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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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John Waters is a legend.

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My office is ugly metal and concrete so I try to fill it with lovely things

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“True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.” — John Waters #BOTD

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I'm just struck anytime someone talks about MATLAB because I remember you have to PAY for MATLAB. Bro I can be angry at a stats program and doubt all my coding skills for FREE with R

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if you're at the SAAs this week, Chip Colwell of Sapiens and I will be holding a meet the editors drop in event on Thurs afternoon at the U Chi Press table. please come by and say hello/ talk to me about Current Anth!!

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whoooooaaaaaa these are amazing!!!

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With Friday's updates to NSF's priorities, compare FAQ 4 (we won't broaden participation of underrepresented scientists) & FAQ 9 (we can continue to study underrepresented peoples). Continuing the gap of otherizing people in science; who can be on which side of the microscope 🧪🔬

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This is a weird request, but anyone in Baltimore area want to help me collect tap water samples this summer? I can give you some vials, you go to a couple restaurants/grocery stores/public water fountains and we get some critical science done for forensic work

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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Love getting hints about how my grant application is going based on the news. 🧪🫠

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Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

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As we all are.

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This director's 'controversial' policies included: aiming for more consent of the deceased on display, investigating more thouroughly questionable accession histories (i.e., stolen or grave-robbed), and removing some displays temporarily while ethical issues were considered...

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Want a tip for successful science? Get yourself some science friends! 🥳🥳🥳 I'm so lucky to have Ellen (@ellenkendall.bsky.social) who I can talk to about new results with, at any stage of completion. I have DM'd her many rough graphs over the years 🧪🏺

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GRWD (Get Ready With Deva)! Today's edition is a Roman Archer (Sagittarius)! 'Saggitta' here is wearing: A women's under-tunic, or underskirt, called a subucula. Next, they've added an over-tunic, trousers which are braccae, and leather boots, perones.

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I feel obligated to point out that UW-Madison has a $3.8 billion endowment. SIUC has ~$500M. Why target such a small university? I think: A) SIUC has stayed publicly staunch in its committement to DEI B) If they can make a small one crumble, that might put blood in the water for these sharks

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Defending Education has typically focused on primary and secondary education. With this civil rights complaint, along with a complaint against University of Wisconsin–Madison, DE is setting its sights on colleges.

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Oh no, I made this task reminder and I have no idea what new data this is that needs to be uploaded

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NEW: Sen. Bernie Sanders is bringing his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” to SLC on April 13 at the Huntsman Center at the University of Utah. #utpol

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Cannot bear to look at my 403b this morning. I don't wanna know.

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honestly this is just how I live my life 24/7

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The NWS office in Paducah, which has to handle some of the most frequent and impactful weather in America and was nearly taken out by a tornado tonight ahead of a catastrophic flood event has to use a parking lot porta potty because they can’t fix plumbing due to the govt funding freeze.

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baby grant baby grant baby grant I got a lil baby grant! It's just some college-level funding to look into a pilot study, but it's still really exciting!

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This guyyyyy oh my god. If these young women charged for all the emotional labor they did for him, his parents would have had to have skipped buying him one of his homes 🫠

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The BeFRAIL webinar series, taking place b/n April-June, will focus on topics around ethical considerations and social impacts within bioarchaeology and biological anthropology. 🏺🧪They are open to all and are free to attend, with tickets available at www.eventbrite.pt/e/befrail-we...

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okay, the Skratch Labs April Fool's is pretty good:

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🚀 The results of the 2nd #Archaeogaming Hackathon are live! Hosted by the DiKopA network, two teams created playable Archaeogames in just three days using RPG Maker MV. Play them now (🇩🇪) & explore the past in a whole new way! 🔗 itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/03/28/t... #GameDev #DigitalArchaeology

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The @ucl.ac.uk Institute for Sustainable Heritage is hosting a guest lecture on 'An ethnography of restitution'. Hear Charlotte Joy from @unisouthampton.bsky.social discuss the complex frameworks underpinning museum object restitution decisions. 📅: 30.4.25, 5:00-6:00pm 📍: Online

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Do I have any butterfly experts on here who'd be willing to talk with some girl scouts?

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Our newest, open access article is live! We pore through the literature of human samples from Canada, US, and Mexico to think about just how reflective of geolocation these values actually are, and where we need to go next for research. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/1556...

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