He/Him. Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CU Boulder. Population genetics of Neanderthals and other people. Opinions are my own. Latino in STEM 🇨🇷
Fernando Villanea
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Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social).
We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT)
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
All publicity is good publicity, I guess 🤷♂️
Has anyone heard about this Vanderbilt report on the humanities and have some thoughts?
I found it to be really boring to read but since they chose to throw down the gauntlet I should probably educate myself.
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T
www.biorxiv.org
I was extremely disappointed by the "Vanderbilt Report" on the state of the academic humanities. There is a serious conversation to be had about politicization, academic freedom, self-defined disciplinary standards, and scholarly excellence in today's climate.
This is not it.
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Matthew Hahn
Fernando Villanea
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
Our preprint on the genetic regulation of mtDNA gene expression in collaboration with @shwetaramdas.bsky.social and @rajivmccoy.bsky.social .
James Grimmelmann
New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.
[Tim Robinson generic character voice] Who said that?
Headed to #PEQG26 next week? The Sethuraman Lab will be presenting a buncha recent work! Come find us at both poster sessions, and DM/message me if you'd like to chat about the open postdoc position in my lab.
Three great museum educator jobs at my favorite museum! 😁 “… one for each of the following halls: (1) David H. Koch Hall of Fossils – Deep Time; (2) Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals; and (3) Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals.” trustcareers.si.edu/postings/1b8...
Job Opening: Education Program Specialist, IS-1720-09 at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
