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Jesse Wolfhagen
@uncertainarch.bsky.social
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Bayesian Zooarchaeologist, studying animal domestication and philosophical questions like "how many cows were in this pit?" GitHub: https://github.com/wolfhagenj OSF: https://osf.io/va7ye/
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Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social · 2h
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 2h
Our team is Legend (wait for it) dary! Ohio State, Stanford, UW Madison, UW Seattle, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State & of course the Native Bio Data Consortium within the borders and legal jurisdiction of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation! Woop woop! First time ever! The FOUR BANDS lead the way again!
A Tribal data repository to advance Indigenous health and sovereignty - Nature Genetics
We present the first federally funded Tribal data repository — the Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, and Innovations Tribal Data Repository. This repository takes a revolutionary app...
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NativeBio Data Consortium @nativebio.bsky.social · 2h
Our team is Legend (wait for it) dary! Ohio State, Stanford, UW Madison, UW Seattle, UC Santa Cruz, Arizona State & of course the Native Bio Data Consortium within the borders and legal jurisdiction of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation! Woop woop! First time ever! The FOUR BANDS lead the way again!
A Tribal data repository to advance Indigenous health and sovereignty - Nature Genetics
We present the first federally funded Tribal data repository — the Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interventions, and Innovations Tribal Data Repository. This repository takes a revolutionary app...
www.nature.com
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Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social · 6h
Excellent and exciting work 👏👏👏 #archaeology 🏺🧪
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 7h
Analysis of ancient birch bark tar from Neolithic settlements shows it was used for toolmaking, pottery repair, and chewing, preserving DNA that offers insights into daily life and diet. doi.org/g96xtk
Sticky secrets: What ancient chewing gum is telling us about Neolithic communities
Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago.
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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 2h
Scientists just found several fossil bumblebees covered in pollen that directly matches fossil flowers nearby.

The 24-million-year-old discovery reveals the oldest known evidence connecting pollinators to the pollinated.

#Paleontology #NationalFossilDay

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New at @sciencenews.bsky.social
These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source
Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 5h
Very interesting study on a very interesting hominin!
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 5h
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 5h
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
www.nature.com
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Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social · 5h
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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 5h
Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
www.nature.com
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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 20h
🧪Did I really have time for this story? No, I did not, for reasons I'll be sharing soon. Did I absolutely feel compelled to write it anyways? You know I did! A viral mystery solved by science. Read on @sciencenews.bsky.social

Also, I have a new to-do for my trip to Chicago for #SciWri25 next month!
The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn't made by a rat
Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d
New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...
If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model
Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d
🧪🏺🦣 Hugely exciting area for faunal & hominin ID using tiny fragments of bone within sediment sample blocks, allowing attribution to micro-layers: crucial to advance knowledge in Palaeolithc sites, especially those already excavated.
Sites tested: Bacho Kiro Cave, La Ferrassie, and Quinçay
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Vera Aldeias @veraaldeias.bsky.social · 1d
📄 New paper 📣 of @matrixerc.bsky.social & @welkergroup.bsky.social! We show that microstratigraphic-scale #paleoproteomics works in intact sediments - opening new ways to explore ancient ecosystems & hominin behaviour 🌍🦴
@erc.europa.eu @icarehb.bsky.social 🔗 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
New methods on the block: Taxonomic identification of archaeological bones in resin-embedded sediments through paleoproteomics
Abstract. The integration of biomolecular studies of past organisms with geoarchaeological studies can significantly improve our understanding of the relat
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d
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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 1d
I'm hiring! 4 year post doc on my Wellcome Trust grant -- come be inventive about isotopes in teeth with me in PPN Turkiye :) www.lancashire.ac.uk/jobs/post-do...

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Post Doctoral Research Assistant - 1160-25
Thinking of the next step in your career? Take a look at our exciting new role, Post Doctoral Research Assistant based at our Other. Find out more and apply he…
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 1d
I wrote a human skeleton quiz -- filled with terrible puns -- for your Spooky Season enjoyment. 🧪🏺💀
Human skeleton quiz: What do you know about the bones in your body?
Do you have what it takes to be a bone-ified quiz champion?
www.livescience.com
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 20h
Probably best to chase it indefinitely
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2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 21h
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Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast
Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.
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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 New paper out today in PNAS!
We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....
Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS
Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...
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Jesse Wolfhagen @uncertainarch.bsky.social · 1d
Prescient!
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Emily Taylor @emilytaylorscience.com · 1d
Cal Poly is hiring! We are looking for multiple tenure-track colleagues, including animal physiology, cell biology, and microbiology! Please spread the word. Links in thread. bio.calpoly.edu
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Curt Hogg @cyrthogg.bsky.social · 1d
That insanity goes down officially as a grounded into double play, making it the only batted ball hit over 350 feet for a GIDP in the pitch tracking era (reg. + postseason).

Max Muncy grounded into a 404-foot double play.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d
Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d
Mods are asleep post brassicas
You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab. CAP'N CRUNCH'S DOPSIAll NATURALLY & ARTIFICIALLY Brassica oleracea otened cer What vegetable are you? I'm brassica oleracea Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? Brassica oleracea Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all Selection for terminal buds Selection for lateral buds Selection for stem Selection for leaves Selection for stems and flowers Selection for flower clusters Cabbage Brussels sprouts Kohlrabi Kale Broccoli Cauliflower
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Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.social · 3d
MLB's final four has been set, aka the Henry Blanco gauntlet, named for the only player to play for the Dodgers, Brewers, Blue Jays, and Mariners
Henry Blanco (number 12, holding his arms up) on the Brewers Henry Blanco on the Dodgers Henry Blanco on the Blue Jays Henry Blanco on the Mariners
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d
BIG DUMPER OH OH OH
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d
BIG DUMPER! / CUL GÉANT!
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 3d
the mariners had a camera on the dugout in the middle of the 15th when humpy won the salmon race
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d
📕#BookReview

Hannah Chazin's 'Live stock and dead things' reconsiders the idea that domestic herd animals were passive economic resources in the past, investigating how living and working with animals shaped society, economy, ritual and politics 1/2

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 4d
Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out
Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...
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