Current Affairs Linkages AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates. Researchers from Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology developed CapuchinAI, an AI-powered system that combines facial recognition with touchscreen-based cognitive testing to study wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. The system automatically identifies individual monkeys, records voluntary participation, and measures lear…

Channel
Anthro Scholar
@Anthro_Scholar
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
477subscribers
+12 since we began measuring on 13 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002835502345 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @Anthro_Scholar |
| Created | Between 1 June 2025 and 30 September 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 13 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/Anthro_Scholar |
Topic
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 79% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 00:00 | 477 | -1 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 14:35 | 478 | +4 |
| 1 Sept 2026, 16:44 | 474 | +5 |
| 26 Aug 2026, 11:33 | 469 | +1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 04:33 | 468 | +2 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 14:39 | 466 | +1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 05:45 | 465 | no change |
| 13 Aug 2026, 05:33 | 465 | first reading |
Engagement
13 posts held, back to 15 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 13 posts for this entry, the most recent from 4 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
10 reactions across 5 posts, in 2 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 90.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 9 | 90.0% | |
| 👍 | 1 | 10.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 9 of the 13 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 10 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 13 most recent posts we hold, published 15 July 2026 to 4 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
Current Affairs Linkages World Applied Anthropology Congress (WAAC) 2026. The World Applied Anthropology Congress (WAAC) 2026, held at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, concluded with the adoption of the Hyderabad Declaration on Climate Change and Migration. The Congress brought together anthropologists, policymakers, scientists and civil society to promote people-centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based solutions for cl…
Current Affairs Linkages Lost Himalayan Population Discovered in Ladakh A recent genome-wide study published in Science Advances identified a previously unknown ancient population from Ladakh (Kargil) dating to nearly 1,500 years ago. Genetic analysis of cave burials revealed that one group was closely related to present-day North Indians, while another showed affinity with ancient Tibetans, indicating complex popu…
Current Affairs Linkages Competitive Examinations as a Modern Rite of Passage. Anthropologically, rites of passage, a concept introduced by Arnold van Gennep, are ceremonies that mark an individual's transition from one social status to another through three stages: separation, liminality, and incorporation. Competitive examinations function as a modern rite of passage, marking the transition from education to soci…
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Content Enrichment Series NASA Twins Study The NASA Twins Study compared identical twins Scott Kelly (340 days on the ISS) and Mark Kelly (remained on Earth) to study the effects of long-duration spaceflight. Key findings: 1. Most changes in gene expression returned to normal after landing, but about 7% remained altered, affecting DNA repair, immunity, and bone formation. 2. Telomeres unexpectedly lengthened in sp…
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Content Enrichment Series CROSSING OVER Crossing over is the reciprocal exchange of genetic material between non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes during the pachytene stage of Prophase I of meiosis. It produces new combinations of alleles (genetic recombination), increasing genetic variation among offspring. The frequency of crossing over depends on the distance between genes and forms the basis of linka…
Content Enrichment Series ONCOGENE An oncogene is a mutated or overactive form of a normal gene (proto-oncogene) that promotes uncontrolled cell division, leading to the development of cancer. Proto-oncogenes normally regulate cell growth, differentiation and repair, but mutations, gene amplification or chromosomal translocations can convert them into oncogenes. Examples include RAS, MYC and HER2. Anthropological …
Current Affairs Linkages A recent study on the Homo naledi fossils from the Rising Star Cave in South Africa has uncovered an unexpected finding: all 20 individuals analysed appear to be biologically female. Instead of relying on ancient DNA, which is poorly preserved in Africa's warm climate, researchers examined ancient proteins preserved in tooth enamel. They searched for the AMELY protein, produced by a gene on …
Content Enrichment Series Attachment Economy and Synthetic Intimacy The attachment economy refers to an economic system where companies compete not just for users' time or attention, but for their emotional attachment and long-term relationships with digital platforms, AI assistants, virtual companions, influencers, and brands. Unlike the attention economy, which monetizes clicks and screen time, the attachment eco…
Content Enrichment Series Dalit Capitalism Dalit Capitalism is the idea that economic empowerment through entrepreneurship, ownership of capital, business, trade and industry is essential for Dalit emancipation. The term was popularized by Chandra Bhan Prasad in the early 21st century. Core objective: Shift Dalits from being only wage earners and beneficiaries of reservation to becoming owners of capital and wealth…
Content Enrichment Series HABITAT RIGHTS. Unlike individual or community forest rights, habitat rights recognize the entire socio-cultural, ecological and spiritual landscape traditionally used by PVTGs. Under Section 3(1)(e) of the Forest Rights Act, habitat rights refer to the rights of PVTGs and pre-agricultural communities over their customary habitat, including: Forests and sacred groves, Rivers and water sou…
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Content Enrichment Series FOOTLOOSE LABOUR Popularized by anthropologist Jan Breman, refers to workers who are casually employed, lack job security, and constantly shift locations in search of livelihood. They represent the marginal and mobile workforce navigating the vulnerabilities of the informal economy Indian government's initiatives:- e-Shram Portal: Launched by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, it crea…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 13 posts we hold for @Anthro_Scholar. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Mentions
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Anthro Scholar” (@Anthro_Scholar), 477 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/Anthro_Scholar.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.