Cora Leder
@bioarchaeology.bsky.social
PhD candidate in osteoarchaeology. Into Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic, currently studying the pinky finger.
🏳️🌈 she/they
🏳️🌈 she/they
I have been buried deep in data collection for my PhD project and everything has been going suspiciously well.
My only issue is that I am running out of entertainment!
Would love some podcast or video essay recommendations from my fellow lab rats! 🦣🏺
My only issue is that I am running out of entertainment!
Would love some podcast or video essay recommendations from my fellow lab rats! 🦣🏺
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I have been buried deep in data collection for my PhD project and everything has been going suspiciously well.
My only issue is that I am running out of entertainment!
Would love some podcast or video essay recommendations from my fellow lab rats! 🦣🏺
My only issue is that I am running out of entertainment!
Would love some podcast or video essay recommendations from my fellow lab rats! 🦣🏺
I'm starting data collection tomorrow! It's going to be fun and extremely stressful and I have a hard cut off in the shape of a surgery mid-December. Fingers crossed that I'll be able to do some data processing from bed during the recovery!
November 2, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I'm starting data collection tomorrow! It's going to be fun and extremely stressful and I have a hard cut off in the shape of a surgery mid-December. Fingers crossed that I'll be able to do some data processing from bed during the recovery!
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OVERDOSE VICTIM - the corpse stares up at you, lifeless
KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective, we need to record the cause of death."
1. "Another casualty of communist ideology."
2. "Fentanyl? Let's put down Fentanyl."
3. [Inland Empire - Heroic] "Kim, did you know that paracetamol gives you autism?"
KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective, we need to record the cause of death."
1. "Another casualty of communist ideology."
2. "Fentanyl? Let's put down Fentanyl."
3. [Inland Empire - Heroic] "Kim, did you know that paracetamol gives you autism?"
September 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
OVERDOSE VICTIM - the corpse stares up at you, lifeless
KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective, we need to record the cause of death."
1. "Another casualty of communist ideology."
2. "Fentanyl? Let's put down Fentanyl."
3. [Inland Empire - Heroic] "Kim, did you know that paracetamol gives you autism?"
KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective, we need to record the cause of death."
1. "Another casualty of communist ideology."
2. "Fentanyl? Let's put down Fentanyl."
3. [Inland Empire - Heroic] "Kim, did you know that paracetamol gives you autism?"
I secured a really prestigious research grant this summer and am now officially two weeks into my PhD while fully funded. It took two years of work (or a decade, depending on how you count) and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here
be proud of your work and share it here
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I secured a really prestigious research grant this summer and am now officially two weeks into my PhD while fully funded. It took two years of work (or a decade, depending on how you count) and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
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"So why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died?"
(For legal reasons I'm compelled to remind you that this song is about former deputy führer Rudolf Hess)
(For legal reasons I'm compelled to remind you that this song is about former deputy führer Rudolf Hess)
Chumbawamba - The day the nazi died
YouTube video by Huppelplopp1848
youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"So why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died?"
(For legal reasons I'm compelled to remind you that this song is about former deputy führer Rudolf Hess)
(For legal reasons I'm compelled to remind you that this song is about former deputy führer Rudolf Hess)
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Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.
🚨 IOF plans to bomb the archaeological magasins of @ebafjerusalem.bsky.social!
Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike
Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.
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Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
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BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
I was lucky to have integrated sex ed classes and while they were stil llacking in many aspects (e.g.: omission of queerness, strong focus on avoiding STIs and pregnancy), at the very least we got to avoid the weird shame-y secrecy part. We all got to go "EWWWW" at the same videos together.
As with bathrooms, we should ask what segregated sex-ed does in the first place. My memory is that it reinforced secrecy & shame. And of course hammered home the gender binary (uncontested in 1980s Ont) and compulsory heterosexuality (some cracks were showing) >
Imagine being a child who has done nothing wrong and yet you are bullied relentlessly by your entire community.
August 16, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I was lucky to have integrated sex ed classes and while they were stil llacking in many aspects (e.g.: omission of queerness, strong focus on avoiding STIs and pregnancy), at the very least we got to avoid the weird shame-y secrecy part. We all got to go "EWWWW" at the same videos together.
Find of the day is a gorgeous little blade made by a Neanderthal around 90'000 years ago using the Levallois technique. There is some retouching on the right side as well but the patina is very different, so we're a little unsure if that may just be damage. Once cleaned, we'll examine it! 🦣🏺
August 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Find of the day is a gorgeous little blade made by a Neanderthal around 90'000 years ago using the Levallois technique. There is some retouching on the right side as well but the patina is very different, so we're a little unsure if that may just be damage. Once cleaned, we'll examine it! 🦣🏺
🦣
Excavation is well under way! 🏺
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
August 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🦣
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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
August 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
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Excavation is well under way! 🏺
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
August 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Excavation is well under way! 🏺
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
Excavation is well under way! 🏺
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
August 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Excavation is well under way! 🏺
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
My goal today is to lower about a square metre of soil down to a layer of burnt bone, ash, and stone tools that is visible in the profile in the second picture.
It's a Middle Palaeolithic cumtural layer left behind by Neanderthals around 90'000 years ago.
Wasn't sure I'd get to say it this year but: I'm on my way to do field work!
Three weeks in my favourite place in the world, with some of my favourite people ever. Nine uninterrupted field seasons and counting. I'm a lucky bastard!
Three weeks in my favourite place in the world, with some of my favourite people ever. Nine uninterrupted field seasons and counting. I'm a lucky bastard!
