Jessie Slater PhD
@subbasegirl.bsky.social
Archaeologist straddling great divide between arts/science, UK/US, sanity/madness. Herding researchers, data, & integrity @science.org. Have own opinions, especially about fútbol. she/her
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/
Pinned
I'm no longer confused by either and I am so outraged that we have regressed to a place where women have even less bodily autonomy. Where coat hangers will once again become more than a symbol. Where angry white men standing on the sidelines make decisions for us all.
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THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
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RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B
CDC Panel Of Vaccine Skeptics Votes To Delay Hepatitis B Shot For Most Babies
Public health officials warned that the decision by advisers picked by RFK Jr. will result in more infants being infected and experiencing lifelong liver diseases.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
Can't say I ever had @rickanderson.bsky.social pegged as a fellow junglist.
Love his and other's recommendations.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/04/c...
Love his and other's recommendations.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/04/c...
Chefs' Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 1) - The Scholarly Kitchen
In the first of our Chef's Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Can't say I ever had @rickanderson.bsky.social pegged as a fellow junglist.
Love his and other's recommendations.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/04/c...
Love his and other's recommendations.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/04/c...
This looks brilliant!
The #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore preliminary program is now available! Highlights include the open keynote from @bnonnecke.bsky.social, the Miles Conrad Lecture by @alondra.bsky.social , & interactive sessions on #AI, #metadata, #OpenResearch, & more. Join us! niso.plus/2025/12/the-...
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This looks brilliant!
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Happy to share the new virtual collection of comparative anatomy, SKELETONS ONLINE (cor.iphes.cat).
The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain).
Please, use it and share!!!
The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain).
Please, use it and share!!!
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Happy to share the new virtual collection of comparative anatomy, SKELETONS ONLINE (cor.iphes.cat).
The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain).
Please, use it and share!!!
The specimens come from the comparative anatomy collection of @iphes-cerca.bsky.social , in Tarragona (Spain).
Please, use it and share!!!
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Yuuuuuuuuuup
People with high incomes will find housing whether you build it for them or not, all you do by blocking such housing is ensure they compete with lower income people for existing housing.
Yes we need affordable housing too
Not instead of the above
People with high incomes will find housing whether you build it for them or not, all you do by blocking such housing is ensure they compete with lower income people for existing housing.
Yes we need affordable housing too
Not instead of the above
When NIMBYs block an apartment for not being "Affordable enough", they are telling those future residents (who can afford market-rates of new homes) to instead go bid up the price of the existing housing stock. Repeat enough times, and you make the whole city unaffordable.
December 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yuuuuuuuuuup
People with high incomes will find housing whether you build it for them or not, all you do by blocking such housing is ensure they compete with lower income people for existing housing.
Yes we need affordable housing too
Not instead of the above
People with high incomes will find housing whether you build it for them or not, all you do by blocking such housing is ensure they compete with lower income people for existing housing.
Yes we need affordable housing too
Not instead of the above
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.
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Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
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"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
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Good reading from @rebeccanagle.bsky.social. A moving reflection on how we got to where we are, what it cost and still costs, to create memories that are comfortable for some. As a newly-minted citizen I’ll take this as my Thanksgiving meditation. 🦃
The myth of Thanksgiving is as American as it is wrong
Every year, we tell the mythical story of the first Thanksgiving so we can ignore the obvious truth that this land was taken not by friendship, but by violence.
gohini.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Good reading from @rebeccanagle.bsky.social. A moving reflection on how we got to where we are, what it cost and still costs, to create memories that are comfortable for some. As a newly-minted citizen I’ll take this as my Thanksgiving meditation. 🦃
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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There's a tradition that never gets old: our ex-orphans returning home after giving birth, just to share the joy with the Keepers who raised them. This time of year is full of these reunions - mothers bringing their wild-born babies back to say hello. That's what your support creates. 🐘💚
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
There's a tradition that never gets old: our ex-orphans returning home after giving birth, just to share the joy with the Keepers who raised them. This time of year is full of these reunions - mothers bringing their wild-born babies back to say hello. That's what your support creates. 🐘💚
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For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 AM
For a chilly 🥶 #HillfortsWednesday I thought everyone could warm their toes on this Iron Age fire, crackling & smoking inside the Bryn Eryr roundhouse at St Fagans Museum yesterday 🥰🔥
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
Despite having only one fire this double roundhouse was warm & cosy, a pretty good place to live!
🎥 My own
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Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn't just a nicety it's a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays - Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn’t just a nicety it’s a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn't just a nicety it's a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.
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If ever you find yourself visiting Oxford, why not take a walk round, & see if you can spot any of these "famous cats of Oxford."
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
College cats of Oxford
Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics.
The grey ball ...
oxfordclarion.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If ever you find yourself visiting Oxford, why not take a walk round, & see if you can spot any of these "famous cats of Oxford."
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
I wonder if anyone will spot the cat puns in the story too.
oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...
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So good, by @cammy-06.bsky.social @sapiens.org: "Selkie stories often centered female autonomy. Female selkies choose their partners, return to the sea leaving families behind..Giving voice to women’s agency, these narratives shape reality, empowering human women" #Orkney #anthropology #multispecies
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
An environmental archaeologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
www.sapiens.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So good, by @cammy-06.bsky.social @sapiens.org: "Selkie stories often centered female autonomy. Female selkies choose their partners, return to the sea leaving families behind..Giving voice to women’s agency, these narratives shape reality, empowering human women" #Orkney #anthropology #multispecies
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EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
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Weekend listening: @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's essential Sheffield playlist - 30 key tracks to get you in the mood for his book, GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY, which we announced yesterday. Thank you to everyone who has already helped spread the word!
🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/1Vr...
🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/1Vr...
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Weekend listening: @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's essential Sheffield playlist - 30 key tracks to get you in the mood for his book, GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY, which we announced yesterday. Thank you to everyone who has already helped spread the word!
🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/1Vr...
🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/1Vr...
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Didn’t get chance to properly post yesterday, as a bit full on, but I have written a book. On the history of music in Sheffield. Out in May via the excellent @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Pre-order available now and full PR spiel here. Thanks for the love so far
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
White Rabbit signs 'definitive, immersive' history of Sheffield's music scene in four-way auction
White Rabbit has acquired music and culture writer Daniel Dylan Wray’s Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, a history of Sheffield music told through the city’s independent artists, scenes and spirit.
www.thebookseller.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Didn’t get chance to properly post yesterday, as a bit full on, but I have written a book. On the history of music in Sheffield. Out in May via the excellent @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Pre-order available now and full PR spiel here. Thanks for the love so far
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...
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French cats will sit surrounded by the debris of their lunchtime smoking session and act like they don’t give a shit but in truth they love your attention and are just waiting for a camera to perform to.
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
French cats will sit surrounded by the debris of their lunchtime smoking session and act like they don’t give a shit but in truth they love your attention and are just waiting for a camera to perform to.