Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900 The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks so much!

It really won't be very good, but I will totally sign it, with a bright silver pen! :) hahahaha

Meant to help students think through a problem using method and theory from complexity science it is a very "here is how I think" kind of book. Hopefully it's useful. It's not terribly long; if you buy it get the paperback (the hardback is so expensive!) or have your library order it! 2/2

Thinking through Archaeological Complexity Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...

It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺
And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...

Still can't believe it! So fun writing with you. let's do it again sometime :)

Meet Dirty Soda: The ‘It’ Drink of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives We did a deep-dive into dirty soda, the trending drink that is popular in Utah thanks to TikTok (MomTok) and the new "Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" show everyone is talking about on Hulu.

No free coffee! But surprisingly we do have *good* coffee on campus, for us heathens!
But no faculty lounge. And no coffee. If we did have a faculty lounge it would be compulsory Dirty Soda Dispensers a la: www.allrecipes.com/what-is-dirt...

My best friend in 1st-5th grade once said to me she wanted to make a concrete impression of her butt so she'd have the most comfortable seat.
I'm sending her this story...

We *definitely* don't have them at Utah State.

Ha. Fair.

Oh no! A yikes emoji?

I loved his book "Owls of the Eastern Ice" which gave me all the feels about my work doing archaeology in Mongolia. Did @jonathanslaght.com know my favorite animal is a tiger? Probably not, but I'm gonna pretend he did and he wrote this book for me. :)

Here's the beginnings of my cover art for my new book, "Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity." Thanks to @carlbergstrom.com who, when I first started painting, told me about someone he knew who painted all her slides at talks. Gave me the courage to ask to paint my book cover!

Thinking through Archaeological Complexity Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...

Hey 🏺🧪! My solo-authored book has a landing page!
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover!
www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban space...

I use this exact mosaic to talk about food webs in ancient times! Great example of tracking trophic networks in the past! www.google.com/books/editio...

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start

All y'all who are porting your tweets from the Old Place over... I kinda love starting over. Like when I graduated from WSU and had to have my email just disappear... time for a fresh slate... who will BSKY Stefani *be*

What are the coolest current methods in Social Science? I did a lecture and activity on topic modeling yesterday and my students *loved* it. Agent-based modeling and network analysis coming up, but would love to know your thoughts!
Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! 🧪 🏺!

You were the best of Twitter. I miss old Twitter.
Do you take requests?
When I was a kid my dad told me Astrapia stephaniae was named after me and I believed him for a couple years. Will you do your makeup as her? :)

I was an early early early person on bluesky, it just hadn't taken off... but I feel like, maybe it has critical mass now? We shall see.

a man in a bow tie says " science rules " ALT: a man in a bow tie says " science rules "

Welp, I finally deactivated my profile on the Other Site. Hello bluesky, you're it now. Please become a better place for interacting with my fellow scientists.

This. This is me.

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Now that Bluesky has GIFs it is officially more useful than The Place Formerly Known as Twitter. I can resume my way of naturally communicating--with muppets!

A plot showing prestige (impact factor) on vertical axis and fees charged by journals on horizontal axis.

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Aquatic bison. Let's call the conspiracy theorists. :-p

My zoo arch class was a while ago, and I'm better with desert stuff than fishy/water mammal stuff. Thus the "I believe". It has a huge spinous process, but so do bison vests (but I don't think this is a bison, lol).

I believe it's a cervical vert of a seal.

Oh man, same. <fistbump>

SOUND THE JOB KLAXON! My department at the **MOAB** Campus is hiring! Recreation resource management and nature based tourism! Environment and Society is a great department, Moab is beautiful, and we are truly interdisciplinary. Join us! Due Dec 8! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/7083/as...

IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions.

"The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.

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So proud to be external faculty at @sfiscience.bsky.social a "playground for geniuses". www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ...