Paloma 🌈

Latinx, biological anthropologist, medioambiente, epigenetics, agua, salud, CDMX, Chile🪴🌊🌱🥑

[UM Population Studies Center @UM_PSC]

With Marshall Weinberg support, @UMAnthro PhD student @pcontreras92 will conduct fieldwork in Mexico City this fall to research resource insecurity-- needed to generate culturally sensitive public policies addressing environmental issues in a context of rapid climate change.

[UM Population Studies Center @UM_PSC]

Congratulations, Paloma Contreras @pcontreras92 -- also a @UM_PSC Marshall Weinberg Population, Development, and Climate Change Fellow! #ISRNextGeneration

[Paloma 🌈 @pcontreras92]

Al fin y con el gentil auspicio de NSF y mil unidades de la Universidad de Michigan, puedo comenzar mi levantamiento de datos en la Ciudad de México! Gracias a quienes me han apoyado y aguantado en esta batalla, especialmente a @catferna, @maesepalma

[Paloma 🌈 @pcontreras92]

@prosciuttophd It is never too late to be a tiktok sensation ;)

[Blake Robert Mills @BlakeRobMills]

✨✨New Package✨✨
Happy to announce that I am soft launching my R color palette package {MetBrewer} today! Currently has over 30 palettes inspired by works at the @metmuseum and expanding!

Download Instruction and Palettes here: https://t.co/Imk2UzfJiz

#r4ds #dataviz #rstats

[Keith Martin MD @keithmartinmd]

We’re losing IQ points’: the lead poisoning crisis among US children v ⁦@guardian⁩ cc ⁦@PureEarthFuller⁩ ⁦@PureEarthNow⁩ ⁦⁦@AmerAcadPeds⁩ ⁦@AmerMedicalAssn⁩ ⁦@whoccnm⁩ ⁦@ASPPHtweets⁩ ⁦@PublicHealth⁩ https://t.co/Z4iclvuH5Z

[Paloma 🌈 @pcontreras92]

"Orchid is planning to use polygenic risk scores derived from genome-wide association studies to perform polygenic embryo selection for complex diseases". On the technical and ethical problems of selecting embryos: https://t.co/uKdli1tDWM

[Paloma 🌈 @pcontreras92]

TODAY

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

Join us next Wednesday Nov 11th at 4 pm EST to hear her talk entitled: “Evolutionary role of dietary adaptations and its health outcomes among indigenous people of Chile”.
Zoom link: https://t.co/dA6WxkBYmv
This talk will be recorded!!
@UMichEEB @UM_Biopsych @umichsphglobal

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

💥💥RESCHEDULED!💥💥💥
Next week on #EHAP, we will be hosting Dr. Catalina Fernández @catferna!
Catalina is a post-doc at the @MPI_EVA_Leipzig and recently finished her PhD at @IUBloomington
#phdchat #womeninSTEM #bioanthtwitter #virtualseminarseries #AcademicChatter

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

Join us next Wednesday Nov 11th at 4 pm EST to hear her talk entitled: “Evolutionary role of dietary adaptations and its health outcomes among indigenous people of Chile”.
Zoom link: https://t.co/dA6WxkBYmv
This talk will be recorded!!
@UMichEEB @UM_Biopsych @umichsphglobal

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

Her research, funded by @WennerGrenOrg @NSF, investigated how past differences in food resources of 2 populations (foragers vs. agropastoralists) led to different #geneticadaptations in metabolism, & how they relate to chronic conditions. @PhysAnth @HumBioAssoc @AAAGenetics 👩🏾‍💻🧬

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

Catalina's research examines the role of food & diet in #humanevolution, #adaptation, and #culturalchange among contemporary populations using #evolutionary and #biocultural approaches to study how nutritional histories have shaped genetic adaptations across human populations.

[Paloma 🌈 @pcontreras92]

Atenti gente!!

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

🥁🥁🥁
Next week on #EHAP, we will be hosting Catalina Fernández @catferna - a biological anthropologist from Chile!!🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱
Catalina is currently finishing her Ph.D. in #Anthropology at @IUBloomington
#phdchat #womeninSTEM #bioanthtwitter #virtualseminarseries #AcademicChatter

[Aprobemos Dignidad @DignidadApruebo]

La actual Constitución define las reglas del juego incluso antes de nacer. Es tiempo de equiparar la cancha y acabar con las injusticias y la desigualdad. Este 25 de octubre cambiemos la Constitución de Pinochet, #AprobemosDignidad.

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

Join us next week Wed. at 4 pm EST to learn more about Tina’s work and follow her on twitter @TinaLasisi or her website: https://t.co/YGLYLgtOET and see her MoMA contributed video here: https://t.co/P5BB6vDS6N
Zoom link: https://t.co/s1uMasRDrk
This talk will be recorded.

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

Most of her work so far has been focused on finding the best way to understand differences in hair #phenotype. She is measuring traits like the radius of curls and amount of #melanin in hair, among other things, to develop good methods to quantify hair curl and color.

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

We are excited to introduce next week’s #EHAP speaker @TinaLasisi. Tina is a doctoral candidate at @PSU_Anthro. Her research explores human #hairdiversity & aims to answer the Q:
Why did #modern #variation in human scalp hair evolve?
#phdchat #bioanthTwitter #womeninSTEM

[UM_EHAP @UmEhap]

@emiliahsc's work includes using ancient DNA to answer questions of interbreeding with #archaic humans. She also looks at how #admixture, both recent and archaic events, shapes #geneticvariation.