Some of the highlights from IHES yesterday! We saw great talks by scholars in Anthropology, Art, and Psychology. We also had a timely panel session on early career scholars’ visions for the future. And we rounded it out with a pop up student art exhibit and an incredible performance by Danza Eterna!

New pop sci article on the hobbits of Flores! Their wisdom teeth provide evidence that they got small by slowing growth after birth.

https://theconversation.com/hobbits-of-flores-evolved-to-be-small-by-slowing-down-growth-during-childhood-new-research-on-teeth-and-brain-size-suggests-261257

Paleontology, botany, and birthing. All my favorite things in Zurich!

Check out our new Primate Evolution Lab website! Made by students, featuring students. You can keep up with our antics, check out our teaching resources (including 3D scans and models) and learn more about our programs! https://wp.wwu.edu/primate/2025/06/27/students-shine-at-scholars-week/ @wwu.edu

Just returned from an epic sisters’ trip to Sedona, complete with archaeology, cave art, and javelina skulls! And pregnancy, the topic of my book, was never far away — this beautiful petroglyph has been described as a woman giving birth to creation (Hopi). #sedona #pregnancy #archaeology #history

New paper out today! The evolution of facial length and molar proportions in cercopithecid monkeys: Third molars are relatively longer in species with longer faces, and prognathism is convergent. Fossils tell a great story!

Read more to find out! Funded by NSF, Leakey, PAST, HERC and WWU

Another shoutout for the AABA meetings this year. It was great to be immersed in science! And super fun to have such a great @wwu.edu crew! @bioanth.org
See you next year!

Beautiful figures from our new paper, a work of epic proportions that spanned a decade. For anyone interested in African paleontology, taxonomy, evolution, or monkeys, I present….a papionin case study

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2024.1481903/full

What people think my book is about🫄👶VS what it’s actually about 🦴🩻🦷
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When people hear my book is about pregnancy, they immediately think of What to Expect. But it’s more than that. Think Indy, think Sapiens, and get ready to learn a whole lot about teeth 😉😘😜

Ok, trying this again. And now, student art!

Being hanging out in Germany for the Words Bones Genes Tools workshop. There were xmas markets, Paleo art, parties in castles, and oh so much more

Meet the lab! From L to R, me! 2nd year MA students Jack and Tristen, UG extraordinaire Laura, and new 1st MA student Jewel! Here we are on our way to get a demo for the new desktop micro-CT that came in recently on our NSF-MRI grant (co-PI).

JOB ALERT! Western (WWU)
We are hiring a postdoc to investigate primate craniofacial anatomy. This is a 2-year position. Must be willing to live in beautiful Bellingham + complete 4.5 months paid museum work (2024). The anticipated start date is Jan. 1, 2024.

https://hr.wwu.edu/careers?job=501152

First day of Leakey-funded data collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. And my grad student Jack’s first day working in a museum! He is going to spend 5 weeks here scanning hundreds of monkey skulls!! More photos to follow, I am sure!

Super impressed by my student Laura’s summer project articulating a full elk skeleton. Thanks to Aly Rollins for supervising while I was in Spain all summer! Collections are the best way for students to learn osteology and anatomy! #WWU #WWUAnthro