I just came across *the* most Geocities site to ever exist. You want to see this one, I promise. web.archive.org/web/20010722...

🏺 Any archaeologists know whether someone has digitized and made available Kroeber’s culture area maps as shapefiles?

Don’t be puzzled by the lack of deadline in the ad. This is an imposed HR quirk. Reviews will begin c. November 1st! Happy to field any questions! #archaeology

Now Russell Vought’s OMB is directing furloughed government employees at the Dept of Labor to politicize the situation and explicitly blame “Democrat senators” for the government shutdown in their out-of-office replies.

I, too, am proud to share this quite exciting finding with you: Europe's oldest mineral blue pigment. It's azurite and we found it on a legacy object that had long languished in a storehouse. New analysis bring new insights :) #palaeolithicblues

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Molting corvid season JACKPOT! I saw about 50 yellow-billed magpies on my way into Pinnacles National Park, hopefully to capture the Milky way. Super excited to show you all some of my shots later on! 🪶

Released today! SEVEN DECADES: HOW WE EVOLVED TO LIVE LONGER Now available at your favorite bookseller. Leave a review on Goodreads or Amazon if you can. Please help spread the word! #sevendecades @princetonupress.bsky.social

The next CAA-UK will be hosted by @cam-archaeology.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to hearing the latest research from the current and the next generation of computational and quantitative archaeologists (not just from the UK) : uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025-2/ (deadline 29/9/2025)

Another new paper out in the wild, this time exploring tranchet technique at the Lower #Palaeolithic site of #Boxgrove and the transmission of complex knapping via social signalling. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Abstract submission now open for the next Cultural Evolution Society conference in Rabat, Morocco next May @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ces2026.bsky.social

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Well it’s been a long two weeks. Our objective was to collect legacy ice from a 10 Kya #Yukon Ice patch for both future research and a caribou diet study. Week one was chainsawing ice out of the face of ancient ice at the Gladstone #archaeology site.

Political violence is not just violence against politicians. Political violence is also violence for political ends - like ramping up dehumanizing language against marginalized groups, disappearing people off the street, & calling for the release of police convicted of the murdering Black people.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Doing a little more survey in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area. Bears everywhere, Cougar tracks, wildfire smoke. Nice camping spots, though!

Hominins are just an obscure primate in the background of bovid diversification

I found this abstract I submitted (unsuccessfully) to a session on "cultural evolution in the digital age" for the first CES meeting in 2017. It's aged horribly well. Anyway, this is the kind of shit I'm increasingly trying to work on now.

What happens in RFK’s wormy brain any time he sees a normal child:

Re-upping: if you work at EPA, NOAA, FEMA, NIH, CDC, USDA or other agencies that involve really any sort of science in their work, and you have something you want the public to know, I would always love to hear from you. Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Co-organizing a session at #SAA San Francisco with T. Kovach: "Toward an Integration of Quantitative Approaches in #Lithic Analysis." A few spots still open! Abstracts due Sept. 4. Email me if you’d like to join the conversation: [email protected] #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday 🏺

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵 🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards. 🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This is SUCH a good album !!

Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨 With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon! Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...

After asking ChatGPT what to eat instead of salt, a man slowly poisoned himself over course of 3 months and gave himself a psychiatric illness that was common in the 19th century, according to a new medical case study: www.404media.co/guy-gives-hi...

Are you a biological anthropologist who loves nerding out about human evolution, fossils and/or adaptation ? 💀🙉 🤓 Do you like doing research and teaching? Do you want to live in the Twin Cities? 🌃 ❄️☃️Then join us at the University of Minnesota! See ad here:👇 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

It's been said a hundred times and more eloquently by others, but it bears repeating: de-extinction is not a real thing.

Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:

Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

O Great Khan Pritzker, i have seen visions of the future

Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling I'm happy to be joining Peter Søgaard Jørgensen on his Anthropocene Navigator research project, which is looking for an integrative, trans-disciplinary postdoc on modeling global-scale social, economic and political dynamics in the Anthropocene.…

Officials in the Biden administration publicly acknowledged the danger presented by an exodus of experienced wildland firefighters. The Trump administration has taken a different approach — claiming to have solved the problem while simultaneously exacerbating it.

I didn’t know Wenner Gren lost their funding from the Mellon Foundation and Ford Foundation, in addition to the major cuts and restrictions to the Fulbright program, National Science Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities

If you don't know what "kayfabe" is, then you cannot understand modern politics. Brilliant interview with @josie.zone vimeo.com/1083801361

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FROM HARD ROCK TO HEAVY METAL: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America, edited by Michelle Rae Bebber and Christopher B. Wolff has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/3HKhPSc #Archaeology #Anthropology #CulturalStudies

The large wrapped object in the centre of this picture is the only surviving Mi’gmaq seagoing birchbark canoe in the world, kept high above the ground in the cellar of an old Habsburg palace. It was sad to see it locked away here.

Me and @zachrabiroff.com have discovered that a gay, disabled, pill-popping Yale Drama grad likely ghostwrote many of Stan Lee's most famous comics Marvel Comics and Disney don't want you to know about Ron Whyte New from @flaminghydra.com below "Face it tiger ... you just hit the jackpot!"

I was really excited when I saw this study being presented at @icarehb.bsky.social last January and I'm really glad to see the paper out! Amazing record of cultural transmission strategies & cultural traits over 3 million years 🤩 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

sketching at the museum

"American archaeologists face a diminished, uncertain future. Government support for research, preservation and museums has been largely scaled back. Archaeology and cultural heritage staff have been fired, federal agencies have been gutted..." #archaeology #anthropology 🏺

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

Wrapping up a couple weeks in the Cascades