(2/2) Watch our full interview on the latest from the Rising Star team with extensive commentary from Erika here:

youtu.be/_Pc0J0TyFtk

They said it would make some sense to them that there would be a mechanism for hair to grow back to a certain length if the follicle was removed, but it doesn’t make sense that a hair could tell that it had been cut (or to what length it was cut). I agree, that’s weird! What gives? 2/2

Context: www.the-geyser.com/elifes-bad-m...

Impact factor using its powers for good, for once

Hi! I’d love to be in this one 😊

They seemed to agree 😊

We also have a causality issue. Are genetics/physiology the result of an altered diet, or do they co-occur for other reasons? Alternatively, was an altered diet a response to changing physiology? Lots of questions remain. Personally I am skeptical of nitrogen data as a result of my own work. 2/2

I’d have to go read the actual paper not just the media coverage but my impression of most studies like this is that we have a LOT of equifinality problems. Granted most paleoanth has equifinality problems, but in dietary studies in particular. 1/2

Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I love teaching and I often post about the adventures and misadventures of hands-on learning in my college classrooms. Follow along if you, like me, are wondering where my career is headed 😊

I used to work at the Smithsonian and I love public outreach and education! You can often find me doing formal and informal sci-comm, particularly in the area of human evolution. 3/

I’m a methods person, and I do a lot of method development using analytical methods (specifically in analysis of chemical elements and using stable isotopes). I spend a lot of time ranting about how we know what we think we know. Sometimes it ruffles feathers, but I’m ok with that. 2/

Not as cool as THE Katharine Hayhoe commenting on my post! 🤩