Lauren K
@violetconflict.bsky.social
PhD ancient history, amateur lover of biology; full of opinions. Enjoys typos + dogs dressed as dinosaurs. (she).
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"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets
thelocal.to/investigatin...
Looking into changing careers and becoming a hermit who never leaves my mountaintop.
Key sticking issues are whether I can heat my cave to 25° C and how good the WiFi is.
Key sticking issues are whether I can heat my cave to 25° C and how good the WiFi is.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Looking into changing careers and becoming a hermit who never leaves my mountaintop.
Key sticking issues are whether I can heat my cave to 25° C and how good the WiFi is.
Key sticking issues are whether I can heat my cave to 25° C and how good the WiFi is.
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Big news: I’m writing a book!!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Big news: I’m writing a book!!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
I’ll be writing & illustrating a beginner’s guide to appreciating wildlife in cities/suburbs, & how all of us can make our neighborhoods better for those animals.
Thank you to my book agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social & the folks at Storey for believing in this book!
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
I did not realize how much of my life at this point would be spent explaining that ChatGPT is not a search engine
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I did not realize how much of my life at this point would be spent explaining that ChatGPT is not a search engine
So has anyone written the article on Trump's ballroom and Nero's Golden House yet?
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
So has anyone written the article on Trump's ballroom and Nero's Golden House yet?
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Just absolutely bonkers to really see this in the course of my day-to-day life
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just absolutely bonkers to really see this in the course of my day-to-day life
The extent to which I would believe this about any given population
October 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The extent to which I would believe this about any given population
Huh, you know I had never actually watched the sketch before.
It really is specifically about that very same skull! What a world
It really is specifically about that very same skull! What a world
Platner's tattoo is literally the specific piece of Nazi iconography from the "Are we the baddies?" sketch.
Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"
YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations
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October 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Huh, you know I had never actually watched the sketch before.
It really is specifically about that very same skull! What a world
It really is specifically about that very same skull! What a world
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Look I know we're called Skype a Scientist but this semester the reality has been Zoom an Archaeologist lmao
Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.
Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?
Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)
We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?
Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)
We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
two men are pushing a small boat through the water .
Alt: Three young men are on a rowboat when it capsizes and then they salute as the ship sinks
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Look I know we're called Skype a Scientist but this semester the reality has been Zoom an Archaeologist lmao
I genuinely couldn't tell at first if this was retitled as a joke about fandom discourse
Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I genuinely couldn't tell at first if this was retitled as a joke about fandom discourse
Reading about Hep B in preparation for discussing it in my class sure is extra fun right now! It seems in ~2016 there was cautious optimism on eventual elimination, partly hinging on the US helping developing nations do vax at birth programs. And now it's on the chopping block in the US. Ha ha ha
September 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reading about Hep B in preparation for discussing it in my class sure is extra fun right now! It seems in ~2016 there was cautious optimism on eventual elimination, partly hinging on the US helping developing nations do vax at birth programs. And now it's on the chopping block in the US. Ha ha ha
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Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
It's just so weird to be teaching a class on how much diseases sucked in the ancient world, answer the "what changed?" question from a student with "understanding and vaccines" and then read about anti-science vaccine rollbacks.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's just so weird to be teaching a class on how much diseases sucked in the ancient world, answer the "what changed?" question from a student with "understanding and vaccines" and then read about anti-science vaccine rollbacks.
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it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
Regardless of the disgraceful nonsense we will likely hear from this administration in the coming days on vaccine “recommendations,” Americas healthcare insurers issued a joint statement tonight saying coverage for Covid and flu shots will remain unchanged from prior years.
Speaks for itself.
Speaks for itself.
September 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."
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In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise.
Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I run @skypeascientist.bsky.social which matches scientists w/classrooms, libraries, etc for Q&As.
We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
We match First Lego League teams too. This tends to wipe out one category of scientist bc so many teams sign up for the same category (this year, archaeologists). We're almost out of archaeologists.
September 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise.
Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
Not to exceed a FOUR YEAR period???
Four years?????? My MA and PhD took 8
Four years?????? My MA and PhD took 8
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Not to exceed a FOUR YEAR period???
Four years?????? My MA and PhD took 8
Four years?????? My MA and PhD took 8
I'm just living my life, trying to read about ancient Yersinia pestis and I am being attacked by citations of Didier Raoult. Why. Why must I suffer.
August 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I'm just living my life, trying to read about ancient Yersinia pestis and I am being attacked by citations of Didier Raoult. Why. Why must I suffer.
@lbciddio.bsky.social Really cool organization looking for archaeologists willing to talk to classrooms about their work!
Archaeologists! it's all hands on deck!
The first lego league theme this year is Archaeology! We are about to get a deluge of requests for YOU.
If you're willing to speak with a classroom/library/lego club virtually, sign up here! We wanna be ready for 'em 💪
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
The first lego league theme this year is Archaeology! We are about to get a deluge of requests for YOU.
If you're willing to speak with a classroom/library/lego club virtually, sign up here! We wanna be ready for 'em 💪
forms.gle/PU3x7oayXGr3...
August 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@lbciddio.bsky.social Really cool organization looking for archaeologists willing to talk to classrooms about their work!
It feels like there really ought to be a relatively accurate and clear simile for the idea of the molecular clock, but I can't think of one?
August 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It feels like there really ought to be a relatively accurate and clear simile for the idea of the molecular clock, but I can't think of one?
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World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...
Very cool profile of a very cool person!!!
I profiled @sarahmackattack.bsky.social for @thephilacitizen.bsky.social! thephiladelphiacitizen.org/2025-rad-awa...
2025 Rad Awards: Dr. Sarah McAnulty
Philadelphia biologist Sarah McAnulty brings science to the masses in classrooms, through burlesque, at meet-ups and on telephone poles
thephiladelphiacitizen.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Very cool profile of a very cool person!!!
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“I’ve spoken with chat gpt, it has the best sorts of ideas as you know, and it advises-“ like shut the fuck up Mr Collins
July 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
“I’ve spoken with chat gpt, it has the best sorts of ideas as you know, and it advises-“ like shut the fuck up Mr Collins