Sarah Ann (she/her) 🌿
@sarahannbender.bsky.social
Grad Student: MS in Human Paleobiology @ George Washington Uni. 📚🦴| Paleolithic Archaeologist 🪨💌 | BA in Anthropology - Uni. South Alabama🏺🌿
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Hi all! My name is Sarah, and I’m studying to become a #Paleolithic #archaeologist. Since starting my MS education, I have become super interested in #hominin - #proboscidean butchery sites and the lithics associated with them. I have a background in anthro/CRM and look forward to posting here! 📚
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Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859
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Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪
Jane Goodall, famed primatologist who discovered chimpanzee tool use, dies at 91
Dame Jane Goodall, the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert, died of natural causes.
www.livescience.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sadly, Jane Goodall has died. But her legacy - in conservation and chimp studies - will live on. 🧪
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Mara and Rana have such a special bond. It's beautiful to see. 💕
September 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Mara and Rana have such a special bond. It's beautiful to see. 💕
Can’t believe this little guy is 3 years old today!
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Can’t believe this little guy is 3 years old today!
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Meet Alabama’s salamanders like you’ve never seen them before and fall for their undeniable charm.
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SALABAMA
Meet Alabama’s salamanders like you’ve never seen them before and fall for their undeniable charm. We dive into the salamanders’ hidden world of…
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September 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Meet Alabama’s salamanders like you’ve never seen them before and fall for their undeniable charm.
vimeo.com/1114098611/8...
vimeo.com/1114098611/8...
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This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Been a couple of good weeks for research on extinct proboscideans.
Hybrid mammoths roamed North America following interspecies breeding, fossil teeth show share.google/LGrqgYGyDoG6...
Hybrid mammoths roamed North America following interspecies breeding, fossil teeth show share.google/LGrqgYGyDoG6...
Hybrid mammoths roamed North America following interspecies breeding, fossil teeth show
North America's mammoth species were breeding together within the past 40,000 years. Fossil teeth found in Canada show that Columbian and wooly mammoths regularly had calves together where the differe...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Been a couple of good weeks for research on extinct proboscideans.
Hybrid mammoths roamed North America following interspecies breeding, fossil teeth show share.google/LGrqgYGyDoG6...
Hybrid mammoths roamed North America following interspecies breeding, fossil teeth show share.google/LGrqgYGyDoG6...
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Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺
When We First Met Lucy
How a three-foot-tall skeleton became the most famous fossil in the world
paigemadison.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Most fossils sit quietly in drawers, known only by numbers. From the beginning, AL 288-1 was different. She had a story, she became Lucy. New Substack: paigemadison.substack.com/p/when-we-fi... 🏺
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HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, reached the Galápagos Islands #OnThisDay in AD 1835. It was on this voyage where the seeds were sown for his theory of natural selection.
Interested in human evolution? Learn more in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Interested in human evolution? Learn more in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, reached the Galápagos Islands #OnThisDay in AD 1835. It was on this voyage where the seeds were sown for his theory of natural selection.
Interested in human evolution? Learn more in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Interested in human evolution? Learn more in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Me to the latest draft of my thesis:
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Me to the latest draft of my thesis:
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Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
September 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
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Do you care about the future of clean energy? Then we want to see you at Sun Day! Here are 3 ways you can get involved, and help celebrate the power of solar, wind, and renewable energy on September 21 👇🧵
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Do you care about the future of clean energy? Then we want to see you at Sun Day! Here are 3 ways you can get involved, and help celebrate the power of solar, wind, and renewable energy on September 21 👇🧵
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When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
September 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....
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When you live in a gerrymandered state, you can’t just vote better.
That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.
That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.
September 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
When you live in a gerrymandered state, you can’t just vote better.
That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.
That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.
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Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Yesterday's Supreme Court decision endangers our communities and subjects people to immigration stops simply because of the color of their skin, occupation, or the language they speak.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
This fight isn't over. Our right to live free from racial profiling is fundamental.
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Registration for in-person or online participation for our symposium is still open!
Join us at the MPI-GEA or online for a free symposium on Quantifying Complexity in Stone Tools on the 21st of October! 🪨
With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!
Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...
With a keynote lecture by Charles Perreault. Full speaker list will be released soon!
Secure your spot here: shh-cloud.gnz.mpg.de/index.php/ap...
September 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Registration for in-person or online participation for our symposium is still open!
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the milky way from above and below 🌌
a beautiful collaboration between astronaut don pettit and photographer babak tafreshi to show the same things from earth and space ✨
a beautiful collaboration between astronaut don pettit and photographer babak tafreshi to show the same things from earth and space ✨
September 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
the milky way from above and below 🌌
a beautiful collaboration between astronaut don pettit and photographer babak tafreshi to show the same things from earth and space ✨
a beautiful collaboration between astronaut don pettit and photographer babak tafreshi to show the same things from earth and space ✨
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The split-based antler point from the Early Aurignacian sequence at Grotta della Cala, southern Italy, provides new insights into Early Upper Paleolithic osseous technology. Read our recently published paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
#Palaeolithic #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
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#Palaeolithic #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
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August 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The split-based antler point from the Early Aurignacian sequence at Grotta della Cala, southern Italy, provides new insights into Early Upper Paleolithic osseous technology. Read our recently published paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
#Palaeolithic #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
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#Palaeolithic #Archaeology #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
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The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have corroded away its instruments and electronics long ago.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...?
Say Goodbye to Juno, NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission to Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight
www.scientificamerican.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The Juno probe has already survived far longer than anticipated—its path around the solar system’s largest planet has repeatedly flown it through a tempest of radiation that should have corroded away its instruments and electronics long ago.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...?
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More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
n.pr
September 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.
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There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
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Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.
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Hey!
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hey!
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
Did you know it's the best day of the year? International Vulture Day is here!!
It's a day to celebrate, share & support vultures, the most endangered (and misunderstood) family of birds in the world.
Take a moment to share a vulture with someone just how cool and important they are!
#ivad2025
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#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie
The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.
Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.
The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.
Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.
September 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie
The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.
Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.
The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers.
Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.