Morning yoga challenge: working around the dog

These scammy for-profit Online Program Manager turn regular universities into Pheonix University protectborrowers.org/why-were-sou...

Brutal.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I've been asking Nintendo for dev kits for years, but they are insistent on "games should be good or fun to play, preferably both"

We at Nintendo of America can't just give dev kits away willy nilly.

I'm such a sucker for lil milestones- a co-authored work of mine is among the American Journal of Biological Anthropology's top 10 most-cited papers published by the journal in 2024 #TopCitedArticle

We don't have enough open access resources for reading about ethics, and there's some really great looking chapters in there. I'm excited to spend some time with this! 🏺🧪https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-10354-3

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

A student society dedicated to training service dogs, the Saluki Service Dawgs, is socializing puppies right now on campus

Congrats to all the assholes who shit on Starfleet Academy, which had the best first season of a Star Trek show in franchise history, white supremacist homophobic Paramount has cancelled the show and you won and now there is no Trek in production Do you feel like winners? You assholes

Boston U teachers are being told to remove pride flags from their windows. Complying in advance.

Thanks to the sale of buttons by the gAyABA over the years, over $15k was ultimately donated to The Trevor Project thanks to donation matching. Buy those buttons, they're collector items! This year, we have a day and night mode this year #aaba2026

"Remember when we used to be able to just throw our baby in the living room with a baby chimp [and conduct primatology research]? We used to be a real country" Herman Pontzer keynote is really accessible for thinking about energy #AABA2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

The History of Early Christianity class by Dr Freeman produced some awesome UnEssay projects. Someone forged a small seal!

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Excited to announce that Gustavo Flores and I have a new book coming out later this year with @univnebpress.bsky.social! More details coming soon, but for now here is the amazing cover featuring art by Katie Dorame.

I contributed a small part to this research, but what fun and interesting research it was! And now, my dog Hatch has had his first modeling job.

Something that's striking for me in this photo isn't just that the other two women are also so genuinely happy to be up there, I adore the different poses. Kaori looking poised with her perfect posture and foot turned out, and Ami with her bubbly enthusiasm.

Happy half priced chocolate day to those who celebrate

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

I'd love to know instances where scientists chose certain color palettes to tell their data's story. For example, when I worked on a project in partnership with the DoD, I made use of a color palette reminiscent of the American flag.

Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Chuck Tingle would fit most of the criteria. I mean, he's got way better things to do, but imagine the Grok that would come out of it.

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

At a workshop last week, a couple of colleagues and I started discussing why stable isotope based approaches so prevalent in academic research are rarely seen in applied fishery management.

New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name 🧪🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Art from a Maya vase. Labeled 'Itzamná talks to a dog', nothing will convince me that's not a person dressed up as a dog. 🏺 Full photo of painting here research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hir...

Was just feeling bad about not getting grant applications prepared as new faculty, then remembered that one grant I was prepping was axed by the NIJ, and another that I was revising to resubmit was axed by the NSF. Gonna be some screenshots of proposal portals in my tenure dossier...

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

My lili bro (kindly) invited me to a friends' party, the theme was 'dress fancy'. I was on the road to visit the family, with only sweaters and hiking gear packed. Well, my parents hadn't gotten rid of my wedding dress, I had *something* fancy to wear. His reaction was priceless.

I just realised that I know very little about my art peers (other than their art), so let's change that? :) QRP with your artwork and share what other passions/jobs/hobbies you have? ✨ I'll start! I trained as an archaeologist, and love foraging 🏺🌿

(slipping an undergrad $20 so they can file a complaint and get me a fully paid semester’s leave)

Perhaps students should organize and file complaints against every single faculty member along with every administrative leader. Shut it down so the absurdity is clear.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

Just listened to Gorillaz' song Damascus, then listened again. I was struck by the speculative fantasy of their island, Plastic Beach, and the joyful welcome of Syrian refugees to the lands. Admittedly, Yasiin Bey makes pretty much any track better.

This was a LOT of work — filming, writing, editing, R coding… and a slightly unhealthy amount of coffee. Very pleased with the outcome though, time well spent! Courses → www.atomicecology.com/courses

I heard Microsoft Word is starting to use LLM for its grammar/spelling check, which means common errors are taken as correct. In my manuscript, apparently the word 'data' isn't plural anymore.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

I support faculty members of all ranks as they make expert choices about what to assign, why to assess, and how to evaluate student work.

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

Oh shit waddup

I'd probably want to do the same thing I do now (professor of biological anthropology), but I'd be even quicker to buy those amazing local arts I see around.

Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it? Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.

Trauma napping because my partner left us to go to Sam's club

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I love that our current Star Trek captain loves horses, cooking, and haircare. Real Barbie vibes.