So excited to be a co-author on this paper with an amazing team led by @egveatch.bsky.social, published today! Tl:dr - 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 scavenged (not hunted) Stegodon and did not have control of fire at Liang Bua.

Have hard grumblings and buzz about this for about a year. Interesting... It's better than I expected. Need to read closer. Why were mysterious ancient humans found in an African cave all female? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Students in my spring Harvard class made awesome Neanderthal videos. Check them out and hear me opine about the merits of community engaged learning. youtube.com/shorts/kB29s...

Just had to let the world know I'm from Pittsburgh youtu.be/uBwqfpXSTHs?...

Reviewed a Neanderthal sci-fi novel for Science! youtube.com/shorts/duQx3...

This arrived today! Excited to read and incorporate into my Science Writing class!

How long into parenthood were you when you realized Twinkle Twinkle and the ABCs are the same song?

Help friends! I'm in a competition with my fellow Boston Museum of Science Digital Sci-Comm Fellows to gain the most followers before 12 pm EST Wednesday. Help my team win by subscribing to my YouTube Channel: youtu.be/tFFvrvLQrg0?...

Chiropractors are my saviors

I intensely do NOT care about the national spelling bee

Week in wildlife: a baby pangolin, a gorilla super-mum and Formula One geese

Listerine Leaves 0.1% Of Germs Alive To Spread Message Of Terror Throughout Microbial Community — theonion.com/listerine-le...

Are you an archaeologist seeking avenues into public communication? Want to learn about pop-sci writing, podcasts, videos? Join my SAA webinar next Wednesday 3 May at 1 pm EST! saa.org/Member/SAAMe...

This wallpaper exists

Ever wonder why you don't have a tail? Let's talk tails: youtu.be/F5SvSIFJxvk?...

a two minute Neanderthal tutorial: youtu.be/SPt20tGeQgU?...

accidentally said the train goes "vrooom vrooom" instead of "choooo chooo" and my 1.5-year-old looked at me like I'm a fool

this would have been Neanderthals favorite wine brand

Want to know more about sex between Neanderthals and Stone Age Homo sapiens? Watch my latest video: youtu.be/aUDUliwmiTY?...

Great pop-sci article written by a student in my Harvard science writing course: archaeology.harvard.edu/news/2026/04...

The eating what baby didn’t dinner

How I’ve spent my past two hours somehow … video coming soon youtube.com/@originsbrid...

Playing hooky today to catch a noon showing of Project Hail Mary

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...