Jessie Slater @subbasegirl@qoto.org

A recent presentation I gave about #pseudoarchaeology (what it is, a brief primer on how to identify it, why is it problematic) is up on Youtube!

https://youtu.be/QHmw51kjPjw

People like to joke about colons in academic titles, but the formula is pretty clearly "Title I Love: Title that Indexes this Content to its Readership." Let us have this one thing so that we can have a tiny crumb of cake and eat it too. 😅

Come for the science news, stay for the video of octopuses hurling objects at each other.

#octopus #octopuses

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/science/octopus-throwing-silt.html

We got safety vests for our chickens when we were having our new patio built - here's Azi briefly wearing one (she wasn't a fan)

At the advice of someone with several days of Mastodon experience, I'm reposting this with the hashtag #introduction to make myself easier to find:

I'm the International news editor at Science. I oversee most of our coverage from Asia, Africa, and Latin America but also edit lots of stories about global health and infectious diseases. Occasionally write stories as well. Especially interested in scientific misconduct. Cat-loving Dutchman living in Amsterdam.

Tips on using PAPYRUS, the ultimate #Twitter replacement

1) gather papyrus reeds
2) soak & press stalks into strips
3) weave into scroll
4a) write your missive and/or draw a pic on the scroll
4b) no character limit, just space limit
5) roll up scroll
6) hand deliver to one person

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

― Terry Pratchett

I'm told one can't really Toot threads on Mastodon, but I'm going to give it a try. Bear with me.
1. cdcgov posted FluView early this week; tomorrow is a federal holiday.
This week's edition is a little eye popping.
Let's start with this map. This year CDC has added a whole new activity level, "very high" & new colors, deep red & purple.
Whoa.

Two #byzantine cat #mosaics from #Madaba #Jordan 😺

#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #photography #blackandwhite #bwphotography #infrared

Chapter House, Elgin Cathedral, Scotland

@ivanflis
a) that science does have a history. (Don't take it for granted as a universal, a-historical thing.)
b) that its history includes the social, cultural, political, economic etc history of the people, organisations and societies involved in science (as well as the intellectual content)
And depending on your students, c) that the history of modern, Western 'science' is only a small part of the human history of attempts to understand the natural world.
#hps #hstm #histsci

Why #ContextMatters (not only, but particularly) in #archaeology:

An archaeological artifact without its documented find context is … like an image ripped from a book (and the rest of the pages torn into shreds): something nice to look at, but missing the actual story about it.

Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints: How Japan’s Favorite Animals Came to Star in Its Popular Art

https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/cats-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-how-japans-favorite-animals-came-to-star-in-its-popular-art.html

A rare snow leopard roaming on Mount Everest at 18,000ft, amazing photo published in @thetimes today by Kittiya Pawlowski.

Beautiful Martian vista taken by the Curiosity Rover's Mastcam on sol 3646

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

#Mars #NASA #Science #Space