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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 8h

Cuties don't have to make the bed

Old brown, grey, and white dog in hotel bed

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Nov 17

Mind the gap.

#Archaeologists are excited about #dinosaurs as much as everybody else - but we don't dig them. Not literally.

That's where our colleagues in #palaeontology come in - there's a good sixty-four million years of evolutionary history between the Flintstones and their pets. 🏺🦕

Drawing of a prehistoric hunter with a spear in one hand standing high up on an edge upon piled up different layers with all kinds of material included. On the ground below a dinosaur is looking up at the rathe puzzled looking hunter. A note indicates the distance between them: "≈ 64 million years".

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 20d

This @nhm.org display was first opened in 1996 and you can tell

Photo of red, blue and yellow diagram of mountain creation

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 27d

I'm a victim of my own skimming, sorry 😆

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 27d

Love it. Honestly my only 'critique' is that your main points could have been acronymized to SHIRT

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Sep 9

I love the warm weather (esp paired with the cool nights right now), but this photo went across my timeline and I'm missing these wide cold expanses.
Cedar Breaks, Utah

Photograph of snowy mesas and canyons. Red rock and cedars are visible with a crisp blue sky.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Sep 6

This almond looks like it's cosplaying as an acorn

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Sep 3

It's that time of year again, when I bully friends I admire into trying for a W-G symposia grant

wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...

Call for Proposals, Wenner-Gren Symposium 2027

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.

wennergren.org

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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.
Deadline: October 10, 2025.
wennergren.org/article/call...

Call for Proposals, Wenner-Gren Symposium 2027

The Wenner-Gren Foundation is now accepting proposals for our Spring 2027 symposium.

wennergren.org

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Sep 3

"The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with completedisregard for antiseptics."
- Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Book cover of 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man' by Marshall McLuhan

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'll be interested to see nationwide trends for university student enrollment this semester.
SIU flatlined for the first time in years: the push for growth in regional and first-gen students evened out the absolute tanking of international enrollment.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Living in a walkable city, even a small one, means I can walk to my doctor's appointment and stop by the library as a lil treat on the way back.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is a great composition for a statue or painting, they're both so regal in their stances!

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Where in the Bible? Did he think there was a Book of Gantt? That Paul laid out Jesus' schedule? Methuselah didn't live long, he was just well-organized and got a lot done?

Can he at least tell us if he thought Gantt was Old or New Testament?

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · Aug 28

My course about birding & creative code is also secretly (shhhh) a course about critical data thinking.

Which is one of the most important skills you could possibly cultivate in this age of AI and misinformation.

Autumn cohorts start September 23rd... join me?

jerthorp.me/learning

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Why birds & data?
To see the whole picture.
Data is a system, not a thing.
To truly understand data, you need to know how it gets made, how it is changed by the processes of computation, and how the choices we make in representing it affect the stories that can be told.
Birding offers a way to get intimate with this entire system. To watch as our observations become data. To see how they are recast and reshaped by algorithms and models. To explore the many practical and poetic ways we might tell our data's story.
Through birding, data is revealed not as static record, but as a living process of which we (and our feathered neighbors) are very much a part.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 28

booooo. Boooo those presses

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 27

appraisals and reviews NOW now? That schedule keeps shifting up, doesn't it??

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 27

Endless juggling, am I right? When I drop something, I just hope to hell it was a plastic ball and not a glass one.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 26

The artist coulda called it 'canola' but nah, they knew what they were doing

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 25

TIL at least three seed arts have been banned from the competition

Minnesota Fair Censors Bill Cosby Portrait Made from Rapeseeds

Every year, the Minnesota State Fair offers a prized blue ribbon to the artist who can make the coolest picture from seeds of commonly grown crops.

hyperallergic.com

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 25

I need a poster-size version of this from @theonion.com . I'd call it my self-portrait.

portion of political cartoon where a disgruntled person in a lab coat holds a piece of paper saying 'Notice: Funding Revoked". The person is labelled 'Research Scientist Sickos'

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 22

I've moved on average every 18 months of my adult life, but my email's remained the same.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have had the same phone number for ~23 years and the same email address for 22, in spite of having lived at [counts, struggles] at least 16 different addresses in that span. I don't have a point here, there's just something odd about modern communications.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 21

The fact that this poster has all the aesthetic of a Southern Baptist youth mission trip is killing me

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 21

I *just* realized pastoral care refers to ministry and not herd management. I know you can just keep following the thread to Latin pastor for ‘shepherd’ but I was cutting the middle out. 😵‍💫

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Aug 20

Jump scare!

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