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Dr Michelle Ann Kline
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anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive
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brunelcce.bsky.social
Ayesha Ali as Sekhmet the Egyptian lioness of war and healing 🦁🔥🩸

@aiyanakoka.bsky.social as Inanna the Sumerian goddess of love/war and fertility 🌹🗡️✨

@michelleakline.bsky.social as Brigid the poet & smith 🛠️📜

@loraadair.bsky.social as Hekate, the Greek goddess of magic, crossroads & the night 🌙🗝️
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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brunelcce.bsky.social
The Spirits and Sources folks attended the Goddess Conference last week 🧙‍♀️🪬🧚

lots of fieldwork 🏞️🔍, participant observation and ethnography 🧑‍🤝‍🧑📋🖊️, and community building 🌐🤝🏘️ as well as embodied experience 🙏💃🌀

@brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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brunelcce.bsky.social
🧵 1/ CCEs @michelleakline.bsky.social , @nicolewen.bsky.social and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩

edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social
A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field
This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-relia...
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July 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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twaring.bsky.social
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@durhamanthropology.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social @nataliabdutra.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @acerbialberto.com @nicolewen.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social ‪
July 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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twaring.bsky.social
New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
Post-Doctoral Position on Cultural Adaptation in Forest Management
The University of Maine seeks a post-doctoral researcher for a two-year project on human cultural adaptation in forest management, requiring a strong quantitative background and experience in modeling.
timwaring.info
June 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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merriam-webster.com
'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'
FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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henkaipantomime.bsky.social
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text 1 is superimposed over text 2, Instagram story style text 1: Academic friends-these recently posted humanities lecturer positions at Columbia are in fact scab positions designed to replace graduate teaching opportunities and mitigate labor power amongst students. Quite literally, applying to these positions will directly impact me and my colleagues who are still awaiting teaching appointments/funding for the coming year. Please do not encourage students or colleagues to apply to these positions. Happy to take DMs on this and discuss text 2: Lecturer in Discipline Columbia University The Columbia College Core Curriculum invites applications for positions at the rank of Lecturer in Discipline for the 2025-2026 academic year. We are looking for experienced instructors to teach the Core courses Art Humanities, Literature Humanities, Music Humanities, or Contemporary Civilization. As the cornerstone of undergraduate general education at mbia, the Core is required for all Columbia College students and includes students from main.hercjobs.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
michelleakline.bsky.social
I keep coming up on this with student essays. The refs are made up, or it cites real papers for things that have nothing to do with the evidence in the papers.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jul 7
The only problem is that the citations go to papers that don't actually exist.
July 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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watarutoyokawa.bsky.social
【🚨ACE Seminar Alert🚨】We're excited to have Dr Ryutaro @uchiyama.bsky.social joining from Singapore on Tuesday 29th July at 7pm in Tokyo (6pm in Singapore/12am in Berlin)!

You can sign up for the mailing list to get the zoom link by sending a blank email to [email protected]
Title: Motor–environment exploration in the human developmental niche Absract: In real behavioral ecologies, adaptive learning requires simultaneous exploration of both motor control and environmental task structure ("world model"), each presenting its own form of open-ended search complexity. We know much about each of these learning domains, but relatively little about their joint exploration space. I propose that this dual motor–environment exploration is crucial for understanding the human evolutionary niche. Human agency prolifically shapes environments that in turn shape our learning trajectories, presumably yielding a reciprocal (niche-constructive) feedback loop that couples mental structures to environmental structures and vice versa. Dual motor–environment exploration helps illuminate the explore–exploit landscape of this deeply collective, near-eusocial epigenetic milieu. It also offers unique computational and teleological perspectives on phenomena like cultural learning, social cognition, and behavioral creativity – complementing the population-level stochastic mechanisms proposed by cultural evolutionary theories.
July 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
michelleakline.bsky.social
This quote is fire

(male practice in the 1840s = medical doctors, as contrasted with local female healers)
June 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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lorentzcenter.bsky.social
Are you working at the intersection of the humanities/social sciences and the natural/technological sciences?
Apply now for the NLTG 26/27 – a unique 5 month residency for interdisciplinary research teams at NIAS and organize a workshop at the Lorentz Center. nias-lorentz.nl/nltg-theme-g...
June 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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paolocrosetto.bsky.social
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
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June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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willgervais.com
I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais.

It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.

