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My new PNAS paper with Daniel Romero ! 😎 With open data everywhere, how can we creatively unlock its potential for impactful innovation? We show that unusual combinations of datasets lead to more impactful discoveries, yet even simple combos remain rare. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss dlvr.it/TFPWrL

In honor of Human Relations Area Files @hraf755.bsky.social's 75th anniversary, I created a video showing how I use ethnographic data from ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu database in my cross-cultural research 🍻 youtube.com/watch?v=dz43Il…

How the Famous Lucy Fossil Revolutionized the Study of Human Origins. Half a century after its discovery, this iconic fossil remains central to our understanding of human origins. By Donald C. Johanson & Yohannes Haile-Selassie scientificamerican.com/article/fossil…

How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution. Darwin would be delighted by the story his successors have revealed (2020) scientificamerican.com/article/how-sc…

Now an additional piece up with this excellent graphic summary. scientificamerican.com/article/hidden…

A totally normal paper published in Nature Scientific Reports... nature.com/articles/s4159…

For a lengthier, more general, and open access review of content biases see my review in Culture and Evolution: doi.org/10.1556/2055.2…

Reminder: we currently have a PhD offer to work on phylogenetic reconstruction of animal communication. Joint supervision between Emmanuel Chemla (Linguistics, ENS Paris) and myself (Statistics, Imperial College London); the PhD candidate will be based in Paris.

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

Join us for an open #webinar on Cross-Linguistic #Colexifications organized by the Chair for Multilingual Computational Linguistics (University of Passau)! Date: November 19, 2024 Time: 16:15 - 17:45 CET Platform: Zoom Info: calclab.org/events/clc-web…

Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now out in Nature Genetics🥳I am very grateful to Emilia Huerta for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬 nature.com/articles/s4158…

The final chapter of my PhD thesis is finally out! Led by the brilliant Irina Velsko (FuzzyToothSweater), we investigated if we can study past migrations in Oceania using aDNA from archaeological dental calculus: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Fun description of an anthropologist struggling to learn the foraging practices and social norms of an Aboriginal Australian society. A common theme in a lot of ethnographic accounts from around the world

Most Popular Lullabies In North America Which one is your favourite? See the rest of the world: brilliantmaps.com/most-popular-l…

Two Fully-Funded PhD positions at University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau ! Come help us understand the past and future of global cultural and linguistic diversity. findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

Do you want to know how much it costs to publish open access in a journal? I got sick of looking this up, so made this: apc.simon.net.nz #openaccess #academicpublishing #articlepagecharges