Jessie Slater PhD
@subbasegirl.bsky.social
Archaeologist straddling great divide between arts/science, UK/US, sanity/madness. Herding researchers, data, & integrity @science.org. Have own opinions, especially about fútbol. she/her
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/
Pinned
I'm no longer confused by either and I am so outraged that we have regressed to a place where women have even less bodily autonomy. Where coat hangers will once again become more than a symbol. Where angry white men standing on the sidelines make decisions for us all.
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Artists including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attack have joined an international initiative to geo-block their music from being streamed in Israel. n.pr/4qUTLhC
Why more than 1,000 musicians are boycotting Israel with 'No Music for Genocide'
Artists including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attack have joined an international initiative to geo-block their music from being streamed in Israel.
n.pr
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Artists including Lorde, Björk and Massive Attack have joined an international initiative to geo-block their music from being streamed in Israel. n.pr/4qUTLhC
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Utterly shameful
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser - BBC News
Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum has brought the hoard which includes a 2,000-year-old horse brooch.
share.google
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Utterly shameful
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
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🐀Male and female rats like to be tickled differently - males prefer rougher play.
🤣How do we know? Rats produce ultrasonic giggles that can be monitored with a bat detector.
🧪Why is this relevant? To improve lab animal welfare.
Ah, to tickle rats for a living...♥️
f1000research.com/articles/14-...
🤣How do we know? Rats produce ultrasonic giggles that can be monitored with a bat detector.
🧪Why is this relevant? To improve lab animal welfare.
Ah, to tickle rats for a living...♥️
f1000research.com/articles/14-...
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🐀Male and female rats like to be tickled differently - males prefer rougher play.
🤣How do we know? Rats produce ultrasonic giggles that can be monitored with a bat detector.
🧪Why is this relevant? To improve lab animal welfare.
Ah, to tickle rats for a living...♥️
f1000research.com/articles/14-...
🤣How do we know? Rats produce ultrasonic giggles that can be monitored with a bat detector.
🧪Why is this relevant? To improve lab animal welfare.
Ah, to tickle rats for a living...♥️
f1000research.com/articles/14-...
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Everybody to Senate Dems today:
a man says i 'm the guy who does his job while standing next to another man
Alt: Mark Wahlberg in The Departed says "i'm the guy who does his job; you must be the other guy"
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Everybody to Senate Dems today:
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Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Meet unlikely dining companions – Tytan the rhino and Notty the zebra! Rescued just a week apart, these two orphans are now inseparable. Where one goes, the other follows: during milk feeds, the two stand shoulder to shoulder, draining every last drop of their bottles. swt.bio/tytan
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Laub ist ein wichtiger Lebensraum für Tiere. Bitte entfernt es nicht mit “deutscher” Gründlichkeit und vermeidet Laubbläser und -sauger.
Lasst bitte den Tieren ihren Lebensraum.
Diese Vorstellung, jedes Blättchen gründlichst wegsaugen und in die Verbrennungsanlage karren zu müssen ist unnatürlich.
Lasst bitte den Tieren ihren Lebensraum.
Diese Vorstellung, jedes Blättchen gründlichst wegsaugen und in die Verbrennungsanlage karren zu müssen ist unnatürlich.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Laub ist ein wichtiger Lebensraum für Tiere. Bitte entfernt es nicht mit “deutscher” Gründlichkeit und vermeidet Laubbläser und -sauger.
Lasst bitte den Tieren ihren Lebensraum.
Diese Vorstellung, jedes Blättchen gründlichst wegsaugen und in die Verbrennungsanlage karren zu müssen ist unnatürlich.
Lasst bitte den Tieren ihren Lebensraum.
Diese Vorstellung, jedes Blättchen gründlichst wegsaugen und in die Verbrennungsanlage karren zu müssen ist unnatürlich.
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
No, I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day
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Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”
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FWIW, I love Parks and Rec because is a love letter to the people who, like Leslie Nope, show up every day to do the deeply unsexy work of making society function because they believe that their small contributions make the world a better place. In sufficient numbers, that’s exactly what they do.
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
FWIW, I love Parks and Rec because is a love letter to the people who, like Leslie Nope, show up every day to do the deeply unsexy work of making society function because they believe that their small contributions make the world a better place. In sufficient numbers, that’s exactly what they do.
