Emily Casanova, PhD

Our newest paper announcing the discovery that some #Neanderthal DNA appears to be playing important roles in autism - nature.com/articles/s4138… #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic 🧬🧬🧬

Snagged from #Substack

@elonmusk Fun Fact: None of that negates what Europeans did to native people and anyone who states/implies it does (like you’re clearly doing with this picture) is trying to justify horrific acts of racism and genocide. You’re making it ABUNDANTLY clear how truly racist you are.

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Our newest article in #Bioessays exploring the relationship between #Neandertal DNA and #autism. Enjoy! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi… #anthropology #paleoanthropology #paleogenomics #genetics #evolution

@Davey_F_Wright Especially if it’s in the… FIELD Museum! Sorry! Had to. 😂😂😂

I don't know who needs to hear this but "field work" absolutely includes traveling to work in museum collections

Ancient genomes give insight into 160,000 years of East Asian population dynamics and biological adaptation link.springer.com/article/10.118…

@Kam1kazie @DiscussingFilm One might hope an actual PRESIDENT might hold himself to higher standards.

@DiscussingFilm the people who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death and currently attack his widow are about to tell you that this is really mean and unacceptable

Donald Trump alleges that Rob Reiner’s death was “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome”

@Twi_Swastideep @DiscussingFilm Not me. And not a bunch of us. We’re being held hostage…

@DiscussingFilm imagine making a family tragedy about yourself 🤢 Congratulations to the People of America, you have elected a President who celebrates someone's death just because he / she doesn't support the Ideology your supreme leader believes in 👏🏻

@broadwaybabyto @KatieKlocksin We also need to stop using labels that are based on criteria of exclusion rather than inclusion, which is just bad diagnostics. “We’ve ruled out this other stuff? Well, she must just be crazy!” Lazy medicine.

Stop psychologizing women. All potential physical causes should be ruled out before you tell someone it’s a mental health issue and lock them up. This 20 year old is paralyzed because she was misdiagnosed. A 12 year old girl recently died. We deserve better.

Interesting meta-scientific take on the development of theories, as exemplified by the case of paleontology in the Modern Synthesis and the specific Late Turkana mollusk study of the punctuated equilibria. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@Starbucks, come to the table & work out a fair deal for your workers! I'm going thru refresher withdrawals!!! 😭 But more importantly, this is a workers' rights issue: Stop cheating them of benefits by rigging scheduling. Sincerely, A Pissed Off Patron. 😠

@juliet_turner6 PhD for women: A great way to keep assholes at bay. 😂 On a more serious note, this guy’s anti-intellectualism speaks MOUNTAINS about his own insecurities!

I’m sure having my photo shared in this derogatory way would be devastating if my motivation for getting a PhD was to impress this guy and women-hating friends. Thankfully, it was not. So I can just laugh about it instead. 😊

@SCEMS1 @krassenstein I suspect because they’re people from both sides of the aisle listed on there.

@krassenstein My question is this, pls consider it and answer with your head, not your heart. If these files had such damning evidence against Trump, dont you think they'd have blown it up BEFORE the election? Biden DOJ had this stuff for 4 yrs.

BREAKING: 24 Epstein Victims Just sent this letter to Congress. Only a sick person would try and cover these files up: "Dear Esteemed Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, We write to you as the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and as fellow survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators. You have the ability to vote to release the Epstein files, and with it, deliver a promise the American people have awaited for far too long. We implore you to do so. Several weeks ago, when a few brave survivors stood before you and recounted their harrowing stories, many of you were shaken to your core. We urge you, when you cast your vote, please do not forget the horror you felt that day. There is no middle ground here. There is no hiding behind party affiliation. The testimonies you heard are just a fraction of the unimaginable suffering endured by more than a thousand victims alike. Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes exposed a double standard of justice, where rich and powerful men and women evade repercussions. Despite years of work to bring them to justice, most of Epstein and Maxwell’s co-conspirators remain completely free, continuing to amass power and prestige, living without apparent shame. As you gather with your family this season, remember that your primary duty is to your constituents. Look into the eyes of your children, your sisters, your mothers, and your aunts. Imagine if they had been preyed upon. Imagine if you yourself were a survivor. What would you want for them? What would you want for yourself? When you vote, we will remember your decision at the ballot box. This last April, we lost our sister Virginia, a true American hero and a beacon of strength to survivors everywhere. Her resilience in the face of immense adversity—the threats to her life, financial ruin, and public shaming—inspired us all. Her courage brought this case to a monumental turning point, and her testimony exposed the lurid secrets of a global sex trafficking network. In doing so, she brought down a prince, and paved the way for us to come forward and fight. Virginia was failed over and over by the systems that consistently believed and supported her abusers over her. Today, we urge you not to fail another survivor and deny them justice any longer. Embody Virginia’s courage. Be brave and stand for her, in her absence. Vote YES on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Vote for justice, accountability, and the truth. With gratitude, respect, and resilience, from survivors and the family and friends who love them."

@HugoBoss69007 @krassenstein I’m ready to see whoever is listed in those files jailed. This shouldn’t be about party affiliations.

@krassenstein Are you sure you are ready to see All your democrat leaders in jail? Just don’t cry and say it’s a lie

While not a slam dunk, this study shows it’s mathematically possible: Neandertals may have simply been assimilated. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Our humanity is best fulfilled when we exist and live together, when we succeed in experiencing authentic, informal bonds with the people around us. If we close in on ourselves, we risk growing sick with loneliness, or even narcissism, which leads us to care for others only out of self-interest. #GeneralAudience

@harryjsisson Let them eat cake!

Donald Trump is partying with his wealthy billionaire donor friends in Florida just hours before crucial programs like SNAP, Head Start, and more expire for millions of Americans. You do not hate him enough.

🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution "Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data" dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.7…

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! A genomic continuum from feral to wild Red Junglefowl in Singapore avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/a-g… #ornithology

maternal-fetal PIEZO1 incompatibility as a barrier to Neanderthal-modern human admixture (preprint) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@OdedRechavi My faves: Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust; Jeff Buckley’s Grace; Phantom of the Opera (1987, original Broadway cast); Glenn Gould’s The Goldberg Variations; Empire Records soundtrack; Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack; and Music from the Adventures of Pete & Pete. 🎶

I'm on a plane and I want to listen to a whole album, not just individual songs (old school!) - which album do you recommend?