Caroline VanSickle (she/her)
@cvansickle.bsky.social
Feminist, paleoanthropologist, associate professor of anatomy. Website: carolinevansickle.com. Was once known as @cvans but no longer.
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"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
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Happy #NationalChocolateDay! 🍫
“A scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he’s one who asks the right questions.” 🧪
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
“A scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he’s one who asks the right questions.” 🧪
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Happy #NationalChocolateDay! 🍫
“A scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he’s one who asks the right questions.” 🧪
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
“A scientist is not a person who gives the right answers,
he’s one who asks the right questions.” 🧪
– Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in the Capellini Laboratory of Developmental and Evolutionary Genetics
The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolutionary and Developmental Genetics Laboratory of Dr. Terence D. Capellini....
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October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Please share/repost widely: I have a postdoc position available. Please see ad below and reach out to apply.
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Look at all these “tools” that aren’t tools! Raymond Dart’s ostedontokeratic tool culture, on display at the Evolutionary Sciences Institute at Wits University.
#paleoanthropology #archaeology
#paleoanthropology #archaeology
October 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Look at all these “tools” that aren’t tools! Raymond Dart’s ostedontokeratic tool culture, on display at the Evolutionary Sciences Institute at Wits University.
#paleoanthropology #archaeology
#paleoanthropology #archaeology
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As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
#Paleoanthroplogy #3Dscanning
I am beyond pleased with my new Revopoint Pop 3 scanner. It’s even easier to use than their MINI2 that I bought previously! It’s rare that I can get new equipment to work as expected (or better) immediately, so this is a total success! Plus it’s so portable!
I am beyond pleased with my new Revopoint Pop 3 scanner. It’s even easier to use than their MINI2 that I bought previously! It’s rare that I can get new equipment to work as expected (or better) immediately, so this is a total success! Plus it’s so portable!
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
#Paleoanthroplogy #3Dscanning
I am beyond pleased with my new Revopoint Pop 3 scanner. It’s even easier to use than their MINI2 that I bought previously! It’s rare that I can get new equipment to work as expected (or better) immediately, so this is a total success! Plus it’s so portable!
I am beyond pleased with my new Revopoint Pop 3 scanner. It’s even easier to use than their MINI2 that I bought previously! It’s rare that I can get new equipment to work as expected (or better) immediately, so this is a total success! Plus it’s so portable!
I wonder if ancient hominins ever felt self doubt or like they weren’t important. Little did they know that one day whole teams of scientists would dedicate years of research to understanding the fragments of the skeleton they left behind. #Paleoanthropology
September 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I wonder if ancient hominins ever felt self doubt or like they weren’t important. Little did they know that one day whole teams of scientists would dedicate years of research to understanding the fragments of the skeleton they left behind. #Paleoanthropology
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Showing some work in progress at #ESHE2025 - Homo naledi inner ears, inside-out #FossilFriday
(with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social Gideon Chinamatira and @johnhawks.net)
(with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social Gideon Chinamatira and @johnhawks.net)
September 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Showing some work in progress at #ESHE2025 - Homo naledi inner ears, inside-out #FossilFriday
(with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social Gideon Chinamatira and @johnhawks.net)
(with @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social Gideon Chinamatira and @johnhawks.net)
#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image!
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
#NewBook alert: A Visual Atlas of Skeletal Growth and Development by Kyra Stull & Heather Garvin. Just look at the number of ages in this image!
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
www.amazon.com/Visual-Atlas...
#BiologicalAnthropology #Paleoanthropology #ForensicAnthropology #Bioarchaeology #GrowthAndDevelopment #TeamPelvis
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Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this
July 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this
I am this old.
I was sharing screen while typing something in a meeting
Zoomer colleague: what kind of predictive text are you using?
Me: I’m not.
Z: wait — you just type that fast? How?!
Me: When I was in middle school, we raced boats by typing fast, and I really wanted my boat to win.
Zoomer colleague: what kind of predictive text are you using?
Me: I’m not.
Z: wait — you just type that fast? How?!
Me: When I was in middle school, we raced boats by typing fast, and I really wanted my boat to win.
July 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I am this old.
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I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
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My latest and last essay for @science.org expert voices: “This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion” a short 🧵 (link at end)
July 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
My latest and last essay for @science.org expert voices: “This is not the time to step back from diversity, equity, and inclusion” a short 🧵 (link at end)
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Excellent thread that everyone who thinks gender and sex are as simple as you learned in school should read before they ever offer up an opinion of any kind on trans or intersex people
In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.
