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Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed. With a form email.

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This is an excellent book, btw 🧪🩸

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Okay, the problem with being someone who fixes things, is everything is a potential project. Free sewing machine (filthy!). Was going in a trash bin, someone cleaning out their parent's house. All of it going in a trash dumpster tomorrow. I resisted a lot of other […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

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I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

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Field school director Gabe Sanchez worked extensively with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to publish an open-access volume about #archaeology on their traditional homelands that includes contributions from Tribal and non-Tribal collaborators. 🧪🏺Read it here: escholarship.org/uc/item/3rb3...

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Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ women’s wellness company OneTaste convicted in forced labor trial

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We are honored that our team has received funding from ‪@acls1919.bsky.social‬ to support the next phase of co-creation of the Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour with members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and students at Santa Clara University! More info on the project here: scuhci.com/ohlone-ar/

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My book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico, is out in November—and it has a cover! Couldn't be happier with @univnebpress.bsky.social. For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... 🗃️📚🏺🏛️🇲🇽

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Please give this thread a read. It's why I'm probably moving back to blue books next year.

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Ok! Draft 2! I still don't know where the eff to send people for an EASY! user friendly!!! guide to where plant ranges. I may include a page 2 with a sample ranking of results, idk.

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The US scientific enterprise is about to collapse unless we do something about it.

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Funny 🧵 highlighting the human universal of consuming root vegetables. True potatoes were domesticated in S. America + made it to Europe recently, but root crops have always been imp. Taro, sweet potatoes, manioc, beets…starchy root veggies have been with us since the dawn of humanity 🥔🍠 #geophytes

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⚠️ Pollution from the Tijuana River—including sewage and industrial waste—is impacting air quality in San Diego, according to a new study led by @ucsandiego.bsky.social researchers. Learn more about the research led by @chemcooper.bsky.social and @kprather.bsky.social. ⬇️ @ucsdphysci.bsky.social

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Oh now I get why these guys are in with the Asparagales. Dichelostemma ida-maia, firecracker flower and cousins—native to California and southern Oregon—have spectacular plumage. And edible geophytes 🧨

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/s...

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Excellent! I can also attest that containers work for California native plants too, as long as you have well draining soil (cactus soil works well). 🐝🪰🦋

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People are confusing online only vs hybrid. I helped design and implement a hybrid meeting that I thought (& post surveys confirmed) went really well & could have been a template for other hybrid meetings, but resistance was too great. We host a "main" small meeting, invite only, in one location. 🧵

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Me trying to Find My husband in the state park today. Lol oh, yeah, I guess this tracks 😂 @viking1000.bsky.social

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Along with many of my weather and climate colleagues, I'll be participating in the Weather & Climate Livestream ("100 Hours To Save America's Forecasts). I'll be hosting an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA)-style live session 9-10am PT on Saturday, May 31st. Join me then, and check out the other speakers too!

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Why invest in carbon capture scams when you can invest in sea otters? 🦦

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They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

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New volume with 48 (!) chapters on island and coastal archaeology. 🏺🧪

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More so, DNA is not culture, identity, nor kinship; which are, historically, what people have tended to use to reckon belonging. Partial genetic ties to ancestral populations do not, therefore, make you "part" anything. That's not how communities and cultures work. It also summons eugenics.

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Think how many eval trenches just go straight to a 30cm or 40cm pull without consulting with a georch.

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The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

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#Archaeology #Anthropology

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I was finishing the edits today on my infectious disease chapter for my next book on pregnancy loss, and when pregnant you really don't want flu, covid, CMV... And it's not only increased risk of miscarriage it's preterm birth, IUGR, preeclampsia.

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Very true! Here’s an ex. from California’s Wi’ma (Santa Rosa Island) where Paleocoastal (12,000-8500 BP) features were identified in an NPS roadcut. I identified two types of #geophytes and we dated them directly to ~11,000 years ago. Indian potatoes (Dipterostemon) and little jicamas (Calochortus)

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While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.

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