Our copy of "A Compendium of Curious Contraptions" by @drthinglearner.bsky.social came in! It's a big hit with the kiddo!

Added to my sticker collection today. Vote in your local elections!!!

My new hobby? Taking artistic photos of my toddler's tantrums. I call this one "Announcement of a Diaper Change."

Broke out the pandemic DIY green screen today. Stay tuned for some hopefully not too embarrassing short form content!

New scanner in the house!

Some academic talks are extra fun! Thank you @umnpremodern.bsky.socialbfoe the great event! 🍹🍋‍🟩🧊

Our grocery app has some interesting opinions about the categorization of diaper cream.

Had a jump scare while getting lunch at #SAA2025Denver!

Great talk by Jack Bishop about video games, storytelling, and archaeological education featuring Outer Wilds by @mobiusdigitalgames.com! #SAA2025Denver

I see faded art, I DStretch.

Happy Pi day!

Visiting the Dallas Zoo, where they have an exhibit of amazing scientists, and look who is featured: @samscansstuff.bsky.social! Great to see UMN Anthropology graduate and LATIS staff member getting well-deserved national recognition!

I was honored to have our lab featured in a tour for the Board of Regents showing off some of the amazing things happening in the College of Liberal Arts! Read about it here:

It's a wee bit chilly out.

This is exactly the file name I would expect from a database released by this administration.

Spring cleaning day in the office! The winner for most expired item was this first aid kit that gave out the year Titanic was released.

Useless skill acquired! After much consternation and a late night I now know how to solve Rubik's Cubes as long as I have access to YouTube.

Saw this huge flock(?) of animals while leaving work over the Mississippi. Biology people, do bats stay in super cold places over the winter? Picture doesn't do it justice!

Not sure what it says about me that the highlight of my work day was getting Blender and Python to draw a box around another box.

Made some late holiday cookies. I was going for a cute Christmas tree sweater with this guy. Instead I ended up rib cage. The red sure isn't helping 🤣.

After not using it for months, I finally got rid of Jolene, my pandemic sourdough starter. Feels like the end of an era.

When your parents bring over your old sewing mannequin from high school and it looks a little too much like a certain closet at work...

This semester, we worked with Public History undergraduate students to create this super rad virtual tour of the Cedar Cultural Center green room. Check it out! kuula.co/share/collec...

Who could have possibly done this?

Camera tracking in Blender is rad!

Made prime rib for second Thanksgiving today, and I must say the math in this video checks out! @chefjohn.bsky.social knocks it out of the park as usual. Apologies for the terrible photo - we were too busy eating to take pictures! youtu.be/COwz-ycoKXQ?...

Our imaging work both made the paper and helped debunk a claim about a 'mysterious' artifact! www.brainerddispatch.com/news/the-vau... TLDR / hit a paywall: the 'Runstone' is probably limestone containing a receptaculites cross-section fossil. #pseudoarchaeology #realarchaeology

Hi everyone! Guess I'm on Bluesky now! I recently got to combine two kinds of nerdiness into one by chatting with @starwarsologies.bsky.social. We talk about #realarchaeology, and some archaeology that's out of this galaxy! Check it out here: skywalkingthroughneverland.com/star-warsolo...