Assistant Prof @UNBC | BioAnthropologist Researching structural inequalities & risk -- and some biocultural understandings of sleep, too!

Joined November 2018
The pandemic didn't create 'survival jobs', but it exposed and exacerbated the structural inequalities that sustain them. Our new pub shows how COVID-19 lockdowns intensified risk for racialized & immigrant workers in Canada. Read all about it!: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Looking to do a PhD in pop gen, immune response, health and disease? Join me at @UnivOfKansas! Applications due Dec 2. DM or email for more details. #gradschool #anthropology #genetics #Immunity anthropology.ku.edu/graduate…
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Join my lab @DukeU @EvAnthDuke ! TWO postdoc positions: NIH projects in energy balance, physical activity, health outcomes & more. One with the Daasanach community in northern Kenya. One working with @AmboseliBaboons . Please share R/T! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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One of the best parts of lecturing is that you can excitedly ramble about an awesome study that just came out... to a captive audience who can't escape because it might be testable.
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Looking for new PhD students to join my lab in fall 25 @IU_Anthropology - if you’re interested in using the biological normalcy framework to investigate human biological variation, stress, stigma, and/or interactions between culture and biology, please consider applying!
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I love when Date of Birth drop down menus start at 1900. Scrolling forward makes me feel so much younger than scrolling backward...
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📢JOB ALERT! Two teaching and research positions, non-tenure track, 3-year term, any area of evolutionary anthropology! Apply by November 15: bit.ly/DukeEvAnthJobs
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Sunny with mostly blue skies, yet it's also somehow hailing...?🙃 #BCweather
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NSF is hiring a Senior Advisor for the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences which funds work on "how social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental forces affect the lives of people and how people, in turn, shape those forces." new.nsf.gov/careers/openings…
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When students start to incorporate the terms they just learned in class into their casual, after-class conversations...
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I will be recruiting a postdoctoral scholar for two years starting to work on projects related to stress and maternal health in the 2025-2026 academic year so please reach out if you or your students might be interested.
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Friendly reminder to submit your abstract for the 50th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, taking place in Baltimore, MD from March 12-14, 2025. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your research and connect with fellow professionals in the field! #HBA2025 🩷
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The Maternal and Child Health Lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher - could this be you?
Are you highly-competent in statistical analysis of longitudinal, life-course data and seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher position? More info at: sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/fhs/A…
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“How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?” The Reddit post is amazing! So I put together a quick explainer on human fossils from travertine deposits, with some brief guidance on what to do if you find a human fossil in your flooring. johnhawks.net/weblog/how-man…
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If you're around the #AABA2024's from 6-7pm tonight, come say hi at the poster session! Happy to chat about sleep architecture and vigilance in South African agropastoralists! 😊
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Thrilled to share that I'll be joining the Department of Anthropology at @UNBC this July!! 🎉😊 Excited to begin this next chapter and continue work in biocultural sleep and health research!
The Department of Anthropology is very pleased to announce that Erica Kilius will be joining us as our newest tenure-track faculty member on July 1, 2024 (subject to Board approval). Welcome @ericakls
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My Sleep Equity Lab is also hiring for a lab manager – to help me manage research related to sleep health equity – especially as it relates to media use, physical activity, time poverty, and disability justice. FT, in person, needs a masters or PhD. careers.purdue.edu/job/West-…
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Erica Kilius, phd retweeted
Zzzzzzzzzzzz! Don't sleep through the November 20 deadline! Fully funded PhD to explore how sleep shapes societies, and societies shape sleep! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/69052/doct… @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav @UniKonstanz @CBehav #PhDpositions #Academic
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I've updated the printable Toronto Homeless Resource List, which compiles indoor drop-in space, meals, supervised consumption sites, warming centres, and other vital resources. Access the living document here (agencies: please e-mail me with updates): tinyurl.com/TorontoHomelessR…
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RTs 👏🏼 are 👏🏼 appreciated 👏🏼 (Lovely photograph in the background, I wonder who...)
SFU Archaeology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Bioarchaeology/Biological Anthropology (tenure-track). For more information and application instructions, the full advertisement is posted here: buff.ly/3G1Aghd
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