We have been working so hard to rehabilitate the image of Homo Neanderthalensis, and defeat the nasty brutish short man neanderthal stereotype.

First this study, and THEN David Spades's tweet.

Tough week for evolutionary throwbacks.

#NotAllNeanderthals

Another SBL/AAR selfie, this time with Markus Vinzent after an awesome panel on the historical Paul.

@mgbilby.bsky.social, he gave me a copy of your book.

Ran into James Tabor at SBL/AAR today.

Anyone in Boston between today and Monday who wants to meet, DM me or reply below.

Thank you
@iannelsonmills.bsky.social
for agreeing to present on your research for my early Christianity class. We got a big lecture hall and made the lecture open to the public.

Haec Epistula Non est Pauli
10/28/2025, 11:30 AM,
65 Bartlett Hall
130 Hicks Way, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003

I couldn't contain myself when I got this email, and I shouted in joy! My neigbors in offices down the hall (different department) jogged over and asked if I had just got a grant or application accepted, or if my team won a championship. It was indeed the former!😆

@boslough.bsky.social posted this on another social media platform.

One of my teenagers shared this amazing video with me, and I am proud. The kid understands my interests.

Did you hear the story of the Victorian hoax about a fake Welsh Kingdom in NW England, which fooled Wikipedia editors for most of the 2010s>>

youtube.com/watch?v=bxKi...

For colleagues who may be going to SBL/AAR in Boston this year: I am a late addition to the Monday Rhetoric and Early Christianity program.

@zafulotus.bsky.social; @candidamoss.bsky.social @iannelsonmills.bsky.social; ‪@smehorn.bsky.social‬.

My recent UMASS honors thesis advisee shared with me a cool graphic they found on a linguistics chat on Reddit. This image is based largely on data I published in my 2023 article in Humans (and is correctly cited). Can anyone help me identify the image author so I can thank them?

This is slightly off topic, but I wanted to share this with you (see DMs). BSKY doesn't allow photos in DMs. I wanted to know if you had heard of this Teddy Kollek collection (1968).

3) However, I have proposed that Dene-Yeniseian relations are much LATER in the Holocene than previously maintained. This means that Turkic loanwords in Dene-Yeneseian comparanda are NOT a fatal flaw, but a dating corroboration for a short chronology.

doi.org/10.3390/huma...

I appreciate your citation of my work in the video! Thanks!

To respond to your critique that no ancient source referred to it as a quotation, I'd note that no ancient commentary on the passage whatsoever exists before Tertullian's comment on the displaced western type. www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13...

Rest in Peace, my colleague Prof. Horvitz, who passed away suddenly yesterday. We never met in person, but we taught the same students similar subjects in the same department, and both worked under Prof. Tony Tuck with Poggio Civitate materials. It is sad she did not complete her PhD as she hoped.

Post a perfect album cover from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

The comments on this reddit feed are unsure about the original artist of this clickbait T-Shirt rooster, but his name is "Chinpo Raging Cock Warrior"

www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind...

I read the first part of this too quickly and I thought you were expressing your disdain for those musicals [which are] rooted misogyny. I know there are not many examples, but I immediately recalled MGM's 'Love-Making Musical' Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [adapted from Rape of the Sabine Women].

This indeed is a beautiful work. It reminds me of Tom Baker's portrayal of the Doctor in Doctor Who in the late 1970s.