Join the Society for American Archaeology Zooarchaeology Interest Group for their Journal Club. This month, Elizabeth Reitz will discuss Charleston, South Carolina: The City as the Site. Date: Friday, May 22nd, 9am PST (12pm EST) Zoom link: ucdavis.zoom.us/j/98214357601 Meeting ID: 982 1435 7601

Ice core water-isotope records from eight locations in Antarctica spanning 400,000 years show that the warmest parts of the continent have had the most temperature variability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OmwB50YZOhp

TV scheduling is well-known to be a complete mystery, and so it is that Channel 5 are only now showing the final two episodes of Natural History Museum: World of Wonder Please enjoy me in my last role as a @nhm-london.bsky.social scientist, a thousand years ago...

The physical-sciences repository arXiv is banning researchers from posting their manuscripts on the platform for one year if a submission is found to contain references that have been hallucinated by artificial-intelligence tools. go.nature.com/4nDfXvv

I don’t see it as lying. I see it as: 1. a statement of what Colossal scientists consider their yardstick for de-extinction— which, in my opinion, means their whole endeavour is deeply flawed. 2. A failure of journalism to interrogate this

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

Geologists in movies have a one-in-three mortality rate.

Was just reminded of one of my favorite journal quotes, from Brochu & Sumrall 2020.

Sometimes, you're lucky and the unloved volume of Punch for sale in the used book corner happens to be the 1885 one with May Kendall's 'Ballad of the Ichthyosaurus'.

WTF. Amid proposals to slash NSF's budget and eliminate support for social/behavioral research: 1.5 BILLON to "research outside of traditional institutions" ("independent teams of researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs"). That's >20% of proposed FY '27 budget. #psychscisky #academicsky 🟦🧠

Speaking of NSF, today I received an email that my current project (awarded in 2024) had its title changed. The words "global change research" were removed from the title.

Lovely to see info about @trowelblazers.bsky.social at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social inspiring even more scientists!

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I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!

🚨 Calling all early career archaeologists from South America 🚨 Applications for the #RewritingWorldArchaeology programme are now open! Learn how to get your research published in reputable international journals and reshape world archaeology at www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... Deadline: 15 June 🏺

Heading home from fieldwork in Sicily and already missing our delightful stay in the village of Licodia Eubea, where I spent a week identifying and sampling Bronze Age bones from a nearby cave for a collaborative NSF project on human response to climate change in the ancient Mediterranean.

Just FIFTEEN more needed to hit 100 things/people/places named after David Attenborough, and I can rest. Can you help me? Please...?!

A federal judge granted the motion for a summary judgment on all counts in favor of the AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social in our lawsuit to restore the NEH, ruling that the mass termination of grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect." 🗃️

Follow the link to check out some recently published research from Cheeseman et al. highlighting the first socially focussed ZooMS results from post-1500CE contexts in Australia doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #ICAZ #Zooarch #ZooMS

Happy centenary Sir David! Are there one hundred things named after David Attenborough? Surely we should be able to compile a list… I will start: 1. Attenborosaurus a plesiosaur from the Jurassic Coast en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenbo... Let’s see if we can get to 100! /🧵

We are looking for a DNA lab manager! The position is for a Senior Scientist (maternity replacement) in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology here in Vienna. Come and work with us in the wonderful fields of ancient DNA and archaeology!! 🧬💀 Link below: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

🧪🏺🦣 Fellow researchers: please check PR for your projects and do not accept the use of gen- #AI artwork for promotion if you would not use it in your scientific publications...

Tuesday, May 5, marks National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Day, a time when Native communities and organizations across the country come together to spotlight the #MMIP crisis and pay tribute to those most affected.

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

But not all directorates are getting grants out the door. SBE is still stuck at 2 (two) new grants and STEM Education isn't much further along.

NSF grantmaking update: Last week (4/27) New grants: 737/3303 — 22.2% of avg. Obligations: 700 mil/1.86 bil — 37.7% of avg. This week (5/4) New grants: 836/3480 — 24.0% of avg. Obligations: 810 mil/1.96 bil — 41.5% of avg. So a slight uptick in both, though still far below average levels.

CERN weasel is on display in an exhibit in Rotterdam! Which naturally makes one wonder if it might be possible to collect its DNA, clone the weasel and send it back into the LHC for a timeline reboot

My latest prehistoric tale book art by @korybing.bsky.social poster by @emmalerae.bsky.social 10.27.26 Tyrant Lizard Queen She’ll eat your heart out. Pre-order now us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Worth stressing that studies like this would not be possible without archaeological units, archaeological trusts, heritage centres and museums who excavate and look after collections, many of which continue to be underfunded and/or neglected. New technologies will continue to bring new insights.

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

NJ represent!

Majoring in anthropology as an undergrad at CU Boulder is the single best decision I've made in my life.

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

There’s a lot of attention rightfully given to public universities in these states but the impact is on private universities too, especially those governed by some of the same types of politicians basically.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Most scientific orgs have open & merit-based nomination, election & awarding procedures. But in 90% of academies surveyed, nomination relies on existing members. When membership is already predominantly male, such procedures perpetuate existing imbalances. theconversation.com/women-in-sci...

Happy birthday to Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015) a Polish #paleobiologist, famous for a series of Polish-Mongolian expeditions she lead from 1963-1971 to the Gobi desert! 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci There she discovered dinosaurs including the Deinocheirus, plus she & team found the “Fighting Dinosaurs”

Your annual reminder that his father was Turkish, his mother Syrian and the Home Office would have hated him. #StGeorge Patron saint of Malta, Ethiopia, Georgia, Portugal, Aragon & England, among others. Less liked by dragons.

gosh so much this part: “If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes,” Garrett quipped, “you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

Happy Earth Day

Or Dickens, or Einstein, or...

We’re looking for researchers in any discipline of natural history: if you have a paper coming out and you want to pitch @pbseons.bsky.social on a potential episode about it, send me a DM! #scicomm #paleosky #FossilFriday (Arsinoitherium says please and thank you!)

Earth Day is tomorrow. My thoughts in Forbes ICYMI www.forbes.com/sites/marsha... #EarthDay2026 #EarthDay

Sad to see the loss of such a #trowelblazer. I only interacted with Lynne in person a few times through SAA, moreso online. She will be missed by many.

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.” OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!

Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

👇 Tapping the sign... Jeff Goldbloom warned us... and it wasn't just about dinosaurs.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.