Sara McGuire, PhD
@femmedescience.bsky.social
Dr/She/her/hers. Bioarchaeologist; Smithsonian Collaborator & Former Postdoc; Assistant Professor
Love bones, dogs, baking, chemistry (isotopes & trace elements), books, & human rights. Neophyte @ proteomics. Opinions my own.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6534-7860
Love bones, dogs, baking, chemistry (isotopes & trace elements), books, & human rights. Neophyte @ proteomics. Opinions my own.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6534-7860
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My article has been published online as of this morning! I'm so stoked!
This article will be in the October 2025 edition (v. 182) of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The link here gives everyone free access to the article until October 21st - please read and share widely!
This article will be in the October 2025 edition (v. 182) of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The link here gives everyone free access to the article until October 21st - please read and share widely!
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September 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Can someone (or some epic legal machine) please litigate this administration into oblivion? I've never seen so many constitutional violations & impeachable offenses in so short a period of time. How long are we going to keep saying "Something's gotta give; something will stop them in their tracks?!"
September 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Can someone (or some epic legal machine) please litigate this administration into oblivion? I've never seen so many constitutional violations & impeachable offenses in so short a period of time. How long are we going to keep saying "Something's gotta give; something will stop them in their tracks?!"
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Have you noticed that Trump only won the presidency when he had a woman opponent? Both times.
That says more about us as a country and our failure to recognize the power of women than it does about him as a man.
That says more about us as a country and our failure to recognize the power of women than it does about him as a man.
September 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Have you noticed that Trump only won the presidency when he had a woman opponent? Both times.
That says more about us as a country and our failure to recognize the power of women than it does about him as a man.
That says more about us as a country and our failure to recognize the power of women than it does about him as a man.
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He seeks to rule by decree because he cannot govern within the law.
September 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
He seeks to rule by decree because he cannot govern within the law.
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“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
September 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.
They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.
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“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”
September 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”
My article has been published online as of this morning! I'm so stoked!
This article will be in the October 2025 edition (v. 182) of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The link here gives everyone free access to the article until October 21st - please read and share widely!
This article will be in the October 2025 edition (v. 182) of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The link here gives everyone free access to the article until October 21st - please read and share widely!
authors.elsevier.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
My article has been published online as of this morning! I'm so stoked!
This article will be in the October 2025 edition (v. 182) of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The link here gives everyone free access to the article until October 21st - please read and share widely!
This article will be in the October 2025 edition (v. 182) of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The link here gives everyone free access to the article until October 21st - please read and share widely!
Resigning is tantamount to complying in advance. DO NOT comply in advance. Fight fascism and authoritarianism however you can, whenever you can. Always.
I do not understand why government officials resign when asked to do something bad.
The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them.
Do not make it easy.
The resignations will no longer be treated by the public like a scandal. It’ll be out of the news within 24 hours. People should stay and force the White House to fire them.
Do not make it easy.
August 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Resigning is tantamount to complying in advance. DO NOT comply in advance. Fight fascism and authoritarianism however you can, whenever you can. Always.
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Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
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Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
Me over here, having to wait a year to get a regular old checkup with a primary care provider in the American healthcare system despite being told that my doctors office was “accepting new patients.” Yeah, ok.
America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare.
Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Me over here, having to wait a year to get a regular old checkup with a primary care provider in the American healthcare system despite being told that my doctors office was “accepting new patients.” Yeah, ok.
Took an unintentional break from #Science #Trivia #Saturday this summer (life, chaos, heat waves, ugh). Looking forward to getting back into things with the autumn semester, though! Send me your favorite science facts (the odder, the better), and I'll feature them throughout the school year! 🧪
August 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...
August 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Watchdog Group Downgrades U.S. From Democracy To Whatever Political System Lobsters Have theonion.com/watchdo...
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Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website
Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
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Let that sink in for a sec.
July 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Let that sink in for a sec.
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
FINALLY! One article accepted, another still in review...
#Academia #Research #AcademicResearch #Science #PostDoc #PostDocLife #Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Dissemination #Publication #Published #Smithsonian #SmithsonianInstitution #RevolutionaryAmerica #Philadelphia
#Academia #Research #AcademicResearch #Science #PostDoc #PostDocLife #Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Dissemination #Publication #Published #Smithsonian #SmithsonianInstitution #RevolutionaryAmerica #Philadelphia
July 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
FINALLY! One article accepted, another still in review...
#Academia #Research #AcademicResearch #Science #PostDoc #PostDocLife #Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Dissemination #Publication #Published #Smithsonian #SmithsonianInstitution #RevolutionaryAmerica #Philadelphia
#Academia #Research #AcademicResearch #Science #PostDoc #PostDocLife #Anthropology #Bioarchaeology #Dissemination #Publication #Published #Smithsonian #SmithsonianInstitution #RevolutionaryAmerica #Philadelphia
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
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When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Good morning 🫡
July 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Good morning 🫡