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Kristina M. Gill
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Archaeobotanist, archaeologist, and historical ecologist working in island and coastal California. Native plant enthusiast 🌼 Lowe Syndrome Mom 🌼
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“There’re about a thousand of us.”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Alright we're up to 36.5% of what we sold last year. Still much worse but this is an improvement over 6 days ago!

Advent starts in a little over 2 weeks. Bring a little Eel-iday cheer into your house. EelFacts.net
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Senate hearings aren’t done for funsies. Section 106 is in the sights of the deregulation efforts of this administration. Speak up if you think it’s important cultural resources are considered in project permitting. www.culturalheritagepartners.com/section-106-...
Section 106 Isn’t the Bottleneck—But It’s on the Chopping Block
This week’s Senate Energy & Natural Resources hearing on Section 106 didn’t show that the NHPA causes permitting delays. It did, however, signal that threats to Section 106 are coming—and the preserva...
www.culturalheritagepartners.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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@profharley.bsky.social and I are both quoted in this Guardian article about the science of menstrual blood - the author made sure to point out we are married but not that we are also co-PIs on an R01 studying menstrual blood and endometriosis.

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?
Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Did you know that a typhoon just hit Alaska & displaced over 1,000 people and washed away entire communities?

If your media isn't covering this, it's bc these are Indigenous communities.
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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October 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm a Karuk food sovereignty advocate, traditional food gatherer, food writer & old nerd. My people are on the Klamath River & I grew up in the Hupa Valley. I wrote a cookbook about the way I use tradish foods in my family: tinyurl.com/4dufbvux
Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen — Quiet Quail Books
tinyurl.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵
October 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A committee of tribal members named the place tooromakma hinse nii (pronounced toe row mock ma hēēn say knee), which, in the Mutsun language, means “bobcats wander here.”
The Amah Mutsun are getting #LandBack within their ancestral territory of Juristac, in the Pajaro watershed, for the first time since dispossessed by mission San Juan Bautista.
baynature.org/2025/09/20/t...
A Land Back Success for the Amah Mutsun Within Its Historical Territory - Bay Nature
The tribe has been without a land base for more than 200 years.
baynature.org
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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The death of the premature baby born after their mother contracted measles highlights the danger of more and more people refusing vaccines.

An individual is contagious 4 days before the rash appears.

Imagine a child with measles at a daycare full of babies too young to be vaccinated.
October 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Submit a Claim
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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HOA got a county permit back in the 1980s to build a revetment on the condition that they keep access public, and recently homeowners started putting up barriers and went to court to privatize the walkway. Coastal commission fined HOA almost $5 million; court just ruled the barrier has to come down.
September 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html
a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .
Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .
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September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Incredibly specific question time: if you were an not-rich (ie, no private car) person traveling from Tehran to Paris in the early 1920s, what means of transportation would you take out of Iran? And would you pass by Kermanshah? Thank you for any ideas!
September 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Over 200 lithic artefacts have been found at Pilauco in Chile's Lake Region dating to 17,300–12,800 cal BP. 3D analysis proved they are human-made, suggesting human occupation in north-western Patagonia prior to the Younger Dryas period.

🔗 from 2024 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
September 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
www.routledge.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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"For our scientists" 🧪

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September 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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My PhD wasn't about space. It was a usewear and residue study of flaked glass artefacts that had been used for body modification, in the Pitt Rivers Museum. I made a bibliography of flaked glass and posted it to the Lithics-L back in 1998. Here it is if anyone is interested! 🧪 🏺
Flaked glass bibliography: a resource for lithics studies
I put this together for my PhD years ago, and sent it to the lithic email discussion list. Until recently it was still available online but ...
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August 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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August 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Hey Folks...You may start seeing social media sites and a website for Climate.us

If you see it, follow and share. It is legit and has some amazing, credible people behind it trying to plug leaks in the climate science world. Trust me on this one. More is coming....
August 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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The Heinrich Schliemann has a playground with a slide shaped like the Trojan Horse 😂
Tatsächlich lag die Entscheidung für "noch ein Museum?!" bei den Kids - aber das Trojanische Rutsch-Pferd mit Rutsche hat sie überzeugt …
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Third spaces etc etc :)
In an ethnographic study of youth political organizations, one of my PhD students found that the primary driver of engagement wasn't concern about particular issues but rather the chance to do something fun together with friends (eg, make posters for rallies, or go to meetings with free food).
August 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Monsoonal surge is now in full swing across California amid the ongoing heatwave. Widespread elevated convection across SoCal this AM, including offshore/coast. Cloud bases are high (~10k ft), so dry lightning and gusty winds are mixed in with brief downpours. [1/2] #CAwx #CAfire
August 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM