Roman............ typefaces?????????

I can't tell you how difficult it is to work at 100% capacity all the time (as I really need to by the end of the semester) while simultaneously being told that my job is disposable.

"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it" Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets thelocal.to/investigatin...

Looking into changing careers and becoming a hermit who never leaves my mountaintop. Key sticking issues are whether I can heat my cave to 25° C and how good the WiFi is.

Big news: I’m writing a book!! I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals. Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

I did not realize how much of my life at this point would be spent explaining that ChatGPT is not a search engine

So has anyone written the article on Trump's ballroom and Nero's Golden House yet?

Just absolutely bonkers to really see this in the course of my day-to-day life

The extent to which I would believe this about any given population

Huh, you know I had never actually watched the sketch before. It really is specifically about that very same skull! What a world

Look I know we're called Skype a Scientist but this semester the reality has been Zoom an Archaeologist lmao

I genuinely couldn't tell at first if this was retitled as a joke about fandom discourse

Reading about Hep B in preparation for discussing it in my class sure is extra fun right now! It seems in ~2016 there was cautious optimism on eventual elimination, partly hinging on the US helping developing nations do vax at birth programs. And now it's on the chopping block in the US. Ha ha ha

Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

It's just so weird to be teaching a class on how much diseases sucked in the ancient world, answer the "what changed?" question from a student with "understanding and vaccines" and then read about anti-science vaccine rollbacks.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

Not to exceed a FOUR YEAR period??? Four years?????? My MA and PhD took 8

I'm just living my life, trying to read about ancient Yersinia pestis and I am being attacked by citations of Didier Raoult. Why. Why must I suffer.

@lbciddio.bsky.social Really cool organization looking for archaeologists willing to talk to classrooms about their work!

It feels like there really ought to be a relatively accurate and clear simile for the idea of the molecular clock, but I can't think of one?

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Very cool profile of a very cool person!!!

“I’ve spoken with chat gpt, it has the best sorts of ideas as you know, and it advises-“ like shut the fuck up Mr Collins

Can someone please explain to these people that they should NOT be using LLMs for this???

"I asked them what costume I was supposed to wear, as there are rules around how much fabric can be on your body," Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. "They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men." www.advocate.com/news/trans-w...

If you’re a listener to the bonus episodes of “If Books Could Kill,” listen to this podcast next. If not, just listen to this podcast. They debunk a recent (last year) article about the lab leak hypothesis. It is fascinating. Lab leak is SO MUCH WEAKER than proponents would have you believe!

Happy pride to me and to you and to the bisexual bats and the gay giraffes and the lesbian albatrosses, and the trans fish and everybody else. Happy pride.

Every year, Skype a Scientist does a big tailgate & Phillies game in August. It's a fundraiser for us, & an excuse to get together and eat hot dogs. If you join us for the tailgate you'll rip shots with my entire extended family, which is either a bonus or punishment! Come! givebutter.com/gDTdTA

something that bothers me is how Jeff Bezos has ruined the word "Amazon." Used to be "amazon" meant a hot babe who was six feet tall and could throw you through a wall, maybe she had a ξίφος at your throat & was glaring at you with contempt, now it's just "post office but with more labor violations"

the fundamental problem with these people (not jonathan) is that they don’t seem to believe in anything. if you’re willing to sacrifice one of the foundational rights of constitutional government on the altar of “buh this might not be popular” then what won’t you sacrifice?

CBP's own statement is even worse - are they really trying to say it's normal that a random border search includes the data on your phone??

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

One of my favorite weird signs at the rally

Ahhhhhhhhh "Blue" by @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social is one of the sources shouted out by Erin for the history section of Pregnancy part 4 by @tpwky.bsky.social! This is the best possible crossover in my life and I am SO THRILLED

I forgot that this was in one of my presentations this week.

BREAKING: Mexican Cartels abandon Canada after being forced to conduct business in both English and French

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

Hey, the audiobook for Blue is a #1 new release in the niche History of Psychology category. Link to YouTube where you can listen to the introduction for free: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8XG... @uchicagopress.bsky.social @annsprinklenarr.bsky.social

I think I am going to try to be on here more? Maybe not the BEST time to be reintroducing doomscrolling to my life, but

It's that time of year!! Time to help @skypeascientist.bsky.social by telling every teacher, librarian, troop leader, etc you know that Fall enrollment is OPEN! Get matched with a scientist for a Q&A! http://bit.ly/EnrollFall2023 We rely on word of mouth, so this action is critical for us!

The era of dyeing my whole head is over, the streak is back. Long live the streak?

Good morning! I still don't quite know what my new social media life will look like but I wanted you to know I'm at a cafe that serves grilled cheese even for breakfast and that makes me very happy