“we approach midlife & menopause as both a biological & psychological transition. We summarize the changes in reproductive hormones & cessation of menstrual cycles that characterize menopause stages & detail the common connections between the biological & psychological changes & symptoms”

Had a lovely 1st lab of the Summer semester! Students did good dissecting sheep hearts and putting a skeleton in anatomical position 🙂

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨

My first co-authored paper with the #BODYPOLITICS team is available now in #CAJ 💫

Read our study ‘Womb Politics: The Pregnant Body and Archaeologies of Absence’ in Viking Age Scandinavia HERE:

👉🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org #OpenAccess

📣📣 Calling all professionals, educators, and students interested in health, education, and cultural studies in Peru 🇵🇪! Here is a wonderful opportunity to get involved with Sacred Valley Health!

2025 SSCIP Annual Lecture, ‘Adolescent Palaeopathology: A gateway for human health’, by Professor Mary Lewis (University of Reading) 📢

📆 March 20th 2025

⏰ 2.00pm - 4.00pm UK

Register via Eventbrite
Https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sscip-annual-lecture-2025-tickets-1258306832609?aff=oddtdtcreator

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

“A measles outbreak in Texas is continuing to grow, reaching 124 cases, new data released Tuesday shows.
Almost all of the cases are in unvaccinated individuals or individuals whose vaccination status is unknown, and 18 people have been hospitalized so far”

If this goes into effect, it will crush higher ed in the U.S.: mass layoffs, slashed services, and even higher tuitions. When coupled with the government firings, it will cause a sharp recession just as the Republicans slash nutritional and medical support for the poor.

And that’s the point.

"During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the conflict ended, two women sought help from high places to track down their lost loved ones."
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...

“The devastation of losing something like [the Paleontological Research Institution] is monumental … It can never be replaced.” scim.ag/4ibbAUB

📢 We’re excited and grateful to announce @unesco.org has launched the Open and Inclusive Science Hub, a platform showcasing practices to inclusivity and equity in science!
And guess what? VCWAP is featured!
🔗https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/inclusive-science/grid?hub=178646
#womeninscience

We know that our drinking water isotope values are reflected in our bones/teeth. For arch 🏺 and forensic 🧪 studies, super useful. But how variable is drinking water in any given city?
Analyzing over 4000 tap water samples across the US, we can safely say- a LOT.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Original Article
Hidden Trauma: An Analysis of the Identification of Contusions on Different Skin Tones

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#forensics #forensicpathology #forensicmedicine #pathology #pedipath

My motivation in life is "If you slow down or give up now, your spotlight and place will be taken by more affluent, privileged person. Who, due to lack of interest or relevant perspective, will keep things the same or marginally worse for generations to come. By giving up, you're letting him win."

Call for papers for a colloquium on 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development, and the Human Sciences'. The deadline for proposed papers is 7 March 2025 and the colloquium will be on 23 June 2025, organised by the University of Oxford's Centre for the History of Childhood.

Americans, even if our CDC has been murdered we still have our canadian friends who have resources for us

www.canada.ca/en/public-he...