Thanks, chatGPT!
The title is "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code", I believe the author is Will Gervais. I'm hoping for one quote about how snowboarding is like coding, and one batch of code to draw a halfpipe in ggplot() Certainly! Here's a quote that captures the essence of how snowboarding relates to coding: > “Snowboarding is like coding: you start with a plan, but the real joy comes from adapting to the terrain as you go.” This reflects the dynamic and adaptive nature of both activities. Additionally, to draw a halfpipe using `ggplot2` in R, you can use the following code: ```r library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Create data for the halfpipe halfpipe_data <- tibble( x = rep(seq(0, 100, length.out = 100), 2), y = c(sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100)), -sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100))), group = rep(c("Top", "Bottom"), each = 100) ) # Plot the halfpipe ggplot(halfpipe_data, aes(x = x, y = y, group = group)) + geom_line() + coord_flip() + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Halfpipe Design", x = "Length", y = "Height") ``` This code creates a simple representation of a halfpipe using sine functions to simulate the curved shape. You can adjust the parameters to refine the design further. ggplot graph showing a wasp-shaped figure 8, labeled "Halfpipe Design" y-axis is length, x-axis is height
June 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
michelleakline.bsky.social
Come visit our FANTASTIC group @brunelcce.bsky.social with one of two Wolfson fellowships.

The first is a 1y (or flex visits over 2y) fellowship *including relocation costs for scholar + family* DEADLINE SEPT 4: royalsociety.org/grants/royal...
Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship | Royal Society
The Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships provide an opportunity for talented international research leaders to undertake a flexible 12-month period of sabbatical leave in a UK university or rese...
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June 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
michelleakline.bsky.social
My reading treat for this work week...
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Scholarship for Durham University Students

£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.

Durham people please spread the word!

Application form 👇
Microsoft Forms
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June 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
michelleakline.bsky.social
Wow all those people reading his dissertation must have been super honest 🫶
patrickclarkin.bsky.social Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · May 21
Soon after getting his PhD, a friend of mine found his university library’s copy of his dissertation and put a $100 bill inside. He came back a decade later and the $ was still there.
May 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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nancymk.bsky.social
My friend Claire deserves to be able to go about her day to day life in peace. We *all* do. There is *nothing* feminist, and *nothing* good in this obsessive transphobic cult.
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · May 21
Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy.

This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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carlosfnorena.bsky.social
According to a 2021 report, the University of California system:

• generated $82B in economic activity in California

• supported 529K jobs in the state

• generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received

Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.
guyintheblackhat.bsky.social Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
May 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences just published a paper which argues that East Asian psychology evolved to cope with cold winters, and that ancestral climate may have "plausibly stunted" the development of East Asian & other populations around the globe. Sounds vaguely familiar, for some reason...?
Screenshot of a paper titled Arctic Instincts? The late Pleistocene Arctic origins of East Asian Psychology by David Sun, published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences The widely discussed sociocultural problems bottlenecking the flourishing of East Asian civilization (excessive levels of conformity, self-suppression, emotional repression, maladaptive introversion, brutal grinding work culture, harsh upbringing methods, social rigidity, social judgment, image obsession, risk aversion, high anxiety, tense urgency, lower Openness, stifled creativity, etc.) that have historically been misattributed to Confucianism or rice farming, are highly likely to be primarily aspects of paleolithic Arcticism that became maladaptive/mismatched in non-Arctic Holocene environments and the modern world, and were present in the population long before Confucius or the adoption of agriculture. It is worth exploring if ancestral ecological/climatic adaptation and modern maladaptation also negatively affect other societies around the world, as this may be the missing causal factor behind underdevelopment and longstanding sociocultural challenges in many nations.
May 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.

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May 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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abbeyepage.bsky.social
📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣

Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case.

We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍
May 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
michelleakline.bsky.social
😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
Migrants already in UK face longer wait for permanent settlement
People will typically have to live in the UK for 10 years before applying for the right to stay indefinitely.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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neogliberal.bsky.social
Protip: Prolific doesn't allow add-ons and task bars. If all your open response questions are actually embedded as images, participants can't copy paste, and this probably (?) will reduce AI responding.
May 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
michelleakline.bsky.social
For fun I am going to share the worst AI response I received in this study. Subtweeting myself 1/n

(FYI - I do have ethical approval to share direct quotes without attribution, participants through Prolific cannot be identified by me or anybody, and this is DEFINITELY AI, as you will see.)
michelleakline.bsky.social Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · May 13
Today is a writing day for me, but instead of writing all morning I have had to sort through the data I collected via Prolific to exclude AI-based responses 👎-- a thread 1/n
May 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM