B&N is doing another 25% off preorders sale, so if you want Tyrant Lizard Queen with a bite taken off the price now's a good time to grab it! Use PREORDER25 at checkout. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tyrant-liz...

🧪 🏺 🦣 Nice coverage of 2 new #Neanderthal aDNA papers. V. interesting: - extremely low global population estimates - intense impact of MIS4, but not earlier glacials? - how we intersect this with archaeological evidence of technological diversity & cultural change is crucial, and v. challenging

I am SO EXCITED to announce that CENIEH in Burgos, Spain will be hosting the third installment of the IZAZ (Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology) Workshop on the 15th – 16th September 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Join the mailing list to stay up-to-date: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Indigenous Peoples and local communities report a consistent decline in the body mass of birds across three continents 🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A great example of how Indigenous knowledge and academic science can be woven together to provide clearer answers to questions.

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

The Burpee Museum, Rockford Illinois is hiring a Director of Collections and Research. They need a Ph.D. who is field, oriented, collaborative, can publish on their major fossil collections, generate grant money, & work with the public. App: burpee.org/director-of-... Dinosaurs & more galore.

New Themed Issue calls for urgent shift away from “Leaky Pipeline” metaphor as studies reveal systemic exclusion of women in Archaeology | EurekAlert! 🏺https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1120637

WOW! What a find - Anning writing to someone unknown, potentially referencing another female collector... "But was so worn out after you saw me that I almost wish'd that I might never see a Lady again and the name of fossils makes me sick with its concominants [sic]..." Pls support!

I love* taphnomy, and the puzzles that caves in particular throw us. But also, it is so cool how quickly things mummify/start to fossillize (see Behrensmeyer's experimental work in E africa) *also hate because: ANNOYING because they always scupper my nice neat stories

Democracy isn't a modern luxury—it's a political strategy with deep roots. In our new study for Science Advances, we analyse 40 different societies and develop a framework for measuring human governance along a collective-autocratic axis. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A few weeks ago CBC reporter Sheena Goodyear reached out to me for comment on the new Spinosaurus paper. I said I couldn’t, because of Epstein connection Nathan Myhrvold’s involvement with it. We got to talking about how paleontology - especially dinosaur research- remains hostile to women. 🧪

🧪 🎥 Something new I DID write: short piece on what being a film/TV science consultant is like, commissioned by Museum of the Moving Image, NY, for "Sloan Science and Film" series (though it's mostly much broader than the film in question, #InTheBlinkOfAnEye). scienceandfilm.org/articles/372...

A lovely feature ahead of #taxonomyday #taxonomistappreciationday tomorrow featuring friends Melanie Mackenzie and @drtimohara.bsky.social at Museum Victoria www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"In fact, all AI will do is require that we work more, harder, and on the parts of our job that shouldn’t even be our job."

Want to know what we've been up to? Check out our latest newsletter for updates! #ICAZ #zooarch alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icaz_we...

This is funny*, but also true (of so many areas, not just the influencer-sphere) *#lolsob as we used to say

New in IA71: Kansa, E. and Kansa, S. Whitcher 'Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance' doi.org/10.11141/ia.... #archaeology #datacuration #datamanagement #interoperability #FAIR #CARE #sustainability

Modifying genes in living species, implanting babies in surrogates to be reared in closely related species, does NOT and can NOT bring back an extinct species. This is why we will always need an Endangered Species Act to be enforced to protect species headed toward extinction #2026MMM

Sadly, it is forever. Biotech can’t fix it.

TEETH FTW

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NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

#MaryLeakey 👀 at M. Wheeler... Quoted in this fab review of her 1984 book: “I can’t help wondering whether many of the achievements in archaeological discovery and methodology that are so often attributed to him did not rightly belong to his charming and extremely able first wife, Tessa”... p. 37)."

Job alert! Three late antiquity postdoc positions on an ERC funded project GREEKWEST here at Liverpool - come join an amazing department! #medievalsky

No. Some more client journalism from the Guardian here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossal’s dire wolf.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

❌ don’t say “restoring lost ecosystem function” ☑️ do say “testing the impact of synthetic phenotypes on ecosystems/environments”

De-extinction, and the language we use to frame it. ❌ don’t say “bringing back the mammoth” [or whatever 🦤] ☑️ do say “testing whether we can synthetically create specific desired phenotypes”

I propose the following names for the planned synthetic biological recreations of various extinct superstars: 🦣 The Lammoth (after Colossal CEO Ben Lamm) 🦤 The DoDon’t (de-exctincted Dodo) 🐅 The Trylacine (marks for good effort) You are welcome.

I'll also point out again: Colossal's claims that making woolly elephants to stamp on permafrost will materially help climate change have been dismissed by serious people for YEARS, for many reasons.

If the first Lammoth is two years away, that means gene-edited embryos are about to be implanted into surrogates any time now. I have always argued that the use of elephants in experiments like this is unethical. My opinion has not changed.

Congratulation to my PhD student Tuğçe Yalçın, who received both the Janis Steingruber Award for her upcoming fieldwork in Türkiye, as well as UGA's Center for Teaching and Learning Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, earlier this week. quaternary.franklinresearch.uga.edu/news/stories...

we're horseposting post your horses (this painting is very much progress not perfection, but the new sketchbook seems like it can handle a lot of water, so yay) #watercolor #invertebrates #SciArt

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

[Lindisfarne] Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth- Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

The Smithsonian will be hosting a free webinar this Sunday, February 22 from 1:30-3:00 EST, The Impact of Human Origins on People's Understanding of the World. Check it out! naturalhistory.si.edu/events/impac... #museums #humanorigins #evosky

🎉 Great News! Today we have added A LOT of new books to our Full Open Access list. 📚 You can download all these for free without limitations! check out our library at www.sidestone.com/books/ #OpenAccess

The SciArt Feed is the #4 Art Feed 🎨 and #4 Science Feed 🧪on Bluesky! It's in the Top 50 Feeds on Bluesky, at #41. Art engaged with science. Add it to your skyline and see inspiration, every day. (And NO generative AI)

Showing cool women in palaeoart 子著 based in China, does adorable science communication books

Want to work with the AGU SciPolicy Team? Voices for Science participants conduct regular outcomes-focused outreach to make a tangible impact at the local, federal, or global level. Applications for the U.S. cohort are open Dec 15 – Feb 15 buff.ly/BHStsrh

Proud to share that my UGA Anthropology PhD student Solmaz Amiri was awarded the prestigious Society for American Archaeology Dienje Kenyon Award. Congratulations to her! anthropology.uga.edu/news/sarieh-...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026! Join us for two days of all things Palaeolithic, Pleistocene and Early Human Origins at UCL Institute of Archaeology 19-20th June. Call for papers is now open and tickets are on sale! Check out our website for more information. sites.google.com/view/unravel...

Ternary diagram of geoscientists. Where do you fall?

As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, my MPhil & PhD research were supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust. This month they're featuring scholars' impact in archaeology, including my work in understanding adaptation to climate and environmental change in past societies. www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/g...

An article that proclaims to be shining a light on women archaeologists paving the way for other women archaeologists...features neither archaeology...nor women archaeologists

Metal detecting is not archaeology.