Amy Anderson

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

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

There's a new US bill designed to support the development of worker-owned businesses in the US economic system! Petition linked here: https://t.co/K5vNli4N5T

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

So curious to see how this lawsuit against major academic publishers works out. It hinges on the broader societal impacts of peer review being an unpaid gig.
Do you think science would be better if we were paid for reviewing articles? I'm unconvinced
https://t.co/Q7uHGRBl2P

[ANU Biological Anthropology @ANU_BioAnth]

Does luck influence your risk of death, and if so, what might that mean for studies of ancient health?

To find out, join us for our next seminar @ 1pm 18/10 AEDT, where Bronwyn Wyatt (ANU) will present her research exploring the complexity of mortality in past peoples!

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@LSpakeAnthro @NSF @SharonDeWitte Thank you!!!

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

🥳 I just got an @NSF #nsfsprf postdoc grant (third time lucky)!! Very excited to finally be able to move forward with a project that I think will be huge for the future of bioarchaeology, and to be working with the incomparable @SharonDeWitte - good things to come! 👻🧐🧡

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@AnnePisor @NSF @SharonDeWitte Thank you!! I'm really so excited for this project!

[Rebecca Watts @rebeccacwatts]

A new method of adult age estimation from the brilliant Jisun Jang - all you need is a laser scanner and R! If anyone gives it a go I'd love to hear how you get on https://t.co/zO6gbo9BVj

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@kellycantfail Every time I see a trans woman with history, surviving and thriving and doing cool shit, it gives me absolute euphoria

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@kellycantfail Feeling this one resonate hard. Really not sure what's so difficult about putting yourself inside another person's experience that they're taking the time and energy to explain to you.... Except is this me being unempathetic about people who find empathy difficult?

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@AnnePisor @PSU_Anthro @SSRIPennState @PSULiberalArts Excellent! Hope it's all off to a good start!

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@joyoladokun Tough Love by Flyte

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@Shyama_Ver All jobs are precarious these days, so I try to make my peace with that part of it. The research is the big pull for me, and the big push is the sheer geographic spread of the opportunities and how difficult that is if you're partnered with someone who can't follow you.

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@kellygoround this is peak aesthetic

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

Feeling beyond lucky for the pleasure and privilege of working with this group and getting to be the architect of tiny multilingual worlds 😊. Honestly can't believe how cool my job is

[Justyna Olko 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @JustynaOlko]

Brainstorming and collective work on modeling multilingualism in our @ERC_Research #MULTILING-HIST project with our team members in @MPI_EVA_Leipzig Amy Anderson @skeletonreader and @heidiColleran So much fun!

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@taylor_vandoren it's the same mountain range that runs through Scotland (continental drift).
I remember thinking they were only hills because I'd only known young mountains. But when you get up in them, the energy is palpable.

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

Does polygyny inevitably lock many man out of the marriage market? It's a widespread belief that "if one man marries 2 wives, another must go without a wife". But it's wrong. Our preprint shows the importance of demography to understanding marriage markets & their consequences👇

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@GlassDelaney @Prof_RanaDajani Enjoy! It's a heck of a town :)

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@GlassDelaney @Prof_RanaDajani You're in Germany! Any chance you'll be visiting the ev anth group in Leipzig while you're here?

[Amy Anderson @skeletonreader]

@taylor_vandoren Would also love to talk about how after 8 months of radio silence NSF gives three work days -- during field season -- for notified postdocs and their mentors to sign acceptance paperwork and commit to a start date