Super excited to announce that my review article from this summer, "Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic," is now available open access!🔓🔓🔓🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I know there's not really a botox shortage or anything, but botox is a super effective treatment for muscle spasticity and chronic migraine and it can only mean good things for people who really need this medicine for clinical rather than aesthetic purposes

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 10mo ago

Botox sales are sagging as competition and the “natural look” take over.

just had the lovely experience of being denied by aetna for a medicine I need so what the f*ck is the point of health insurance

New Lily Allen album is ASTOUNDING. Album of the year caliber stuff and I hope she wins tons of awards and says “f*ck you* to David Harbour in every acceptance speech!!!

I need everyone to stop sending me high priority red exclamation mark emails. There is absolutely nothing related to my job that is an emergency. Let’s just all chill please

Why are universities fully sliding into the skid with incorporating AI into EVERYthing?? I don't want to fill out another survey answering how they can help me use AI in all my courses. Can't we hold the line?

I've been studying the 1918 flu for a decade and just did something for the first time: submitted an article to Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. good luck to me

all I have to do to finish this project is have an original idea, find all the previous research on this topic, read it, understand it, integrate it, shape it into a meaningful framework, execute analysis without errors, write it, and communicate it with perfect clarity. that's not that bad

ugh I love when I have italian in the crockpot and that first sweet smell of fennel, oregano, and thyme punches through

anthropologists to the front

David W Lawson@davidwlawson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling & intuitive, but what is the evidence that monogamous marriage is advantageous for society? theconversation.com/rethinking-p...

When did we all collectively become complacent to the fact that the White House belongs to the People?

Hillary Rodham Clinton@hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

Have you ever been very deep in writing a paper and all of a sudden just lift your fingers off the keys and say "why am I doing this" #AcademicSky

This would have been enough to end a political career permanently not that long ago

ProPublica@propublica.org · 11mo ago

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

I'm obsessed with not just the fact that the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to cheeto in command, but that the explanation of why it WAS awarded to María Corina Machado included a paragraph on why it would NEVER be awarded to cheeto in command

I have so many potential papers with just analyses and results finished that will probably never get done. I need a team to finish these off so they see the light. There’s just not enough time for me to get to them. If you need something to do, let me know - you can have it all

One of the most important things to remember right now is that you have to keep it 100 on the land, the sea, the sky

Dusting off the Newfoundland death records. Hello old friends, haven't seen you since dissertation station.

I just declined to revise a manuscript for a journal for the first time. I thought maybe it's better not to force it and one of the reviews would have been near impossible to overcome (both based on what they said and their attitude about the paper). So, it feels bad, but here we are.

The last time I went to the movie theater was April 2019 for Avengers: Endgame. I was 8 weeks pregnant with my daughter. Today I took that daughter to see her first movie in theaters! We saw Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, and she was a perfect movie theater citizen.

I've seen a lot of these maps lately, and I just wanted to say that I think a lot of them are way too definitive and that it's silly to color the entire map red between California and New York. Surely you can hold space for more nuance than that.

I realized something. In the 1st half of the semester in my Mass Media & Society class, I taught the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death", whose author argued that the future was Huxleyian rather than Orwellian. My student's had read neither 1984 nor BNW. There's a message in here somewhere

Excited to share my new article "Body size and risk of death during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Alaska", available in American Journal of Human Biology 🔓!! (@humbioassociation.bsky.social) Thanks to my co-authors for enabling me w. this crazy idea onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Body Size and Risk of Death During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Alaska

In the aftermath of the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic, research revealed the relationship between body size and the severity of influenza outcomes. However, there is little data available on body si....

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Okay I was planning on teaching Death Without Weeping (1993) in one of my upper level ethnography classes, but now flipping through this book again years later I'm afraid it's way too intense. I hate that I'm even thinking this way. This is an important book (flawed, yes, but important).

Deciding in real time to possibly change an ethnography on my syllabus next semester solely because I cannot find the one I originally wanted to teach on my bookshelves

so I asked chatgpt a coding question and the whole thing is just absolute shite. nothing works and if I thought it could get confused, then I would think it was confused - but it doesn't have a brain, so it's not thinking at all

this is, quite simply, psychotic

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This is delusional but you don’t have to read the whole thing. Boils down to: he’s shutting down the government because he thinks he’s a king.

uh I have just found out about TPUSA's Professor Watchlist and I have never wanted to more immediately leave academia than after seeing this website. I am so terrified right now, it needs to be said

Why are two-word surnames kicking y’all’s asses so much

I was revisiting a paper I wrote 3 yrs ago published in an Elsevier journal, and I noticed “AI-generated topics”: words in your article you could click on and it would take you to an AI-gen page to “learn more” I noticed “Elder” was highlighted in my paper, so I clicked on it and it took me…

How did we get to the point where being able to write well on your own is an “advantage” in this world instead of a baseline ability? I’m horrified by this.