French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety

This week’s astonishing artifact is a senet token repurposed into a magical amulet with gold baboons. 🧪🏺

A more accurate title would be "Kennedy is wasting taxpayer dollars on a confirmation bias-fueled witch hunt in an attempt to drive the return of vaccine-preventable diseases."

Virginia Democrats have filed a long shot emergency application asking SCOTUS to stay the Virginia Supreme Court's decision against the new, voter-approved congressional map. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Justice Alito has extended his administrative stay of the 5th Circuit ruling against mifepristone. Mifepristone remains available via telemedicine and mail, for now. New deadline is Thursday.

Thank you to @sciam.bsky.social for letting me dig into the protein enhancement fad. 1. If you are an elite athlete, OR elderly/frail, maybe you do need extra protein. 2. That's not you. You're not an elite athlete. 3. If it is you: consider yogurt. www.scientificamerican.com/article/prot...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

This week’s astonishing artifact is a senet token repurposed into a magical amulet with gold baboons. 🧪🏺

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

My first piece at MSNOW (RIP NBCThink): on #hantavirus, but the biggest worry isn't the virus, but the US's hobbled ability to respond if something worse shows up on our shores.

At least 80% of the comments are just this Onion headline from this month’s print edition.

Unpopular opinion: San Marzanos are overrated. The canned/boxed Mutti tomatoes are perfect for just about every recipe. 🍅

THE SUPER BOWL FCC COMPLAINTS FINALLY PUBLISHED www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

We thought if everyone had free open access to all the information they would read it & think critically about it & make positive changes to so iety, what can I say we were riding the tremendous high of meeting girls in chat rooms who liked X-Files as much as we did, we weren’t thinking clearly

A man in 16th century Scotland had a gold ligature — an early form of a dental bridge — to replace a lost lower incisor. 🏺🧪

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Virginia Supreme court has thrown out the voter-passed redistricting referendum, restoring the GOP's seats - the day after Tennessee legislators steamrolled Dems to eliminate the last Dem seat vacourts.gov/static/opini...

“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study published Thursday in the Lancet shows. Tools using generative AI are likely to blame, say the Columbia University researchers who authored the paper.”

A man in 16th century Scotland had a gold ligature — an early form of a dental bridge — to replace a lost lower incisor. 🏺🧪

There are two higher ed Bluskies right now:

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Aethelred the Unready had special anti-Viking coins called “Agnus Dei” minted to prevent raids. But the Vikings stole them and turned them into bling. 🏺🧪

Hacking canvas? What do they think this is, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 1990.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

My kids' schools use Instructure/Canvas so looks like they can't log in... during AP exam week for my 11th grader. Fun!

Hiker discovers a gold scabbard ornament from Migration Period Norway festooned with serpentine animals. 🏺🧪 (This is the "gullmunnblikk" in question from my previous post.)

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For @ms.now, I wrote about the Trump administration going after Smith College, a New England women's college, over allowing trans women to attend the school. The investigation not only threatens the school, but also the surrounding town, which I live in. www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

God it must have been so sick to dab on those Saxon chodes by defacing their currency and the dipping in your longboats

Nice recent article in Nature about sediment DNA and its impacts on human evolution and archaeology, featuring two of our great colleagues here in Vienna, Pere Gelabert and Ben Vernot @heasvienna.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Aethelred the Unready had special anti-Viking coins called “Agnus Dei” minted to prevent raids. But the Vikings stole them and turned them into bling. 🏺🧪

“Meanwhile, Montaclair had further polished his CV by claiming a doctorate in French literature and grammar issued by the University of Philology and Education situated in Lewes in the US state of Delaware.” 😆

I finally had a moment to read this. At first glance Easter Island (Rapa Nui) feels like such a random inclusion. Tbh, it still sort of is. But the reason nobody is naming the "pattern," including Flynn, is because there is literally no pattern to name. And that's where Rapa Nui comes in. 1/

Uhm, any Norwegian archaeologists here? 🏺 I can't for the life of me figure out what "gullmunnblikk(ene)" means.

Uhm, any Norwegian archaeologists here? I can't for the life of me figure out what "gullmunnblikk(ene)" means.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

Welp. This is a hell of a story. Canadian Mining Journal published what appeared to be an entirely fabricated deep-sea mining paper, with quotes from fictional people and a source paper that does not exist.

Attention anthropology and anatomy colleagues! My student, Emma, and I are conducting a survey on the ethics of human skeletal remains in higher education. We would greatly appreciate your participation—thank you! #anthropology #anatomy #ethics bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #AI · “A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited ‘discrepancies’ in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions.”

Former bioarchaeologist and current science journalist here. I'm a bit baffled (yes) by the criticism of this short, one-year-old BBC story about a medieval cemetery in Wales. A thread. 1/

There are only about 30 women's colleges left in the U.S.. Just like other anti-trans laws, this will hurt all women.

Via Medievalistmatt: www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Mysterious green rocks in Pyrenees cave hint that prehistoric people were working copper there for 4,000 years www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The Athena Bowl -- part of the Hildesheim Treasure -- was already an antique when it was stolen/lost in Germany, around the time Varus famously lost several Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest. 🏺🧪

3 cruise ship passengers are dead, and hantavirus is the suspected culprit: What to know www.livescience.com/health/virus...

The Athena Bowl -- part of the Hildesheim Treasure -- was already an antique when it was stolen/lost in Germany, around the time Varus famously lost several Roman legions in the Teutoberg Forest. 🏺🧪