My kids got me a baby saguaro cactus 🌵 they were with me one day when I was searching for one for our yard and they remembered ❤️

I love having the holiday just with our little family - we just decided the menu, we lounge around during Christmas day - it's very low stress and I'm grateful for that.

People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.

One of my dissertation committee members/mentors snowbirds in Phoenix so I get to see him every year. It brings me so much happiness to see his face (a face that used to low key scare me a little 😅) - his continued check-ins and support are a gift

I think this is the fourth of the horsemen.

One of my students told me I am "effortlessly cool" - so you really can't tell me anything for the rest of the week. *It's not effortless at all AND "cool" is questionable but I'll take it 😂

Took so long to feel good on my run today - the moment it clicked? 2.67 miles into a tempo run (!!) Anyway - it's done. and of course...I feel better having done it.

I should not be worried about teaching this empirically grounded and well-researched section on race/racism in sports in my upcoming sports and culture course but here we are

I really wanted to run today but had to accept that it was a rest day. When I let myself sit with that - I realized tat I am so exhausted. This time of year is so draining. I need to sleep for week.

Next week, we welcome @rebeccasear.bsky.social in our Lecture Series. Rebecca will talk about 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the role of academia in promoting political ideology. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #PhilSci #HPBio

Not me sitting through my required yearly bloodborne pathogens lab training where they discuss the risks of exposure to Hep B on the same day that RFK Jr. officially removes the recommendation for Hep B vaccination for newborns. We are living through the most stupid and dangerous timeline

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

My close friends from high school are Black women - 1 who is a nurse and one who is a geochemist whose family also owns a farm - the political conversations are rage filled to say the least.

"The message was clear. Let ChatGPT redesign your class. Let ChatGPT tell you how to evaluate your students. Let ChatGPT tell students how to use ChatGPT. Let ChatGPT solve the problem of human education. It was like being handed a Mad Libs puzzle for automating your syllabus."

went to a conference, came back to a *surprise* holiday visit from a family member, cooked, ran a turkey trot, ran a 10k a few days later, did all the family/community things, & taught my last class of the term today. I can feel the exhaustion taking over my body like a wave building from my feet

100% w/ Tressie and also amazed by the pushback on this. Have standards for the relationships you keep; You owe it to yourself to let go of the bad ones and honor other people who make that choice for themselves.

I really need Sundays to not feel like SUNDAYS 😩

Ran my first 10k since 2011 - before my babies were born. I am feeling a little proud of myself today :) **Also I swear by Runna (the app) - if you want to improve your times, base miles, distance, etc - it's worth the $$

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

Real rough landing going from eating delicious pastries in New Orleans to sitting at my desk at home w/no pastries 😏

@marckissel.bsky.social cites and speaks to the influence of McBrearty and Brooks "The Revolution that Wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior" (2000) - My absolute favorite classic paper. It absolutely blew my mind when I read it~

Did I show up to a conference as a section chair, with several meetings on the program (meetings I’m leading), and a roundtable I’m participating in - without registering for said conference?! yes. Yes, I did. 🫠

222 years ago to the day Haiti gained independence after fighting off the French. Exactly 222 years on to the day, Haiti won entry into the World Cup. 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

I'm trying to write the smallest thing after teaching for 3 hours and my brain is simply refusing 😵‍💫

I think I would be a mental health mess if I weren't running/exercising a lot right now - the world is a straight up dumpster fire. shit is grim

Word.

I feel so lucky that I am still cool with my friends from high school - I don't live close to them, we don't get to see each other often enough but we are forever friends

Younger people in Congress please. We deserve to have options - new ideas and diff. views about how to do politics -

I love hearing people's chickens in the morning

the funny (not funny) thing is this is a fundamental bit of knowledge that black and brown folks in the US carry with them—often because we’re the ones against whom this is often ‘weaponized’

you wonder why anyone would make a short sleeve sweater until you move to Arizona or the South Bay in Northern CA. Perfect short sleeve sweater weather

I have to go to a high school information session for this kid who is still about this age in my heart

Middle school band performances will renew your hope in humanity - the kids are earnest and entertaining and up there jamming. They're a gift.

"are you not embarazzed?"

The coyotes are howling so loudly this morning

Happy to be featured on my thoughts on metformin for (long) covid in this great new piece by @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, the strongest direct hit to the island in 174 years.

Apropos of nothing: "... we find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Had to teach a (relatively) math heavy lecture on developing scales in my grad level ethnographic methods class. The students were ambivalent at best about the material but they *clapped* for me when I finished lecturing. Made my whole week 🥹♥️

This is wildly spot on. I have (too) many examples of the fact that Black women do friendship very differently. Once you are in the circle of friendship - you are handled with a kind of care that is very culturally specific

There's a tiktok begging kids to get back in their garages to make music - someone commented "No one has a garage any more" - truer words have never been spoken 😔

I'm having a hard time sitting with this - Please keep Jamaica in your prayers or whatever it is you do.

Parenting real talk: I don't have the energy for what Friday night is about to require of me

Every time my Garmin gives me a "relax reminder" b/c "higher than normal stress detected" ---- I'm just like 🥴 - this is all I got. Working on a deadline here

A better link - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

One day you're grad school roommates in the dankest apt in Ann Arbor; 20 years later you write a paper together. To friendship and scholarship - On populations & our poor operationalization of the concept w/ @apv2600.bsky.social onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/doi/10.1002/...

Excited to finally have this article out with @robingnelson.blacksky.app. Although we have nominally centered populations as our unit of evolutionary analysis in biological anthropology, we have no coherent understanding of what a population is. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

It just came back and I have about 30 min before I have to go pick up the kids and do the next homework/dinner/reconnect/bed shift. I would have preferred it be out all day 😞

Cannot prep for tomorrow's grad seminar 🫠