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.

Yes, you CAN go back in time! This StoryMap allows readers to experience several hundred million years of Earth history in just minutes with a scroll-driven animation. Happy GIS Day too! ow.ly/ZjFV50XsVbc Want to know how the team did it? ow.ly/gC3k50XsVQY ⚒️ 🧪 #gischat #geogsky #geogchat 🌎 🌍 🌏

NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0

So delighted to have worked with Drs Christine France and Julianne Sarancha on this project. With deer samples, we created isoscapes (Sr, O, and S) for the state of Virginia. Potentially hella useful for archaeology in the region. 🏺🧪 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching? "Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies" Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific #academicsky 🏺♿

This is monstrous, evil. Anyone that supports this is similarly enthralled to and excited by the ritual abuse of the weak and suffering

NSF is open again! A few comments: *Please be patient. During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails. *Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th. *POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.

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