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Cass Chowdhury

@bonecentric.bsky.social
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Writer, crafter, cat lady. Science Comms & Outreach. Grad Student in Forensic Anth/Arch (Bone Lady) with a focus on updating current practices in ID'ing and documenting gender-diverse decedents.

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Humanoid History @humanoidhistory.bsky.social · 16h
R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026)
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 17h
Sad to hear of the passing of NASA legend Margaret Hamilton - year after year we had hoped that she would write a memoir talking about those pioneering days of space programming, and now she's gone, but her accomplishments will always be with us. www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...
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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo astronauts on the moon, has died | CNN
The groundbreaking researcher who helped create the field of software engineering and whose code helped land NASA win the 20th century space race, has died at 90.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 4th is the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people, also known as Sisters in Spirit Day. Please read my full statement here:
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MP Gazan Statement on the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender-Diverse People
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Three packed science outreach & recruitment events over three weekends, simultaneous to my first three weeks in an important new science outreach weekday job... I am still stunned this is all happening. Even if it's just for a while. And the support from so many is a whole dang power grid.
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Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Vancouver Centre @rascvancouver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
hey are you looking for something to do tonight? of course you are. why not come on down to the @spacecentreyvr.bsky.social and hang out with us? tonight is their 19+ cosmic nights event (sorry kids 🙇) and we'll be there with a couple of scopes to observe (weather dependent) and talk universe!
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Truth! Beautyyyy!" (thud)
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd like to see family and friends in the States, and attend the academic conferences I am definitely supposed to be going to - but it's not safe. Not on many levels. We'll never get back to border-hopping for groceries with just our driver's licenses, but I'm trying to hope that sanity will return.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/09/2026
More than 38,000 residential school survivors testified to the abuse they experienced as children. Next September, Canada plans to destroy their records.
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women are trying to save them
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Memorial Cloth is a 60-metre commemoration the honours the names of thousands of children that died as a result of residential schools in Canada. It is displayed each year as part of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on Parliament Hill.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 27/09/2026
Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism:
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Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism - Beyond
Denialism obscures the truth about Canada’s Indian Residential School system in ways that protect the status quo
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nods vigorously in Joint Anth/Arch degree prior to Forensic Anthropology....
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oooh, I can make it there! Happy to amp this event. I hope Vancouver is at its autumnal glowingest for you, Sophie. @assignedmale.bsky.social
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New source for FREE online physics simulations. These look perfect for teaching intro physics. 🎢 ⚛️ 🍎
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Best Physics Simulations for Education
Free interactive tools for learning physics. Perfect for students and teachers.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A memorable First Annual Forensic Careers Symposium, hosted by the Vancouver Police Museum! Featuring forensic units of the VPD, and academic outreach from Douglas College and yours truly, the SFU Centre for Forensic Research. So many people eager to learn more and explore the possibilities! 🧪
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Corey Matthews (Hardeman) @cjhardeman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Little Equinox 6”x6” oil/gessobord 150 clams Here: www.coreyhardeman.ca/product-page... #paintwhiletheworldburns #artforeverybody #canadianartist #landscapepainting
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Dr. Jey McCreight 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Reposting because all of my jobs have always come from someone in my network referring me or knowing someone who needs a science communicator 🤞
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A fantastic start to the SFU Centre for Forensic Research outreach program's school year. Freddie and I are very tired, and I, at least, am quite hoarse. Thanks to Wes Wong for organizing & Britannia Comm Ctr for hosting another year of the Science and Maker Jamboree!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yf thys skeet doth recevye 10,000 reposts ther wil be a *Ted Lasso* and *Slow Horses* crossovir episode.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good sir, good eventide to thee! Hark ye, I have heard tell of a most divertynge novel of a mere thousand-and-more print pages. Thou canst surely peruse thys tale readily as those you have open already...
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
💫 www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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Government launches review of human remains guidance for museums - Museums Association
Legal, ethical and moral conversations 'have evolved significantly', says arts minister
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is supporting applications for @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowships with an internal deadline of 16 October 2026 for consideration of applications. Find out more 👇
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship competition 2026-27
The UCL Institute of Archaeology is supporting applications for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships with an internal deadline of 16 October 2026 for consideration of applications.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A tremendous first week in my new job. A rather uplifting Election Officer training session. (VOTE VOTE VOTE!) First outreach event of the term this weekend, AND a big celebration for my rightfully recognized amazing thesis super. Friday off tomorrow. But first, late night Chinese takeout.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And no, this is not legal advice! Just our situation.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm in the Lower Mainland, and I'm both executor and beneficiary of the same wills. One beneficiary of several, anyway, but sole named executor. All certified and official.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...
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Four Host Nations gift SFU's Burnaby campus Indigenous place names
“Our language carries our history, our knowledge and our connection to these lands. Seeing these names reflected across Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus is an important recognition of the endu...
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Erin Braaains!-John 🧟‍♀️ @eebeejay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey Vancouver have you seen this bird? I saw it at Trillium Park near the new Saint Paul’s on Sunday and it is the first Clark’s Nutcracker seen in Vancouver since 1995. Send photos, time and location to Melissa Hafting: bcbirdalert.blogspot.com/p/vancouver-...
Clark’s Nutcracker perched on a chain link fence. It has a black beak, black eyes, light grey head and dark grey to black wingsClark’s Nutcracker perched on a concrete brick in an inflatable pink wading pond. It has a black beak, black eyes, light grey head and dark grey to black wings
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's always a great sign when an interview with a scientist starts like this: Me: Hi there, thanks for talking to me. I'd like to ask you some questions about [thing]. Scientist: OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE [thing]!!! I could talk about [thing] for hours!!!!!
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sooooolidarity. ADHD brains are a combination of wild horse and persistently curious toddler.
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SFU Faculty of Graduate Studies @sfugradstudies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Calling trans, two-spirit, non-binary, or gender-diverse graduate students! Complete the Trans Equity Data Initiative (TEDI) survey and give your confidential and honest feedback to inform policy and resources for trans and gender-diverse students.

