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Stefani Crabtree πŸ¦€πŸŒ²

@stefanicrabtree.bsky.social

Archaeologist doing ecology of the past. Fieldwork in Australia, Mongolia, the American Southwest, and sometimes France. Associate Prof of social-environmental modeling at USU, Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, two Ph.D.s, archaeoecology, endless swagger

925 Followers  |  155 Following  |  52 Posts  |  Joined: 22.06.2023  |  2.2889

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Meet Dirty Soda: The β€˜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...

17.05.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

17.05.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

17.05.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha. Fair.

16.05.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no! A yikes emoji?

16.05.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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. :)

16.05.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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!

15.05.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thinking through Archaeological Complexity Thinking Through Archaeological ComplexityΒ explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...

Hey 🏺πŸ§ͺ! 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...

14.05.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

10.02.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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*

24.11.2024 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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! πŸ§ͺ 🏺!

19.11.2024 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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? :)

15.11.2024 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

13.11.2024 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

12.11.2024 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This. This is me.

20.08.2024 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kermitthefrog Dance GIF ALT: Kermitthefrog Dance GIF

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!

01.05.2024 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A plot showing prestige (impact factor) on vertical axis and fees charged by journals on horizontal axis.

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

13.12.2023 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 304    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 19

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

12.12.2023 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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).

11.12.2023 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.12.2023 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man, same. <fistbump>

07.12.2023 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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...

28.11.2023 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

24.11.2023 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 270    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 8

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

13.11.2023 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's super interesting and fun! Lemme know if you ever want to head to the Darkhad!

01.10.2023 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh awesome! I am reading your book now and love it. Dad is a birder, I do fieldwork in Mongolia, it gives me all the feels.

30.09.2023 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn, Carl, this looks amazing.

15.09.2023 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a lovely few day workshop at SFI on collective adaptation. Highlights included birding with @carlbergstrom.com, bringin my Ph.D. student Stan Rhodes and watching him *shine*, and doing great science. I even told folks to Heliotown, our own private Meow Wolf like space.

15.09.2023 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bluesky Social See what's next.

Welcome to @katietherockdoc.bsky.social, who just joined Bluesky! Katie is a scientist who has worked on the House Natural Resource Committee, now Deputy Director at Blue Green Alliance, and her profile pic is her testifying before congress. She's a badass scientist who works on Policy! Follow! πŸ§ͺ

13.07.2023 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The civilisation myth: How new discoveries are rewriting human history In an evolutionary eyeblink, our species has gone from hunting and gathering to living in complex societies. We need to rethink the story of this monumental transition

πŸ§ͺ I got interviewed by a journalist at New Scientist during finals week and completely forgot about it, because <finals week>. Apparently I didn't sound like a complete idiot. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834450-800-the-civilisation-myth-how-new-discoveries-are-rewriting-human-history/

04.07.2023 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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