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Have you listened to our episode on National Science Foundation (NSF) funding and the future of science?

Take this quiz to check your knowledge! ✨⚡

Tune into our #SaveNSF episode wherever you get your podcasts to get in-depth details on the importance of NSF funding and the detrimental impacts of recent budget cuts.

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Honored to be able to illustrate a portrait of Dr Adriana C Bejarano for #SilencedScienceStories, celebrating the scientists who have been impacted by federal cuts.
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Dr Bejarano is a scientist & #ScienceCommunicator passionate about mitigating impacts on coastal & marine ecosystems from disasters, including hurricanes, wildfires, & hazardous material spills. She worked at #NOAA’s Office of Response & Restoration.
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"The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts"

#GraeberAndWengrow #TheDawnOfEverything

Link to the original article.

It may be harder work than what a #ScienceCommunicator / #Journalist from NPR, Forbes,vor CNN will present you with.

But I think it's more thrilling to hear straight from the researchers.

G & W? We've had women hunting - we're much more creative in terms of organising society than we've been told.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

journals.plos.orgThe Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contextsThe sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.

#introduction: I'm a magazine journalist by training who spent her formative professional years working as a #sciencecommunicator at a cancer center and at Bell Labs. Since I entered academia, I've been focused on developing interdisciplinary, community-engaged collaborations that are intended to boost computational thinking and science literacy across the curriculum. Here's a 2020 essay that sunmarizes a lot of what I think about. kimpearson.net/teaching-about-

kimpearson.netTeaching race across disciplines using interdisciplinary collaboration