we need a department of kerning

I will drop everything when a new fashion thread comes out by Derek

This looks like an April fool's joke but nope, it's a cursed collab

50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald sank

I've been asked to revise my paper to pick British or American spelling, but as far as I can tell the main divider is that I use 'paleontology' but 'archaeology' But...I don't want to change either???

So funny when my students cite someone I admire on social media and I'm just like 'ohhoho yes I have something of a parasocial relation with that person 💅'

Here we go let's do this theonion.com/dick-cheney-...

I love the story behind this scholarship!

Gift link to original article:

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Last night I had this amazing dream that I got a superpower that let me do practically anything I set my mind to. I became great at climbing, I was super smart. The superpower of my literal dreams, and I wish I was joking, was "focus".

📣 GOOD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is LIVE! BAD NEWS: HealthCare.Gov window shopping is live. acasignups.net/25/10/29/goo...

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I don't follow baseball, but the Dodgers organist playing 'Neverending Story' at that game is pretty funny

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

This New Hampshire stove manufacturer have a whole section dedicated to pets next to stoves. A super cute theme. www.woodstove.com

Very cool piece about space junk by Dr Gorman! 🧪🏺🚀

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“The National Park Service does so much more behind the scenes than visitors and park lovers will ever witness.” Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/nati...

Cuties don't have to make the bed

Mind the gap. #Archaeologists are excited about #dinosaurs as much as everybody else - but we don't dig them. Not literally. That's where our colleagues in #palaeontology come in - there's a good sixty-four million years of evolutionary history between the Flintstones and their pets. 🏺🦕

This @nhm.org display was first opened in 1996 and you can tell

I love the warm weather (esp paired with the cool nights right now), but this photo went across my timeline and I'm missing these wide cold expanses. Cedar Breaks, Utah

This almond looks like it's cosplaying as an acorn

It's that time of year again, when I bully friends I admire into trying for a W-G symposia grant

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium. Deadline: October 10, 2025. wennergren.org/article/call...

"The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with completedisregard for antiseptics." - Marshall McLuhan, 1964

I'll be interested to see nationwide trends for university student enrollment this semester. SIU flatlined for the first time in years: the push for growth in regional and first-gen students evened out the absolute tanking of international enrollment.

Living in a walkable city, even a small one, means I can walk to my doctor's appointment and stop by the library as a lil treat on the way back.

My course about birding & creative code is also secretly (shhhh) a course about critical data thinking. Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation. Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me? jerthorp.me/learning 🪶📊🎨

I need a poster-size version of this from @theonion.com . I'd call it my self-portrait.

I've moved on average every 18 months of my adult life, but my email's remained the same.

I *just* realized pastoral care refers to ministry and not herd management. I know you can just keep following the thread to Latin pastor for ‘shepherd’ but I was cutting the middle out. 😵‍💫

My resident tween informed me there's another Taylor Swift countdown that ends at 2pm Eastern today. So... one like, one @livescience.com story on the science of purple! 🧪💜

I love trying to get in close with smol animals with my phone camera. It's a challenge and I wasn't super successful with this little guy but I love him anyway. I think it's a Wyoming pocket gopher(?) outside Laramie, WY

It's been really energizing to open up the Discord for the IsoArcH addithon and see what the community has been up to! Reminded me to clean up some datasets for #OpenScience @isoarch.bsky.social

It's been really energizing to open up the Discord for the IsoArcH addithon and see what the community has been up to! Reminded me to clean up some datasets for #OpenScience @isoarch.bsky.social

It's been really energizing to open up the Discord for the IsoArcH addithon and see what the community has been up to! Reminded me to clean up some datasets for #OpenScience @isoarch.bsky.social

Tax vehicles by weight and get us back down to reasonably sized cars, please. I have internalized stereotypes about pickup owners and their disregard for pedestrians at this point

First day of @isoarch.bsky.social's first hackathon/addition was fun! We talked about the repository's structure, what kind of data we're excited for, and started chatting on our Discord. Excited to see how this goes 😊 #OpenData

This guy loves a good car ride (I stopped the car for the shot I promise)

He's so photogenic in that golden hour lighting

I've never had a dog who loves rolling so much

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

"A total of $128,463 was misspent on the pigs." was not the sentence I expected to read today www.kcrg.com/2025/07/30/u...

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research. bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

The Bewitching is out today. I'll do the nice marketing post in a bit, but right now I wanted to just thank you all for allowing me to publish. Specially I want to thank my readers of color, the Latinos and Latinas who keep reading me. I was told, more than once, that people like me didn't belong in

RAGE THRAD: Our colleague, CSUCI prof. Jonathan Anthony Caravello, has been kidnapped! This vile framing @ktla.com is grotesque - He did not "throw a tear gas cannister" at police, he removed it from under someone in a wheelchair! ktla.com/news/local-n...