Several Bob's Big boy Bobs outside a restaurant. There are also a few Bob's Big Boy type lady figures.

What is the technical term for a group of Bob's Big Boys

Little known fact, it also only blooms while you’re on vacation.

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Cambridge University Press is proud to announce a new partnership to publish multiple journals of the Linguistic Society of America: Language, Phonological Data and Analysis, and Proceedings of the LSA!

📢 Learn more: cup.org/3Tj0XVc

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Great to see this out - in this article I elaborate on passive and active academic facilitation of #illicittrade in cultural objects, taking Mary Slusser and Emma Bunker as examples #returnthegods @saa-aap.bsky.social‬ @thesccjr.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Check out this absolute UNIT. 12/10 for promoting their human's work in American Antiquity.

The Next Phase of Advances in Archaeological Practice: From the Incoming Editor « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog I remember when Volume 1, Issue 1 of Advances in Archaeological Practice (AAP) was published in 2013. I was a graduate student at the time, undertaking dissertation research on the processes of inclus...

Introducing the new Editor of @saa-aap.bsky.social, Allison Mickel. Huge thanks to Sarah Herr, Christina Rieth and Sjoerd van der Linde for their brilliant work on the journal since 2016 - and welcome Allison! cup.org/43nWdCs

'Kalli', a dog, looks intently at the camera while a person holds a copy of "Advances in Archaeological Practice" published by the Society for American Archaeology.

Meet Kalli - the great-grandnephew of Kayle, from a past cover of the #SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social and article on canine detection training and protocols: ✅
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Kalli is on duty at #SAA2025Denver. What a handsome chap!🐾 #archaeology #openaccess

CANNOT believe I am at #SAA2025 and missed this.

This is one of my daughter and my favorite shows - thank you, we loved this episode!!

🙌Advances is stepping it up in the world of research transparency in publishing! We already offered digital badges for open data practices, but we now have an Associate Editor for Reproducibility, @benmarwick.bsky.social (omg, thank you Ben for this!) Check the link www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

OK I was wrong, *this* is how you do a graphical Abstract.

Touché, lower Manhattan.

Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents Whereas humans exhibit emergency responses to assist unconscious individuals, how nonhuman animals react to unresponsive conspecifics is less well understood. We report that mice exhibit stereotypic b...

This is how you do a graphical Abstract.

Child’s crude drawing of a narwhal

Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?

Supporting academic freedom as a human right: challenges and solutions in academic publishing This article explores academic freedom as it relates to scholarly publishing. While most discussions of academic freedom as a human right focus on threats to individuals’ personal safety and career...

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New report out, on a VERY unique burial we encountered during our research at Buen Suceso, Ecuador. Open Access on Latin American Antiquity.

doi.org/10.1017/laq....

A copy of the US Constitution left out on the sidewalk covered in snow

[insert symbolism]

Large Language Models lack essential metacognition for reliable medical reasoning - Nature Communications Large Language Models demonstrate expert-level accuracy in medical exams, supporting their potential inclusion in healthcare settings. Here, authors reveal that their metacognitive abilities are under...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... “current models exhibit a critical disconnect between perceived and actual capabilities in medical reasoning, posing significant risks in clinical settings”

1. Some sort of foreign service I believe
2. International Relations
3. … followed by History, Industrial Archaeology, and finally Egyptology (also switched schools twice 🫠)
4. Academic Publisher!

Google AI overview about how to eat an advent calendar suggests opening it at the bottom and removing the tray to eat all the chocolate at once.

Of all the things I've seen Google AI recommend doing, this is by far the worst.

Or like my daughter’s 4th grade reading comprehension workbook 🫠

But then again, perhaps not? “I also always mention in exhibitions and lectures that the Atlas Group documents are ones that I produced and that I attribute to various imaginary individuals..."[14]

Realizing I also read/forwarded your Scholarly Kitchen post last week 🤣

Just finished the best mystery I’ve read in years only to mosey on over here and find out that I somehow already follow author @bschillace.brandyschillace.com ? Except that also somehow makes perfect sense. #gratuitouscat

Egyptologists Unearth Depictions Of Simple Ramps, Levers Aliens Used To Build Pyramids

Egyptologists Unearth Depictions Of Simple Ramps, Levers Aliens Used To Build Pyramids
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Positive sentiment and expertise predict the diffusion of archaeological content on social media - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Positive sentiment and expertise predict the diffusion of archaeological content on social media

Super interesting new study on archaeology + social media: 🏺

"This shows that negative emotions and misinformation do not have an inherent advantage in social media diffusion. The success of archaeological information depends on the broader subject or the target community"

Read this as “the evergreen time travel question: what will I forget to pack” and am now consumed with worry about how to pack for potential time travel

Better care urged for animal remains tied to Indigenous peoples New recommendations stress tracing and respecting links between communities and animal bones, pelts, and other remains

Read about Chance Ward's work on thoughtful care for culturally significant animal remains in @science.org. The paper will be out later this month in Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social

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