Mongolia
Mongolia
Political science 51%
Sociology 15%

No free coffee! But surprisingly we do have *good* coffee on campus, for us heathens!
But no faculty lounge. And no coffee. If we did have a faculty lounge it would be compulsory Dirty Soda Dispensers a la: www.allrecipes.com/what-is-dirt...
Meet Dirty Soda: The β€˜It’ Drink of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
We did a deep-dive into dirty soda, the trending drink that is popular in Utah thanks to TikTok (MomTok) and the new "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" show everyone is talking about on Hulu.
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May 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM

My best friend in 1st-5th grade once said to me she wanted to make a concrete impression of her butt so she'd have the most comfortable seat.
I'm sending her this story...
May 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM

We *definitely* don't have them at Utah State.
May 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM

Ha. Fair.
May 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM

Oh no! A yikes emoji?
May 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM

I loved his book "Owls of the Eastern Ice" which gave me all the feels about my work doing archaeology in Mongolia. Did @jonathanslaght.com know my favorite animal is a tiger? Probably not, but I'm gonna pretend he did and he wrote this book for me. :)
***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only.
Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z
#booksky
May 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM

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***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only.
Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z
#booksky
May 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM

Here's the beginnings of my cover art for my new book, "Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity." Thanks to @carlbergstrom.com who, when I first started painting, told me about someone he knew who painted all her slides at talks. Gave me the courage to ask to paint my book cover!
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Hey 🏺πŸ§ͺ! My solo-authored book has a landing page!
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover!
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological ComplexityΒ explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
www.routledge.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM

I use this exact mosaic to talk about food webs in ancient times! Great example of tracking trophic networks in the past! www.google.com/books/editio...
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research
Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban space...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM

All y'all who are porting your tweets from the Old Place over... I kinda love starting over. Like when I graduated from WSU and had to have my email just disappear... time for a fresh slate... who will BSKY Stefani *be*
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start
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November 24, 2024 at 3:07 PM

What are the coolest current methods in Social Science? I did a lecture and activity on topic modeling yesterday and my students *loved* it. Agent-based modeling and network analysis coming up, but would love to know your thoughts!
Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! πŸ§ͺ 🏺!
November 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM

You were the best of Twitter. I miss old Twitter.
Do you take requests?
When I was a kid my dad told me Astrapia stephaniae was named after me and I believed him for a couple years. Will you do your makeup as her? :)
November 15, 2024 at 4:29 PM

I was an early early early person on bluesky, it just hadn't taken off... but I feel like, maybe it has critical mass now? We shall see.
November 13, 2024 at 5:51 PM

Welp, I finally deactivated my profile on the Other Site. Hello bluesky, you're it now. Please become a better place for interacting with my fellow scientists.
a man in a bow tie says " science rules "
ALT: a man in a bow tie says " science rules "
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November 12, 2024 at 7:21 PM

This. This is me.
August 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM

Now that Bluesky has GIFs it is officially more useful than The Place Formerly Known as Twitter. I can resume my way of naturally communicating--with muppets!
Kermitthefrog Dance GIF
ALT: Kermitthefrog Dance GIF
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May 1, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
December 13, 2023 at 1:06 PM

Aquatic bison. Let's call the conspiracy theorists. :-p
December 12, 2023 at 5:52 PM

My zoo arch class was a while ago, and I'm better with desert stuff than fishy/water mammal stuff. Thus the "I believe". It has a huge spinous process, but so do bison vests (but I don't think this is a bison, lol).
December 11, 2023 at 10:46 PM

I believe it's a cervical vert of a seal.
December 11, 2023 at 7:29 PM

Oh man, same. <fistbump>
December 7, 2023 at 1:15 AM

SOUND THE JOB KLAXON! My department at the **MOAB** Campus is hiring! Recreation resource management and nature based tourism! Environment and Society is a great department, Moab is beautiful, and we are truly interdisciplinary. Join us! Due Dec 8! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/7083/as...
November 28, 2023 at 6:24 PM

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IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions.

"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
November 24, 2023 at 7:00 PM

So proud to be external faculty at @sfiscience.bsky.social a "playground for geniuses". www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ...
November 13, 2023 at 11:08 PM

It's super interesting and fun! Lemme know if you ever want to head to the Darkhad!
October 1, 2023 at 1:28 AM

Oh awesome! I am reading your book now and love it. Dad is a birder, I do fieldwork in Mongolia, it gives me all the feels.
September 30, 2023 at 3:59 PM

Damn, Carl, this looks amazing.
September 15, 2023 at 5:15 PM

Had a lovely few day workshop at SFI on collective adaptation. Highlights included birding with @carlbergstrom.com, bringin my Ph.D. student Stan Rhodes and watching him *shine*, and doing great science. I even told folks to Heliotown, our own private Meow Wolf like space.
September 15, 2023 at 5:14 PM

Welcome to @katietherockdoc.bsky.social, who just joined Bluesky! Katie is a scientist who has worked on the House Natural Resource Committee, now Deputy Director at Blue Green Alliance, and her profile pic is her testifying before congress. She's a badass scientist who works on Policy! Follow! πŸ§ͺ
Bluesky Social
See what's next.
katietherockdoc.bsky.social
July 13, 2023 at 3:14 PM