The great thing about going to a concert that’s mostly for teen girls (Olivia Rodrigo) is that even from the floor, I can see everrrrrything (as someone 2 SD taller than the average US woman). 🎵 💄 💋
Kristina Killgrove
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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. Chapel Hill, NC based.
One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
Brooke T. Sample@brookesample.bsky.social · yesterdayWASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December. Just find myself muttering variations of "this can't be real" over and over again.
Editors of journals published by Taylor & Francis - hi! - may be alarmed to learn there is an emerging view T&F will get bought by private equity after Informa announced it's dropping it. And we know what private equity does to its acquisitions. Guts them. As if academic publishing wasn't bad enough
Siobhan@siobhanh.bsky.social · 2d ago
Where does that leave us? Private equity. T&F has high margins, recurring subscription and transformative agreement income, a distinct business to separate, and a sale to PE would face the least competition law risk. Overall, this might be an attractive option for Informa.
The evolution of cattle and their relatives is such a fascinating story. It’s great to see some of the same sites in the Altai providing information about unexpected bovines, after already highlighting the unexpected diversity of human ancestors. www.johnhawks.net/p/denisova-c...
Denisova Cave mystery yak
DNA from bone fragments reveals lost populations of bovines in the cold caves of Central Asia.
johnhawks.net
Neanderthals were talented hunters AND home decorators. Evidence from a Spanish rock shelter includes new tool types and evidence for windbreaks and other domestic arrangements. “Now we can start to imagine the spaces they were living in,” says archaeologist @annemiekemilks.bsky.social. @science.org
Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
science.org
People who hunt game and gather wild plants in both Tanzania and Bolivia share hundreds of species of bacteria in their guts that are rare or missing from industrialized societies. Here's my story about what this may mean for the history of the microbiome. Gift link: nyti.ms/3WdCvZZ
Was the Human Gut Healthier in Ancient Times? (Gift Article)
The microbiome isn’t what it used to be in many parts of the world. The shift of species may be affecting the well-being of people in industrialized countries.
nyti.ms
The Job Trail, a web game about making it through 52 weeks as a laid-off creative worker. Based on The Oregon Trail. My first try: “You have died of burnout. Week 13. 51 applications, 1 ghosting.” [labs.ficuscreative.com]
The Job Trail
It is 2026. You have been laid off. Somewhere there is a job.
labs.ficuscreative.com
Alabama Makes State Workers Say ‘Gulf of America.’ Colleges Aren’t Spared.
Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
insidehighered.com
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
n.pr
Chronicle Heritage, the largest cultural resources management firm in the US, abruptly shuttered its operations last week. The sudden closure leaves many archaeologists without work just as the US field season is coming to a close. This is a developing story. 🧪🏺 #Archaeology at @science.org
Exclusive: Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down
Chronicle Heritage was largest U.S. cultural resources management company
science.org
A new study of Iron and Viking Age "body-objects" reveals a significant amount of violence in Scandinavia. 🏺🧪
Live Science@livescience.com · 3d agoArchaeologists discover a child's skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian house www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
🧪🏺🦣 V. happy to contribute to this great feature on unanswered questions in science for @nytimes.com I'm at no. 32, with "Did #Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens share their lives and cultures as well as their genes?" 🧬🪨🤝 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In.
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
nytimes.com
Me, waiting for IT to release an email from a professor who sent me a copy of the research study I requested. (Email's been quarantined for suspicious link... **sigh**)
Mr. Bean Contemplating in a Field of Flowers
Alt: Mr. Bean Contemplating in a Field of Flowers
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Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study finds www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study finds
The ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.
livescience.com
Your astonishing artifact of the week is a Maya urn on which the deceased is depicted wearing a jaguar costume and flanked by skulls as he enters the underworld. 🧪🏺
Urn with jaguars and skulls: A burial vessel depicting a dead ruler's arrival in the Maya underworld
This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.
livescience.com
The Incredible Hulk — Lou Ferrigno gave me nightmares for weeks when I was 4.
Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 6d agoIn honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
"Is it food?" "You don't boil B.A.s, you bake 'em!" "O dee otin dotin ay, heating up our B.A.s..." www.tiktok.com/@kidsintheha...
#kith #thekidsinthehall #kidsinthehall
TikTok video by KidsInTheHallwithhuggy
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don't hug me I'm porksweats@porksweats.bsky.social · 6d agowhat's your favorite kids in the hall skit that's not girl drink drunk or the daves i know
NEW: After we investigated a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills that churn out garbage using fake journalists and subject matter experts, Google has officially cracked down on the scheme: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots
Google has updated its guidelines to forbid the use of fake bylines, AI-generated headshots, and other acts of "deception."
futurism.com
The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
Current evidence suggests Indigenous Ancestors arrived in the Americas no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports. 🧪🏺
The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggests
The first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but 'there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset,' a new study reports.
livescience.com
I got my legs stuck in a Wendy’s high chair as a kid (when I was far too old to be in a high chair and old enough to know better). Thankfully, no fire dept required.
Tom Kash@superkash.bsky.social · last wk.I got my head stuck in a bowling ball rack as a kid.
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
nytimes.com
King Richard III of England was born #OnThisDay in AD 1452. In 2012, archaeologists famously discovered the king's remains under a car park in Leicester. The results of the excavation were published in Antiquity 👇 🔗 from 2013 🆓 doi.org/10.1017/S000... 🏺 #Archaeology
'It's a portrait of their actual ancestor': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
'It's a portrait of their actual ancestor': Facial reconstruction of Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago shared with his descendants
You can now see a facial reconstruction — and the particular hairstyle — of a man who lived more than 3,000 years ago in what is now Ecuador.
livescience.com
How much of the tree of life did you eat? Phylodiet scores a meal by phylogenetic diversity: type what you ate and it builds the dated tree of the organisms in it, from ~3,300 edible eukaryotes, back 2 billion years. Last night's dinner, below. 🧵 mjhickerson.github.io/phylodiet/app/phylodiet.html
