Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
Anthropologist/Primatologist🐒;
Professor at Saint Louis University;
Alumna of U.C. Berkeley & Univ. of Alberta; inspired by nature 🌿, travel 🗺️, music 🎶, food 🍲
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- Happy New Year! 🎊 Thankful these two don’t get too anxious from the noises (this year’s celebrations have been very quiet here so far…🤞) 🎆🐾🎉✨☮️🕊️ #dachshunds #hounddogs
- …practice photo shoot of their adorable new Christmas sweaters - it’s been too warm to wear them otherwise! 😞🎄🐾🧣🔥☀️🌡️🥵 #hounds #dachshunds #hounddogs
- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.Looking for a masters in primatology? Northern Illinois University's Prof Leila Porter & Mitch Irwin are seeking students for next year! www.niu.edu/clas/anthropology #primates #gradschool #lemurs #tamarins #nutrition
- Wonderful interview with @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social today on @scifri.bsky.social - looking forward to reading her intriguing new book! 📖 🪨 🌏 🌍🖊️🌎 #geology #earthscience
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- It's cold and flu season here in the Northern Hemisphere - this cute #opossum says, "don't forget to wash your hands well...and often!"😀 🧼 🚿 🤧 👐 😷 🐾 🌬️ 🫖 🦠 🧬 🧪 🧫 💉 🩺 💊 🩻 #Mammalia #Marsupialia #Didelphimorphia #Didelphidae #Didelphis #urbanwildlife #wildlife
- The news about moss spores surviving in space is one of my favorite stories of 2025…amazing. 💚 🛰️ 🤩
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- Full time, TT position in Biological Anthropology at Santa Clara University: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...
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- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.Academia.edu is changing its Terms and Conditions, and they're so outrageous (AI training; signing over ownership to them etc) I closed my account today. A thread with some practical tips if you want to delete your account (5 steps):
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- I love when random pics pop up - an adult male white-necked #jacobin (Florisuga mellivorais), aka the great jacobin or collared #hummingbird; I took these in Northern Honduras, 2016. 💚🇭🇳💙🥰 #birds #birdwatching #hummingbirds #wildlife
- New position announced: Assistant Professor - Environmental Change, Resilience, Precarity, and Justice in Archaeology/Bioanthropology at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 👇 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05077?fbc...
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My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196 - Hear, hear Agustin 💥👊💥(@anthrofuentes.bsky.social) Good op-ed piece in @science.org 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Amazing find - with insightful comments by U.C. Berkeley archaeologist and Mesoamerican expert, @rajoyce.bsky.social #archaeology #Belize #Mesoamerica #anthropology www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
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- We will certainly miss your excellent reporting and familiar voice, @jackspeer1.bsky.social! Congratulations on your @npr.org retirement and best of luck with the next chapter! 🎉 Interview with @ari-shapiro.bsky.social here: knpr.org/npr/2025-07-...
- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
- Thanks for this useful video @etobias-musiced.bsky.social; like SO many, I got the "AI created a podcast of your paper" email. And I had an auto-payment of $299 from my bank for a "premium account" which doesn't exist. I deleted my Academia.edu account & will file a fraud charge via my bank. Ugh. 😡
- If you can, please help my friend as she supports her partner through his #cancer journey. Any little bit will help towards the daunting costs they are facing. Please support this GoFundMe by donating or sharing—> gofund.me/cebbec69
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- …noticed the first #fireflies (technically firebeetles!) in the backyard on June 6 (last year was June 10). Tonight I counted about a dozen in our small urban yard - no pesticides! #Lampyridae #Coleoptera #beetles #insects 🥰💡🪰✨🌳🏡 💚 mdc.mo.gov/discover-nat...
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- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...
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- … at first I thought these downy #woodpeckers (#Dryobates pubescens) were adults, but once I zoomed in with the camera I realized what was going on: mama on the right, fledged chick (still getting fed) on the left. She’s using suet from our feeder. Lucky random capture! 📷🐣 #birds #birding
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- Good piece by @cbo.bsky.social 👇📚
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- …wrapped it all up today with 122 final grades tallied and entered. 🎉 Now just the fun stuff remains: dept celebration and Arts & Sciences commencement tomorrow and university-wide ceremony on Sat. Whew, that was a l-o-n-g semester, right?! ❤️🩹👍🎓
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- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.We asked how behavioral diversity & agonistic behaviors relate to group size in wild capuchins. We analyzed >65,000 behavioral scans collected over 15 yrs on 214 capuchins (8 groups) & controlled for # inds sampled. We found behavioral richness, diversity & agonism was higher in larger groups.
- This looks great (especially as I always thought I was partly that thing in the title!). 👇 📚 ✍️ #learning #education #psychology #anthropology
- Now THAT's a tribute! Thank you for writing this wonderful piece @adampjohnson.bsky.social, for our dear friend, mentor, colleague @jontheanthroman.bsky.social - in celebration of his upcoming retirement. Beautifully done!❤️ ✍ 🎉 #anthropology #biologicalanthropology #science anthropology365.com/.../.
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- Congratulations, @tsutatsuta.bsky.social @fridowelker.bsky.social and team! 🎉
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- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.It's not a dire wolf. It's a gray wolf clone with 20 dire-wolf gene edits, and with some dire wolf traits. And here's my story! Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
- Yup! Tufts. ❤️
- Iggy wishes you a relaxing Sunday. He says, “naps are good.” 🥰🐾🐈⬛😴 #blackcats #cats
- List four famous people who you have met and one who you haven't: Sting Catherine Deneuve Peter Murphy Oscar Arias Iggy Pop
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- Reposted by Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants. Here's how you can help our reporting 👇
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- Remarkably, I still have 3 left in my bracket for FINAL ROAR: Gelada #SameAndDifferent Puma #TheOnlyOnes & Ginkgo/Rhizzo #RootsAndRelics (I had to have the #capuchin & #langur going far, ruining the #TuxedoStyle Polar Bear option...🤷♀️🐒) #DivisionOnlyOnes #TeamPuma 🐾 #2025MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social
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- Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5
- Excellent collection of articles by some amazing biological anthropologists! Check out @bioanth.org’s 2024 YRBK, out now. 👇💀🦴🔬🧬🩸🐒🦍🦧
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