Why did I dream that me & 2 friends pulled off a bank heist, got a ton of money, & divvied it up between us. We got away with it - we thrived & then 1 yr. later, we tried again w/ far less planning & got caught. I turned myself in & lawyered up. I realized that I ruined my career & I was devastated

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I'm deep in my Radiohead bag right now - and I'm worried about what that says about the state of the world (and relatedly - my mental health). Last time I remember this happening - I was analyzing data and writing my dissertation in grad school 😳 iykyk

Not going to lie - definitely depressing to hear my husband explaining grad admissions in Tr*mp's America to a very talented international prospective student. It's grim.

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

Sometimes I'm just working away and then I remember that they're making (made?) a film about my dad's life. Completely unreal - like a real film w/ famous actors and a famous director. What is life??

Saw a coyote on my run today - first sighting in a long time.

Had to walk across campus picking things up and dropping things off today and baaaayyyybeeee #asu

Imagine being a kid and learning both your parents were arrested by ICE. You’ll have to pay rent and survive on your own. I shadowed four siblings—US citizens near Mar-a-Lago—as they try to do that. I'll be thinking about their story for a long time 1/x www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yesterday, my teen son told me that he hasn't heard me be excited about my work in forever - he said all I do is worry and vent about it now. And that friends is the reality of being an anthropologist during this administration

I love a fast Interlibrary loan and ASU's ILL is just 🤌🏾💋

I'm absolutely stunned to hear of Raúl Pacheco-Vega's passing 💔He was a very generous and open scholar. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him well and all of us who learned with and from him.

Happened to everyone on my dad's side (including me) - sad state of affairs over here. Now I know I can have exactly 6 deliciously plump shrimp before I get itchy

went to my college reunion - had a ball and realized that I am completely unprepared for New England weather now. Rain? 55 degrees? in May?

I'm still pulling spines out of my hairline. It's been days 😩

Climate change compounding with Philly problems (old buildings, under-resourced city…ugh).

Every week or so I think about the fact that the cops/government shot a white man, Alex Pretti, in cold blood and nothing has happened to his murderers. The murderers still have their jobs and the unarmed white man is a cautionary tale for white people to not challenge the white supremacist state.

Called myself doing a little "home improvement" this weekend and bought some cacti for around our pool. I was attacked by a chenille prickly pear y'all - I've been pulling out small spines for 24 hours. I even got them stuck in my hairline. *mistakes were made*

I wonder why journalists insist on using 'remote' to describe places (in Africa) when they're writing about outbreaks of disease. Remoteness is relative, yes, but also: as a descriptor, it implies something about the place w/o actually telling you anything useful re: its residents, harms, risks, etc

That was the goal

I just need one morning without this fascistic bullshit apnews.com/article/redi...

One of my former students - who graduated a decade ago - just had her first baby and sent pics on the group chat. And friends - I am over here crying like a baby. Bearing witness to people's lives is such a gift -

Re: Hantavirus - Surely at this moment we realize why it was terrible idea for the US to withdraw from the WHO? right? smh.

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

Sometimes you have to go back to your old tried and true productivity methods - pomodoro, it is 😩

Didn't go running today b/c my legs needed a rest - now we see how long it takes me to feel awake & normal. The runner's conundrum: run? awake/alive/legs tired! rest? mentally tired/groggy/legs rested

I remember, in grad school, Chuck Bosk telling us, re: ethnography--if you haven't pissed someone off with your research, you probably haven't done enough to interrogate systems of power.

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

People talk about Sunday scaries - but I think I have Saturday scaries. Sundays are so busy - laundry, food shopping, kid stuff, a run, random house maintenance - I need an extra weekend day where I actually get to relax. Monday feels peaceful in comparison

more people probably died from diarrhea, malaria and typhoid during the civil war than actual fighting

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Sometimes incredible (and incredibly odd things) happen - Japanese director Shinya’s Tsukamoto made a biopic about my dad's life - I knew this was happening, but it's still wild nonetheless. WILD. deadline.com/2026/03/shin...

Got some Vietnamese Iced coffee with lunch and babyyy

15 years ago, if you would have told me that I would be so happy sitting in my car w/ coffee & my laptop while my son is at optional track practice at 7:45 am on a Saturday - I would have laughed until my stomach ached. *Yes, I've been hazed by parenthood and also - this is kinda great

BBC News - US journalist Shelly Kittleson kidnapped in Baghdad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes people speak to me like I'm dumb...and I just...who are you talking to?

"Im boutta go get the papers, get the papers" -Jimmy Two Times

Um if you know me on other social media - you know this already (apologies) but y'all - I ran my first half marathon yesterday - hit my time goal & got 3rd in my age group 👊🏾🏃🏾‍♀️‍➡️

When America sneezes

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Ghana’s President John Mahama warned at the UN that erasing Black history in the U.S. risks global consequences as nations move to recognize slavery as a grave crime against humanity. Efforts to reshape museums, school curriculum, and narratives tied to slavery and racism only deepen the harm.

Being a scientist/scholar/researcher in this moment is an act of pure will and faith in the unseen. It's staggering how much of the infrastructure has been destroyed and how quickly it was laid to waste.

WHO GONNA LOVE YOU LIKE I DO? HUHHH? WHATT?! WHO GONNA TREAT YOU LIKE I DO? HUHHH? WHATT?!

I got a new (to me) pen and i am in love. what a good pen. thank you tiktok person for recommending it

Run Couch Family

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

Went to nail salon - really tried to get a light pink number, something super spring and femme. Black. Black cat's eye. that's what I left with - the black just speaks to my soul 😏

I know people won’t remember this bc there’s so many dumpster fires. But somebody better be keeping a list.

Social science research stays catching Ls at a time when we need it most. 😩