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Bioarchaeologist, chemist | Nerd, coffee snob, loves fresh air and equality | She/her | Museum lover, but not museum apologist

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Forged metal amulet displaying image of Abraxis

Forged metal amulet displaying image of Abraxis

Art of the cosmological structure of Early gnosticism

Art of the cosmological structure of Early gnosticism

Photo of displays of unessays, including trifold poster and hung art

Photo of displays of unessays, including trifold poster and hung art

The History of Early Christianity class by Dr Freeman produced some awesome UnEssay projects. Someone forged a small seal!

04.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

27.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 37037 πŸ” 11959 πŸ’¬ 497 πŸ“Œ 799
Cover of book titled, "We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions." It features a painting of a single Native individual holding a bow and arrow standing in the abandoned courtyard of a mission complex with dark clouds and hills in the background.

Cover of book titled, "We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions." It features a painting of a single Native individual holding a bow and arrow standing in the abandoned courtyard of a mission complex with dark clouds and hills in the background.

Excited to announce that Gustavo Flores and I have a new book coming out later this year with @univnebpress.bsky.social! More details coming soon, but for now here is the amazing cover featuring art by Katie Dorame.

26.02.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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From teeth to trade routes: SIU researcher traces ancient dogs' origins to reveal new clues about the Maya world To trace connections across the ancient Maya world, archaeologists often follow objects that traveled, such as jade, obsidian, or pottery. But Chris Stantis β€” assistant professor of anthropology at So...

I contributed a small part to this research, but what fun and interesting research it was! And now, my dog Hatch has had his first modeling job.

26.02.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Something that's striking for me in this photo isn't just that the other two women are also so genuinely happy to be up there, I adore the different poses. Kaori looking poised with her perfect posture and foot turned out, and Ami with her bubbly enthusiasm.

20.02.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of pantry with small pile of Valentine's themed candy

Photo of pantry with small pile of Valentine's themed candy

Happy half priced chocolate day to those who celebrate

15.02.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology at UCL Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Biomolecular Archaeology opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

04.02.2026 08:56 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Map of the US with bubble markers in dark red and blue. The blue is 'Old Glory Blue', and the red is slightly brighter than Old Glory Red to be more discernible with color blindness.

Map of the US with bubble markers in dark red and blue. The blue is 'Old Glory Blue', and the red is slightly brighter than Old Glory Red to be more discernible with color blindness.

I'd love to know instances where scientists chose certain color palettes to tell their data's story. For example, when I worked on a project in partnership with the DoD, I made use of a color palette reminiscent of the American flag.

05.02.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!

04.02.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

03.02.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 413 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 39

I'm only glancing at this while I should be prepping a lecture- am I reading it right that job talks are where women are the most likely to be interrupted compared to men?

04.02.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, I did the ol' block and not check for following

02.02.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My middle/highschool orthorexia means I can taste this photo. The 90s, man.

02.02.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chuck Tingle would fit most of the criteria. I mean, he's got way better things to do, but imagine the Grok that would come out of it.

30.01.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

one of the agents said β€œokay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said β€œare you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said β€œno i’m not scared of a whistle”

28.01.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 8460 πŸ” 1481 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 86

Love the action of thinking through barriers to crossing 'markets', really important step to why more people aren't using SI

28.01.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

oh gosh, what a prophecy 🫠 We'll have to collaborate on a less tedious project sometime together, it was fun to work with you!

28.01.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At a workshop last week, a couple of colleagues and I started discussing why stable isotope based approaches so prevalent in academic research are rarely seen in applied fishery management.

28.01.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope so! There's a lot of great data I couldn't access personally, because it was in journals my institutions don't have subscriptions for. Or sometimes in journals way outside my discipline, that I'd never think to check. I hope others can cite and use this data.

27.01.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana " ALT: a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana "

ONLY

26.01.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It was something! But we learned a lot, have a lot of data to work with, and I hope IsoArcH and IsoBank were able to improve based on testing what happens when giant amounts of isotope data comes their way.

26.01.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Author Contributions: Chris Stantis conceived of the project and its frankly ridiculous acronym...

Author Contributions: Chris Stantis conceived of the project and its frankly ridiculous acronym...

Thanks to my co-authors, several of whom I've yet to meet in real life (how neat is scientific work?), the reviewers for seeing my vision, the 374 corresponding authors from the original projects, and the editor, who let me keep over 50 pages of refs and this silly contributions

26.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Logo of Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill. The boulder is labeled 'Strontium Data'

Logo of Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill. The boulder is labeled 'Strontium Data'

Hence why the project is ARDUOUS: Aligning Repositories/Databases by Utilizing Optimized Upload
Strategies. We had a lil logo for our Slack channel that was appropriate

26.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

More than just making it available, we made sure the results of this tedium had longevity. We placed this mega-dataset into two of the best isotope repositories I know, IsoArcH.eu and IsoBank. Folks using these repos will find the data version-controlled and ready to use with other data held there

26.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As a team, we compiled and cleaned 28,347 published bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr data from 474 previously published datasets. Why put ourselves through that?!
When a large amount of this data are compiled, harmonized, and made more discoverable, researchers across disciplines can reuse it.

26.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Global compilation of bioavailable strontium isotope data - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Global compilation of bioavailable strontium isotope data

New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name πŸ§ͺ🏺
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.01.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

that 'dog' doesn't look like it wants to be petted, is all I'm saying.

22.01.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
painting from Mayan vase in ochre and black. A man on an elevated seat reaches out to pet an animal. This animal has a puffed tail, finned ears, eyebrows that convey annoyance, clawed hands, and human feet.

painting from Mayan vase in ochre and black. A man on an elevated seat reaches out to pet an animal. This animal has a puffed tail, finned ears, eyebrows that convey annoyance, clawed hands, and human feet.

Art from a Maya vase. Labeled 'ItzamnÑ talks to a dog', nothing will convince me that's not a person dressed up as a dog. 🏺
Full photo of painting here research.mayavase.com/kerrmaya_hir...

21.01.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Country girl Jill often shepherds students and does administrative tasks because they're far too nice and a team-player, even though they're literally the best out in the field.

12.01.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Was just feeling bad about not getting grant applications prepared as new faculty, then remembered that one grant I was prepping was axed by the NIJ, and another that I was revising to resubmit was axed by the NSF.

Gonna be some screenshots of proposal portals in my tenure dossier...

09.01.2026 15:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0