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Anne Stone
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Prof at ASU, anthropological geneticist, gardener, mom of 1. I dabble in stained glass, embroidery, and print making in my copious free time.
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AABA/AAAG folks! Want to reach more people with your awesome science 👩‍🔬👨🏿‍🏫💀🧬🦍? Check out this upcoming writing workshop by @bioanth.org on Nov 19🗓️ ! A great way to prepare for this year's Politzer Prize op-ed style competition 👩🏿‍💻 📝(bioanth.org/about/willia...) Register here: shorturl.at/7cf9J
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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1. Map evolutionary diversity to hack biomedical innovation
2. Revolutionize cancer therapy
3. Target the development of antimicrobial resistance
4. Address Anthropocene-related diseases
5. Support healthier behaviors
6. Improve pandemic responses
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Dan Blumstein!
6 ways evolutionary medicine can transform our health
Evolutionary medicine is an emerging interdisciplinary field with huge potential to improve human health and tackle a broad scope of major health challenges.
www.weforum.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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WE HEAR HE'S A FUN GUY!
#IRegretNothing

You can attend in person or via Zoom! #EvMed
Noon Thursday, November 6th, join us for David Engelthaler's lecture "Cocci and Crypto: Evolving fungi in an evolving world". Prof. Engelthaler is Executive Director of the Health Observatory at ASU & the Director of TGen North
@tgenresearch.bsky.social #EvMed asuevents.asu.edu/event/cemina...
November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Congrats to Professor Megan Jehn for receiving the 2025 Arizona Public Health Research Award! 🎉

Since 2020, she has led the Student Outbreak Response Team (SORT), training over 400 case investigators to help improve public health.
azpha.org/2025/10/15/a...
Arizona Public Health Association Announces 2025 Public Health Awards – AZ Public Health Association
azpha.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A beautiful day at the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve! @asubeinghuman.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The best antidote to despair is ACTION! As we inch our way into another day of the Republican shutdown that threatens to plunge millions of Americans into a food insecurity crisis, we are mobilizing to Keep America Fed.
Join us on 11/3 at our ACTION HOUR to learn how to get involved. tr.ee/UF24dV
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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A spectacular recovery: feral cats and fox exclusion dramatically reshapes a small mammal community in an Australian desert. Join us 5 Nov 8:00 AM (London, UK time) to hear #ProcB author Katherine Moseby talk about her research. Reserve your space: cassyni.com/events/RtW3T... #ecology
October 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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50 years ago, King & Wilson published a foundational paper that underlies the cis-regulatory paradigm (CRP) of #DevoEvo #EvoDevo, i.e., that *almost* all morphological evolution is driven by mutations in regulatory elements, rather than proteins, and it all arose from simple misunderstanding 🧪 🧵
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I know a lot of people (cough Millennials) feel like they need to START a thing, START a food bank, build a little free food pantry.

My friends, my loves, my dears.

Don't start.

JOIN.

These exist. They have community ties! They have some funding! Accountability! Regulations!
October 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Great “CEMinar” at @evmedasu.bsky.social by @avanzich.bsky.social about her research on the evolutionary history of the pathogens causing leprosy! (& a nice evening afterwards at a local brewpub!)
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Interested in giving a talk at PAG 2026 in the Wildlife Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, OneHealth, Ancient DNA, or Domestication Genomics sessions? We are extending our abstract submission by a few days. We'd love to hear from you! Submit here and please repost! forms.gle/q7j275Di6umY...
PAG 2026 Abstract Submission: Ancient DNA, Domestication Genomics, Comparative Genomics of Animals, Wildlife Genomics, One Health Hologenomics
****DEADLINE: OCTOBER 12, 2025**** This is the abstract submission form for the following PAG 33 workshops: Paleogenomics and Degraded DNA Domestication Genomics Comparative Genomics of Animals Wildl...
forms.gle
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A hearty Denisovan stew ripe with stories of mixing and more mixing, even with a third more ‘archaic’ hominid.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan
Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neandertals who lived in Eastern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, are known only from a handful of skeletal remains and limited genetic data, incl...
www.biorxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time.

www.cell.com/current-biol...
An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only…
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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"The virus can inflame blood vessels and raise the risk of clots and strokes. Think of it as a smoldering inflammation after an infection that can last for years to come." Hey, that sounds really familiar! 😷 Maybe there are other viruses that do that, too. 😉
Shingles Vaccination Tied to Drops in Cardiovascular Events, Dementia, Death
Those with post-vaccination shingles still saw a 50% lower risk of vascular dementia
link.broadcaster3.medpagetoday.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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umm so...getting rid of the IRB at CDC is, uhh, not good?
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half
Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Deadline for this PhD position is coming on Friday. Please apply and/or share
🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁
October 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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#NoKings Phoenix
October 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It’s a great day in PHX to march for democracy! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“Today’s events demonstrate the power of collective organizing & action to defeat tyranny. “We hope that we serve as an example to the other public universities that received the ‘Compact’—the University of Texas, Austin, & the University of Arizona—giving them the courage & clarity not to buckle.”
October 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Earlier this month, Evolutionary Biology PhD student Brooklynn Scott in @smacklab.bsky.social presented research on chromosome evolution & genetic diversity in geladas at the International Gelada Workshop, highlighting implications for species conservation! #EvMed #OneHealth
October 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The WH budget for FY26 includes a proposed $18B cut to NIH, a $5B cut to NASA, a $5B cut to NSF, a $5B cut to CDC, and a $5B cut to EPA. You don't need a math/econ PhD to see that a $40B bailout to Argentina covers this and more right here in the USA.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Bessent says US considers doubling aid to Argentina to $40B
The assistance is aimed at bolstering the country's collapsing currency and calming economic unrest before Oct. 26 midterm elections.
www.politico.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Episode 3 of Safeguarding Sound Science: Evolution Edition is out! In this episode, host Mat Kaplan and guests Joseph L. Graves Jr., Holly Dunsworth & Augustin Fuentes explore Darwin’s ideas, how far we’ve come, and where evolutionary biology is headed.
ncse.ngo/safeguarding...
#evosky #podsky
Safeguarding Sound Science | National Center for Science Education
Safeguarding Sound Science, Evolution EditionThe second season of Safeguarding Sound Science examines the everyday impacts of evolution, the grand theory that informs our understanding of all life on ...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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