Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

ACTION ALERT⚠️ Dept. of Interior is trying to rush through a revocation of Biden’s public law protecting lands around Chaco Canyon from new oil/gas leases. They’ve given only 7 day for public comment, during Easter/Passover. Thread 🧵 below on why you should care, but here’s a link to comment! 🏺

Recruitment language for our scientific survey- we are looking for science communicators who are over 18 years old who commnunicate science to the public outside of a classroom setting to take a brief voluntary survey.

Friends, we've gotten a lot of great responses to our survey for science communicators, and we are closing the survey on Friday evening. If you'd like to respond, please take the survey soon!

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Please share. #SciComm 🧪🌍

About a 2 week trip to lots of state & national parks and visiting family: VA -> KC BBQ pit stop -> CO -> MT -> WY -> SD -> CHI Deep Dish pit stop -> OH -> VA

Getting a PhD is hard. But the intellectual growth from that difficulty is worth it (I can't say the difficulties of navigating the system are worth it though...).

I can't imagine using AI for this, going through all this hell, just to come away with nothing but a piece of paper.

My first thought at seeing this image: Wow, that LiDAR looks an awful lot like a ravioli.

And boy was I right and wrong in ways I didn't expect.

Roughly: theory, method, study area. Open book & note, 8 hour time limit, accurate citations required.

You're the second to suggest I check out Midsummer as a performance, I'm definitely going to keep my eyes open for an opportunity.

If I ever have the chance to attend a performance I'll give it a go! I've read & seen Much Ado and I loved both.

Comps!

1. Queer Theory & Archaeology/Anthropology
2. Sensory Spatial Analysis of Landscapes (this one is the hardest to define...)
3. African American Diasporic Archaeology

Definitely Much Ado About Nothing!

I always felt like I ~should~ love Midsummer Night's Dream, but I could never get into it

We’re just innocent men

Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game - Volume 100 Issue 409

Really proud of this work, where we combined traditional archaeological methods and AI simulation to say that yes, this object was more likely than not a game board.

How did we do it? I’ll explain 👇👇

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Adopt A Rent — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

Another addition to the website to help us built *systems* and not just have me trying to do everything alone:

If you'd like to adopt a rent that you can either *cover immediately* and fundraise for, or just pay outright, please fill out this form and we will contact you via Signal.

A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

Never Known Hearing you snore Is safety I've never known

Never Known

Hearing you snore
Is safety
I've never known

#poems #poetry #love

A workflow diagram: Have great idea Finish project Start project Tell everyone The finish project is missed out.

Morning

Why are we fracking Ohio’s only national forest? • Ohio Capital Journal The Wayne National Forest is Ohio's only national forest, and remains a sanctuary for people who need an escape from their hectic lives. But Ohio officials are now looking to lease 41 oil and gas…

Commentary: The Wayne National Forest is Ohio's only national forest, and remains a sanctuary for people who need an escape from their hectic lives. But Ohio officials are now looking to lease 41 oil and gas parcels, totaling 2,795 acres ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/14/w...

PRI's Wonderful Life — Paleontological Research Institution By Dr. Warren Allmon , Director of the Paleontological Research Institution December 30, 2025 The holidays are a time for “Christmas movies” in my house, and one that is always on our list is&nbs...

PRI REACHED THEIR GOAL!!! MUSEUM OF THE EARTH IS STAYING OPEN!!! Thank you all so much for donating and spreading the word, I'm so overjoyed! Good things are still possible! www.priweb.org/blog-post/pr...

Love this idea! As a TA, I've been thinking a lot about how much I see my students struggle over the semester (often Freshmen but not all) & I think a reflection on their first assignment is a great way to show them what/that they've learned and build confidence while practicing an important skill.

Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected? Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

"what if AI takes over the world?"

if it ever gets so advanced that it could do that, which it won't, I would simply switch it off.

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

Off to labor all my possessions into a new home 💪 (I'm moving apartments)

Screenshot of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

#ICYMI free "Queer Book History" zine is out! Built on the great new LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography (led by @bibliowingate.bsky.social), by me + Alex, @nicolekeller.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social +rest of the LGBTQIA+ #BookHist Bib team. A free, printable 32-page research+teaching resource:+

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA...

The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

🔗 www.404media.co/trump-admini...

Okay so there is apparently a Scientist Wanted But We Won’t Or Can’t Say It Secret Code for policy jobs. This is ridiculous. Here’s what I found 🧵

Let's Discuss: Bug Basics! Intro to insect body anatomy.

Let's Investigate: Insect Legs! In which we detour for some reason into talking about human hands.

Insect leg pattern 1: Bees, ants, and flies.

Insect leg patterns 2 and 3: Beetles and dragonflies.

I don't think I've ever posted this here on Bluesky, so have some bug-drawing tutorials... (1/3)