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Biological Anthropologist and skeleton reader - bridging the gap between health in the past and present. Current side quest: building models of multilingualism.

Leipzig, Germany
Joined January 2014
💀 Forever and ever, Amen. I am a crispy little pile of ashes, and it is done. Merry Christmas to me! Now accepting job offers as a cloud watcher, envelope stuffer, or truffle pig. Please and thank you. (But in reality working on an NSF proposal today 🧠👀)
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Nothing is ever easy -- sorry to anyone who already put this in their calendar, slight change of plans. Starting an hour later, at 10am PST this Friday. ucsb.zoom.us/j/82234220266?p…
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Open to the public - bring all your rowdy friends* *paleopathologists, bioarchaeologists, human biologists, curious radiologists and other MDs, etc. ucsb.zoom.us/j/82234220266?p…
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I’ll be honest, the system was at its peak in 2020 when I had more plates spinning but I’ve been focusing solely on dissertating for the past year and it’s fallen into disrepair😣. It’s not exactly sparking joy atm (I need more rainbow sticky notes), but here’s its current state
…days when even the YouTube algorithm is like, “oh, you’re getting a PhD in anthropology? What are you going to do with that?” youtu.be/-KACt6YhOyY
Today after class (evolution and human behavior) a student told me I remind them of April O’Neil from TMNT and I’m pretty thrilled. But I may have accidentally been courting cartoon comparisons by bringing up Gambit from X-Men to help them remember the phenotypic gambit 😅🤓
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Coming this Thursday: The NPR sequel to Sex, Death, and Money. But in all seriousness, looking forward to tuning in for this!
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