Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.

@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Anthropologist/Primatologist🐒; Professor at Saint Louis University; Alumna of U.C. Berkeley & Univ. of Alberta; inspired by nature 🌿, travel 🗺️, music 🎶, food 🍲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katherine_Mackinnon2

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Rob Denton
@rddenton.bsky.social

Please share! Our department has two tenure-track job ads up today. Here is the #botany job, with an open mind towards multiple subdisciplines. Fantastic facilities, perfect-sized institution, easy living. Come work here! bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job... @botsocamerica.bsky.social

bsu.wd12.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor of BiologyPosition Title: Assistant Professor of Biology Compensation: $70,000 - $80,000 Department: Biology Start Date: 08/16/2027 About this opportunity: The Department of Biology at Ball State University inv...
Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Please help if you can - every cent goes to helping the people and the orangutans who are being devastated by the Borneo fires right now. 🦧🔥🇮🇩👇

Erin 🦇🎃💀👻EEK👻💀🎃🦇 Kane@dianamonkey.bsky.social

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coreborneo.comWildfire AppealEmergency Appeal: Help Save the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station and Surrounding Peatland Forest defaultdefaultdefaultdefault The Fires Have Returned to Tuanan A major wildfire…
Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Great idea - reminds me of this cool project: “Academic Phylogeny of Biological Anthropology” created by some awesome folks at UT Austin! (and that we’re both in!)👇#academia #anthropology www.bioanthtree.org

bioanthtree.orgAcademic Phylogeny of Biological AnthropologyTracing the academic lineages of Biological Anthropology PhDs.
Patrick Clarkin@patrickclarkin.bsky.social

Two profs posted their academic genealogy on their lab door, which is a neat idea.

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

So cool 👇

Abigail Fraeman@abbyfrae.bsky.social

Sharing a terrific article by project scientist Ashwin Vasavada describing a day in the life of Curiosity Mars rover science operations. theconversation.com/mars-rovers-...

theconversation.comMars rovers give scientists a ground-level view of the red planet – peek inside their NASA control roomEach day in the control room of the Curiosity rover is jam-packed with important scientific decisions, as a NASA project scientist describes.

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Lyn Heideman
@heidelyn.bsky.social

Birds' fall migration is picking up. Here's the forecast for tonight. Note the precipitation scale on right: birds can sense and avoid storms. Also on right, a scale indicating migration intensity. 178M #birds expected to fly tonight.

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Dan Feldman
@danfeldman.bsky.social

The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

#AmphibiaWeb is an invaluable resource for students, conservation biologists, and all #amphibian enthusiasts! Spread the word, buy a cool t-shirt, and help them reach their goal this year. Donate if you can! 🐸 👍 💚 www.customink.com/fundraising/...

customink.comAmphibiaWeb celebrates 9000 amphibians, Supporting Regents of the University of California at BerkeleyAmphibiaWeb connects people around the world by synthesizing and sharing information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation. We do this work with volunteer experts and enthus...
Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Always keep asking the relevant questions! Thank you, Crystal, for posting this thread:

Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical@alwaystheself.bsky.social

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

This is so cool! Go #Billikens! ✈️ 💙 💪 "A team of pilots from Saint Louis University will compete June 23-26 in the Air Race Classic, an annual all-woman, daylight-only race held each June." @slu-official.bsky.social #SLU #Aviation www.slu.edu/news/2026/ju...

slu.eduSLU Students Set to Compete in Air Race ClassicA team of pilots from Saint Louis University will compete June 23-26 in the Air Race Classic, an annual all-woman, daylight-only race held each June. The SLU team includes Jocelyn Ciotti and Sydney Ni...
Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Interesting (as always) post by @johnhawks.net on the new East Asian #hominin dental proteomics data - you know when John says, "But I have a different take"...that you should sit up and take note! 👇 💀 💥 🧬 🦷 🔬

John Hawks@johnhawks.net

I feel a little heretical in saying that the headlines may say Homo erectus, but the Denisovan connection is pointing me a different direction. The connections over time within China are an old topic, and protein data has made them resurface again. www.johnhawks.net/p/rethinking...

johnhawks.netRethinking Homo erectus and Denisovans with ancient proteinsMixture demonstrated for old fossil teeth hints that anthropologists may have mixed ideas.

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Mongabay
@mongabay.com

Scientists have found one of the world’s largest cold-water coral reefs deep off Argentina. Home to dozens of species new to science, the reef already shows signs damage. Researchers are now testing "artificial corals" to help restore this fragile ecosystem. @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports.

mongabay.ccOne of the world’s largest deep-sea coral reefs discovered off ArgentinaBiologist Erik Cordes has spent much of his career studying cold-water reefs — coral systems typically found in chilly, dark waters far below the ocean’s surface. But his latest project took him by…
Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

The “firsts” in these images will be coming fast and furious now - just mind blowing. 💥🚀🌘🤩

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social

Artemis II closing in on the Moon and beginning to see parts of the lunar far side. Orientale basin is on the right edge of the lunar disk in this image. Artemis II marks the first time that humans have seen the entire impact basin. Credit: NASA flic.kr/p/2s5HA2X #Artemis 🔭🧪

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

🤩🚀🌍🌔🎉

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Noooooo! That was a particularly gnarly and disgusting scene. 🤢 🐊 I’m out - poor honey badger. 😭🦡 👎 #2026MMM (I’m a bit behind because I broke my leg over the weekend - this result did not help my mood! 😩)

Katie Hinde@mammalssuck.bsky.social

NILE CROCODILE OUTLASTS HONEY BADGER!!! #2026MMM

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

This is such a glorious #2026MMM visual mashup:

Marc Kissel@marckissel.bsky.social

The helicopter downwash blows air currents to the cliff... buffeting Gila Monster against the rocks as her claws grip in & she flattens her body to the rocky ledge... #Cliffhanger #2026MMM

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

… that study was so amazing! 🤩#2026MMM

Marc Kissel@marckissel.bsky.social

Gila Monster slowly climbs the rocks near the nest, a dwelling that different ossifrages have been using for over 600 years. Bits of human handcrafted materials make up layers of the nest, such as an old shoe and part of a crossbow (Margalida et al 2025) #2026MMM

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

👍🤞 #2026MMM #TeamHoneyBadger #Mustelidae

Katie Hinde@mammalssuck.bsky.social

Join us WEDNESDAY for that SWEET SWEET SIXTEEN! And if your champion has fallen in the first two rounds of March Mammal Madness, swing to the LibGuide linked below and become a BUSTED BRACKETEER! #2026MMM

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social

Whew…that was a bit rough but I got 5/8 going forward: Sea Cow, Baiji, Thylacine, Aurochs, and Camel. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #2026MMM #extinctionisforever

March Mammal Madness@mmmletsgo.bsky.social

#2026MMM EXTINCTION IS FOREVER ROUND 1 WINNERS: Steller's Sea Cow, Saudi Gazelle, Baiji, Yallara, Thylacine, Aurochs, Sea Mink, and Wild Dromedary Camel! Please join us Wednesday 3/18 at 8PM EST for Round 1 of That's So Metal!

Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D.
@ktcapuchin.bsky.social
Dr. Chloe Josefson@chloejosefson.bsky.social

Japanese Otter populations were over-hunted for their pelt. No longer a game animal in 1928, their population continued to decline from polluted rivers impacting their health & food supply. Not observed since 1979, Japanese otters were officially declared extinct in 2012 (Park et al. 2019) #2026MMM