Science is beautiful and makes your days so special, so I am actually happy for your kid. The broken academic system in which a large part of it happens is in a shameful state but science is still a great choice! Great luck to your kid!

The system is in shambles but a big thanks to your wife for helping students!

Thanks for the kind words!

All this to say: if you value the skills of a highly educated biologist and #BioAnth, turned data scientist and with an immense passion for #stats, with experience in research and teaching, in and out of academia, in either 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇹 Italy or 🇪🇸 Spain (also hybrid/remote), do let me know! (3/3) 🧪

This is heavily normalised by the academic culture because people in charge are not capable (or interested) to face the issues in #science and academia, so more and more people queue for the few perm posts available, in a strenous competition that harms their life as well as science itself...(2/3)

An open luggage full of scientific books, mostly about zoology, human and primate evolution and anatomy.

Once again, packing all my #books 📚 because yet another postdoc ended and I couldn't secure a permanent position. It might seem adventorous but it's also emotionally exhausting. This is #science too 🧪 A side we don't usually focus on because is not as glamorous as new discoveries.🧵 (1/3)

Ten thousand years ago, human evolution went into overdrive Ancient DNA reveals “massive” genetic shifts tied to rise of farming, wheels, and metal tools

For a detailed interpretation of the results, see www.science.org/content/arti... (2/2)

🧪 #science 🏺 #HumanEvolution #BioAnth #PaleoAnth #aDNA

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia - Nature Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being...

Big results for #HumanEvolution! Evidence of extensive directional selection in the Eurasian human genome in the last 10k years, while previous results always found this to be rare. (1/2)

🧪 #science 🏺 #BioAnth #PaleoAnth 🧬 #aDNA

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We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Beyond the Layer: A 3D-Driven Generalized Methodology for the Quantitative Dissection of Archaeological Palimpsests - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Accurately defining the temporal relationships between archaeological events is essential to avoid misleading interpretations of human behavior. The dissection of archaeological palimpsests seeks to achieve the highest possible resolution in reconstructing the sequence of human activities recorded within a single stratigraphic layer, overcoming the sedimentological uniformity that masks distinct depositional events. While numerous methodologies have been developed and applied over recent decades, the potential of virtual and three-dimensional technologies in this field remains underexplored. In this contribution, we propose ArchStrat: a novel method that employs 3D technology to discriminate the diachronic deposition of refitting groups, fragments originally part of the same object, by quantifying their vertical displacement relative to the minimum spatial volume they occupy. This approach enables a more precise identification of the temporal sequence of events within a stratigraphic context. We define the applicability domain to determine which pairs of refits are suitable for this analysis, then we conduct a sensitivity analysis to assess the efficiency of the method, and finally, we test the protocol through a virtual excavation simulation. Our results demonstrate the significant potential of 3D virtual techniques in dissecting archaeological palimpsests, offering new insights into site formation processes and allowing a more refined understanding of human activities over time.

Newly published and a very happy collaboration with a good friend, F. Zangrossi! ArchStrat: a new 3D method to discriminate the diachronic deposition of lithic refitting groups. 🧪 #science 🪨 #lithics 🏺 #archaeology #HumanEvolution

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Neither did I expect that this was about #whale penises 🐋 but I am glad I checked the replies, which led to an enjoyable read moderncryptozoology.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/t...

🧪 #science #biology #zoology #cryptozoology

I had the same feeling
🧪 #science #biology

A scatterplot for the result of an inventory simulation presenting the relationship between "Days between re-supplies" on the x axis and fraction of "Stockout days" on the y axis. The points are color coded along a rainbow gradient, the gradient representing differences in the item quantity supplied. The pattern recalls the LGBTQIA palette.

I coded an "inventory with perishable goods" simulation model today and it came out very inclusive! Might share later on! 🧪 #science 👩‍💻 #coding #R #Rstats #LGBT #LGBTQI #LGBTQIA

Photo of two bears with the forest and mountains behind them. Text reads: the forest told me that we should start a revolution

A government not for the people should be challenged and questioned and overthrown.

That school is 55k! If they wanted to use AI for the beneefit of humanity, they would do it for free! The solution is to fund public schools, select good teachers and pay them fairly! We don't need an AI school, we need funds for public schools!

This is the typical capitalist #AI approach: convince you to pay more for something that could be done with less and even more efficiently! #Learning is a social activity: if you strip that side from school, you are condemning your kids to a lifetime of emotional and intellectual confusion. 🧪

The #AcademiaEffect is when no job comes then one comes out and you compete with 100s of other people for it! 🧪

High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversity - Nature Methods Antscan is a publicly accessible database of synchrotron X-ray CT images of ants. The database covers almost 800 species from more than 200 genera and is coordinated with genome sequencing projects th...

What a #3D resource! Thousands of Synchrotron #CT scans of #ants 🐜🩻 available online in the Antscan database! 🧪 #science #zoology #biology #data #3Dimaging

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ALT-TEXT: A man demonstrates the British Sign Language sign for "ecosystem": a tap on the chest with the right middle finger, followed by a circular movement of the right hand, palm facing down, followed by a circular movement of both hands, interlocked by the thumbs and index fingers.

There are people out there making #science really inclusive! 👏👏 A British Sign Language #BSL glossary by scientific field! Inclusivity makes science for everybody! We are all together in this, in the same "ecosystem" 👇

🧪 #EDI #inclusivity #biology

www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

Can we do "taser politics" now?

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

Ever wondered how the current scientific publishing system came to be? Here is an old article about it and the man who got rich from it... 🧪 #science #publishorperish 🤦‍♂️

www.theguardian.com/science/2017...

And they keep closing #archaeology departments as if we cannot learn anything useful from the past...great thread! 👏👏

A thread 🧵👇 about Bronze Age collapse and #AI future! A very insightful parallel suggesting and confirming that smaller, targeted and decentralised models are more resilient than the centralised and gargantuan ones from bigtech, and likely the future we are heading toward! 🧪 #science 🏺 #archaeology

🧪 #science 📊 #stats

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

One of my favourite #science feelings too! 🧪 What's yours?

Here is my spot in the @bsky.app Universe! Humble, marginal but surrounded by some interesting people: palaeoanthropologists, archaeologists, ancient #DNA researchers, classical scholars...and unexpectedly Queer Taylor Swift Fans! 🧪 #science 🏺 #anthropology #archaeology

bluesky-map.theo.io

Unbelievable! So sorry to hear that! We are losing important and brilliant science because of selfish politics.