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...

My friend let us try on her flower crowns.

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Just listened to a great Journalism History podcast episode today on deaf printers and a preservation project at Gallaudet University. Anyway their site has a great tutorial for making those caps: deafprinters.com/hat

Cleaning decades of paint off these hinges, and found the Stanley Sweetheart logo. The Stanely company used this logo in 1919 after the death of an employee, William Hart.

For the gaming scholars among us…

The amount of wasted energy and trash filling the internet thanks to AI articles is wild. I'm looking for bedroom ideas for redecoration, and most of it is AI nonsense. This 'person', Gavin Newton, is clearly AI and has 'written' hundreds of articles on decor. learncalifornia.org/author/gavin/

Ooooh looks amazing! 😍

@boslough.bsky.social covering where we are with that frankly ridiculous Tall el-Hammam/Sodom and Gomorroh 'research'

Pretty good week when two papers come out! In this experiment, we pulled out some of the most common protocols for carbonate stable isotope analysis (C and O in tooth enamel), and tweaked them to see what worked best for reproducibility 🏺🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have a new paper to post to socials about and my fingers reflexively started to type in the Bad Place oof

It’s like @johnrogers.bsky.social says: if you constantly label everything you don’t like socialism, and you suck, eventually the youth will just embrace socialism.

This article is the culmination of a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social project led by the iso-GOAT 🧪Judith Sealy. I'm so honored to have attended the conference, talked about open science in isotopes research, and then been part of this paper led by Max Spies 🏺https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250283

This trip, I've been taking photos of smol things

Huge thanks to @karidebbink.bsky.social and @planetdr.bsky.social, who distributed my citizen science water kits across their departments! I'm getting great sample coverage across Baltimore for Project FIND-EM.

honestly torn between "it must be nice" and "thank gods I'll never"

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Pro tip, folks: if you make a figure for a publication, don’t just hand the copyright over to the publisher. Post it on OSF first and then give yourself permission to use it in the first publication and then all future publications. That way, no permissions issues.

@mercyhurst.bsky.social is hiring a 1 year Visiting Assistant Prof in Forensic Anthropology. Looks like they're looking for someone quick, to help by Fall 2025. www.mercyhurst.edu/sites/defaul...

Wholly unsurprising that @vcampanacho.bsky.social would have an amazing color theme for her BeFRAIL talk. As I understand it, it's being recorded so folks can view it if you missed it.

Roses are red Mysticism is esoterica We cannot build bananas In America

Mapmaker, Mapmaker Make me a map Plat me a Plat chart me a Chart Mapmaker, Mapmaker Look through your Atlas And make me a perfect map