Christina M. Carolus, PhD
@cmcarolus.bsky.social
Archaeologist and archaeobotanist of Inner Asia. Cyclist. 📚🚴🧪🌿🎶 Director of the Khulunbuir Archaeological Project and Postdoctoral Scholar in the SAHND Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳 @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social gotta work on that Patagonia sponsorship next 😂
Who are they!? Our lab team working in Mongolia last summer made the cover of the SAA Archaeological Record! #archaeology @isazooarch.bsky.social @cmcarolus.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 3:16 PM
🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳 @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social gotta work on that Patagonia sponsorship next 😂
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This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
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props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com
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We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power.
My god, everything's so stupid.
My god, everything's so stupid.
U.S. electricity prices rose 7.4% in just one year, and energy policy analysts expect them to keep climbing faster than inflation in 2026. Meanwhile, data centers powering AI could nearly triple their energy use by 2030. buff.ly/KE663ZA
Rising electricity prices and an aging grid challenge the nation as data centers demand more power
Energy projects are expensive and take a long time to build. Where to build them is often also a difficult, even controversial, question.
buff.ly
December 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power.
My god, everything's so stupid.
My god, everything's so stupid.
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The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias.
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The plagiarism-droid just wants to please you, and it will do that by inventing citations, which you will love because of confirmation bias.
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
It's not a literature review if you haven't reviewed the fucking literature.
Jeez...
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Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
Trump team plans to break up ‘global mothership’ of climate science
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
www.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here's our reporting on the proposed dismantling of the jewel of US atmospheric science, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social.
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
The plan is to break NCAR apart and disburse some parts to other locations (like the research aircraft fleet) and eliminate others.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🧪 #AGU25 #climate
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Lab research now available in ✨Mongolian✨🇲🇳 We are fortunate to work and partner with colleagues who take on the critical labor of translating the work of our team for our Mongolian colleagues, scholars, and community members. @cmcarolus.bsky.social @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Lab research now available in ✨Mongolian✨🇲🇳 We are fortunate to work and partner with colleagues who take on the critical labor of translating the work of our team for our Mongolian colleagues, scholars, and community members. @cmcarolus.bsky.social @isazooarch.bsky.social @archaeojake.bsky.social
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The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.
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Due to popular demand, we will be extending the abstract submission for UKAS to after Christmas (8th January). Wishing a nice Winter break to everybody.
December 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Due to popular demand, we will be extending the abstract submission for UKAS to after Christmas (8th January). Wishing a nice Winter break to everybody.
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An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)
Programme - TAG 2025
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)
Excited to give a talk for Universität Bonn’s Debates in ArchaeoSciences Lecture Series this Friday, and to spend time with their wonderful research community! 🧪🏺
250 BC to 150 AD, the Xiongnu formed one of the earliest nomadic polities in Eastern Eurasia. Linked to the later Huns in Europe or not, their foodways were far more agricultural and diverse than assumed. Join us and @cmcarolus.bsky.social this Friday in HS2 — or get in touch for the Zoom link!
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Excited to give a talk for Universität Bonn’s Debates in ArchaeoSciences Lecture Series this Friday, and to spend time with their wonderful research community! 🧪🏺
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Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
New research calls for global action on micro and nanoplastics in the atmosphere
Scientists at the University of Manchester are calling for the creation of a global network of air monitoring stations to track the movement of airborne plastic pollution, which may be traveling furth...
phys.org
September 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
"The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming"
phys.org/news/2025-09...
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
August 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Looking forward to final Summer 2025 conference presentations, to take place at #ISBA11 in Turin. Tune in to a full length presentation on new proteomic evidence for the early spread of Asian rice at the #PAASTA meeting (8/26) as well as my scheduled flash talk on Thursday (8/28)!
August 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it?
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
ISBA11 starts tomorrow, and we have just one question for you... are you ready for it?
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #turin #Archaeology #Italy #conference #AreYouReady
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
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Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just found out that 74 of my works have been scraped/stolen by the plundering AI bots, which are nothing more than plagiarism machines really, with zero respect for copyright. My fellow writers, check it out for your own work.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Good read. Like the author of this thread I didn’t study at Chicago, but I did apply and have spoken there. And so many friends and colleagues passed through, coming out with impressive training in deep reading and analysis.
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Good read. Like the author of this thread I didn’t study at Chicago, but I did apply and have spoken there. And so many friends and colleagues passed through, coming out with impressive training in deep reading and analysis.
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In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
August 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
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*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website
August 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
*conference update* The short schedule, full schedule, and mid-conference trip information is now available on the SEAA website
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Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
✨✨Reminder that we are hosting a (virtual and in-person) pre-ISBA conference✨✨ on the 26th of August (13:00-17:00 CET) which will include talks from members of our community and the PAASTA Annual General Meeting. Additional details can be found here: paasta-community.github.io/events/2025/...
Pre-ISBA PAASTA Conference · PAASTA Community
paasta-community.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Registration deadline is TOMORROW! 🍝 🏺
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we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it
Posting this again. Not enough electricity left to build affordable homes in 3 west London boroughs, because all capacity has been used by a data centre.
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
#affordablehousingUK
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/repo...
Report: Home building to halt in West London, due to data center power demands
All the electricity capacity is already used up, GLA tells developers
www.datacenterdynamics.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
we need to change direction and we need to be serious about it
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Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I
August 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology