Jesse Wolfhagen

Oh hell yeah, my body MAKES urea, it's liquid gold!

The Şika Rika 5 Project: transition to sedentary life in south-eastern Anatolia | Antiquity The 2022–2023 Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeological Surface Survey in Mardin Province, south-eastern Türkiye, identified prehistoric settlements, including Şika Rika 5, that provide new insights into the early stages of settlement in the Northern Khabur Region.

Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

A 10,000-Year-Old Settlement Discovered in Türkiye Could Rewrite the Origins of Sedentary Life and Civilization A team of archaeologists from Mardin Artuklu University, in southeastern Türkiye, has brought to light one of the most important discoveries for understanding the origins of civilization in northern…

📰 Epipalaeolithic (12-10,000 BC) settlement discovered in south-eastern Anatolia, outside the Tigris valley, has big implications for the origins of sedentary life

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There is no way to restore functional science agencies without Court reform

We get to choose:

The Roberts Court and its approach to executive power, or the American science superpower.
We can't have both.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

My score. (Gonna nerd-snipe my colleagues with this tomorrow…) 🌈

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...

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

a woman in a red dress is spinning a hula hoop with fireworks behind her Alt: circus dancing

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

a man wearing a top hat and a red jacket is standing in front of a crowd . Alt: the ringleader gets ready to start the circus!

Are you ready? #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

Year-round prehistoric limpet exploitation at the Haua Fteah | SeaFront Our new paper provides high-resolution data into the seasonality of prehistoric shellfish exploitation at the Haua Fteah (northern Cyrenaica, Libya). The research applies laser-induced breakdown spect...

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!
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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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