The bootlegs have been around since forever, but for charity Dischord is releasing all the Albini demos for In on the Kill Taker, feat. the best version of Smallpox Champion known to man
🧪🤩Have a look at our new preprint using an agent-based model to explore the issue of how, whether and when can one infer social dynamics from archaeological assemblages🤩🧪
The Doug Burgum tweet about swapping out the endangered species act and just giving money to companies like this to “bring back” species hasn’t left my brain since I first saw it.
"Beth Shapiro stated that the three animals are "grey wolves with 20 edits" as purportedly stated by the company "from the very beginning", acknowledging that it is impossible to bring back an extinct organism"
These are deeply unserious people and even using the term "science" here is misleading.
Yeah what are we doing
Just came across this map from the CDC, which contains possibly the most confusing color scheme I have ever seen in a figure.
Source: www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-r...
I slipped into torpor while going between the fig and its data table
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🗃️ Also this one is gorgeous: Louise, held by her mother Meave, who is holding - with Richard - a hominin skull.
Technosocial hominin worlds connected through time 😍
In a democracy, the war on Iran would not be possible.
1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social.
The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Ernest in Ernest goes to camp or something like that. I think he earned goofing off on something low stakes
Front cover of my book, titled "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music" (published today by Oxford University Press)
1st of my 4-page essay published in Nature today titled "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail" Picture caption: "Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny (centre) performed in Spanish at the half-time show of the 2026 American Football Super Bowl LX."
My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do!
I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!
My post-doc Charlotte King will be starting her own Minerva research group in September and is looking for PhD students. Click here if you are into experimental biomechanics, apes and hominin evolution.
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
Sigh.
Someone promoted and set up an AI agent which later wrote a hit piece on a maintainer of the matplotlib python library because they rejected some of the agents’ code. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
the winter olympics are magical
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
Green room #oilpainting #art
Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.
Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/
I will never stop shoveling the old ladies’ drive next door but she has stopped slipping me 5 dollar bills. This is breaking our community
A drawing of Guile from Street Fighter and Guinan from Star Trek TNG in a crouched fighting stance side-by-side, showing the similarity between Guile's hair shape and Guinan's hat shape
Guile... Guinan... Guilenan
In my case, the PI just chatted with my references and did not ask for formal letters.
Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...
America has never known a January this fucked
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉
We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy!
doi.org/10.1007/s137...