July 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Excellent thread that everyone who thinks gender and sex are as simple as you learned in school should read before they ever offer up an opinion of any kind on trans or intersex people
TIL the clavicle isn't just another long bone
#Anatomy #AnatomyEd #Embryology #MedEd #PaleoSky #Skeletal #Skeleton #Bones #Biology #Physiology #Histology #HumanAnatomy
#Anatomy #AnatomyEd #Embryology #MedEd #PaleoSky #Skeletal #Skeleton #Bones #Biology #Physiology #Histology #HumanAnatomy
July 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
TIL the clavicle isn't just another long bone
#Anatomy #AnatomyEd #Embryology #MedEd #PaleoSky #Skeletal #Skeleton #Bones #Biology #Physiology #Histology #HumanAnatomy
#Anatomy #AnatomyEd #Embryology #MedEd #PaleoSky #Skeletal #Skeleton #Bones #Biology #Physiology #Histology #HumanAnatomy
I may study pelvic #anatomy for my research, but my favorite bone in the body is definitely the #clavicle (collarbone). It’s one of the first bones to ossify (become bone) before birth, yet it continues to grow with us all the way to adulthood, making it one of the last bones to finish ossifying.
July 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I visited @dogearedbooksames.bsky.social today and bought @anthrofuentes.bsky.social’s new book, Sex is a Spectrum. Here I am having a dorky moment in the store after realizing I’m listed in the acknowledgments by an author whose work has informed my own ideas about sex and society. Thanks, Agustín!
June 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I visited @dogearedbooksames.bsky.social today and bought @anthrofuentes.bsky.social’s new book, Sex is a Spectrum. Here I am having a dorky moment in the store after realizing I’m listed in the acknowledgments by an author whose work has informed my own ideas about sex and society. Thanks, Agustín!
I would like to attend this Ted talk
This time last weekend I was on a panel talking about three of my favorite topics:
1. The Solar System is inherently queer
2. The ways we study planets are inextricable from the surveillance state
3. The usefulness of “fully automated luxury gay space communism” as a motivator
1. The Solar System is inherently queer
2. The ways we study planets are inextricable from the surveillance state
3. The usefulness of “fully automated luxury gay space communism” as a motivator
June 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I would like to attend this Ted talk
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A really really really important thing for cis people to understand is that the emphasis on sexual dimorphism, aka the "binary gender model" in humans is, quite literally, white supremacist propaganda.
A deeply important brief thread. 🧵
(1/10)
A deeply important brief thread. 🧵
(1/10)
April 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A really really really important thing for cis people to understand is that the emphasis on sexual dimorphism, aka the "binary gender model" in humans is, quite literally, white supremacist propaganda.
A deeply important brief thread. 🧵
(1/10)
A deeply important brief thread. 🧵
(1/10)
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qualitative data is incredibly important and incredibly informative - check out @awutich.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social et al. for the many ways qualitative data is essential in biological anthropological studies!
March 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
qualitative data is incredibly important and incredibly informative - check out @awutich.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social @zacharydubois.bsky.social et al. for the many ways qualitative data is essential in biological anthropological studies!
New #OpenAccess article alert!
@paleonicole.bsky.social led this first description of a partial right #Neandertal hipbone from El Sidrón, Spain that expands the range of morphological variation in Neandertals.
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleoanthropology #TeamPelvis
@paleonicole.bsky.social led this first description of a partial right #Neandertal hipbone from El Sidrón, Spain that expands the range of morphological variation in Neandertals.
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleoanthropology #TeamPelvis
April 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New #OpenAccess article alert!
@paleonicole.bsky.social led this first description of a partial right #Neandertal hipbone from El Sidrón, Spain that expands the range of morphological variation in Neandertals.
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleoanthropology #TeamPelvis
@paleonicole.bsky.social led this first description of a partial right #Neandertal hipbone from El Sidrón, Spain that expands the range of morphological variation in Neandertals.
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#Paleoanthropology #TeamPelvis
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It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
April 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
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For #FossilFriday an image of a 2 million year old #hominin humerus freed from the rock just today so you are among the first humans in the world to see it! Prepared by Zandile Ndaba or "Ma Zandi" the work on this skeleton has involved her for years. We owe her and our other preparators a great deal
April 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
For #FossilFriday an image of a 2 million year old #hominin humerus freed from the rock just today so you are among the first humans in the world to see it! Prepared by Zandile Ndaba or "Ma Zandi" the work on this skeleton has involved her for years. We owe her and our other preparators a great deal
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We have been busy in the last two years since I joined @Natgeo full time the Rising Star project has grown to an on the ground staff of technicians, explorers, scientists and support staff of over 60 with over 160 collaborating scientists from 40 institutions worldwide. Tons of infrastructure to!
April 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We have been busy in the last two years since I joined @Natgeo full time the Rising Star project has grown to an on the ground staff of technicians, explorers, scientists and support staff of over 60 with over 160 collaborating scientists from 40 institutions worldwide. Tons of infrastructure to!
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Gladysvale is a site led by Dr Keneiloe Molopyane. A mockup of the cave has been created & our technicians, scientists and explorers can sort breccia for specific types and colors that indicate sedimentary layers we are seeking. We sort those blocks and then preparators extract specific fossils.
April 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Gladysvale is a site led by Dr Keneiloe Molopyane. A mockup of the cave has been created & our technicians, scientists and explorers can sort breccia for specific types and colors that indicate sedimentary layers we are seeking. We sort those blocks and then preparators extract specific fossils.