Dr. Kim Foecke
@kimfoecke.bsky.social
Geochemist to paleoanthropologist. Neanderthal diet + nitrogen isotopes, XRF evangelist. Assistant Professor at George Mason U. PhD from GWU CASHP.
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Dr. Kim Foecke
@kimfoecke.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I went from 23 followers to more than 800 in a week, so I think it’s time for an intro! Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m a shiny brand new assistant professor (this is my first semester)! I mainly study the interplay between culture and environment in human paleoecosystem reconstruction. 1/
(1/2) Posting on behalf of Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, with whom I was on this panel.
“The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.”
youtu.be/9XJd9Nbmy-k
“The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.”
youtu.be/9XJd9Nbmy-k
Homo naledi the lies
YouTube video by Jamie Hodgkins
youtu.be
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
(1/2) Posting on behalf of Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, with whom I was on this panel.
“The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.”
youtu.be/9XJd9Nbmy-k
“The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.”
youtu.be/9XJd9Nbmy-k
Data time. Agree or disagree - In the age of AI, it is a reasonable teaching strategy for an online course to only derive grades from exams.
May 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Data time. Agree or disagree - In the age of AI, it is a reasonable teaching strategy for an online course to only derive grades from exams.
Hello hive mind! Given the current state of *gestures wildly*, I’m looking for other sources than NSF who fund postdoc salaries through grants. Project could easily be categorized in anthro/archaeo, paleontology, geosci, environmental sci, or forensics. Any ideas welcome!
April 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Hello hive mind! Given the current state of *gestures wildly*, I’m looking for other sources than NSF who fund postdoc salaries through grants. Project could easily be categorized in anthro/archaeo, paleontology, geosci, environmental sci, or forensics. Any ideas welcome!
To break up all the terrible, I have a good question from a student, and I don’t know the answer! Scientists, help me out! My student is interested in hair, and wants to know what mechanism causes mammal body hair to grow to a finite length after it has been cut (shaved). 1/2
February 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
To break up all the terrible, I have a good question from a student, and I don’t know the answer! Scientists, help me out! My student is interested in hair, and wants to know what mechanism causes mammal body hair to grow to a finite length after it has been cut (shaved). 1/2
One of my students told me today that my outfit is “old school.” Like girl please, you’re dressed like my mom in 1997 😂
January 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
One of my students told me today that my outfit is “old school.” Like girl please, you’re dressed like my mom in 1997 😂
My living room bookshelves at home are full of cast hominin skulls, and I love them, but sometimes I am aggressively reminded how *not normal* this is when strangers…like electricians…come into my house. 🥴
December 3, 2024 at 7:34 PM
My living room bookshelves at home are full of cast hominin skulls, and I love them, but sometimes I am aggressively reminded how *not normal* this is when strangers…like electricians…come into my house. 🥴
Giving detailed editing and feedback on grad student class term papers is hella exhausting, but when a student drops in an assessment that doing a particular statistical test would not yield an informative result and completely correctly explain why makes it all worth it 🎉
November 30, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Giving detailed editing and feedback on grad student class term papers is hella exhausting, but when a student drops in an assessment that doing a particular statistical test would not yield an informative result and completely correctly explain why makes it all worth it 🎉
We did it!! We all, as an academic community, helped push an actual change! 🎉
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Open-access journal elife will lose its ‘impact factor’ over controversial publishing model
Web of Science index decides to strip key metric because elife’s unusual peer review doesn’t meet its criteria
www.science.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:00 PM
We did it!! We all, as an academic community, helped push an actual change! 🎉
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
This week in Food and Human Evolution, my class knapped stone tools, used them to butcher a chicken, nut cracked, extracted marrow, milled their own corn meal, pressed their own olive oil, and imaged all the marks the processing made on things with a microscope! #ActiveLearning
November 18, 2024 at 6:55 PM
This week in Food and Human Evolution, my class knapped stone tools, used them to butcher a chicken, nut cracked, extracted marrow, milled their own corn meal, pressed their own olive oil, and imaged all the marks the processing made on things with a microscope! #ActiveLearning
Reposted by Dr. Kim Foecke
Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An open letter to evolutionary and human sciences; statistics has moved on and so should we. A proposal for more transparent research, and some notes on p < 0.003
Statistical reasoning and inference have become integral to how we reach conclusions as scientists. Few papers in evolutionary, biological, and human …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I went from 23 followers to more than 800 in a week, so I think it’s time for an intro! Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m a shiny brand new assistant professor (this is my first semester)! I mainly study the interplay between culture and environment in human paleoecosystem reconstruction. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 10:01 PM
I went from 23 followers to more than 800 in a week, so I think it’s time for an intro! Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m a shiny brand new assistant professor (this is my first semester)! I mainly study the interplay between culture and environment in human paleoecosystem reconstruction. 1/
I am very pleased to report that amid all the uncertainty in the world there is still one sure constant: undergrads love breaking things for science.
November 13, 2024 at 11:42 PM
I am very pleased to report that amid all the uncertainty in the world there is still one sure constant: undergrads love breaking things for science.
Reposted by Dr. Kim Foecke
📣 🏺
A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!
Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)
go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!
Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)
go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
November 11, 2024 at 2:44 PM
📣 🏺
A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!
Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)
go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack!
Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment)
go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:
-Data entry for a faceless corporation
-Running tests on airport runway de-icers
-Helping catch painting forgers
-Data entry for a faceless corporation
-Running tests on airport runway de-icers
-Helping catch painting forgers
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:
* counseled at camp and led canoe trips
* sorted invoices
* operated a 16" telescope
* ran experiments on a dye laser
(the latter sounds highly skilled but I was an undergraduate student and absolutely terrible at it)
* counseled at camp and led canoe trips
* sorted invoices
* operated a 16" telescope
* ran experiments on a dye laser
(the latter sounds highly skilled but I was an undergraduate student and absolutely terrible at it)
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:
+ waiter at a buffet-style† steak restaurant
+ waiter at a cafe/bar
+ bookstore clerk
+ 3rd shift hotel front desk
+ many jobs at Kinkos, also including 3rd shift‡
† IOW fancy fancy
‡ I am aware it’s ironic I now run a press
+ waiter at a buffet-style† steak restaurant
+ waiter at a cafe/bar
+ bookstore clerk
+ 3rd shift hotel front desk
+ many jobs at Kinkos, also including 3rd shift‡
† IOW fancy fancy
‡ I am aware it’s ironic I now run a press
November 11, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now:
-Data entry for a faceless corporation
-Running tests on airport runway de-icers
-Helping catch painting forgers
-Data entry for a faceless corporation
-Running tests on airport runway de-icers
-Helping catch painting forgers
The amount of confusion I just caused in a grocery store cashier by purchasing 5 lbs of popcorn kernels, 3 huge bags of whole unshelled nuts, 4 whole raw chickens, a bag of tootsie rolls and a peach Bellini…
(My students are doing experimental archaeology tomorrow, and tonight is self care Sunday)😂
(My students are doing experimental archaeology tomorrow, and tonight is self care Sunday)😂
November 10, 2024 at 10:37 PM
The amount of confusion I just caused in a grocery store cashier by purchasing 5 lbs of popcorn kernels, 3 huge bags of whole unshelled nuts, 4 whole raw chickens, a bag of tootsie rolls and a peach Bellini…
(My students are doing experimental archaeology tomorrow, and tonight is self care Sunday)😂
(My students are doing experimental archaeology tomorrow, and tonight is self care Sunday)😂
Reposted by Dr. Kim Foecke
NEW VIDEO. An update on the Homo naledi controversy!
"The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke (@kimfoecke.bsky.social). Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?"
A great chat that covers open science, replicability, geosciences, and Homo naledi
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Wd...
"The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke (@kimfoecke.bsky.social). Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?"
A great chat that covers open science, replicability, geosciences, and Homo naledi
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Wd...
The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke. Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?
A look at geochemical methods and best practices as it relates to the claims that Homo naledi buried their dead.Chapters3:31. Why critique the still-to-be-pu...
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August 4, 2024 at 4:38 PM
NEW VIDEO. An update on the Homo naledi controversy!
"The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke (@kimfoecke.bsky.social). Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?"
A great chat that covers open science, replicability, geosciences, and Homo naledi
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Wd...
"The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke (@kimfoecke.bsky.social). Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?"
A great chat that covers open science, replicability, geosciences, and Homo naledi
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Wd...
I don’t know how many people are hanging out on here anymore, but paper acceptance announcement! Coming soon to a computer screen near you:
June 7, 2024 at 3:46 PM
I don’t know how many people are hanging out on here anymore, but paper acceptance announcement! Coming soon to a computer screen near you:
Now that everything is official, I am SO EXCITED to announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at @GeorgeMasonU! Thrilled to get to teach amazing students, and watch this space for exciting new research in human paleoecology! #NewPI
April 16, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Now that everything is official, I am SO EXCITED to announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at @GeorgeMasonU! Thrilled to get to teach amazing students, and watch this space for exciting new research in human paleoecology! #NewPI
Alright makeup-wearing scientists - someone has to have come up with a legit method to identify a good foundation color match. Give me your recs, because I’m on product purchase 3 in two weeks and I currently look like a jaundiced oompa-loompa 🫠
March 30, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Alright makeup-wearing scientists - someone has to have come up with a legit method to identify a good foundation color match. Give me your recs, because I’m on product purchase 3 in two weeks and I currently look like a jaundiced oompa-loompa 🫠
Hello lovely colleagues! Drop any tips you have for job talks 👇
January 12, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Hello lovely colleagues! Drop any tips you have for job talks 👇
All I want for Christmas is a decision on any of the 4 first author papers I currently have in review 🤞🤞🤞
December 19, 2023 at 4:13 PM
All I want for Christmas is a decision on any of the 4 first author papers I currently have in review 🤞🤞🤞
Can you do a statistical test to check for differences between groups (on a single metric) if the sample size in each group is between like…1 and 4? And sample sizes are not the same between all groups? Am I better off not doing stats at all? Help!
November 19, 2023 at 11:46 PM
Can you do a statistical test to check for differences between groups (on a single metric) if the sample size in each group is between like…1 and 4? And sample sizes are not the same between all groups? Am I better off not doing stats at all? Help!
Newest cool work from Dr. Veatch!
📢 Check out my newest paper published in JAS @ElsevierArchaeo !
“Prey body size generates bias for human and avian agents: Cautions for interpreting small game assemblages”
#Ethnoarchaeology #experimental #taphonomy #smallgame #rats #butchery
authors.elsevier.com/a/1h%7EJA15S...
“Prey body size generates bias for human and avian agents: Cautions for interpreting small game assemblages”
#Ethnoarchaeology #experimental #taphonomy #smallgame #rats #butchery
authors.elsevier.com/a/1h%7EJA15S...
October 26, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Newest cool work from Dr. Veatch!
My dog pouts at me until I tuck him in with his favorite blankie.
October 20, 2023 at 3:01 AM
My dog pouts at me until I tuck him in with his favorite blankie.
If I’ve spoken with you about a published reply to a certain person’s human origins paper, check your e-mail! If you think this should include you and didn’t, comment here!
October 13, 2023 at 2:29 AM
If I’ve spoken with you about a published reply to a certain person’s human origins paper, check your e-mail! If you think this should include you and didn’t, comment here!