with emic accounts of the power of tattoos for breast cancer survivors.
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Wow. Public higher education in Indiana getting gutted one program at a time
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
July 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Wow. Public higher education in Indiana getting gutted one program at a time
www.ipm.org/news-section...
www.ipm.org/news-section...
It was a pleasure to give a talk and discuss my research at Universitas PGRI Pontianak. Afterward, I was presented with a tengkolok, a traditional Malay hat (seen wearing in the second picture)
June 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
It was a pleasure to give a talk and discuss my research at Universitas PGRI Pontianak. Afterward, I was presented with a tengkolok, a traditional Malay hat (seen wearing in the second picture)
Ridiculous.
Indiana GOP Slips Overnight Higher Ed Takeover into State Budget – Tenure, academic freedom, and governance at IU under assault as local political tensions rise - The Bloomingtonian
Staff ReportApril 24, 2025 BLOOMINGTON, IND. — Under the cover of night, Indiana's Republican supermajority inserted sweeping changes to the state’s higher education system into the budget bill, spark...
bloomingtonian.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Ridiculous.
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New paper exploring how cultural models of vaccines influence vaccine decision-making. Implications for the KAP framework, historical mistrust on healthcare decisions, & health promotion where formal education is rare.
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April 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New paper exploring how cultural models of vaccines influence vaccine decision-making. Implications for the KAP framework, historical mistrust on healthcare decisions, & health promotion where formal education is rare.
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Tomorrow! #Disability in #anthropology. Join. Tell your friends. Register here: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Tomorrow! #Disability in #anthropology. Join. Tell your friends. Register here: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Not a good look for higher education in this country when some of our best institutions are caving to this administration’s careless whims
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope
Some of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive.
www.politico.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Not a good look for higher education in this country when some of our best institutions are caving to this administration’s careless whims
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
The priorities of this administration…
NIH: Too woke? Or not woke enough? 84/10,000 titles (0.84%) of NIH funded research published in the last year had one or more of these words/phrases (couldn't use "diversity" because it was too common in non-woke titles)
2414 titles (24%) had cancer, patient, health, and/or cell 🧪
2414 titles (24%) had cancer, patient, health, and/or cell 🧪
March 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The priorities of this administration…
While merely an initial test, I am proud of this paper. Rob Walker and I explore the extent to which we can measure ancestor influence on cooperative behavior in an Iban community.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Iban Kinship and Cooperation - Human Nature
Humans often display extensive forms of prosocial behavior, frequently beyond what is predicted by inclusive fitness. This observation has led to various models attempting to explain the unique extent...
link.springer.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
While merely an initial test, I am proud of this paper. Rob Walker and I explore the extent to which we can measure ancestor influence on cooperative behavior in an Iban community.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How does iron nutrition affect risk for COVID-19? 🧪
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
Iron nutrition and COVID-19 among Nigerian healthcare workers
AbstractBackground and objectives. The optimal iron hypothesis (OIH) posits that risk for infection is lowest at a mild level of iron deficiency. The exten
doi.org
January 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
How does iron nutrition affect risk for COVID-19? 🧪
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
Both anemic and iron replete healthcare workers in Nigerian hospitals were at elevated risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection
This fits some - but not all - of the predictions of the optimal iron hypothesis: doi.org/10.1093/emph...
My kind of Christmas message
Get yourself a science book that’s not afraid to take on Santa Claus and his cronies in the Big Festive industrial complex.
Keep digging, the truth is out there 🕵️♂️
www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
📚💙🧪
Keep digging, the truth is out there 🕵️♂️
www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
📚💙🧪
December 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM
My kind of Christmas message
I’ve found these starter packs really useful for finding a community here so I’m passing along a good one!
Starter pack for evolutionary behavioral science! I know I am missing many ppl working in this area. Please add yourself and your colleagues!
go.bsky.app/Rt4Kh26
go.bsky.app/Rt4Kh26
December 4, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I’ve found these starter packs really useful for finding a community here so I’m passing along a good one!