Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲
@stefanicrabtree.bsky.social
Archaeologist doing ecology of the past. Fieldwork in Australia, Mongolia, the American Southwest, and sometimes France.
Associate Prof of social-environmental modeling at USU, Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, two Ph.D.s, archaeoecology, endless swagger
Associate Prof of social-environmental modeling at USU, Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, two Ph.D.s, archaeoecology, endless swagger
Happy halloween and scienceween! My new book is out today!!! 🧪 🏺🏺
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Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy halloween and scienceween! My new book is out today!!! 🧪 🏺🏺
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Got my first two (positive) reviews for "Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity" from Simon Levin and Steve Lansing. Writing a solo-authored book takes courage and I haven't felt this much imposter syndrome since grad school! Thanks Levin and Lansing <3 🧪🏺 www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
www.routledge.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Got my first two (positive) reviews for "Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity" from Simon Levin and Steve Lansing. Writing a solo-authored book takes courage and I haven't felt this much imposter syndrome since grad school! Thanks Levin and Lansing <3 🧪🏺 www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
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In her new book, Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity, SFI External Professor Stefani Crabtree (Utah State University) shows how tools from complex systems can help archaeologists understand how everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today.
Review: Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity
Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today. In her new book, Thinking Through Arc...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In her new book, Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity, SFI External Professor Stefani Crabtree (Utah State University) shows how tools from complex systems can help archaeologists understand how everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today.
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An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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September 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
www.routledge.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
I loved his book "Owls of the Eastern Ice" which gave me all the feels about my work doing archaeology in Mongolia. Did @jonathanslaght.com know my favorite animal is a tiger? Probably not, but I'm gonna pretend he did and he wrote this book for me. :)
***GIVEAWAY*** This signed/stamped Advance Readers Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, forthcoming Nov 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Like=1 entry, Share=1 entry, Like + Share=2 entries. Will randomly select winner on Friday, May 23, 2025. US addresses only.
Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z
#booksky
Preorder info: shorturl.at/OXr0Z
#booksky
May 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I loved his book "Owls of the Eastern Ice" which gave me all the feels about my work doing archaeology in Mongolia. Did @jonathanslaght.com know my favorite animal is a tiger? Probably not, but I'm gonna pretend he did and he wrote this book for me. :)
Hey 🏺🧪! My solo-authored book has a landing page!
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover!
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover!
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
www.routledge.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Hey 🏺🧪! My solo-authored book has a landing page!
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover!
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover!
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
All y'all who are porting your tweets from the Old Place over... I kinda love starting over. Like when I graduated from WSU and had to have my email just disappear... time for a fresh slate... who will BSKY Stefani *be*
a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start
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November 24, 2024 at 3:07 PM
All y'all who are porting your tweets from the Old Place over... I kinda love starting over. Like when I graduated from WSU and had to have my email just disappear... time for a fresh slate... who will BSKY Stefani *be*
What are the coolest current methods in Social Science? I did a lecture and activity on topic modeling yesterday and my students *loved* it. Agent-based modeling and network analysis coming up, but would love to know your thoughts!
Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! 🧪 🏺!
Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! 🧪 🏺!
November 19, 2024 at 5:44 PM
What are the coolest current methods in Social Science? I did a lecture and activity on topic modeling yesterday and my students *loved* it. Agent-based modeling and network analysis coming up, but would love to know your thoughts!
Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! 🧪 🏺!
Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! 🧪 🏺!
Welp, I finally deactivated my profile on the Other Site. Hello bluesky, you're it now. Please become a better place for interacting with my fellow scientists.
a man in a bow tie says " science rules "
ALT: a man in a bow tie says " science rules "
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November 12, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Welp, I finally deactivated my profile on the Other Site. Hello bluesky, you're it now. Please become a better place for interacting with my fellow scientists.
This. This is me.
August 20, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This. This is me.
Now that Bluesky has GIFs it is officially more useful than The Place Formerly Known as Twitter. I can resume my way of naturally communicating--with muppets!
