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Biological Anthropology
Boston U ‘25
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bygen.bsky.social
@lindsaynikole.bsky.social preorder came in today!
A photo of the book “Epic Earth” by Lindsay Nikole against a dark countertop with clutter around the edges of the photo
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
bygen.bsky.social
“NO KINGS FLORENCE, SC” - sign up now! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
NO KINGS FLORENCE, SC · Indivisible
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
www.mobilize.us
June 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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sternbergh.bsky.social
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
FYI: You might know me as any number of things, but one of the things I am is a YouTuber who has been running a yearly charity event since 2007. That’s going to become apparent on my bsky feed over the next four or five days.

You can learn more about it at projectforawesome.com.
Project For Awesome 2025
projectforawesome.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
bygen.bsky.social
Everywhere I look I see his face
Asgard’s palace from the movie Thor: Ragnarok A probability mass function of a Poisson distribution
February 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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science.org
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
scim.ag
January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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jymbyrnes.bsky.social
January 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia
The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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billywarren007.bsky.social
Damn I won’t be able to watch it, but I hope it goes well 👍🏻 also in doing some research on the pyramid of Sekhemkhet, some information you will useful when it comes to fake archaeology that I feel isn’t brought up nearly enough (source is The Lost Pyramid by M. Zakaria Goneim and more info in alt):
Fig 12 in M. Zakaria Goneim’s 1956 book The Lost Pyramid shows the remains of a ramp used in the construction of Sekhemkhet’s unfinished Step Pyramid at Saqqara, Goneim refers to them in the text as construction embankments. An excerpt from page 84: “To return again to the new pyramid: during the course of my excavations in the season of 1953-54, I found evidence which appears to confirm the above theory, although full confirmation can only be made after further investigation of the area surrounding the pyramid. On four sides of the structure I found traces of what are almost certainly construction embankments-the "foot-hold embank-ments" described above, which were intended to give the workmen access to the higher portions of the monument. They are formed of tafl (chips of soft clay) from the underground galleries. An interesting fact which I noted is that the top of these embankments is higher than the present level of the pyramid, suggesting that it was originally built up to a higher level than the present one, and that the upper courses have been removed during quarrying operations.” Goneim, M.Z. (1956). The Lost Pyramid.
January 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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paleoanthjourn.bsky.social
PaleoAnthropology Journal has made it to Bluesky! We are a fully externally peer-reviewed, Open Access, online-only journal. We have no publication fees, and are accessible free of charge to all. Find our website above to read our current issue, or if you are interested in submitting to our journal
January 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
bygen.bsky.social
Its so interesting to see how differently the people who make these puzzles think compared to me, I thought for sure the green was blue, yellow was green, and blue was yellow

Connections
Puzzle #593
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January 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
In a new paper Matthews, Tabery, & @ent3c.bsky.social articulate a value-harm trade off framework to distinguish controversial from abhorrent science. Concluding: "genomic race science is not just controversial science but, rather, abhorrent science... because it is both valueless and harmful."
How to Diagnose Abhorrent Science
What makes certain scientific research controversial? And when does scientific research go beyond being merely controversial to be something far worse? We propose a diagnostic framework for distingui...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:51 PM
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gillianrbrown1.bsky.social
🚨 PhD project: 4-year PhD project on human reproduction, mating strategies and gender roles. Funding is via BBSRC EastBio (i.e. funding not attached to specific project). Please get in touch with me (UK/international).

Deadline for nominated applicant: 17 Jan 2025

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
EASTBIO: Bateman’s principles and human reproductive strategies: a biosocial approach at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EASTBIO: Bateman’s principles and human reproductive strategies: a biosocial approach at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 6, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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markgrabowski.bsky.social
Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
December 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
bygen.bsky.social
In high school they called her little legs Lucy
December 19, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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therealjackhopkins.bsky.social
This article highlights why more “crazy motherfuckers”are likely going to kill more extremely wealthy, “heartless, motherfuckers.”

Society has reached the tipping point on inequities. Especially those leaving the masses to suffer and die.

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 AM
bygen.bsky.social
#zooarchaeology people, does this mandible belong to a mule deer fawn? Northern California
Lateral view of the left mandible of an herbivorous mammal resting on a bed of moss and leaves Dorsal view of the left mandible of an herbivorous mammal being held by a gloved hand above a moss covered rock
December 18, 2024 at 2:39 AM
bygen.bsky.social
I love when scientists throw shade in papers, “our own sample size of 11 would allow no better than 50% reliability; however, we are … not making confident claims for a new locomotor mode, from what we know to be [an] … unsatisfactory sample size.”

It’s too good
December 17, 2024 at 6:51 PM
bygen.bsky.social
If you haven’t, watch the movie También la Lluvia (2010)
jwhoopes2.bsky.social John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social · Dec 15
“Privatize” is just another word for steal.
December 17, 2024 at 5:20 PM
bygen.bsky.social
Merry Christmas, here’s a grave!
johngreensbluesky.bsky.social John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · Dec 17
and yes I am doing my holiday shopping late.
December 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM
bygen.bsky.social
TIL smog is a portmanteau
December 16, 2024 at 8:21 PM
bygen.bsky.social
Peacocks look fake
Two vibrantly blue peacocks sitting in the sun in a sparsely wooded area at the Franklin Park Zoo
December 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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tori.dftba.social
This isn’t really a good graph as much as it’s the worst graph I’ve ever seen, but it’s the BEST worst graph I’ve ever seen
December 12, 2024 at 12:48 AM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM