Penn State Anthropology
@psuanthro.bsky.social
Human Ecology • Bioanthropology • Archaeology • The Pennsylvania State University
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Why is Matt zapping oyster shells thousands of times with lasers??!!
This week we’re analyzing oysters with Dr. @niklashausmann.bsky.social using laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) to “map” the elemental makeup of the oyster’s shell throughout its life 1/3 #archaeology #ecology
This week we’re analyzing oysters with Dr. @niklashausmann.bsky.social using laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) to “map” the elemental makeup of the oyster’s shell throughout its life 1/3 #archaeology #ecology
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Why is Matt zapping oyster shells thousands of times with lasers??!!
This week we’re analyzing oysters with Dr. @niklashausmann.bsky.social using laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) to “map” the elemental makeup of the oyster’s shell throughout its life 1/3 #archaeology #ecology
This week we’re analyzing oysters with Dr. @niklashausmann.bsky.social using laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) to “map” the elemental makeup of the oyster’s shell throughout its life 1/3 #archaeology #ecology
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Thanks to @archaeojake.bsky.social and the Penn State Anthropology department for letting me explore some ideas about the evolution and development of our quirky cousin Homo naledi
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Thanks to @archaeojake.bsky.social and the Penn State Anthropology department for letting me explore some ideas about the evolution and development of our quirky cousin Homo naledi
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🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology
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October 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨Social scientists! @psuanthro.bsky.social & @ssripennstate.bsky.social are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor exploring how social & ecological environments shape reproduction, growth, &/or development. Review starts soon! Please share widely! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
🚨 New paper published by prof Nick Holowka and colleagues in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage! Give it a look! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
🚨 New paper published by prof Nick Holowka and colleagues in the journal Osteoarthritis and Cartilage! Give it a look! 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 New paper published in @peerj.bsky.social by Profs Tim Ryan, Joan Richtsmeier, and colleagues! Give it a look! 🔗 peerj.com/articles/201...
October 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 New paper published in @peerj.bsky.social by Profs Tim Ryan, Joan Richtsmeier, and colleagues! Give it a look! 🔗 peerj.com/articles/201...
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🚨 Hey we are hiring an archaeologist!! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
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September 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🚨 Hey we are hiring an archaeologist!! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!
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Assistant Professor of Archaeology
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September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
🚨 Hey we are hiring an archaeologist!! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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September 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🚨 Hey we are hiring an archaeologist!! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
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New publication out by one of our PIs, @archaeojake.bsky.social!! #archaeology @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New publication out by one of our PIs, @archaeojake.bsky.social!! #archaeology @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
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New Coursera course with Emily Gurley has reached 2,000 students since launching this summer! Please share with anyone interested in outbreaks and One Health. My module, with the wonderful Nazmun Nahar, highlights the role of social science and anthropology.
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One Health Investigations of Outbreaks and Spillover Events
Offered by Johns Hopkins University. One Health is the concept that human, animal and environmental health are interconnected. Outbreaks of ... Enroll for free.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
New Coursera course with Emily Gurley has reached 2,000 students since launching this summer! Please share with anyone interested in outbreaks and One Health. My module, with the wonderful Nazmun Nahar, highlights the role of social science and anthropology.
www.coursera.org/learn/one-he...
www.coursera.org/learn/one-he...
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✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
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We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling
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August 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠
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New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍
Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions
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Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation
Rodents have co-existed with humans for centuries, and frequently exchange pathogens. Historically, rodent-driven plague outbreaks scoured the Old Wor…
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August 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍
Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
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Cameron Pauly is officially starting the PhD phase of his MD/PhD journey with the microARCH lab! His research will explore how colonialism has shaped the oral microbiomes of Indigenous communities. Welcome back, Cameron—we’re glad to have you with us!
August 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Cameron Pauly is officially starting the PhD phase of his MD/PhD journey with the microARCH lab! His research will explore how colonialism has shaped the oral microbiomes of Indigenous communities. Welcome back, Cameron—we’re glad to have you with us!
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🚨 📝 New paper hot off the press in @saa-aap.bsky.social! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged #Archaeology in the American Southeast” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast
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August 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🚨 📝 New paper hot off the press in @saa-aap.bsky.social! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged #Archaeology in the American Southeast” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Big Ten Open Books project has launched its ‘Indigenous North Americans’ Collection, and six of our books are included! Read the full press release and access the collection here:
Big Ten Open Books project launches ‘Indigenous North Americans’ Collection | Penn State University
In partnership with seven Big Ten-affiliated university presses, including Penn State University Press, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs announced the expansion of the Big…
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August 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Big Ten Open Books project has launched its ‘Indigenous North Americans’ Collection, and six of our books are included! Read the full press release and access the collection here:
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"Community-based archaeology is a methodological and theoretical tool for knowledge coproduction that necessitates an openness to transformation, institutional reorganization, and flexibility of traditional models of archaeological practice." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast
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August 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Community-based archaeology is a methodological and theoretical tool for knowledge coproduction that necessitates an openness to transformation, institutional reorganization, and flexibility of traditional models of archaeological practice." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚨 New paper just published in Advances in Archaeological Practice ( @saa-aap.bsky.social ) by lab Co-Director Jake ( @archaeojake.bsky.social )!! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast” #archaeology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast
www.cambridge.org
August 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🚨 New paper just published in Advances in Archaeological Practice ( @saa-aap.bsky.social ) by lab Co-Director Jake ( @archaeojake.bsky.social )!! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast” #archaeology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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David Putts, SSRI cofund & Professor of Anthropology has recently been named the associate director for graduate education at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. ➡️
New associate director for graduate education at Huck Institutes named | Social Science Research Institute
Penn State Professor of Anthropology David Puts has been named the associate director for graduate education at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. The post was most recently held by Troy Ott,…
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August 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
David Putts, SSRI cofund & Professor of Anthropology has recently been named the associate director for graduate education at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. ➡️
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Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️
Hey! Mine (Co-PI) and @isazooarch.bsky.social’s (PI) NSF proposal has been recommended for funding! Feeling super fortunate given the state of things 🙌🏻 💰 🎉 🐟 🦪 (fingers crossed for no unexpected hurdles to being properly awarded) #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #shellfisheries #sustainability
August 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️