Kermitthefrog Dance GIF
ALT: Kermitthefrog Dance GIF
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May 1, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Now that Bluesky has GIFs it is officially more useful than The Place Formerly Known as Twitter. I can resume my way of naturally communicating--with muppets!
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Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
December 13, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
SOUND THE JOB KLAXON! My department at the **MOAB** Campus is hiring! Recreation resource management and nature based tourism! Environment and Society is a great department, Moab is beautiful, and we are truly interdisciplinary. Join us! Due Dec 8! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/7083/as...
November 28, 2023 at 6:24 PM
SOUND THE JOB KLAXON! My department at the **MOAB** Campus is hiring! Recreation resource management and nature based tourism! Environment and Society is a great department, Moab is beautiful, and we are truly interdisciplinary. Join us! Due Dec 8! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/7083/as...
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IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions.
"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
November 24, 2023 at 7:00 PM
IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions.
"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
So proud to be external faculty at @sfiscience.bsky.social a "playground for geniuses". www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ...
November 13, 2023 at 11:08 PM
So proud to be external faculty at @sfiscience.bsky.social a "playground for geniuses". www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ...
Had a lovely few day workshop at SFI on collective adaptation. Highlights included birding with @carlbergstrom.com, bringin my Ph.D. student Stan Rhodes and watching him *shine*, and doing great science. I even told folks to Heliotown, our own private Meow Wolf like space.
September 15, 2023 at 5:14 PM
Had a lovely few day workshop at SFI on collective adaptation. Highlights included birding with @carlbergstrom.com, bringin my Ph.D. student Stan Rhodes and watching him *shine*, and doing great science. I even told folks to Heliotown, our own private Meow Wolf like space.
Welcome to @katietherockdoc.bsky.social, who just joined Bluesky! Katie is a scientist who has worked on the House Natural Resource Committee, now Deputy Director at Blue Green Alliance, and her profile pic is her testifying before congress. She's a badass scientist who works on Policy! Follow! 🧪
Bluesky Social
See what's next.
katietherockdoc.bsky.social
July 13, 2023 at 3:14 PM
Welcome to @katietherockdoc.bsky.social, who just joined Bluesky! Katie is a scientist who has worked on the House Natural Resource Committee, now Deputy Director at Blue Green Alliance, and her profile pic is her testifying before congress. She's a badass scientist who works on Policy! Follow! 🧪
🧪 I got interviewed by a journalist at New Scientist during finals week and completely forgot about it, because . Apparently I didn't sound like a complete idiot. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834450-800-the-civilisation-myth-how-new-discoveries-are-rewriting-human-history/
The civilisation myth: How new discoveries are rewriting human history
In an evolutionary eyeblink, our species has gone from hunting and gathering to living in complex societies. We need to rethink the story of this monumental transition
www.newscientist.com
July 4, 2023 at 4:15 PM
🧪 I got interviewed by a journalist at New Scientist during finals week and completely forgot about it, because . Apparently I didn't sound like a complete idiot. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834450-800-the-civilisation-myth-how-new-discoveries-are-rewriting-human-history/
Timeline cleanse. A beautiful mulga in Australia a few years back.
July 3, 2023 at 10:17 PM
Timeline cleanse. A beautiful mulga in Australia a few years back.
New publication day, and first time being anchor author! Published in Phil Trans B, where Isaac Newton was published! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2022.0297
June 27, 2023 at 3:19 PM
New publication day, and first time being anchor author! Published in Phil Trans B, where Isaac Newton was published! https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2022.0297
Emu (karlaya) tracks in Martu territory, Western Desert of Australia. 🧪 photo by me. :)
June 26, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Emu (karlaya) tracks in Martu territory, Western Desert of Australia. 🧪 photo by me. :)
Grant writing: how can it bring so much hope and so much despair simultaneously? 🧪
June 24, 2023 at 3:32 AM
Grant writing: how can it bring so much hope and so much despair simultaneously? 🧪
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Reskeet if you hope you see a cool bird tomorrow
June 22, 2023 at 4:37 PM
Reskeet if you hope you see a cool bird tomorrow