I'm showing my age here, but it was always a good day when the teacher brought the TV in so we could watch The Voyage of the Mimi!

Given everything happening right now, this video is so wonderful. I'm not always sure we deserve dogs but we are definitely lucky to have them in our world

Workday convo in anthro dept: Colleague: how's teaching quantitative methods? Me: well I wasn't allowed to call it "But I was told there's no math in this major" but otherwise going ok. Next week we will discuss if 43 is odd or just different! Colleague: so you got the dad jokes covered, eh?

Starting my 9th year at Appalachian State!

Jenna: ya know, there is always that one short story you read in school that messes with your mind. I remember this one we read... Me: was it All Summer in a Day? Jenna: yup Me: yeah that sticks with you

I don't know but seems like part of a new National Treasure movie with Nicholas Cage trying to steal something......

I need to look into the "early humans got that drip" theory of human evolution....

"The discovery of Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggests that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier." www.nature.com/articles/s41... My semester starts Aug 18th so I assume new finds will drop all month to make it harder to finalize syllabus 🤣

In her furious dissent, Jackson writes of the Supreme Court's decision: "The project of stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws continues." She likens today's ruling to notorious decisions after the Civil War cutting back civil rights statutes. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

this is pretty cool! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

apparently on this day in 1905 Einstein published his paper on the photoelectric principle, the 1st of his annus mirabilis papers...Meanwhile 120 years later I'm impressed I managed to remember how to remove the title of the X-axis on a ggplot without looking it up :) #rstats

Thinking of this Calvin and Hobbes strip for no reason whatsoever....👀

Hello, Our paper on enamel proteins from Paranthropus robustus has finally been peer reviewed, please have a read here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paranthropus robustus has been puzzling scientists since its discovery in 1938 in South Africa, where a high number of fossils have been found.

Ooohhh...this is interesting! This paper lends a hand to our understanding of hominin dexterity!

hmmm..... "these data place the Schöningen spears at ~200,000 years. This revised age positions the Spear Horizon alongside other sites that collectively record a shift toward communal hunting strategies. " www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

At #SAA2025Denver #SAA2025 and once again reminded how being named Marc makes it really weird hearing taphonomy talks about "cut marks," and folks talking about "the percentage of marks at the site." Clearly my parents didn't think about that when choosing a name.....

Feeling a bit out of place amongst all the archaeologists at #SAA2025 but also glad to be here in Denver!

Excited to head out tomorrow for my first #SAA2025 in many years! Been ages since I've gotten the chance to hear about all the wonderful archaeological research and see folks. Also, totes nervous about presenting but i guess that feeling never really goes away....

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights... youtu.be/EJ9yAV8uQ7g?... #2025MMM

I sorta want to update my teaching philosophy with just a screenshot of this:

#2025MMM #DivisionSameandDifferent #TeamColugo Art by Mary C Freisner @maryfreisner.bsky.social #mammals

Next Up: 1st Seed Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) vs. 3rd seed Sunda Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus)#2025MMM

from now on, I'm going to refer to my falling asleep at in my office at work as "high intensity resting" #2025MMM

earlier in the week i told a colleague i had to skip a seminar in the evening since i was doing #2025MMM and deeply engrossed in aardvarks. She was *very* confused

Good morning #2025MMM fans! Thank you for the interest in official MMM merch from the art team! We apologize for the delay updating our shop and will have new merch for you soon. All proceeds go to the team's nonprofit to help us continue our scicomm work through art. Thank you! ermineainc.org/shop/

Next Up: #2 Seed Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) vs. #7 Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) #2025MMM

Me in the National Security team group chat

So the breakfast club met 41 years ago today and I'm not sure I can process this....

Oh these all look so good! Im looking forward to my long plane ride soon so I can read them all!

Next Up: #7 Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) vs. #10 Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus)! #2025MMM

Next Up: 2-Seed Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) vs. 15-Seed Hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris)!!!! #2025MMM

Hosting an #AltAc #Career panel for #anthropologists via Zoom. 4/22 at 10:30 ET. Info here: www.evolvedlab.net/events @dianamonkey.bsky.social and many others + @kristinemaassen.bsky.social facilitating for #Rutgers Anthro Please re-post and register. Any trouble, let me know!

If i am gonna be forced to teach the stats again for the anthropology majors (and I guess anyone else!) I am at least gonna amuse myself while getting it setup youtu.be/elclHaEdo5Y?...

can verify as totally independent observer that @jennakissel.bsky.social is amazing :)

"We suggest that the development of this behavioural uniformity is due to intensified inter-population interactions and admixture between Homo groups ~130–80 ka" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tonight: WILD CARD Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) vs. Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) #2025MMM

heading to the #AABA2025? Come by the session celebrating Michelle Bezanson, one of the best & most human humans I have ever known, on Thursday from 2:30-5 in Salons IX-X. Even if you didn't have the pleasure of knowing her, it would be wonderful to pass on the lessons we all learned from Michelle

#AABA2025 workshops begin on Wednesday and run through Saturday! Check them out: bioanth.org/94th-annual-...

"My existence is not a fetish. I was proud within a month ago to have my son up in the gallery here. Many of you on the other side met him. When I go to walk him to school, that’s not a lascivious display. That is not a fetish. That is my family. "

A New Present Tense is out: pieces by anthropologists meeting this moment featuring @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, Carolyn Rouse, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg, Gregory Warner, & me. My piece, Binary Desires, on gender/sex, EOs, & queer joy, & the whole collection here: americananthro.org/advocacy/pre...

Interesting stuff to think about here

Interesting stuff here as well....!

"Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago" really interesting stuff here: "early Acheulean toolmakers unravelled technological repertoires that were previously thought to have appeared routinely more than 1 million years later."