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Sana Saiyed, PhD ☀️
@sanatajs.bsky.social
anthropologist • multispecies ethnoprimatologist • professor
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Biological Anthropologists! The AABA (US) IDEAS Program is welcoming applications for BOTH Student Scholars and Faculty Scholars.

The Faculty Scholar deadline is October 15th, and the Student Scholar deadline is October 31st. Please share this call widely!

Flyers for each, below:
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Had an amazing conversation with
@xavierbonilla.bsky.social about sex, biology, humans, and much more, drawing on my new book with @princetonupress.bsky.social convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/418-sex-is...
#418 - Sex Is A Spectrum: A Dialogue with Agustín Fuentes
Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Agustín Fuentes about biological sex.
convergingdialogues.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Scientists: Were you laid off? Are you applying for jobs outside of the US? I want to talk to you!
March 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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New article: Entangled Existences: An Examination of Humans and Monkeys in Calypso Bay, Saint Kitts by Sana T. Saiyed, Kerry M. Dore & Lee T. Gettler. link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Free to read: rdcu.be/ecpMJ
Entangled Existences: An Examination of Humans and Monkeys in Calypso Bay, Saint Kitts - International Journal of Primatology
Human-primate overlaps are increasing globally, especially in areas where primate populations are abundant. In the island of Saint Kitts, the population of African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) ...
link.springer.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This link lets you to read the full text!
My article on human-monkey entanglements in St Kitts is finally out 🎉 We explore the perceptions that residents&workers of a neighborhood have of coresident monkeys. Read why these 🐒 are expected to act like neighbors or kin! #anthropology #primates
Entangled Existences: An Examination of Humans and Monkeys in Calypso Bay, Saint Kitts
link.springer.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A New Present Tense is out: pieces by anthropologists meeting this moment featuring @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, Carolyn Rouse, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg, Gregory Warner, & me.

My piece, Binary Desires, on gender/sex, EOs, & queer joy, & the whole collection here:

americananthro.org/advocacy/pre...
Death by Data Erasure - The American Anthropological Association
americananthro.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🚨I’m so excited to share my 1st dissertation paper on multispecies entanglements in St Kitts!🐒

We looked into ppl’s perceptions & expectations of monkeys that share their neighborhood & how these perceptions are grounded in sociocultural/political landscapes. Are 🐒 neighbors? Kin? Pests?
Entangled Existences: An Examination of Humans and Monkeys in Calypso Bay, Saint Kitts - International Journal of Primatology
Human-primate overlaps are increasing globally, especially in areas where primate populations are abundant. In the island of Saint Kitts, the population of African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) ...
link.springer.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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From Palestinian rights to use of hallucinogenic plants in Ecuador, from tool-using animals to Neandertal portraits: here are essays noted as best of SAPIENS anthropology magazine 2024. 🧪🌿🏺 #anthropology #writing
Best of SAPIENS 2024
Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights into everything human to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine.
www.sapiens.org
December 19, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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New article in Science argues that ancient ecosystem and multispecies expertise could lead to a new, integrated conservation science in the Amazon and beyond. @brazil_lab @PrincetonEnviro environment.princeton.edu/news/how-ind...
How Indigenous Knowledge Can Reshape Conservation
environment.princeton.edu
December 13, 2024 at 1:06 PM
My first post here! Wanted to share a new publication out today. We looked at access to anthropogenic foods, stable isotope compositions, and body weights in macaques in Gibraltar. Check it out:
t.co/2WJNlTF4YI
Barbary macaques show sex-related differences in body weight based on anthropogenic food exposure despite comparable female–male stable isotope ratios - Scientific Reports
As the human–primate interface expands, many nonhuman primate (NHP) populations exploit anthropogenic foods to survive, while some populations opportunistically target them. Though anthropogenic food ...
t.co
February 9, 2024 at 11:06 PM