Bárbara Bitarello
@drbiologist.bsky.social
Human Evolution|Evol.Genetics|PopGen, Intersectional feminism, socialism, nerd game (video and tabletop) player. Neurodivergent. She/her. Assistant Professor. 🏳️🌈🇧🇷
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Happy to share my first preprint from my undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College with Professors Maja Šešelj and Bárbara Bitarello! We present new methods to assess a hominin craniodental discrete character matrix (107 traits) for phylogenetic information. (1/12)
Check out our preprint on hominin phylogenetics, led by my amazing former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social!
Another much needed contribution from my former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social to paleoanthro! Using simulations we assess the widespread practice of inferring hominin phylogenies based on PCAs of morphological data. #paleoanthro #evolution #hominins
Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics
November 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Another much needed contribution from my former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social to paleoanthro! Using simulations we assess the widespread practice of inferring hominin phylogenies based on PCAs of morphological data. #paleoanthro #evolution #hominins
Prepping my Biostats w/ R course after a year off of teaching. Feeling overwhelmed regarding AI/cheating (already bad 1y ago). Interested in what folks have found helpful, especially but not exclusively courses involving math and coding. Please share! #teaching #AI #biostats #R-stats
August 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Reposted by Bárbara Bitarello
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Scary thought. So much has come to the world from science supported this way. 🧪 #scicomm
Scary thought. So much has come to the world from science supported this way. 🧪 #scicomm
The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation
In the ’50s, America declared science an “endless frontier.” We may be reaching the end of it.
www.chronicle.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Scary thought. So much has come to the world from science supported this way. 🧪 #scicomm
Scary thought. So much has come to the world from science supported this way. 🧪 #scicomm
Reposted by Bárbara Bitarello
Does someone have a formal source on pauses on panels or funding for NSF?
January 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Does someone have a formal source on pauses on panels or funding for NSF?
The effects of trait redundancy and information content on hominin phylogenetic inference http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.10.31.616875v1
December 3, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Reposted by Bárbara Bitarello
How wonderful! We’re delighted
November 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM
How wonderful! We’re delighted
Reposted by Bárbara Bitarello
Happy to share my first preprint from my undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College with Professors Maja Šešelj and Bárbara Bitarello! We present new methods to assess a hominin craniodental discrete character matrix (107 traits) for phylogenetic information. (1/12)
November 7, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Happy to share my first preprint from my undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College with Professors Maja Šešelj and Bárbara Bitarello! We present new methods to assess a hominin craniodental discrete character matrix (107 traits) for phylogenetic information. (1/12)
Check out our preprint on hominin phylogenetics, led by my amazing former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social!
Happy to share my first preprint from my undergraduate work at Bryn Mawr College with Professors Maja Šešelj and Bárbara Bitarello! We present new methods to assess a hominin craniodental discrete character matrix (107 traits) for phylogenetic information. (1/12)
November 13, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Check out our preprint on hominin phylogenetics, led by my amazing former student @leviyoderraskin.bsky.social!