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Woke up today to the news
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Woke up today to the news
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Plans for @scholarlypub.bsky.social's 2026 meeting are well underway! See what's in the works and what's memorable about previous meetings in a @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social guest post, with contributions by DCL's Marianne Calilhanna and David Turner: is.gd/pi7fUN
#SSP2026 | #ScholPub | #ScholComm
#SSP2026 | #ScholPub | #ScholComm
Guest Post — The SSP 48th Annual Meeting: Affirming Scholarly Publishing’s Essential Function - The Scholarly Kitchen
Get fired up for the SSP 48th Annual Meeting with inspiration from members of the Planning Committee!
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Plans for @scholarlypub.bsky.social's 2026 meeting are well underway! See what's in the works and what's memorable about previous meetings in a @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social guest post, with contributions by DCL's Marianne Calilhanna and David Turner: is.gd/pi7fUN
#SSP2026 | #ScholPub | #ScholComm
#SSP2026 | #ScholPub | #ScholComm
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‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit
‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit
Performance artist’s aggressive art historian shouts at visitors and insults curators – and his tours are sold out
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit
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Guest Post — The SSP 48th Annual Meeting: Affirming Scholarly Publishing’s Essential Function scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/31/g...
Guest Post — The SSP 48th Annual Meeting: Affirming Scholarly Publishing’s Essential Function - The Scholarly Kitchen
Get fired up for the SSP 48th Annual Meeting with inspiration from members of the Planning Committee!
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Guest Post — The SSP 48th Annual Meeting: Affirming Scholarly Publishing’s Essential Function scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/31/g...
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Egads, this is harrowing:
New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
radleybalko.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Egads, this is harrowing:
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“Maybe some people think, ‘Well, we need a holding school. We don’t have one.’ And so this is their solution because our community is mostly Black and brown, and so we’re going to fight back the least,” Elinoff said. “Intended or not, the message to many in our community is ‘You’re not worth it.'”
‘Completely blindsided’: Silver Spring International Middle community reeling from proposal to close school
Many in the SSIMS community were left shocked after Superintendent Thomas Taylor proposed closing the school by 2031.
bethesdamagazine.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Maybe some people think, ‘Well, we need a holding school. We don’t have one.’ And so this is their solution because our community is mostly Black and brown, and so we’re going to fight back the least,” Elinoff said. “Intended or not, the message to many in our community is ‘You’re not worth it.'”
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As usual at this time of year, a shout out to our local National Trust teams for whom it's a bit of a nightmare when the clocks change.
April 1, 2024 at 8:16 AM
As usual at this time of year, a shout out to our local National Trust teams for whom it's a bit of a nightmare when the clocks change.
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A reminder that @science.org is a learned society journal, owned & published by the non-profit @aaas.org. It's green open access, with no article processing fees for authors - compatible with all major funder mandates. All subscription revenue is reinvested in science, not paid to shareholders.
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October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A reminder that @science.org is a learned society journal, owned & published by the non-profit @aaas.org. It's green open access, with no article processing fees for authors - compatible with all major funder mandates. All subscription revenue is reinvested in science, not paid to shareholders.
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Team Canada is awesome: N.I.C.E. Agent welcomes US tourists in Canada 🇨🇦🤭💙
October 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Team Canada is awesome: N.I.C.E. Agent welcomes US tourists in Canada 🇨🇦🤭💙
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"One summer afternoon in Père Lachaise, the sprawling cemetery in the east of Paris, a white-haired man, neatly dressed, was tending his own grave ..."
My story on the historic cemeteries of the French capital, for the new issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-p...
My story on the historic cemeteries of the French capital, for the new issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-p...
Why Paris Designed Its Peculiarly Popular Grand Graveyards to Evoke a Celebration of Life Amid All the Death
Cemeteries that inspired parks serve as unlikely tourist attractions in the City of Light and prove that the end of the line is just the start of a new story
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"One summer afternoon in Père Lachaise, the sprawling cemetery in the east of Paris, a white-haired man, neatly dressed, was tending his own grave ..."
My story on the historic cemeteries of the French capital, for the new issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-p...
My story on the historic cemeteries of the French capital, for the new issue of @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-p...
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NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter?
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
NEW EPISODE: Who are our ancestors and why does it matter?
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...
Join our expert panellists as they answer audience questions about ancient DNA.
Listen on your favourite podcast platform: lnk.to/AQOSAncientD...