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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 2h

I was not prepared for how much of adulting is trying to figure out what That Smell is. Not the trash can. Not the other trash can. (Took them out.) Not the garbage disposal, the dishes, or the cat box. (Cleaned them all.) Aha, it’s a rogue potato that decided to liquefy itself in the cabinet! 🥔

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats to Kate Spradley! I was on a dissertation committee with her once, and she rocks, as does her important forensic/bioarch research. 🏺🧪

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Kate Spradley

Enabling identification and repatriation of the remains of migrants who have perished along the Texas-Mexico border.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7h

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 8h

My husband just texted me "Skull ID?" from a California beach along with several pics of an extremely deceased animal. Who says romance is dead? 😉

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 9h

This furball is 6 today. (Well, approximately today.) Happy Leo’s birthday observed.

A grey tabby cat sitting on a wood table and looking at the camera with light green eyes

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13h

This is so important. They’ve broken the economic models that fund journalism is because they recognize the *purpose* of journalism threatens their bullshit-based valuations, ie, the sources of their wealth and power. Yet actual-existing journalists were instead crucial for creating their myths.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 15h

My latest for National Geographic is on a stunning new ‘Fulgur Conditum’ inscription from Hadrian’s Villa that tells us a lot about how Romans reacted to lightning ⚡️ striking objects & the creation of sacred space. Thx 🙏 to Elizabeth Meyer & Alberto Samonà. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

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The Ancient Romans Had a Strange Ritual After Thunderstorms

Archaeologists excavating at Hadrian’s Villa outside of Rome have unearthed a marble slab dedicated to Summanus, the god of nocturnal lightning.

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Live Science @livescience.com · 28/09/2026

'Listen, father!': 1,700-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt contains a poem in ancient Greek and spells to protect the dead www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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'Listen, father!': 1,700-year-old tomb discovered in Egypt contains a poem in ancient Greek and spells to protect the dead

A tomb dating back to the time the Romans controlled Egypt contains a funerary poem in ancient Greek.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s the almost-13yo’s birthday party today and Publix forgot to make her cake. 🤦🏻‍♀️ (To their credit, they are rush-making it now while we shop for groceries.)

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The US measles count has climbed to 3,659 confirmed cases, with 171 new cases added this week, according to today’s update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/us-m...

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US measles cases continue to climb, topping 3,600

The CDC today reported 171 new confirmed measles cases, bringing the year’s total to 3,659.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pic of my home office now that mornings are finally in the 50s.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/09/2026

Anthropic's new biology lab released a technical report on using AI to discover new enzymes. Experts I talked to say "discover" is doing a lot of work here. Story: nyti.ms/4xOGWI7

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Anthropic’s A.I. Is Teaching Itself Biology. Now It’s Made Its First Discovery. (Gift Article)

Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

More context and video here: bsky.app/profile/arch...

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Uhhh is someone doing CRM work ahead of the terrible arch or are some workers lying about being archaeologists? 🤔 🏺🧪

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The prospective FDA commissioner being named Overton is… a bit on the nose, don’t you think?

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Archaeologists in Paris have uncovered what they think is ancient Lutetia, a Celtic oppidum mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars that had never been found. 🧪🏺

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Missing Celtic fort annihilated by Julius Caesar finally found under Paris hospital

Archaeologists in Paris have discovered the remains of a missing Celtic fort sacked by Julius Caesar in 52 B.C.

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've ever visited Notre-Dame, and walked around the Île-de-la-Cité (the island where it's located), you walked on top of this 2000 year old Celtic fort.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Babe, wake up. A new Musicology-Duck-esque travel thread just dropped! (Sorry to this reporter still, at time of posting, stuck in Iceland. But it's an amusing read!)

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you want human-reported news with art by actual artists/photogs from media outlets that explicitly do not use GenAI, there’s a starter pack for that! (And @livescience.com is on it!) 🧪🏺 go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺

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'We have found traces of peace, thousands of years old': Fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

Archaeologists excavating in the ancient Hittite capital of Hattusha have uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest peace treaty, signed around 1269 B.C.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.

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Laura Geggel @laurageggel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You know the Hollywood Viking scene where a mourner shoots a burning arrow at a funeral boat, as the boat drifts away from shore? 🏹 🔥 But did this really happen? Certain aspects of it hold water. Although it would have been quite challenging! Reporter Owen Jarus investigates for @livescience.com 🧪🏺🛶

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Did the Vikings really shoot fiery arrows at funeral boats?

The idea of Vikings using fire arrows to set funeral boats ablaze is seen frequently in popular culture. But did it really happen?

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“We believe this woman was a kind of cast-off after death. She was buried face-down, suggesting a discriminatory attitude," study co-author Qian Wang, a biological anthropologist at Texas A&M University, told Live Science in an email. 🧪🏺

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700-year-old skull from China is first ever skeletal evidence of nose amputation

A face-down burial of a middle-aged woman who died around 700 years ago in China is the world's first evidence of punitive nasal amputation.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News

The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A list of zombie AI media sites to avoid! 🧪🏺

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18/09/2026

Google could keep manipulative and dishonest companies like Brown Brothers Media at bay by deindexing their sites, but instead Google shows their crap extremely prominently on its various platforms

a bunch of screenshots of Brown Brothers sites on google news

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