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 🫠

NEW: a study published today identifies a fundamental energetic limit of the human body—one that even the most elite ultramarathoners seem unable to break my first for @sciam.bsky.social, with sharp edits from @tanyalewis.bsky.social 🧪

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Working in the office today to hopefully forestall another research related crash out. Can't crash out if your colleagues can hear you 🥴

Trying to do research right now - trying to plan for future research is so incredibly depressing. I just don't have words for how bad this all is

I need it on a t-shirt *immediately*

There is a Trader Joe's right on campus - this is CLUTCH for office snacks. #blessed

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

I don't think people realize what an immediate impact this is going to have on outbreak response and containment.

Thriller - the extended full version of the video. It was a classic example of nonchalant/unengaged parenting of the era - b/c why were my parents letting me watch that?? I was like 3 or 4. Terrified for decades.

my alcove neighbors in this hotel keep smoking cigarettes in their room. what year is it? eww.

This is perhaps one probable outcome in this era of digitized research methods - saving it to discuss with my ethnographic research methods class next week

all my teams lost this week - can't handle this shit - sports is all I got.

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀 I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

Dunkin coffee is truly terrible. Had to drink it to avoid a migraine and only the headache would have been worse

I can very comfortably say that people who call her the greatest living lyricist have never seriously listened to hip hop. (I know we know this on its face...but still). The double entendres? the wordplay? the storytelling? unmatched babes. unmatched.

Genuinely Love Dolly so very much - she is one of one

the fact that it's easier for me run on weekdays before the day truly begins is a reality check about how this term is wearing me out & the pace of our weekends - 2 days is not long enough to get your entire life in gear for the week

This 2 wk "fall break" where 1 kid has reading for 3 hrs in the morning, and my other kid has sports camp for a diff 3 hours in the morning & the first kid has camp in the afternoon, and my other kid has aged out of camp and has no afternoon activity all while we both work full time might kill me.

Happy Black Dog Day from Junebug

RIP to a real hero. An example to us all -- to walk the walk every day, to the very end. 💔 #Anthro #JaneGoodall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Watch to renew your faith in the possibility of good things happening . This looks like a wonderful evolution of the show - So glad to see Mychal hosting.

I have entered my "working from home in a caftan w/the window cracked and an iced coffee in hand" era and it is glorious

I haven't seen them all, and I'm sure I won't make much progress before we move, but this is my favorite Philly mural among all those I've seen: a huuuuuge Amy Sherald on 11th + Sansom

reviews came back on a theory paper - minor revisions 🙌🏾

my child's saturday morning soccer game has been canceled b/c the fields are too wet and I cannot overstate how happy I am. We get to sleep in!!! Thank God.

He didn't just tell pregnant women not to take Tylenol. He also said "you shouldn't give the child a Tylenol every time he's born and he goes and has a shot." This is WAY outside the science. And says he's willing to put kids' lives at risk to dubiously connect kids' Tylenol, autism, and vaccines.