Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
@deadbovids.bsky.social
SUNY Oneonta Assistant Professor on Kanien'keháka and Onʌyoteˀa·ká land African paleoecology, human evolution, land stewardship, foraging. Views my own 🏳️🌈 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xAy15BUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Carbon capture isn't real, and the sooner we admit that, the sooner we can actually try to help the planet.
Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · last mo.A good explainer about why it’s wise to be very skeptical of industrial carbon capture schemes…. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
I love knowing Swahili because it allows me to confuse the hell out of East/Central Africans I run into in public. Every time the reaction is the same: "why does this very gay punk child know my language?"
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
On this cloudy, lazy Sunday morning I finished How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper! @howtoloveaforest.bsky.social One of my goals this year is to read more books about conservation and journal along the way. I want to spend time absorbing what I’m reading. Here are a few highlights from HTLAF!
Yummy edible Chanterelles growing near super poisonous Jack-o'-Lanterns The good news: there's like 7 ways to tell them apart
2027 is now expected to reach 1.7C in my model – exactly where Hansen predicted it would land (albeit in the GISTEMP dataset) back in December 2025:
Please say hello to Austronaga, an aquatic trachelosaurid from Triassic Asia. In a new OA paper published yesterday in Science Advances, Dr. Wei Wang , @stephanspiekman.bsky.social and colleagues presented a description of a COMPLETE Austronaga #paleoart #sciart
"Rather than take a yearlong sabbatical in Tuscany to write the next great novel, you call in sick two days in a row, hoping that’s enough time to get a few thousand words written. Instead, you end up writing a lengthy Instagram post on millennial malaise. It gets four likes."
Affordable Midlife Crisis Options for Millennials
“Rather than leaving your spouse for a younger version, you find an older, more financially stable one with excellent health insurance. At the dinner parties...
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New report on 1.4 million year old hominin footprints from the shores of ancient Lake Turkana in Kenya. Likely Paranthropus boisei but up to six feet tall. This is your regular reminder to always walk barefoot in mud/volcanic ash if you want to be remembered in a million years 🧪🐾🏺
Fossil footprints reveal that an ancient human relative was larger than previously thought and traveled in groups 1.4 million years ago
An international team of researchers from the U.S. and Kenya analyzed a trove of fossilized footprints that were left behind by a troop of eight hominins, first discovered nearly 50 years ago in north...
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I get so irritated by articles like this that cite “the worry… that more women would forgo having children altogether.” Whose worry? Men? Male economists? Certainly not the women and couples making their own choices as to how many children are right for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
Utah, Known for Big Families, Leads the U.S. in Dropping Birthrates
Forget tradwives. When it comes to plummeting fertility rates, Utah is leading the country.
nytimes.com
This exactly. Anthropocentrism is, ironically, probably the single biggest thing getting in the way of good Anthropology
Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm always amused by the way humans fetishize "walking upright," "tool use," and "language" as the iconic features of a superior species. And of course we ignore or downplay the obvious signs of all three in every other species. "They only walk upright SOMETIMES. Not like a true upright walker."
Sautéed Milkweed pods Everyone seems convinced that Milkweed is poisonous. Luckily, most parts of the plant are edible after boiling!
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Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials
Fossils from Queensland suggest a newly recognized marsupial order may have survived in Australia for around 35 million years, rewriting part of the story of how the continent's unique mammals ev...
sciencedaily.com
