Happy Iranian New Year! سال نو مبارک

youtube.com/watch?v=tFFv... I’m launching a YouTube channel! Stayed tuned for cool content about our shared human past.

Anyone else in the eat what baby tosses to the floor diet?

Wrote this! Maybe answers a question we've long had: did male and female Homo sapiens partake in sex with Neanderthals? www.science.org/content/arti...

The dreaded 2-4 pm span. Too late for coffee, too early for alcohol.

The skill I’m most proud of: always swiftly returning my equipment and exiting a group exercise class, long before there’s a human traffic jam of people trying to put stuff away

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

I coauthored the part on media coverage! Check out Table 2, a framework for weighing risks/rewards of different levels of media engagement by scholars: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I’ve seen babies do happy baby, but never once a child do child’s pose

Asked my 1 year old to get the monkey from this line up. She handed me the chimp. Might give her a pass.

To help me with chores this morning baby put my phone in the dish washer

The joy of going to uncork a wine bottle and realizing it’s twist off

‘Washington Post’ Publishes Editorial Defending FBI Raid On Its Reporter

Can anyone buy a baguette without immediately biting the end off?

Submitted an op-ed to Washington Post. They said they were interested but only if we cut 1 of the 3 coauthors from the by line. Huh. (We said no)

barreling toward oblivion, we are

maybe the most rewarding comment I've ever received on a course evaluation: "This course completely changed the way that I thought about myself as a human."

My, what a fine geomagnetic reversal. Wrote about more stuff from Middle Pleistocene www.science.org/content/arti...

Drugs have always been a boogeyman used to justify imperial intervention and resource extraction in Latin America. I'm an anthropologist with a PhD in this subject, I made a video to explain the context: youtu.be/O7njXhwtuBA

2:1 odds this so called toy someone gave my baby is going to murder me

oh and I wrote this! nautil.us/eat-like-a-n...

Wrote this: Two ancient humans, including famed ‘Iceman,’ had cancer-causing virus | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Just realized I’m in the life stage for drinking martinis

When I'm trying to understand an event, I usually realize there's a SAPIENS story to help. To contextualize Chile's election results, check out this piece I edited, written by anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceño González: Surveillance and Suspicion From the Margins www.sapiens.org/culture/fear...

SAPIENS was my dream job, but it didn't pay enough. I worked nights/weekends as a Lecturer & freelance writer so that I could afford to work full time days at SAPIENS. On my last day, I'm in tears reviewing the 60 some stories I developed as editor. Every story was an adventure. A sample below...

reflections on my time at SAPIENS: I'm proud of our staff's labor organizing...

apt closing from my last SAPIENS story “What archaeology asks of everyone is an openness to alternate worlds. An understanding that your society, with its ways of working, worshipping, learning, loving—even knowing a dog—is just one permutation of endless human and beyond human possibilities.”

Just out! Another story from a Harvard ASPR Fellow: Unearthing What Archaeologists Can and Cannot Know www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

“The earliest clear written reference to a ‘Women’s Kingdom’ appears in the mid-5th century, when it was listed among exotic goods exchanged in diplomatic contacts. ... Could Gurugyam, and the female in M2, offer material traces of such a kingdom?” Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Another great story from a Harvard ASPR Science Communication Fellow out today! The Tomb That Told of a Women’s Kingdom www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Do Africa’s Mass Animal Migrations Extend Into Deep Time? www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...

90 Years Since Its Discovery, a Stone Age Human Still Holds Lessons www.sapiens.org/biology/pale...

What is this vestigial contortion of my face as I listen to Mamdani’s victory speech? Ah right, a smile.

Yes on ballot measure #3 in Somerville

In Human Origins Research, Communities Are the Missing Link www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

This frose is not everything I dreamed it would be

Instead of ironing…

The Tangled Roots of Corruption in Today’s South Africa www.sapiens.org/culture/corr...

Wrote this out today: Fossil teeth reveal a previously unknown human ancestor from eastern Africa | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry www.sapiens.org/biology/arge...

a student started this article in my Harvard science writing course this spring, and now it's published in Smithsonian! www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Wrote this, out today: Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

so this is how Colbert must have felt. Learned that SAPIENS magazine, where I work, is closing from a mass email to its newsletter subscribers today.

"Parenting should not be learned in isolation or all at once—it is a lifelong process embedded in daily life long before one has a child and long after." Great piece by @denizsalali.bsky.social To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...

some Italian years ago: "let's just dilute this fine espresso and call it an americano"

every biological anthropologist needs an entomologist friend to turn to every time we have a "wait what about the social insects?" type question

two cool-looking internships for aspiring science journalists: retractionwatch.com/internship/

The dumbest thing about babies is when they can’t sleep because they are too tired