Dr. Angie Achorn
Anthropologist/Primatologist. Assistant Professor @ UTRGV 🤠✌🏼 PhD from Texas A&M (2022). Fulbright (🇮🇩) alum. Books, sci-fi/fantasy, memes, & puns enthusiast 🏳️🌈✨ Views are my own.
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornImagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornNew paper from our Rwenzori colobus & Sam Stead's dissertation. We examined female glucocorticoids & found a U-shaped distribution with unit size! Females also had increase to parturition & a decrease throughout lactation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achornthey're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornIf they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn"What can Democrats actually do?" - Vote against funding for ICE and DHS - State that any ICE officers who commit crimes under Trump will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law - Encourage cities and states to refuse to cooperate with ICE - Explain ICE is part of Trump's tyranny
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornAbolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn🧪🏺 WOWWWW New dates in SE Asia for rock paintings - major implications: - nature of early aesthetics, innovations - relationship to oldest known Australian settlement? - and (IMO) impacts claims that cave art in Europe >50 Ka is necessarily work of #Neanderthals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornIf you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornMLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornIf you know anything about the Vietnam War, you know why Hmong Americans are here in the US - they were US allies who risked their lives in Laos to aid the US and had to flee at the end of the war when the Pathet Lao won. Infuriating that members of their community are being targeted like this
- Snoots!
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornI DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornIn @peoplemag.bsky.social today... When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy the book out tomorrow people.com/beronda-mont... @macmillanpubusa.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornDr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornWho were the earliest inhabitants of Sulawesi? New work from a cave called Leang Bulu Bettue has pushed the record across the arrival of modern people, into the lives of hominins whose ancestors reached the island up to a million years before. www.johnhawks.net/p/a-deep-rec...
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornThis book is a wonderful, synthetic and richly illustrated journey through the natural history of the vertebrate brain 🤩 A big thank you to the authors 🙏 "A major theme in the evolution of the telencephalon has been the emergence of novel pathways... 1/2
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn1/2 Ai, the chimpanzee who revolutionized science from Kyoto, has died at the age of 49. She was the first chimpanzee to learn Arabic numerals. Here you can see her in action in Tetsuro Matsuzawa's laboratory.
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornIt is impossible to properly calculate the depth and breadth of the courage and sacrifice of those prepared to confront white supremacy and assert their right to full citizenship. We - and by that I mean ALL Americans - owe them a great debt. Rest in Peace & Power Claudette Colvin.
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornSame-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates is associated with ecological factors, life history and social structure, according to research published in @natecoevo.nature.com: spklr.io/633248d15a #Ecology #EcoSky 🌍
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornNIH is losing so may good people. First they were fired or RIFd or pressured to retire early. Now they are leaving because “no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity.” Proud to know these brave scientists! www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornAnd our work is one of three papers published in Current Biology showing importance of social dynamics on sleep. Commentary here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Firefly 😭 (still not over it)
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornCheck out our new paper on the #development of #gaze-following in wild #chimpanzees, led by @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, & Isabelle Monroe! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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- Super stoked to share our latest article, “Heritability of gray matter volume and asymmetry in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and their association to cognitive abilities and tool use,” published in Brain Structure and Function! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Dr. Angie Achorn🚨 New paper! 🚨 🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide. 🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction. 🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs? 🐒 Spoiler: Nope! Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornOur new paper on yawn vocalizations in geladas is out on iScience! Happy holidays to you all :) OA here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ethos-research.bsky.social @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social @leakeyfoundation.org
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- Reposted by Dr. Angie AchornI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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- L'IA qu'on nous enfonce dans la gorge blogs.mediapart.fr/david-monnia...
