Bridget Alex

Yes on ballot measure #3 in Somerville

In Human Origins Research, Communities Are the Missing Link
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This frose is not everything I dreamed it would be

Instead of ironing…

The Tangled Roots of Corruption in Today’s South Africa A legal scholar turned anthropologist connects South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past to what she witnesses shadowing parole officers.

The Tangled Roots of Corruption in Today’s South Africa
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Fossil teeth reveal a previously unknown human ancestor from eastern Africa Scientists say the teeth belonged to a type of Australopithecus, a relative of Lucy’s species, that coexisted with our genus, Homo

Wrote this out today: Fossil teeth reveal a previously unknown human ancestor from eastern Africa | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry An anthropologist discusses the biological consequences of inadequate food—and why Argentina's community kitchens need support.

Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry
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Can A.I. Help Revitalize Indigenous Languages? Indigenous researchers and roboticists are crafting innovative tools to help save endangered dialects

a student started this article in my Harvard science writing course this spring, and now it's published in Smithsonian! www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized

Wrote this, out today: Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

so this is how Colbert must have felt. Learned that SAPIENS magazine, where I work, is closing from a mass email to its newsletter subscribers today.

To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents An anthropologist compares her early motherhood in London with child care experiences in a hunter-gatherer community of Central Africa.

"Parenting should not be learned in isolation or all at once—it is a lifelong process embedded in daily life long before one has a child and long after."
Great piece by @denizsalali.bsky.social To Raise Children, We Must First Raise Parents www.sapiens.org/biology/to-r...

some Italian years ago: "let's just dilute this fine espresso and call it an americano"

every biological anthropologist needs an entomologist friend to turn to every time we have a "wait what about the social insects?" type question

Rachel Carson Science Journalism Fellow - Lab of Ornithology Department Background: The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a globally renowned nonprofit institution that advances research, education, participatory science, and conservation to improve the understandi...

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Retraction Watch journalism internship Retraction Watch covers science and research integrity through the lens of retractions. Its staff of two full-time journalists, as well as its two founding editors and a network of freelance writer…

two cool-looking internships for aspiring science journalists:

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The dumbest thing about babies is when they can’t sleep because they are too tired

Oh hey I did that study!

Study quantifies U.S. news media’s disregard for archaeology from China, Taiwan Four years ago, Rowan Flad, the John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, wrote a piece for the Washington Post calling attention to the lavish media attention given to ancient Egyptian…

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And to almost guarantee a media frenzy, just find evidence for Stone Age stoners in Southwest Asia. Studies with the most coverage included Paleolithic Arch, sites in SW Asia, and early beer, bread, wine, and cannabis.

Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research US media coverage of archaeology shows geographic disparities, with archaeology of China/Taiwan less likely to receive coverage.

Wonder what archaeology makes headlines? In a new study, we investigated US media coverage for 1,115 arch papers published over 6 years. Seems Chinese archaeology was under-reported.
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How is indigo an official rainbow color but nobody talks about it?!

If I wanted my sandwich messy, I wouldn’t have ordered a sandwich

Humans hurled massive mammoth tusk boomerangs 40,000 years ago At almost 2.5 feet long, the ivory weapon wasn’t designed to return to the user.

news from Obłazowa Cave, the most pleasant cave I've ever done archaeology in
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Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama An anthropologist investigates how the U.S. used archaeology to expand its influence in the Panama Canal Zone.

Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama
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Uncovering an Archaeology of U.S. Empire in Panama
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Pete Hegseth Wondering Whether Uranium Would Be A Good Mixer WASHINGTON—Growing increasingly contemplative as he fantasized about a stiff drink after a long day at work, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly wondered Monday whether uranium might make a good...

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There goes the neighborhood

How Societies Morph With the Seasons An anthropologist chronicles radical changes foragers undertake seasonally—and how the rigidity of industrialized societies is an anomaly.

Check out a great piece by one of SAPIENS' Templeton Fellows @ceciliapad.bsky.social How Societies Morph With the Seasons www.sapiens.org/biology/fora...

Live updates: Israeli death toll rises as conflict rages with Iran | CNN Iran and Israel have launched more round of missiles at each other as the Middle East conflict escalates. Follow our live updates.

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The Zionist regime targets civilians everywhere it wages terror: “More details of this afternoon’s Israeli strikes on Tehran are beginning to emerge, with densely populated residential areas of the Iranian capital being targeted, CNN understands”