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New paper by our all-Asian team on community attitudes towards human remains - now in Early View and Open Access! 📑
Our semi-autoethnographic, qualitative research highlights diversity in cultures, ideologies and practices across Southeast Asia. 🌏
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
💬 “We do not have yet much discussion just among ourselves as Southeast Asians for fine-tuning our practice in ways that benefit us all scientifically and morally. We instead face foreigners taking over the ethical discussion, writing papers on ethics on our behalf, and…”
New paper by our all-Asian team on community attitudes towards human remains - now in Early View and Open Access! 📑
Our semi-autoethnographic, qualitative research highlights diversity in cultures, ideologies and practices across Southeast Asia. 🌏
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
💬 “… effectively ignoring local communities' and biologists' views. This produces a paucity of understanding about what local communities are concerned about when we work with human remains.”
Never imagined one day, there would be a chance to publish on Asian perspectives in the Int. J. of Osteoarch. 🙇🏻♂️
I thought for almost 15 years we would never be taken seriously if we had ethical opinions… 💀 #iykyk
Answer: in 2026 🥹
(And there’s a lot more soon to come this year!)
When am I going to see more East and Southeast Asians receiving grants and PhD offers to study the prehistories and histories of their own regions? 🌏
Or #archaeology and biological #anthropology papers sole-authored / first-authored / last-authored by people like us? 🤷🏻♂️
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Excited for our work exploring behavioural diversity in South African hominins to be out today!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
The objective of this #Special_Issue is to highlight the efforts made by #anthropologists and other social scientists to integrate the theoretical framework and methods of #systems_thinking into their research. Check out all the papers here:
brnw.ch/21wS4CG
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Imagine rebuilding history - one fossil fragment at a time.
This is the earliest known #HomoErectus skull, reconstructed from over 150 pieces at the Cradle of Humankind in #SouthAfrica.
Read more: bit.ly/41PgEr0
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Finding someone willing to share their course design in such meticulous detail—from intended learning outcomes to teaching and learning activities that foster student engagement—isn't an easy task. Thank you, Dr. Michael Rivera, for doing exactly that in the workshop you led.🙌
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
‘DataBack’: The fight for genomic data sovereignty ictnews.org/news/databack-th…
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
So glad this is finally out. Have a read of the revised text (take your time, it is long!) and the reviews. This is a massive work by a large team of amazing scholars. Hominin evolution is a complex tangle offering a special window into what it means to be human (and hominin).
Wow. I just am so grateful for the amazing positive and constructive reviews from @eLife on this revised preprint that we released in August last year. They're making it possible to open up some of the most challenging problems in human origins.
elifesciences.org/reviewed-p…
ALT Microtomographic images of burial-associated sediments from the Hill Antechamber. The images show invertebrate burrows in association with bone.
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This research underscores the power of food preferences and social systems of distinction in making and breaking #economies. In the case of British Honduras, #food_racialization was the linchpin connecting agency, meaning, and food insecurity.
📖 brnw.ch/21wRukW
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
1/6 Our new paper “Threatened synanthropes depend on intact forests: a critical evaluation of Moore et al. (2023)” in Biological Reviews makes the case that accurate interpretations/representations of data are critical for species in anthropogenic landscapes. A 🧵
ALT two macaques one image by Mogens Trolle
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Unfortunately, the association is facing serious financial challenges. Membership fees alone are no longer sufficient to cover basic operational costs. Please follow/share the following link for donating: asociacionantropologiabiolog… (5/5)
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🔊Consider donating to support the Argentinian AABA! 🧬💀🦴🦷🐒🦠🔩🩻🔬🫂The Argentine Association of Biological Anthropology, now 31 years old, relies entirely on voluntary membership contributions /🧵(1/5)
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The KSL also reported on our recent work published in @CommsBio and what Misha can teach us about forensics and paleoecology. Our original paper: nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
Results from research made possible by an elephant named Misha are guiding scientists and may impact the illegal ivory trade.
kslnewsradio.com/?p=2192606
#elephants #hoglezoo #utahnews