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Wasn't sure I'd get to say it this year but: I'm on my way to do field work!
Three weeks in my favourite place in the world, with some of my favourite people ever. Nine uninterrupted field seasons and counting. I'm a lucky bastard!
Three weeks in my favourite place in the world, with some of my favourite people ever. Nine uninterrupted field seasons and counting. I'm a lucky bastard!
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it's never a real argument when someone says "maybe defending that minority isn't worth the cost to the rest of us," it's just bigotry, it's just that person revealing who they refuse to extend care to in a way they imagine absolves them of being monstrous
August 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
it's never a real argument when someone says "maybe defending that minority isn't worth the cost to the rest of us," it's just bigotry, it's just that person revealing who they refuse to extend care to in a way they imagine absolves them of being monstrous
This is such a bad take. If anything, over the past few weeks we have literally seen that his base does care.
The entire "there's a secret elite pedophile ring and they are covering it up" narrative is an incredibly load-bearing pillar of the current extreme right in the US.
The entire "there's a secret elite pedophile ring and they are covering it up" narrative is an incredibly load-bearing pillar of the current extreme right in the US.
There is literally no way in hell he allows himself to be removed from office.
Soooo….what then?
What’s the plan at that point? Do you think he cares if he’s disgraced? Do you think his base cares?
Again, I think the bigger issue is that the Epstein files prove the Kompromat Russia has on
Soooo….what then?
What’s the plan at that point? Do you think he cares if he’s disgraced? Do you think his base cares?
Again, I think the bigger issue is that the Epstein files prove the Kompromat Russia has on
July 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This is such a bad take. If anything, over the past few weeks we have literally seen that his base does care.
The entire "there's a secret elite pedophile ring and they are covering it up" narrative is an incredibly load-bearing pillar of the current extreme right in the US.
The entire "there's a secret elite pedophile ring and they are covering it up" narrative is an incredibly load-bearing pillar of the current extreme right in the US.
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When Trump mocked a disabled reporter, we warned you.
When he said his disabled nephew should be left to die, we warned you.
When we rushed “back to normal” & disabled people were left by the wayside, we warned you.
When Oz said it’s a “patriotic duty” to be healthy, we warned you.
When he said his disabled nephew should be left to die, we warned you.
When we rushed “back to normal” & disabled people were left by the wayside, we warned you.
When Oz said it’s a “patriotic duty” to be healthy, we warned you.
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
July 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
When Trump mocked a disabled reporter, we warned you.
When he said his disabled nephew should be left to die, we warned you.
When we rushed “back to normal” & disabled people were left by the wayside, we warned you.
When Oz said it’s a “patriotic duty” to be healthy, we warned you.
When he said his disabled nephew should be left to die, we warned you.
When we rushed “back to normal” & disabled people were left by the wayside, we warned you.
When Oz said it’s a “patriotic duty” to be healthy, we warned you.
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Last fall, the First Lego League project was focused on the ocean, so we had a massive number of requests for marine biologists come in to Skype a Scientist. I just got word that this year's theme is archaeology.
Know any archaeologists? tell them we're gonna NEED 'em.
forms.gle/HKYTUpEUWd91...
Know any archaeologists? tell them we're gonna NEED 'em.
forms.gle/HKYTUpEUWd91...
July 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Last fall, the First Lego League project was focused on the ocean, so we had a massive number of requests for marine biologists come in to Skype a Scientist. I just got word that this year's theme is archaeology.
Know any archaeologists? tell them we're gonna NEED 'em.
forms.gle/HKYTUpEUWd91...
Know any archaeologists? tell them we're gonna NEED 'em.
forms.gle/HKYTUpEUWd91...
Everything is horrible today, so I am fighting the terrors from the tub. Unfortunately, the landlady had scheduled a surprise tub inspection after an unfortunate incident last week. I don't think we passed.
July 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Everything is horrible today, so I am fighting the terrors from the tub. Unfortunately, the landlady had scheduled a surprise tub inspection after an unfortunate incident last week. I don't think we passed.
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Something I keep coming back to in these trying times is Margaret Killjoy's recommendation to "deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy." I feel like a lot of us, myself included, need to remind ourselves of this and think about what it means for us.
truthout.org/audio/lets-l...
truthout.org/audio/lets-l...
Let’s Learn and Live Lessons in Collective Survival Together
“We are really good at finding what’s wrong with each other,” says author and podcaster Margaret Killjoy.
truthout.org
July 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Something I keep coming back to in these trying times is Margaret Killjoy's recommendation to "deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy." I feel like a lot of us, myself included, need to remind ourselves of this and think about what it means for us.
truthout.org/audio/lets-l...
truthout.org/audio/lets-l...
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My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.
July 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My 11-year-old daughter, unhappy with the snacks and the long lines at camp, decided to start her own business with a couple of her campmates. I found this document on my computer.
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the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
there is enough.
there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.
once you accept that there's only one question:
why don't we?
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Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
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DID YOU KNOW that recorded history is surprisingly patchy before the year 1035? It is theorized that record-keeping improved significantly after the death of the King of England, Denmark and Norway (three crowns!) at the time.
Scholars refer to this phenomenon as post-Cnut clarity.
Scholars refer to this phenomenon as post-Cnut clarity.
July 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
DID YOU KNOW that recorded history is surprisingly patchy before the year 1035? It is theorized that record-keeping improved significantly after the death of the King of England, Denmark and Norway (three crowns!) at the time.
Scholars refer to this phenomenon as post-Cnut clarity.
Scholars refer to this phenomenon as post-Cnut clarity.