HarmonizeR function is live on GitHub! It is v. basic (hence v.0), but it works for African pollen morphotypes. This one's for you, fellow @neotomadb data stewards. https://t.co/lKjuoWbksJ #APDawesome

New paper out! This one was complicated, but I think it’s on the right track. https://t.co/J5PL3NoAaX

AI slop hit the academy like a tidal wave. We took the average of an over saturated body of literature and hit it with factor analysis to distill vectors of mediocrity into a predictive variable that’s doing all the fun work of being a person. Still can’t identify grasses.

If your kid spends 18+ years in your care and gets “brainwashed” in college, maybe that’s on you.

This place is filled with radioactive stupidity, so cleanse your mind with these Sagittaria images. One from a wetland recovery zone here in FL and another from the USF Herbarium.

❗️It's finally out❗️ Our book 'An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion' is now available. If you are interested in any aspect of the Central African past over the past 40k years, including palaeoenv, archaeo, history, language, and genetics-check it out! https://t.co/PRsTdv6jeF

Very proud to have our *newest OA article* with Journal of Archaeological Science based on the #BantuFirst project. Here we describe the earliest contextualized use of pressure flaking in the Congo Basin from ~15kya at Mitshakila, DRC @ElsevierArchaeo https://t.co/URzsmioxPk

New publication on Holocene climates and vegetation in Cameroon. Come for the biomarkers, stay for the pollen diagrams! Sensitivity to climate and vegetation dynamics of a peatland record fr...

The long time focus on famous end users companies like @apple by activists, the media and in this case the Congolese government itself, has obscured players directly involved in the pillaging of #DRC's minerals wealth, from Rwandan officials to Western brokers.

Pollen and phytoliths making the thumbnail. You love to see it.

Excited to be a part of this project, extending the record of known rain forest and exploitation by humans back to 150,000 years ago. Some of my pollen images made it into the main text! Don’t think any of my co-authors are on this hell site anymore… https://t.co/GNMM22N5DV

Interested in tropical peatlands? On 17-18 February, we have the first ever scientific conference on African peatlands, at the Royal Society in London. Free to attend+streamed online (w/ French subtitles). Register here:

I know it’s stupid but the bullshit algorithm here pushes videos where motherfuckers get the interior of trees wrong but LOOK AT THE DETAIL ON THE STOVE.

Hypothetically, if you review the same article 10 times for five different journals can you get a free sandwich or coffee or something? Asking for a friend.

I despair at both this passing muster at WSJ and also how narrow this race is.

📢 Publication Alert 📢 Happy to share a new paper published today on @ArchaeometryJnl where I : 1) review the many challenges of archaeological applications of aoristic analyses, and 2) propose an alternative approach based on Bayesian statistics https://t.co/WrVuicThCF

🚨New paper alert!🚨 'Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations' - We analysed 30,000 years of history to understand how populations absorb and recover from disturbances @BU_Research @bournemouthuni https://t.co/7Jmv0WvPpH Gold OA:🔓

This kind of shit crystallizes my mistrust for higher ed. The wonders of nature exist outside the academy, too. You might find us there in the future when our conscience cannot bear being culpable for awful acts of cowardice.