Anthro Amy
@amyhanes.bsky.social
Cultural anthropologist (wildlife conservation, Cameroon), teacher (Harvard), solid dancer, dog parent, Bostonian (by way of the Mississippi delta)
(1/2) (elbow to the ribs) Hey white folks, friendly reminder here:
If you're on the Internet and tempted to ask Black folks (who have no visible ties to the answer) how our people can help, resist the urge, and Google it first. 🫣
If you're on the Internet and tempted to ask Black folks (who have no visible ties to the answer) how our people can help, resist the urge, and Google it first. 🫣
January 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
(1/2) (elbow to the ribs) Hey white folks, friendly reminder here:
If you're on the Internet and tempted to ask Black folks (who have no visible ties to the answer) how our people can help, resist the urge, and Google it first. 🫣
If you're on the Internet and tempted to ask Black folks (who have no visible ties to the answer) how our people can help, resist the urge, and Google it first. 🫣
He's clearly guilty, but I don't know what for...
January 17, 2026 at 7:19 AM
He's clearly guilty, but I don't know what for...
At this point it's so absurd all you can do is laugh. They were here BEFORE WE WERE........🫣
We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes
January 17, 2026 at 7:17 AM
At this point it's so absurd all you can do is laugh. They were here BEFORE WE WERE........🫣
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Whether it's Tarot cards, the Celtics or what you see with your own eyes, this is a good time to figure out what you believe, writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson. spr.ly/63320CSLpq
What we believe
The first week of 2026 featured several "is this really happening?" news stories. Watching these events, and people's reactions to them, reminded Cog editor Cloe Axelson that we are living in an era of competing realities.
spr.ly
January 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Whether it's Tarot cards, the Celtics or what you see with your own eyes, this is a good time to figure out what you believe, writes Cog editor Cloe Axelson. spr.ly/63320CSLpq
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Quiet, graphic, and completely still.
This Blue Clipper paused just long enough for shape and color to take over, with the background gently muted to keep the focus on form.
If this kind of quiet detail resonates, share.
#MacroPhotography #ButterflyPavilion #VisualStorytelling #ScottKissPhoto
This Blue Clipper paused just long enough for shape and color to take over, with the background gently muted to keep the focus on form.
If this kind of quiet detail resonates, share.
#MacroPhotography #ButterflyPavilion #VisualStorytelling #ScottKissPhoto
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Quiet, graphic, and completely still.
This Blue Clipper paused just long enough for shape and color to take over, with the background gently muted to keep the focus on form.
If this kind of quiet detail resonates, share.
#MacroPhotography #ButterflyPavilion #VisualStorytelling #ScottKissPhoto
This Blue Clipper paused just long enough for shape and color to take over, with the background gently muted to keep the focus on form.
If this kind of quiet detail resonates, share.
#MacroPhotography #ButterflyPavilion #VisualStorytelling #ScottKissPhoto
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Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...
June 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Massachusetts folks: I made these stickers sharing LUCE's ICE hotline ☎️ 617-370-5023--they verify sightings and share confirmed info. Stickers fit 1"x2.6" label (Avery 5160). Image below or follow link for a full sheet. Print, stick every&anywhere. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7v098...
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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It’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public!
Social media tools make it easier than ever before in human history to do that, but far too many people misuse these tools, leading to wasted effort.
I can help! Class info below.
Social media tools make it easier than ever before in human history to do that, but far too many people misuse these tools, leading to wasted effort.
I can help! Class info below.
I’ve partnered with the Center for Wildlife Studies to make an online take-at-your-own-pace version of my “public science engagement using social media” professional development workshop.
You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.
You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.
Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public!
Social media tools make it easier than ever before in human history to do that, but far too many people misuse these tools, leading to wasted effort.
I can help! Class info below.
Social media tools make it easier than ever before in human history to do that, but far too many people misuse these tools, leading to wasted effort.
I can help! Class info below.
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Science journalism matters. Trust in facts matters. Community matters. Thank you for being part of TON’s story. Help us celebrate another 15 years.
See how @laurahelmuth.bsky.social describes what TON has meant to her. #TON15
www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...
See how @laurahelmuth.bsky.social describes what TON has meant to her. #TON15
www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...
August 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Science journalism matters. Trust in facts matters. Community matters. Thank you for being part of TON’s story. Help us celebrate another 15 years.
