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Dr. Kim Foecke

@kimfoecke.bsky.social
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Geochemist to paleoanthropologist. Neanderthal diet + nitrogen isotopes, XRF evangelist. Assistant Professor at George Mason U. PhD from GWU CASHP.

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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Check out my amazing friend’s latest awesome work! Careful science wins the day.
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
(1/2) Posting on behalf of Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, with whom I was on this panel. “The promise of eLife was transparency. Spin still wins. Reviews are public, but truth bends when the communicator chooses to distort. I don’t appreciate being lied about.” youtu.be/9XJd9Nbmy-k
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Homo naledi the lies
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Data time. Agree or disagree - In the age of AI, it is a reasonable teaching strategy for an online course to only derive grades from exams.
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hello hive mind! Given the current state of *gestures wildly*, I’m looking for other sources than NSF who fund postdoc salaries through grants. Project could easily be categorized in anthro/archaeo, paleontology, geosci, environmental sci, or forensics. Any ideas welcome!
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
To break up all the terrible, I have a good question from a student, and I don’t know the answer! Scientists, help me out! My student is interested in hair, and wants to know what mechanism causes mammal body hair to grow to a finite length after it has been cut (shaved). 1/2
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
One of my students told me today that my outfit is “old school.” Like girl please, you’re dressed like my mom in 1997 😂
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My living room bookshelves at home are full of cast hominin skulls, and I love them, but sometimes I am aggressively reminded how *not normal* this is when strangers…like electricians…come into my house. 🥴
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Giving detailed editing and feedback on grad student class term papers is hella exhausting, but when a student drops in an assessment that doing a particular statistical test would not yield an informative result and completely correctly explain why makes it all worth it 🎉
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We did it!! We all, as an academic community, helped push an actual change! 🎉 www.science.org/content/arti...
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Open-access journal elife will lose its ‘impact factor’ over controversial publishing model
Web of Science index decides to strip key metric because elife’s unusual peer review doesn’t meet its criteria
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This week in Food and Human Evolution, my class knapped stone tools, used them to butcher a chicken, nut cracked, extracted marrow, milled their own corn meal, pressed their own olive oil, and imaged all the marks the processing made on things with a microscope! #ActiveLearning
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Alain Queffelec @alainqueffelec.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi Annemieke, did you see the paper by Lloyd Courtenay (one of my colleagues) just out yesterday? Should give you matter of thinking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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An open letter to evolutionary and human sciences; statistics has moved on and so should we. A proposal for more transparent research, and some notes on p < 0.003
Statistical reasoning and inference have become integral to how we reach conclusions as scientists. Few papers in evolutionary, biological, and human …
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I went from 23 followers to more than 800 in a week, so I think it’s time for an intro! Hi, I’m Kim, and I’m a shiny brand new assistant professor (this is my first semester)! I mainly study the interplay between culture and environment in human paleoecosystem reconstruction. 1/
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I am very pleased to report that amid all the uncertainty in the world there is still one sure constant: undergrads love breaking things for science.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
📣 🏺 A Palaeolithic #Archaeology & Human Origins people starter pack! Nearly 80 people here, if you work in these fields and want to be added, let me know (I'm keeping the list to trained/ qualified professional/academic/researchers etc at the moment) go.bsky.app/6hXVX57
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: -Data entry for a faceless corporation -Running tests on airport runway de-icers -Helping catch painting forgers
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
The amount of confusion I just caused in a grocery store cashier by purchasing 5 lbs of popcorn kernels, 3 huge bags of whole unshelled nuts, 4 whole raw chickens, a bag of tootsie rolls and a peach Bellini… (My students are doing experimental archaeology tomorrow, and tonight is self care Sunday)😂
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
NEW VIDEO. An update on the Homo naledi controversy! "The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke (@kimfoecke.bsky.social). Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?" A great chat that covers open science, replicability, geosciences, and Homo naledi Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Wd...
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The Real Dirt on Homo naledi with Dr. Kim Foecke. Does geochemistry prove Homo naledi burial?
A look at geochemical methods and best practices as it relates to the claims that Homo naledi buried their dead.Chapters3:31. Why critique the still-to-be-pu...
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
I don’t know how many people are hanging out on here anymore, but paper acceptance announcement! Coming soon to a computer screen near you:
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
Now that everything is official, I am SO EXCITED to announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at @GeorgeMasonU! Thrilled to get to teach amazing students, and watch this space for exciting new research in human paleoecology! #NewPI
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Alright makeup-wearing scientists - someone has to have come up with a legit method to identify a good foundation color match. Give me your recs, because I’m on product purchase 3 in two weeks and I currently look like a jaundiced oompa-loompa 🫠
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Hello lovely colleagues! Drop any tips you have for job talks 👇
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
All I want for Christmas is a decision on any of the 4 first author papers I currently have in review 🤞🤞🤞
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Can you do a statistical test to check for differences between groups (on a single metric) if the sample size in each group is between like…1 and 4? And sample sizes are not the same between all groups? Am I better off not doing stats at all? Help!
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Newest cool work from Dr. Veatch!
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
My dog pouts at me until I tuck him in with his favorite blankie.
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
If I’ve spoken with you about a published reply to a certain person’s human origins paper, check your e-mail! If you think this should include you and didn’t, comment here!
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Exciting confirmation of the antiquity of the White Sands footprints out today! I spoke with Scientific American about the study. In sum of some more extensive comments, I buy it now. Go science! www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...
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Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago
A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Why has no one ever informed me of the magic of project management software 😱
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
Check out this Science VS episode by Joel Werner on the recent Homo naledi debate! Featuring me as a phantom interview and expertly handled by Andy Herries and Jamie Hodgkins.
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Why Fossil Nerds Are Pissed Right Now | Science Vs
The smash hit Netflix documentary “Unknown: Cave of Bones” has kicked off an all-out science brawl. The film makes extraordinary claims about a strange ape-like creature that lived hundreds of tho...
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Wow!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago - Nature
Wooden artefacts from waterlogged deposits in Zambia dating back 477 ka indicate hitherto unknown sophistication in woodworking at an early date.
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
My special talent is randomly happening across papers on social media that cause me to have to re-do entire sections of my dissertation publication drafts…
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
First science post! Happy to share my new media review out today in AJBA: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Dr. Kim Foecke @kimfoecke.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Hi y’all! Help me find my people!
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