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Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
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.
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
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
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
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)
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
🔊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)
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
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
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Explore the impact of 100 years since the #Taung Child discovery in this special issue of the @SAJS_Official.
Articles guest edited by HERI members & @YoniSahle. Cover art commissioned with @ArtsKano in #Taung.
Read it here: bit.ly/4i9cnFs
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Come to learn more about my work and my poster! poster session 29 from 12:00 to 13:00 #AABA2025
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Also published this week our editorial piece on Expanding museums’ horizons through partnerships and collaborations:
Expanding museums’ horizons through partnerships and collaboration tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Happy to share my latest co-authored paper on African Museum practices. It’s a good 😊 read:
Truth-telling as a form of decolonial care: stories from a collaborative object biography research with the Ndau community of Eastern Zimbabwe tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Join us on the second part of our session on Open Science! We are in Room I-I from 2:30 to 6 pm @PaleoNicole @riveramichael #AABA2025
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
At some point it seems necessary to admit that if the point of tenure is to provide faculty with the freedom of expression, it has long since stopped serving this purpose in practice, not because tenure protections are gone but because academic culture is moth-eaten by cowardice.
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Kian Delos Santos has become the poster child of this senseless drug war. I examined his remains in Dec and was struck by how young and healthy his skeleton was. Strong bones, nice teeth, and multiple gunshots to the head. Duterte’s @IntlCrimCourt arrest couldn’t come soon enough
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: The Philippine National Police arrests former president Rodrigo Duterte for his alleged crimes against humanity.
Duterte had been the subject of International Criminal Court investigations for the thousands of people killed in his brutal war on drugs waged when he was mayor of Davao City and later when he became Philippine president in 2016.
Dr. Michael Rivera 趙凱聰 retweeted
Specialists on ancient diets have relied on nitrogen-15 to understand meat-eating by ancient humans. But while nitrogen is abundant in bone collagen, the breakdown of this protein has left no good way to sample nitrogen from older fossils. That has now changed.
ALT Fossil teeth of Australopithecus sampled by Tina Lüdecke and coworkers with sampling locations noted