Chris Stantis

Love a mononym

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*?

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*which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

University of Iowa professor accused of improperly spending nearly $300,000 A University of Iowa professor misspent over $294,000 in grants and other funding for his personal business, according to an investigation by the Iowa Auditor’s Office.

"A total of $128,463 was misspent on the pigs." was not the sentence I expected to read today
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IsoArcH Addithon 2025 This form is used to sign up for the IsoArcH Addithon to be run from 11-20 August 2025.

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research.

bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

HUH AI drama is wild

The Bewitching is out today. I'll do the nice marketing post in a bit, but right now I wanted to just thank you all for allowing me to publish. Specially I want to thank my readers of color, the Latinos and Latinas who keep reading me. I was told, more than once, that people like me didn't belong in

Winter holidays! I like the smaller but longer dip over the summer, too. You can tell this is used in classrooms and by academics

FIFTY MONTHS

Photo of old dog with orange-pink flower crown

My friend let us try on her flower crowns.

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

Just listened to a great Journalism History podcast episode today on deaf printers and a preservation project at Gallaudet University. Anyway their site has a great tutorial for making those caps: deafprinters.com/hat

well crap, now I have to buy another frame, the b&w big version of this is in my office

photo of slightly tarished brass hinge. A heart with the initials "S.W." inside is visible.

Cleaning decades of paint off these hinges, and found the Stanley Sweetheart logo. The Stanely company used this logo in 1919 after the death of an employee, William Hart.

a cartoon of a woman using a computer with a screen that says " inventory investigation " on it ALT: a cartoon of a woman using a computer with a screen that says " inventory investigation " on it

The urge to just bash my keyboard as a way to show what I'm feeling rn is strong

Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda Volume Editor: Michael Barros This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential …

For the gaming scholars among us…

The Internet is a crazy place. Good sleuthing on this!

I love it, just three of the same face on different bodies.

Screenshot of article '6 Fun Things to Do in Indio California!' by Gavin Newton. The photo for the article is AI-generated of three people looking happy while hiking, all with the same face.

Even weirder for this site to seemingly be about exploring California, though I see there a bunch of AI-generated articles about things to do, as well. This one might be my favorite, perusing.

The amount of wasted energy and trash filling the internet thanks to AI articles is wild. I'm looking for bedroom ideas for redecoration, and most of it is AI nonsense. This 'person', Gavin Newton, is clearly AI and has 'written' hundreds of articles on decor. learncalifornia.org/author/gavin/

Ooooh looks amazing! 😍

A Sodom and Gomorrah Story Shows Scientific Facts Aren’t Settled by Public Opinion Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction shows that scientific conclusions aren’t decided by majority rule in the public...

@boslough.bsky.social covering where we are with that frankly ridiculous Tall el-Hammam/Sodom and Gomorroh 'research'

Also, I 1000% recommend Forensic Chemistry as a journal to submit to, omg they were so quick with turnarounds.

Anyway, enjoy this OpenAccess article

Graphical abstract. An animal jaw is sent to different labs, chemically pretreated or not, oven baked or not, and acid reaction temp is set to 30 or 50 C. Conclusions are: 1. Chemical pretreatment is unnecessary for tooth enamel 2. Baking can be helpful in certain laboratory conditions 3. Acid reaction temp appears to have little-to-no impact on comparability

Our lil graphical abstract sums it up nicely, including recommendations.
* Chemical pretreatment is unnecessary for tooth enamel
* Baking can be helpful in certain laboratory conditions
* Acid reaction temp appears to have little-to-no impact on comparability

Improving inter-laboratory comparability of tooth enamel carbonate stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ18O) Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of human tooth enamel carbonate are frequently used for reconstruction of past diet, movement, and environmental cond…

Pretty good week when two papers come out!
In this experiment, we pulled out some of the most common protocols for carbonate stable isotope analysis (C and O in tooth enamel), and tweaked them to see what worked best for reproducibility 🏺🧪
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Have a new paper to post to socials about and my fingers reflexively started to type in the Bad Place oof

It’s like @johnrogers.bsky.social says: if you constantly label everything you don’t like socialism, and you suck, eventually the youth will just embrace socialism.

If you paid for it, it's yours!

Strontium isoscapes for provenance, mobility and migration: the way forward | Royal Society Open Science Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) are increasingly used as a provenance tool in multiple disciplines. Application to biological materials requires knowledge of the variation in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr acr...

This article is the culmination of a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social project led by the iso-GOAT 🧪Judith Sealy. I'm so honored to have attended the conference, talked about open science in isotopes research, and then been part of this paper led by Max Spies 🏺https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250283