See how @laurahelmuth.bsky.social describes what TON has meant to her. #TON15
www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...
See how @laurahelmuth.bsky.social describes what TON has meant to her. #TON15
www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
A bright spot for Thursday!☺️
The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone triggered a "trophic cascade," leading to increased vegetation, beaver populations, and the return of songbirds, according to scholars of national parks. buff.ly/W85sSqJ By Sarah Diaz and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University
National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources
The National Park Service is not just focused on helping people enjoy the outdoors, but also on conserving wild places.
buff.ly
August 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A bright spot for Thursday!☺️
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The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone triggered a "trophic cascade," leading to increased vegetation, beaver populations, and the return of songbirds, according to scholars of national parks. buff.ly/W85sSqJ By Sarah Diaz and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University
National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources
The National Park Service is not just focused on helping people enjoy the outdoors, but also on conserving wild places.
buff.ly
August 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone triggered a "trophic cascade," leading to increased vegetation, beaver populations, and the return of songbirds, according to scholars of national parks. buff.ly/W85sSqJ By Sarah Diaz and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University
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Indeed. Back in December 2022 I wrote this, in a piece for the Boston Globe. I think we're still getting it backwards: We keep trying to solve the problem of how to use AI rather than asking what problems using AI might solve. And the problem isn't writing more student papers faster.
August 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Indeed. Back in December 2022 I wrote this, in a piece for the Boston Globe. I think we're still getting it backwards: We keep trying to solve the problem of how to use AI rather than asking what problems using AI might solve. And the problem isn't writing more student papers faster.
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Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
"It's like seeing a gardener spending his limited life-minutes whistling and watering plastic flowers."
Why I'm not interested in AI: substack.com/home/post/p-...
My Turn: Why I'm Not Interested in AI for Writing
Ok, software and websites.
substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"It's like seeing a gardener spending his limited life-minutes whistling and watering plastic flowers."
Our species is really, really weird.
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Our species is really, really weird.
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Friends, it’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public.
My course- which you can take for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill- can help.
Please share!
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈 #SciComm
My course- which you can take for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill- can help.
Please share!
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈 #SciComm
Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies
www.centerforwildlifestudies.org
July 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Friends, it’s never been more important for scientists to break out of the ivory tower and engage with the public.
My course- which you can take for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill- can help.
Please share!
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈 #SciComm
My course- which you can take for graduate school course credit, continuing professional education credit, or just to learn a new skill- can help.
Please share!
🧪🦑🌎🐠🦈 #SciComm
Any science-y people use something like a Zettlekasten system to organize their information? If so, can you share your numbering/labeling system for your cards? (The suggested one feels too tedious and I'm hoping to see what others include in their numbering.)
July 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Any science-y people use something like a Zettlekasten system to organize their information? If so, can you share your numbering/labeling system for your cards? (The suggested one feels too tedious and I'm hoping to see what others include in their numbering.)
SCIENCE!!! (yelled in the Boston trivia night style)
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
SCIENCE!!! (yelled in the Boston trivia night style)
Check out my new piece, "Libraries and the Logic of Sharing" in Pangyrus! It features the @bpl.boston.gov
www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...
www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...
Libraries and the Logic of Sharing | Pangyrus
Yesterday I took my curly-headed three-year-old to our local library. She picked out a book about a ballet-dancing panda, and, while waiting to checkout, sa ...
www.pangyrus.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Check out my new piece, "Libraries and the Logic of Sharing" in Pangyrus! It features the @bpl.boston.gov
www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...
www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...
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As I tell my students, ChatGPT is an amazingly powerful tool for answering all sorts of questions, as long as you don't care whether or not the answers are correct.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
As I tell my students, ChatGPT is an amazingly powerful tool for answering all sorts of questions, as long as you don't care whether or not the answers are correct.
I just found myself hiding in the bathroom with the water running while I unwrapped a Babybel cheese so the dog wouldn't bother me.
He officially has too much power in this house.
He officially has too much power in this house.
June 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I just found myself hiding in the bathroom with the water running while I unwrapped a Babybel cheese so the dog wouldn't bother me.
He officially has too much power in this house.
He officially has too much power in this house.
Amazing!
This is a 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest known animal to ever exist. The heart was so large that technicians had to douse it in 1,000 gallons of formaldehyde. Read more about it here: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/pains...
June 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Amazing!
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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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