While walking to the gym this morning my Trione Park detour took me past this osprey perched on a light by one of the football fields.

I wanted to get a quick walk by the bay before doing some shopping, but it was hard to keep up with this fellow.

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A matter of taste: Did Neanderthals really like sapiens women? Going by the headlines, the matter seems to be settled. El País announces that Neanderthal men "chose" sapiens women. Science journal speaks of a "partner preference." National Geographic is already i...

If you've seen some of the recent stories about sapiens women preferring Neanderthal men or vice versa, this piece does a nice job of debunking the click-bait headline:
phys.org/news/2026-04... #Neanderthal #interbreeding 🧪

www.al.com/politics/202...

I’m sure she would 😁

Old white guy feet in the sand of the Mobile Bay beach at Village Point Park Preserve.

Snowy Egret walking along the silt barrier of the construction at Bayfront Park.

@anthropologal.bsky.social Archie would have loved this walk today

Looking at the keywords they screened for (table 1), I’m not sure many of the subjects included in the analysis knew much at all about actual redlining. As they note, very few use the term and my experience teaching about race showed few students were aware of it.

Exploring contemporary public perceptions of historical redlining practices in the United States - Computational Urban Science Redlining is a discriminatory practice of systematically denying loans or mortgages to residents in specific neighborhoods based on racial or ethnical composition. In current literature research, ther...

Personally, I think we were both more informative and entertaining about redlining in our Speaking of Race episode:
soundcloud.com/user-8895563.... If you'd like a transcript of the episode, let me know.
#redlining #racism 🧪

Wow!

How come Archie didn't get a shout out on the table picture?

Top 5 Scientific Racisms In this episode we respond to a listener question about our top 5 examples of scientific racism. Unfortunately, in the five years of this podcast, we’ve only discussed two of these people/topics, so w

If you want a resource for teaching about race, please see the podcast Speaking of Race that I helped with. Here's a popular episode: soundcloud.com/user-8895563...

Humans Are Wonderfully Varied. Scholars Shouldn’t Let the Government Say Otherwise. - Science Politics Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.

"In the current moment every academic has to consider both what is at stake by staying silent and what one can do to protect everyone’s right to knowledge."🧪

Well, what do you expect from someone who claims to lower drug prices by 600%.

Alabama GOP lawmakers’ Commandment: We shalt not separate church from state www.al.com/politics/202...

This is one of the best things about moving to be closer to the grandkids.

I identified this guy as night heron, but there were also gulls, big brown pelicans fishing and swimming, Caspian terns, snowy egrets, and great blue herons including one who dared me to walk past him on the pier at Bayfront (see the other picture), a dare I didn't take!

My walking path from the parking lot at Village Point Park Nature Preserve to the pier at Bayfront Park, but not out onto the pier. Starts in the woods, drops down to the swamp, and then to the beach. Beautiful day today.

No Yellowhammers--from either continent--on this morning's walk, but the warm sand between my toes more than made up for it. @anthropologal.bsky.social

Thanks for my morning giggle 🤭

The Alabama Yellowhammer woodpecker.

That’s not our yellowhammer!

Thanks so much to the fascist-in-charge🤬

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I walk the trail through this patch a couple of times a week.

A labeled patch of poison ivy next to a trail in Village Point Park Nature Preserve.

@anthropologal.bsky.social, I know this is no hogweed, but thought I’d give you a taste of the old homestead.

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And who's stranger than me?

But you help me feel happier almost every day!

Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences? Abstract. We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation,

If you have a presentation coming up soon, you might want to check out this research on the use of humor in presentations. Their finding jokes in presentations show male privilege can't come as a surprise. Humor can also help make the point stick.🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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It’s also good to know that Switzerland exists. I was beginning to think it was part of a mythical realm like South Dakota🤣

Glad for both you and Archie that you got home safely 😁