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Sarah Barks

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Explainin' your brain. Plus primates, evolution, science education, feminism, and the occasional Elvis sighting.

Fresh science from yours truly! Western and mountain gorillas have different brains. Check it out in AJPA: tinyurl.com/gorillabrains


.@WennerGrenOrg Intro to Human Evolution, Wash U, Richard Smith, first semester freshman year.


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"Obituary: D. Tab Rasmussen, professor of anthropology, 56" physanth.org/news/obituary-…


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I'm getting really tired of seeing #scicomm portrayed as an "alternative" career and something that only "failed" scientists do.


@EvoNeuro @fMRI_guy Damn, that's pretty. Anybody I know?


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Science says: Women are not welcome in the field. My response to @sciencemagazine: 1.usa.gov/1unNX10 #STEMwomen

RepSpeier's tweet image. Science says: Women are not welcome in the field. My response to @sciencemagazine: 1.usa.gov/1unNX10 #STEMwomen

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ICYMI: Turning down endowed lectureship because gender ratio is too skewed towards males #WomenInSTEM phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2014/07/turnin… #DoSomething


Can't wait for this! MT @maragrunbaum Look what just showed up! An actual printed copy of my actually printed book!

BrainSplain's tweet image. Can't wait for this! MT @maragrunbaum Look what just showed up! An actual printed copy of my actually printed book!

#safe13 matters because every time I do this I meet SO MANY little girls who tell me they want to be scientists too. humanorigins.si.edu/about/events/s…


And spotting a mouse--the scurrying kind, not the science kind--in the lab means it's time to go home.


My friend Tremie put cameras in the tree canopy in Peru and holy whoa, there's a lot going on up there, critter-wise: bit.ly/1sprbnC


@kurtpankau Actually his dino story was that he knew this guy: bigstory.ap.org/article/man-ge… It's kind of cultural anthropology!


@kurtpankau At least it wasn't bugs? I mean, dinosaurs are cool. I went with it.


I Never Thought It Would Happen To Me: I told someone I'm an anthropologist and he started talking to me about dinosaurs.


This should be every science dept's lead-off journal club article for the fall semester: plosone.org/article/info%3… #safe13


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Survey of Academic Field Experiences MS just dropped y'all #SAFE13 @PLOSONE w/ @KateClancy @rgairnelson @JNRutherford plosone.org/article/info%3…


I think maybe @JahrenLabLab and @darth should get to know each other.


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