Joan Silk
@jbsilk1
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Evolutionary anthropologist, behavioral ecologist, and enthusiast about adaptation
Phoenix, AZ
Joined May 2015
The best. Let’s do it.
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Sound advice for non-experimental research. I call it “mousing around”, but that doesn’t sound as professional.
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When we fight, we win. When we vote, we win.
Arizona, we’re at a crossroads. Defending abortion access, securing the border, protecting Social Security and Medicare, and fighting for housing affordability — it’s all on the line. We can come together - or we can let cynical leaders like Kari Lake try to tear us apart.
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RT @harris_wins: BREAKING: Michelle Obama just laid into Donald Trump like no one has before. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this t….
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RT @Liz_Cheney: If your response to Gen John Kelly, gold star father & Trump’s WH chief of staff, confirming that Trump praised Hitler & ca….
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When the planets align:.
Just in: Rock legend Bruce Springsteen will headline Vice President Kamala Harris’ first joint rally with former President Barack Obama in Atlanta on Thursday, kicking off a series of concerts in battleground states. #gapol
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Evolutionary anthropology plays an important role in combating scientific racism.
And here is my contribution to the Guardian and @hopenothate's extensive report. If you know the history of eugenics, and scientific racism, it is galling to see it repeat and rhyme over and over again. Which is why it needs exposing.
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Crazy that we are still discovering amazing things like this on our planet.
Along the coast of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, scientists have discovered enormous supercolonies of small, bottom-dwelling fish called picarels.
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A fantastic opportunity for someone….
We're searching for a postdoc! Join our team to study stress responses in wild baboons using real-time measurements of heart rate 🐵💓 .
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#GreatAdaptations The World’s Oldest Termite Mound Is 34,000 Years and Counting
nytimes.com
Scientists recently found the planet’s longest continuously occupied termite colony in an arid region of South Africa. It dates to the time of the Neanderthals.
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This makes me miss my science buddies, Amy Samuels and Dorothy Cheney, who were always ready to talk about the animals we knew and the data we collected.
Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
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We are searching for a position in anthropological genetics as ASU. Come join our great program in evolutionary anthropology in a beautiful part of the US (ok, maybe it does get a little hot sometimes) See for more info!.
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#GrearAdaptations It might not be love…Male bowerbirds build acoustics into their love shrines | Science | AAAS
science.org
Experiments suggest bowers amplify males’ songs and tweak their frequencies to woo females attending their show
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NSF is hiring a Senior Advisor for the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences which funds work on "how social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental forces affect the lives of people and how people, in turn, shape those forces."
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This Fish Evolved Legs That It Uses to Taste Stuff on the Seafloor
nytimes.com
While the sea robin has legs, it still doesn’t need a bicycle.
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#GreatAdaptations Octopus & fish coordinate hunting efforts
nature.com
Nature - Although typically considered solitary animals, octopuses sometimes work with fish to entrap prey.
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RT @MExpositoAlonso: Our department of Integrative Biology at University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a Assistant Professor in Hum….
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If I had I realized how cute baby peacocks are, my life might have gone very differently. (Part of me is worried that this is some kind of AI baby peacock fantasy.).
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