Tue.Mar 18, 2025

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A Forgotten Chapter in Human Evolution: The Hidden Ancestry of Modern Humans

Anthropology.net

For decades, the story of modern human origins seemed relatively straightforward: Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, evolving as a single, continuous lineage before expanding across the globe. But new research suggests that this narrative is missing an entire chapter. Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

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Common Mistakes In Data Annotation Projects

TeachThought

Bad data annotation weakens AI. Learn common mistakes, how to fix them, and build reliable datasets for accurate machine learning models.

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When Did Humans First Make Stone Tools? New Research Suggests They Didn’t—At First

Anthropology.net

For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over one of humanity’s most crucial technological leaps—when and how early humans began making sharp stone tools. A new study proposes an unexpected answer: before hominins ever struck two rocks together, they may have been using naturally occurring sharp stones to butcher meat and process plants.

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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025

Political Science Now

The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award scholars whose research areas focus on one of the following target research areas. Applications are due May 6, 2025. Apply Now ! In this application cycle, the grant will support early career scholars whose research focuses on one or more of the following target research areas : race, ethnicity and polit

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NEH Announces Funding for a New Mission US

ASHP CML

In January, 2025, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded funds for the production of a new addition to the popular Mission US series. Isla Preciosa, the ninth installment in the digital learning game series, will focus on the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and its aftermath. Through playing Isla Preciosa, middle school students will investigate how the shift from Spanish rule to American governance affected the lives of Puerto Ricans at the turn of the 20th century, and what rol

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Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals

Political Science Now

Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals By Jennifer M. Piscopo , University of London Is political science research that explores gender and LGBTQIA+ politics still underrepresented in the disciplines top journals? This article examines publication trends in gender research and LGBTQIA+ research in five top political science journals, between 2017 and 2023 (inclusive).

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CUNY Digital History Archive: Call for Proposals

ASHP CML

The CUNY Digital History Archive, co-administered by ASHP/CML and the MinaRees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center, is seeking proposals for curatedcollections to feature on its website. We invite proposals that highlightunderrepresented aspects of CUNYs history and contributions to the historicalrecord. This is a great opportunity for educators across the CUNY system todevelop collections as a class project.

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Margaret Sanger: The Woman Rebel

Teaching American History

The letters are heartbreaking. Women who had borne three, four, five, or more children in as many years of marriage wrote to Margaret Sanger (18791966), begging her to “tell me how to keep from becoming pregnant.” Today, it’s hard to imagine how many American women in the early twentieth century, especially lower-income, less-educated women, were ignorant about birth control.

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Make Sense of Your Interactions with Simulated Quantities of Interest, by Way of {simqi}

Steven V. Miller

Joonkook Hwang addresses the UN Security Council, re: North Korea (29 May 2024). I am writing this in Seoul, where Im currently 1) having the time of my life and 2) on a research excursion where I was invited to give a quick methods lecture to some students at Ewha Womans University. I think the students dug the talk? It was super simple, mostly focusing on how to think about dummy variables and interactions.

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Carrying on ASHP’s Legacy

ASHP CML

In 1977, historians Herb Guttman and Steve Brier organized a series of seminars about “Working Men and Women in American History” for labor leaders and trade unionists. These seminars focused on the history of labor organization and collective bargaining, leading to the founding of the American Working ClassHistory Project and, later, the American Social History Project.

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As Immigration Raids Stoke Anxiety, What Are the Implications for How Children Learn?

ED Surge

Panicked calls from parents. More empty desks in classrooms. Higher anxiety. Those are some of the effects school officials from around the country say their communities have been experiencing in the weeks since the Trump administration rolled back a federal policy that restricted Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from conducting raids on school grounds.

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OPINION: Here’s why we cannot permit America’s partnership with higher education to weaken or dissolve

The Hechinger Report

Abrupt cuts in federal funding for life saving medical research. Confusing and misleading new guidance about campus diversity programs. Cancellation, without due process, of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts held by a major university. Mass layoffs at the Education Department, undermining crucial programs such as federal student aid.

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“Stop This Invader!”—The War on Spotted Lanternflies 

Sapiens

An anthropologist reflects on the racist undertones of some U.S. efforts to eradicate the spotted lanternfly, an insect from Asia deemed invasive. A bright red flash whips through the air and lands on my wrist. Perched there, the red hindwings are tucked underneath the insects body, showing through the semi-translucent spotted forewings. I feel the imprints of its small velvet legs on my skin before it flies away.

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2024 Post-Election Reflection Series: Apathy Aftermath?: Non-voting in 2024 Presidential Election

Political Science Now

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSAs Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections, for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on key moments, ideas, and challenges faced in the 2024 election. Apathy Aftermath?: Non-voting in 2024 Presidential Election by Alexandria Davis , University of California, Los Angeles In the 2024 election, much attention was given to the conservative shift in