The editors at @Nature must be living in an alternate universe to think this is going to help the credibility of science in any way. Just say no.
Luke Glowacki
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Luke Glowacki
@HSB_Lab
Anthropologist. PI Human Systems and Behavior Lab. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project @theOVRP
- Replying to @HSB_LabI was quiet for years in the face of all this inanity, looking for a job, didn't have tenure, etc. But after seeing how our universities have been rocked, if we are to have any hope of fixing them, we have to speak up more, much more.
- In the 1970s, the anthropologist Grover Krantz wore homemade brow ridges for 6 months to test their possible function. Turns out they make natural sunglasses, keep the hair out of your eyes, and are as intimating as hell.
- Replying to @sfmcguire79Yes I did. I thought the other faculty should know what I think about it.
- I think about these figures a lot when I try to understand our species. Landscape use by Hadza hunter-gatherers. 75% of land is visited by only men, 11% by women only. 13% visited by both men and women. @briwood1 nature.com/articles/s4156…
- Replying to @aspaglayanIs the work supposed to be relevant to what I'm writing and did it have any impact on my scholarship?
- If you want to understand how profound the changes in the 20th century were, look at the life of Jimmy Carter. He grew up plowing fields barefoot behind a horse and didn't have running water or electricity until he was 11.
- Why is Australia destroying its prehistory and erasing any chance of learning about the first Australians?@MungoManic in @palladiummag answers this question.
- This is what is destroying scientific credibility and why the public doesn't trust us. It's why I as a scientist don't trust the research of scholars who try to advance their politics through their research.Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
- This is incredible. We often suspected that Homo erectus existed alongside other hominin species. Now we know they did! Preserved footprints from 1.5 million years ago show erectus and another bipedal species, likely Paranthropus, coexisted and probably interacted. @kevinhatalaNewly discovered footprints show that at least two hominid species were walking through the muddy submerged edge of a lake in Kenya’s Turkana Basin at the same time, about 1.5 million years ago. The find in Science provides physical evidence for the co-existence of multiple
- You can't make it up. @Nature doubles down on DEI with this rigorous manifesto on how to be an ally. State of the art science too with recommendations of implicit bias and diversity trainings.
- Everybody interested in the state of our most elite scientific publications should read this comment published in @Nature. I don't think i could more deeply disagree with nearly every point in this piece and think implementing it would be disastrous.
- I'm shocked to learn Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber) has a more informed view of hunter-gatherers than many contemporary anthropologists. Anarcho-primitivisits "constructed an imaginary picture of primitive societies... They pretend that hunter-gatherers worked only two or three hours
- I'll say it again. Calling for scientists to be political advocates undermines the credibility of science. I see more damage being done to science by political advocates posing as scientists than I do from politicians.Three letters up on my last essay for @ScienceMagazine ...two are really interesting, one is not. Check them out yourself: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
