kristen h
@kristenh9.bsky.social
second year phd student for historical zooarchaeology @ umd / fantasy writer + porch swing enjoyer on the weekends. she/her
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So proud of his children. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
October 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
So proud of his children. Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
yesterday was actually a DREAM — got to visit the smithsonian’s bird collection to work on IDs for a few bird bones from Monticello. everyone there was incredibly generous, in spite of the looming government shutdown
October 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
yesterday was actually a DREAM — got to visit the smithsonian’s bird collection to work on IDs for a few bird bones from Monticello. everyone there was incredibly generous, in spite of the looming government shutdown
have been a bit ill for the last two weeks & had to take some forced r&r, which resulted in me finally playing Pentiment! i’m a bit late to the game, but SO enamored with the art style and narrative. would recommend to all fans of the reformation + illuminated manuscripts
September 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
have been a bit ill for the last two weeks & had to take some forced r&r, which resulted in me finally playing Pentiment! i’m a bit late to the game, but SO enamored with the art style and narrative. would recommend to all fans of the reformation + illuminated manuscripts
one week into my semester! excited for what looks to be a few months full of delightful readings, many more hours sifting through animal bones, and the occasional ceramics class (featuring my very much so in-progress hammerhead shark)
September 6, 2025 at 3:55 AM
one week into my semester! excited for what looks to be a few months full of delightful readings, many more hours sifting through animal bones, and the occasional ceramics class (featuring my very much so in-progress hammerhead shark)
i am about to start the second year of my phd, which is such a crazy thing to be able to say. my first year was extremely difficult for me (particularly adapting to a new city + returning to academia after a hiatus), but i’m very hopeful & excited for this semester!
August 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i am about to start the second year of my phd, which is such a crazy thing to be able to say. my first year was extremely difficult for me (particularly adapting to a new city + returning to academia after a hiatus), but i’m very hopeful & excited for this semester!
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I cannot emphasize how much nothing has happened
WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina, Ohio also sending National Guard troops to DC in further escalation of federal intervention in Dem city.
August 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I cannot emphasize how much nothing has happened
i picked a really cool and normal time to have moved from texas to dc
August 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
i picked a really cool and normal time to have moved from texas to dc
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It's been one year since DCist was shut down. We're proud of what we've built in that time with all of you. If you'd indulge us in some reminiscing, plus dreaming of the future, we'd love to hear your thoughts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's been one year since DCist was shut down. We're proud of what we've built in that time with all of you. If you'd indulge us in some reminiscing, plus dreaming of the future, we'd love to hear your thoughts: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Black History Month. ❤️🖤💚 For those who don't know me, I'm that democracy reform activist who does some quilting on the side. Don't let anyone tell you quilters aren't political. Meet my 2021 mini-quilt: American Democracy in Distress: Ignore Race at Our Peril. #quiltsky #blackhistorymonth #democracy
February 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Black History Month. ❤️🖤💚 For those who don't know me, I'm that democracy reform activist who does some quilting on the side. Don't let anyone tell you quilters aren't political. Meet my 2021 mini-quilt: American Democracy in Distress: Ignore Race at Our Peril. #quiltsky #blackhistorymonth #democracy
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Being a science writer right now is like…
9am - Coffee and constitutional crisis!
10am - Read a neat study on 5000-year-old beads.
11am - US science funding is off/on/off/on!
Noon - Email a researcher about Iron Age skeletons.
Afternoon - More constitutional crises and screaming into the void!
9am - Coffee and constitutional crisis!
10am - Read a neat study on 5000-year-old beads.
11am - US science funding is off/on/off/on!
Noon - Email a researcher about Iron Age skeletons.
Afternoon - More constitutional crises and screaming into the void!
February 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Being a science writer right now is like…
9am - Coffee and constitutional crisis!
10am - Read a neat study on 5000-year-old beads.
11am - US science funding is off/on/off/on!
Noon - Email a researcher about Iron Age skeletons.
Afternoon - More constitutional crises and screaming into the void!
9am - Coffee and constitutional crisis!
10am - Read a neat study on 5000-year-old beads.
11am - US science funding is off/on/off/on!
Noon - Email a researcher about Iron Age skeletons.
Afternoon - More constitutional crises and screaming into the void!
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Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”
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i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
i have written about this before but i have become extremely civic republican virtue pilled as a result of all of this. democracy will not work without an active effort to cultivate virtue among ordinary people!
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damn i have to work to make my ideas real? ok
January 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
damn i have to work to make my ideas real? ok
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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
January 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do
happy to report that i endured my first semester of my phd program!! i didn’t expect to be absolutely levelled by it—took me a few weeks to start feeling vaguely human-shaped again. hoping to share a bit of a write-up on my experience in the coming days
January 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
happy to report that i endured my first semester of my phd program!! i didn’t expect to be absolutely levelled by it—took me a few weeks to start feeling vaguely human-shaped again. hoping to share a bit of a write-up on my experience in the coming days
this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.
December 30, 2024 at 7:00 AM
starting on my last paper this semester 🙏 i’m writing on the potential applications of using creative writing as a method in archaeology! i love that i’m getting a chance to bridge my two loves (archaeology + writing)
December 12, 2024 at 7:19 PM
starting on my last paper this semester 🙏 i’m writing on the potential applications of using creative writing as a method in archaeology! i love that i’m getting a chance to bridge my two loves (archaeology + writing)
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Sotomayor scoffs at suggestion that democratic process will protect trans people: "When you’re 1% of the population or less, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you."
Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"
Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Sotomayor scoffs at suggestion that democratic process will protect trans people: "When you’re 1% of the population or less, it's very hard to see how the democratic process will protect you."
Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"
Adds: There are many more Black people/women, & the dem process "didn't protect them for whole centuries"
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Solidarity with all trans brothers and sisters today. That your future is yours is cold comfort when the state has you targeted but for whatever it’s worth we stand with you
the reason they are going to ban care for trans kids is because they want to kill trans kids. that is not a bug it is a feature
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Solidarity with all trans brothers and sisters today. That your future is yours is cold comfort when the state has you targeted but for whatever it’s worth we stand with you
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it is more than fine to simply be proud of what you survived in 2024, rather than focus on what you did or did not accomplish
December 3, 2024 at 10:39 PM
it is more than fine to simply be proud of what you survived in 2024, rather than focus on what you did or did not accomplish
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
December 3, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
found some bones in the garden when i threw our pumpkins out for the squirrels. very balanced exchange
December 1, 2024 at 4:49 PM
found some bones in the garden when i threw our pumpkins out for the squirrels. very balanced exchange
carefully tailoring my mug collection so that future archaeologists will think an old man lived here
November 28, 2024 at 1:07 AM
carefully tailoring my mug collection so that future archaeologists will think an old man lived here