Biological ANthropology Developing Investigators Troop

(Guest post from anonymous blogger. YMMV.) It’s appropriate that my first post is written today as it is also the day that I am submitting my very first academic job application. It would h...

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Guest post by Dr. Cara Ocobock : I thought my final year of graduate school which consisted of finishing and defending my dissertation, applying for jobs, teaching, planning a wedding, and then...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2015/09/wait-im-not-grad-student-anymore.html

(Thanks to an anonymous contributor for this new BANDIT blog post!) I was one of the lucky ones. I got a tenure-track position before I had my PhD in hand. When I got the offer I should h...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2015/09/not-where-i-want-to-be.html

(Huge thanks to guest blogger, Colleen Young, a PhD student at the University of Missouri. Thanks for speaking out! ) Like most academics, I didn’t have the summer “vacation” that many no...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2015/08/u-of-missouri-health-insurance-fiasco.html

Hey there BANDITs. Yes, things have been slow here on the blog but we haven't forgotten you. (See, here we are !) In fact, we are starting our planning for our 6th annual BANDIT party at the 2015...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2015/01/lets-get-this-party-started.html

(It's been a few months since we've posted new content here on BAnDIT. Busy busy busy. Today I'm happy to share a fantastic post about one junior faculty member's search for mentors. Lots of grea...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2014/11/guest-blogger-what-is-this-mentoring.html

I’m following up on my previous post , to address this question left by an anonymous commenter:  ‘How to square the (thoroughly justified) criticism of a mostly male workshop with the...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2014/04/why-have-lady-editors-true-story-of.html

Not long ago I had the great privilege to be the keynote speaker at the Indiana University Anthropology Graduate Student Association Research Symposium. The theme of this terrific event was "Bre...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2014/04/saw-something-said-something-personal.html

Guest Bandit Blogger Dr. Christopher Dana Lynn shares his experiences with the slipperiest part of your professional portfolio, service: I first experienced this one summer during grad school ...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2014/02/what-if-404020-is-really-404040-or-why.html

A couple of days ago on Twitter, Henry Gee, the senior editor of biological sciences at Nature, outed a widely-read, oft-shared, and sometimes controversial anonymous blogger, Dr. Isis . He took...

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"Singling out biological anthropologists as representing a “particular problem” reinforces the pervasive premise that sociocultural anthropology is normative anthropology, and the measure aga...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2013/12/american-anthropologists-particular.html

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology. Expertise in paleoanthropolog...

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The Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professorship. Expertise in biological anthropology is required...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2013/05/visiting-assistant-professorship-unlv.html

My name is Jill Scott and I am a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the University of Iowa (where I also received my MA). I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for my BA i...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2013/05/jill-scott-student-liaison-to-aapa.html

My name is Sarah V. Livengood and I am the current student representative for the Biological Anthropology Section (BAS) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). I am a doctoral student...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2013/04/sarah-livengood-bas-rep-and-bandit-fb.html

If you haven't already, please come join us on Facebook ! I have teamed with an amazing cohort of biological anthropologists (Kate Clancy , Robin Nelson , Katie Hinde , Katie MacKinnon , and ...

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University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Center for Women's Health and Health Disparities Research Mentored Post-doctoral Training Program in Health Dispariti...

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Thanks to NSF Biological Anthropology Program Director Carolyn Erhardt for the following announcement:  NSF will be providing an INFORMATIONAL WEBCAST ON INSPIRE (Integrated NSF Support Pro...

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At last year's AAPA meeting in conjunction with the anatomy career workshop sponsored by the American Association of Anatomists and hosted by me and my colleague Alison Doubleday, a student pri...

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Very excited to announce the second annual Anthropological Anatomy Award for the 2013 AAPA meeting. Last year Dr. Alison French Doubleday and I received funding from the American Association of ...

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CSAS 2013 ANNUAL MEETING APRIL 4-6, 2013 CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL,  ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI  CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract deadline December 7th!!! The Annual Meeting of the Central States An...

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The Biological Anthropology Section of the AAA encourages all students who are interested in competing for the 2012 student prize at this year's AAA meeting to submit your name, paper title, and ...

http://aapabandit.blogspot.com/2012/11/bioanth-student-prize-at-aaa-still-time.html

I can't believe it's nearly time to head to the 2012 AAA meeting in San Francisco ! The Biological Anthropology Section of AAA is organizing many sessions and activities at the meeting, includi...

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What's a payline , you ask? At NIH, your grant is ranked as a percentile (based on what is known as the priority score which I won't discuss in this post but you can wonk out here ). What is cons...

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Since 2009 the American Association of Physical Anthropologists has been recognizing early career researchers with a small but mighty professional development grant ($5000). I received one of the...

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