Jesse Wolfhagen
@uncertainarch.bsky.social
Bayesian Zooarchaeologist, studying animal domestication and philosophical questions like "how many cows were in this pit?"
GitHub: https://github.com/wolfhagenj
OSF: https://osf.io/va7ye/
GitHub: https://github.com/wolfhagenj
OSF: https://osf.io/va7ye/
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Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
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Leave it to scientists to come up with the absolute least romantic definition of kissing 🧪
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Leave it to scientists to come up with the absolute least romantic definition of kissing 🧪
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Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.
Mamdani validating scare campaign by meeting with noted antisemite
Trump says he and New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani will meet in the Oval Office on Friday.
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Mamdani validating scare campaign by meeting with noted antisemite
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Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists
Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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NEW Stratigraphy from two of the 51 Aketala sites in the Tarim Basin of north-western China. The westernmost Bronze Age settlements discovered in China to date, they indicate cultural connections across Central Asia c. 4000 years ago.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
NEW Stratigraphy from two of the 51 Aketala sites in the Tarim Basin of north-western China. The westernmost Bronze Age settlements discovered in China to date, they indicate cultural connections across Central Asia c. 4000 years ago.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
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AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
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Christopher Columbus sighted Puerto Rico #OnThisDay in AD 1493. The island had been occupied for at least 5000 years at this point, and new research investigates Puerto Rico's poorly-understood Early Period (c. 4200 BC–AD 250) with these beautiful pendants
🆓 buff.ly/qsY7H9M
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 buff.ly/qsY7H9M
🏺 #Archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Christopher Columbus sighted Puerto Rico #OnThisDay in AD 1493. The island had been occupied for at least 5000 years at this point, and new research investigates Puerto Rico's poorly-understood Early Period (c. 4200 BC–AD 250) with these beautiful pendants
🆓 buff.ly/qsY7H9M
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 buff.ly/qsY7H9M
🏺 #Archaeology
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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He shouldn’t get to decide. He should be expelled from all positions and shunned forever.
Update from The Harvard Crimson on Summers: he’ll step back from public commitments, but remain in the classroom, continue his directorship of a center, & keep his University Professorship. How is this in any way holding him accountable for his actions? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
He shouldn’t get to decide. He should be expelled from all positions and shunned forever.
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I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m not sure I see the logic in continuing to teach but stepping back from, like, making public appearances? The issue is with behavior while teaching. Why would it do anything to, like, step off the lecture circuit or whatever? That’s emphatically not the problem.
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Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...
Historical genomics of the declining red squirrel in Britain | Aries
Dr Anders Bergström, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia Professor Cock van Oosterhout, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Dr Selina Brace…
aries-dtp.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies? 🌿
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies? 🌿
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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A strain of flu that has mutated may cause the U.S. to have a particularly tough flu season, according to @kkjetelina.bsky.social. Make sure you get your vaccination.
The latest installment of Your Local Epidemiologist...
The latest installment of Your Local Epidemiologist...
A rough flu season may be taking shape
Plus updates on measles, infant botulism, the question grab bag and good news.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Essay: Seasonal affective disorder was clinically recognized by psychiatrists in the mid-1980s, but the link between the seasons and our moods has been observed for millennia — one article I read on the topic referenced a Chinese text from 300 B.C., writes Cloe Axelson.
The winter blues are here again
Seasonal affective disorder was clinically recognized by psychiatrists in the mid-1980s, but the link between the seasons and our moods has been observed for millennia -- one article I read on the top...
www.wbur.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Essay: Seasonal affective disorder was clinically recognized by psychiatrists in the mid-1980s, but the link between the seasons and our moods has been observed for millennia — one article I read on the topic referenced a Chinese text from 300 B.C., writes Cloe Axelson.
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Interested studying human evolution at @ucl.ac.uk with a dedicated MSc in palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology, Ice Age fauna, isotopes, aDNA, ancient environments & more?
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
Get in touch for a chat or even a tour of the department with me.
@uclarchaeology.bsky.social #PaPa
🏺🦣🧪
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A thing I worried about when my second kid was about to be born was not having time for a creative output so I started writing a nightly haiku about the kids or being a parent thinking if I didn't do anything creative all day, at least I did that, to me it was Minimum Viable Creativity.
November 9, 2024 at 4:45 AM
A thing I worried about when my second kid was about to be born was not having time for a creative output so I started writing a nightly haiku about the kids or being a parent thinking if I didn't do anything creative all day, at least I did that, to me it was Minimum Viable Creativity.
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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okay, here goes nothing!
(feel free to mute this top level thread)
(feel free to mute this top level thread)
Should i do a live-thread of me working my way through God's Not Dead 5?
correct! i joke on and off that evangelical movies are basically similar to the didactic era of socialist realism films in 20th century movies
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
okay, here goes nothing!
(feel free to mute this top level thread)
(feel free to mute this top level thread)
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reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."