Dr. Carly Maris

Screen shot of article that says the following: logoMain content starts here Reference #1 BACK TO VOL. 11, NO. 39 OPEN ACCESS RESEARCH ARTICLE NEUROSCIENCE Share on Synchronization of women’s menstruation with the Moon has decreased but remains detectable when gravitational pull is strong CHARLOTTE HELFRICH-FÖRSTER HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0002-0859-9092, ESTHER D. DOMENIE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0009-0008-6630-6076, [...] , AND SARA MONTAGNESE HTTPS://ORCID.ORG/0000-0003-2800-9923+5 authors Authors Info & Affiliations SCIENCE ADVANCES 24 Sep 2025 Vol 11, Issue 39

Screen shot from article that says “We conclude that humans are affected by the luminescence cycles and also the gravimetric cycles of the Moon, with the menstrual cycles aligning with the synodic month. Furthermore, we hypothesize that, in ancient times, human reproductive behavior was synchronous with the Moon, but that our modern lifestyle, particularly our increasing exposure to artificial light at night, has altered this relationship.”

Every ancient historian should read this article bc the implications 🤯 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A shot of the HBO who’s watching screen on their app and there are 5 different profiles, all of Guy Fieri’s face

It’s been a month and no one in our family has said anything about, what I think to be, the best prank ever.

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue."

Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Now seeing accounts claim that AI being “trained on” art & books to generate content isn’t “stealing.”

When a student uses a book to generate a paper and doesn’t cite it, what do we call that?

It’s Heidi Klum’s Halloween costume but it’s so grotesque you can’t see it’s Heidi Klum’s. She’s Medusa and it’s truly amazing. She’s all green and scales, down her torso and arms. The snakes are all ta fled with hair on her head and her face is terrifying, with pointy serpentine teeth, and snake eye contact lenses. It’s movie-level makeup.

Someone write an academic paper on Heidi Klum’s Halloween costumes

Okay so it’s dark in the pic and there’s a blow up alien with a jack o lantern in front of him. But the alien (Greg) is super happy and cute. Also the alien is glowing against a dark brick wall behind him. It’s a bit fuzzy but that’s because it’s kinda hard to take pics at night because you have to hold your phone super still and honestly I’m not good at that. So it’s kinda fuzzy. But not bc it’s chat gpt. It’s bc I’m not good at holding still. Also Greg is so cute.

Meet Greg!

I once saw an AI article all about how Titus Labienus (100-45 BCE) was a Roman Emperor so…

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I painted ur dog

A pug sitting on the foot of a bed, staring up at the camera. He is sitting in a beige blanket that has white and brown pumpkins on it. At the head of the bed is a white pumpkin pillow and another pillow that says hey pumpkin.

Immediately jumps on the bed I just made

Me, in class: I mean if I were to steal these pieces from the Louvre, I’d break them down and sell the stones individually.

My students: 🧐🧐🧐 where were you October 19th

What if I started podficcing my fav ancient history fanfics on AO3? What then?

i think its so funny that he thinks to modernise the white house it needs a ballroom. when last you been to a ball?? Who are you inviting over? Madame Bovary? you want to modernise the place all you need is laminate flooring and a corner sofa. what a waste of money

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

I’m gonna read Babel after this I think!

I’m dying Katabasis (R.F. Kuang) is so effing funny:

“To be honest she had never gotten around to trying Proust, but Cambridge had made her the kind of person who wanted to have read Proust, and she figured Hell was a good place to start.”

Photo of R.F. Kang’s Katabasis, a novel

First paragraph and I’m hooked

👀

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

Another…Shakespeare adaptation?

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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I’m mostly posting this so people let their relatives who are susceptible to these things know, it’s a really convincing one!

FYI there’s a super convincing-looking fake PayPal phishing email saying you were charged for an iPhone or something. I just got it and checked my PayPal (no transaction there) and forwarded the message to phishing@paypal.com.

Same!

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

I walked into the classroom and immediately could tell my senior seminar students were planning something.

What were they planning?

Getting flip phones and destroying their smart phones. So that’s where the history majors are at.

SCS AIA CAMWS