This lunch includes all five of the main Dutch food groups: cheese, cucumber, geometry, boredom and sorrow, with most of the vitamin content provided by the soul-destroying view of endless flatness spilling off the far-flung horizon.
A circular necklace made of alternating dark and light cylindrical beads, with three larger flat, L‑shaped pendants hanging from the lower half, displayed against a black background.
This 6,000-year-old necklace offers a glimpse into the artistry of the Neolithic Schussenried culture in southwest Germany.
Its three marble pendants and jet‑and‑limestone beads create a striking black‑and‑white contrast, characteristic of the Schussenried culture's jewellery design. 🧵1/2
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Cups and Bowls with Pigment for Frescoes in Black, Grey, Sky Blue (Egyptian Blue), Yellow (Ochre), Red (Hematite), White, Light Blue 6 x 11 cm; 10 x 12 cm Pompeii Archaeological Park of Pompeii Photo Amedeo Benestante
Why so Blue? (Sorry, it’s too early)
There is a new, open access article in Heritage Science on “The Pompeiian ‘Blue Room’: in situ detection and economic estimation of Egyptian blue pigment in an ancient domestic sacrarium” www.nature.com/articles/s40... Regio IX Insula 10 continues to amaze! 🎨🖌️
Central Dallas, before-and-after government-funded highway construction, a process which displaced thousands during the 1950s-80s in the primarily Black and Latino neighborhoods surrounding Downtown. More info, maps, and historic photos/plans at: www.segregationbydesign.com/dallas/highw...
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
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A figure depicting the relative abundance of different prey items among two species of felid (e.g., monkey, small bird, agouti), derived from scat. The x axis is labeled "PoO (%)."
I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). 💩
r/boston u/CollectionOld3374 • 23h WHATS UP WITH ALL THE POOP?!?! ∞ g Shitpost 00 My porch is covered in rabbit poop, my stairs are covered in rat poop, every park is covered in dog and goose poop it's gross ). Does it have to do with the melting snow? 296 • 62
people are like “ooh, I just love how New England gets all four seasons” and I open up Reddit the day after I get back to California from Boston and I see this post
Stylized "wild card" cards of both insects wearing their corpse suits (described in coming battle).
FIRST & ONLY UP TONIGHT: Bone Collector Caterpillar (Hyposmocoma) vs. Assassin Bug (Acanthaspis petax) #2026MMM
Welcome to the 14th Annual March Mammal Madness! This year MMM Celebrates LIBRARIES in honor of 10 years since the launch of the LibGuide! libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... #2026MMM
Over the past decade, The City of Austin, Texas has permitted more housing in a typical year than the entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2022 alone, Austin approved 24,227 units, about 1.5× the number permitted across Massachusetts that year.
NYT article “How ICE Plans to Put 8,500 Immigrants in This Warehouse,” with the comment “Experts say the initial designs raise health, safety and security concerns.” The image is a vertical floorplan with pods tightly packed that resembles diagrams of slave ships in abolitionist literature from the 18th century
The person who made this image is well versed in the iconography of the transatlantic slave trade.
Little primer on quantifying human remains, using some of my work as an example. A thread.
As a commercial bioarchaeologist I use three primary ways of quantifying remains: Number of identified specimens (NISP), Minimum number of individuals (MNI) and weight (1/5)
I want to make sure we all walk down stairs at the same pace
Quick new paper out on the seasonal use of the Haua Fteah Cave during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. 🏺
Lot of shells with high-res relative temperature records. 140 of them!
@rosaarnizmateos.bsky.social @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @maacambridge.bsky.social
seafront-project.com/publication/...
man I was just saying we needed some of that flavored vape technology to break into the albuterol game
Amerimaidan undefeated
I hate that I cannot see this happening on league pass
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The first paper published as first author deserves a special mug! Congratulations to my @khoproject.bsky.social PhD student Rowena Winterhalder for her paper featuring the depicted lithic artefacts from our excavations in the southern Kalahari in Botswana 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0067...
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“White-out” has been necessary for scribes for a long time, it seems. A page from the Book of the Dead penned by royal scribe, Ramose (1290-1278BCE) had a huntite and calcite mix to correct illustrations, say Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum.
If you regularly create plots in R, the tidyplots package is definitely worth exploring.
Today, I released a new module in the Statistics Globe Hub that explains how to use tidyplots in R.
More info about the Statistics Globe Hub: statisticsglobe.com/hub
#rstats #datascience #tidyplots #ggplot2
This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.
Who has their head bracket done for #2026MMM? (I can't believe we're at 2026!! I think this might be my 10th MMM anniversary.) Humpback whale is 1-seeded but how does he fight in a eucalypt forest?
"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
Something that I think about less than I should but more than never is how the media backdrop to my toddlers lives is just full of this stuff that’s made by toxic characters, largely men, who write fantasy worlds for kids while being unable to conceptualise women as people or themselves as predators
age and gender distribution of directors in the max planck society. shows a more than 3:1 ratio of men:women above age of 55. But the ratio is much more even in younger ages.
The Max Planck Society has a junior research group program for women named after Meitner. It's existence is evidence that things haven't changed enough. It wouldn't be necessary, if they had. But there are signs of progress. Look at this age/gender dist of directors:
