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Kristina Killgrove

@killgrove.bsky.social

Staff writer @LiveScience.com Email: kkillgrove@livescience.com Web: Livescience.com/author/kristina-killgrove PhD in anthropology, MA in classical archaeology. Former professor & Roman bioarchaeologist. I crochet and bake a lot. Time zone: US Eastern

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Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · yesterday

Still salty that the Pergamon Museum is closed for renovations, but the Altes Museum did not disappoint. Enjoy my pic of this 2,000(ish)-year-old red-figure vase depicting a nude lady hauling around an enormous cock-and-balls. 🏺

Red figure krater depicting a nude woman carrying an extremely large phallus
Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 3d ago

Heading to the airport now and looking forward to my first time in Berlin and first time at the European PPAs! If you’re a presenter who is interested in media coverage, hit me up! 🧪🏺

DAI@dai-weltweit.bsky.social · last wk.

💬 #Conference: Next week our Natural Sciences division is inviting to #ppa26Berlin - the 25th European Paleopathology meeting taking place every two years. 🗓️ 03.-07.08.26 📍Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin 🏺 Full programme and further info: www.dainst.org/en/the-25th-...

Graphic showing Berlin's TV tower to the left a several hand in blue latex gloves carrying bones or tools like a brush, reaching into the image form all sides. In the centre the following text can be read: 25th European PPA Meeting
Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trust, I’d argue, is the most important thing we have as scinece communicators. People come to us because they trust that *we* have done the work to figure out what is true and what isn’t and we can explain it to them. Once that trust is broken, it’s really hard to get it back.

Caroline VanSickle (she/her)@cvansickle.bsky.social · 7d ago

Today in #WomensHealth: Often, ovarian cancer is actually fallopian tube cancer. Removing the tubes prevents the cancer and can be done with any abdominal surgery (including c-sections). Part of why we're bad at finding ovarian cancer early enough to treat is that we're looking in the wrong organ!

There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It. (Gift Article)

The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.

nytimes.com

Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · last wk.

Tried on a dress for an upcoming conference. Made the mistake of texting the 12yo for her opinion. 12: u look like a can of diet sugar free cream Coca Cola Me: I’ll steam it and accessorize it and it’ll look better… 12: if u say so bro

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · last wk.

by way of idle wishful thinking - would be great if NYT hired a science writer/thinker for the op-ed page to tell us what’s happening and what’s at stake in the sciences, at a time when they are under attack in a way Galileo would recognize, while newspaper science journalism is facing extinction

Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · last wk.

Question for geology peeps: Am reading a 100-year-old archaeological excavation report that refers to monocrystalline quartz as "rock crystal". Is "rock crystal" a term still in common use, or would we just say "quartz" (or "quartzite") today?

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · last wk.

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.