Claudia Astorino
yr friendly neighborhood tooth evangelist 🦷✨ | PhD candidate CUNY GC & @nycep.bsky.social | Evo bio | Bioanthro | Vert paleo | Dental evo-devo | Sexual polymorphism | #intersex 🟨🙆♀️🟨 | neurodivergent #LateDiagnosisClub 🧠 | she/her 🌈
- Reposted by Claudia Astorino"Moving forward, Oklahoma institutions without R1 status must offer fixed-term, renewable contracts. ... Tenured faculty members at Oklahoma’s two R1 institutions — the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University — will be subject to post-tenure review every five years."
- Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
- Reposted by Claudia Astorino“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson
- unfortunately funding is only for research focusing on AI 😭 🧪
- Holy shit: it's an RFP for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB). Hello old friend www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoTHUS PASSES ANOTHER AGE OF THE EARTH www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoHarvard is the richest university in the country, but it's only offering an additional 5 cents in wages to the workers who allow it to stay open. Stand with Harvard custodians as they continue fighting for a fair contract. All ally signatures welcome!
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoI have nothing of substance to add re: the condemnation of paleo associations with Epstein, but as the initiator of one of the more recent high-profile SVP ethics cases who spent months going through their process, I have some thoughts re: SVP's handling of ethics cases/reports. A thread 🧵:
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoThe banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
- this is like, 45 min from where I grew up this is beyond horrendous
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoCivil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoThis morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
- Reposted by Claudia Astorinothe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoSVP Members! I encourage you to join today's town hall on zoom at 12PM ET, and demand that leadership take action to protect our members and attendees at the 2026 Annual Meeting in Cleveland, in light of recent developments regarding the Epstein Files and what occurred at the 2024 Meeting in MN.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoLOVE seeing the work on @nativebio.bsky.social and @joseph-yracheta.bsky.social highlighted in the NYT. More good news of Indigenous data champions! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...
- Reposted by Claudia Astorino"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoI've got about 100 packs of valentines left! I'll be packing them up this afternoon and hitting the post office tomorrow. They're cute as hell, each has a fact about the animal on the front of the card inside ❤️🐟❤️ Valentines support @skypeascientist.bsky.social! Art by @aprilfinfrock.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoThis is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoBezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- Reposted by Claudia Astorinoalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoFounders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoReally SVP? You’re just going to ignore decades of sexual and academic misconduct, marrying a student AT one of your conferences, and every report I’ve filed (implying that’s what you do with reports) to defend famous Horner? You’d rather have pedophiles than students is your message?
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoIs @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social being serious here? No, the presence of a name on an email doesn't establish wrongdoing. But the *content* of those emails is what so many members, including myself, are outraged about. This response does nothing but further degrade my confidence in SVP leadership
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoYou cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoWe didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoFeb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoOpportunity for women students in paleontology! The Winifred Goldring Award will be presented to three women graduate students and the AWG Undergraduate Paleontology Award will be presented to a student pursuing a career in paleontology. Due April 30th. More information here: tinyurl.com/msdc3m68
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoLots of teargas at ICE tonight in Portland. People were just standing and chanting.
- Reposted by Claudia Astorinomultiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoLots of correspondence between Robert Trivers and Jeffrey Epstein mentioning money and a predatory view of women 🤮https://www.justice.gov/epstein
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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- Reposted by Claudia Astorino"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoI was a postdoc at Harvard (in human evolutionary biology) from 2010 to 2012 and it’s grim how many men I interacted with during that time are popping up in the Epstein files trying to prove disgusting evo-psych theories about women *shudder*.
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- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoCool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
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- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoBased on what I've seen, at least 4 current/former Harvard professors have now been named as Epstein associates. Which seems notable given prior reporting that Epstein used false promises of "elite" college admissions to lure young girls into his web of abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoHuh. Didn’t have Jack Horner telling Jeffery Epstein that he could keep dinosaur fossils on my 2006 bingo card
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoJack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.
- Reposted by Claudia Astorinohighlights include: all updated driver's licences/birth certificates are now invalid & must be replaced w sex at birth & if you accuse someone of being trans in a bathroom you get $1000
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoI hate to tap the sign but again: this is all made to make in-person education and access to knowledge transfer a preserve of the elite. Human education for the few, bots for the many.
- We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it. AI can help us do that. Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoA number of our students got the following comment back on a rejection for the NSF GFRP. They are in an eligible STEM field. Is this something people in other places are getting too? Is it a quirk or targeted?
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoJey is a highly trained and accomplished geneticist from who would be a most excellent guest to talk both about their personal journey and more broadly on a variety of scientific concepts.
- 🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?
- Reposted by Claudia Astorino🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoNEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social: “I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.” "In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoNational Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
- Reposted by Claudia Astorinofor me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps
- In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
- Reposted by Claudia Astorino“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me"...“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoThere is evil and then there is this
- Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoWe’ve been in WHO since 1948.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoOver several decades, the WHO has played a huge role in bringing countries together to reduce death and disease at an unprecedented scale. It is by no means a perfect organization, but we can only improve it by continuing to participate. Withdrawal is reckless and makes us all more vulnerable.
- Reposted by Claudia AstorinoThe United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization. This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.
