Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D.
@deadbovids.bsky.social
SUNY Oneonta Assistant Professor
Paleontologist, anthropologist, naturalist, forager. Views my own 🏳️‍🌈
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xAy15BUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Definitely shorter sea crossings to get to Suluwesi, the Philippines, and Flores--Sahul requires long-distance boats
February 4, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Either, depends who you ask
February 4, 2026 at 5:44 PM
There's no evidence that any pre-moderns made it to Sahul, just Wallacea
February 4, 2026 at 4:55 PM
But in terms of timing, this, combined with the fossil record of E/SE Asia, is convincing that Sahul was settled long before much of Eurasia.
February 3, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Or a close tie with Waiting for Guffman
February 2, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Her best movie!
February 2, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Close, but not quite. The teeth are similar but the horns are quite different.
January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Literally a Dalgyal gwishin
January 28, 2026 at 2:07 AM
According to the Biological Species Concept, there is one species of grass, one species of oak, and one Species of goose on Earth
January 27, 2026 at 3:55 AM
Someone who studies grasses and mammals that love to hybridize!
January 27, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I hope you know that you and Nate Silver enabled this by arguing that Abolish ICE was an unviable position and that Democrats needed to adopt conservative immigration policies.
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
This is incredible!
January 26, 2026 at 8:04 PM