 Use the QR code or visit: sfu.ca/tedi
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Corey Matthews (Hardeman) @cjhardeman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Little September Morning 6”x6” oil/gessobord 150 clams Here: www.coreyhardeman.ca/product-page... #artforeverybody #paintwhiletheworldburns #canadianartist
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Depeche à la Mode ZZ Toppings The Parachute Clubhouse Steeleye Spanakopita
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 15/06/2026
Help the SciArt Feed reach 5,000 Likes! Make sure to tap the 3 dots on top of the feed, and tap the 🩷 A feed of art engaged in science, with no gen AI. An oasis from slop-filled media.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“The public has a distorted view of science, because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.” — Freeman Dyson
A portrait of Freeman Dyson standing in front of a large chalkboard filled with handwritten mathematical and scientific notes. He is wearing a blue and white striped button-down shirt and light-colored trousers. Stacks of books are on the floor to his left.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hard agree.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dear glorious cool early September evening: yes, but I'm still not putting away the A/C for a couple more weeks. I've been fooled before.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
...Spiders Diane, who is an outlier adn should not have been included...
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fear is the Project Killer.
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Radha Pant, India's first woman biochemist, was born 110 years ago today. She was the first woman at the University of Delhi permitted to take science courses there, and spent her long career in the field of nutritional science. She passed away in 2003. #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Intertidal life.
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast @ctrlaltspeech.com · 05/09/2026
Hackers got easy access to over 150 million drivers licenses and sold them on the dark web. What does this tell us about the risks of age verification laws? @masnick.com and @benwhitelaw.bsky.social discuss on the latest episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, out now Listen and Subscribe at ctrlaltspeech.com
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SFU Faculty of Science @sfuscience.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
September is here, bringing the fall weather with it! 🍂 There will be NO Starry Nights tonight, September 4, on account of the clouds. ☁️ Happy Academic New Year to all those starting a new term, and we hope to see you next week, with our friends at @rascvancouver.bsky.social.
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Cass Chowdhury @bonecentric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Gorgeously autumnal here. So nice to get cozy in layers instead of sitting in front of a fan in order to function.
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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
They've nearly done it! One day left. The 3 women swimmers who've swum the length of the Fraser River from the Rockies to Vancouver just made it to Deas Island! They camp there tonight, & come ashore at Garry Pt Park in Steveston tomorrow, Fri. ~ 3:30 pm. You can go great them! I am. #bcpoli 🧵
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hi, this is your seasonal reminder to back up your computer, your cell phone, your voice recorder, your memory cards, anything you think is important. Make multiple copies, because hard drives fail and are very expensive right now. Sometimes you drop you phone into a lake. Do it sooner than later.
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