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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲

@stefanicrabtree.bsky.social
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Archaeologist doing ecology of the past. Fieldwork in Australia, Mongolia, the American Southwest, and sometimes France. Associate Prof of social-environmental modeling at USU, Fellow at Santa Fe Institute, two Ph.D.s, archaeoecology, endless swagger

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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New paper, "What Archaeologists Talk About when they talk about Climate Change". policy, archaeology 🏺, climate change, ecology 🌍. In this somewhat rant we talk about what we can know and what we can't about people and climate in the past. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... 🧪
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy halloween and scienceween! My new book is out today!!! 🧪 🏺🏺 www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
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Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Got my first two (positive) reviews for "Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity" from Simon Levin and Steve Lansing. Writing a solo-authored book takes courage and I haven't felt this much imposter syndrome since grad school! Thanks Levin and Lansing <3 🧪🏺 www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
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Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
In her new book, Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity, SFI External Professor Stefani Crabtree (Utah State University) shows how tools from complex systems can help archaeologists understand how everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today.
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Review: Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity
Complexity science can help archaeologists understand how the everyday actions of ancient people accumulated into the large-scale patterns we excavate today. In her new book,&nbsp;Thinking Through Arc...
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
It's official, my first solo-authored book (my second book altogether) is coming out the end of October! 🧪👩🏺 And the thing I'm the proudest is I painted (watercolor) the cover! 1/2 www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
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Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I loved his book "Owls of the Eastern Ice" which gave me all the feels about my work doing archaeology in Mongolia. Did @jonathanslaght.com know my favorite animal is a tiger? Probably not, but I'm gonna pretend he did and he wrote this book for me. :)
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Hey 🏺🧪! My solo-authored book has a landing page! Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity will introduce complex adaptive systems science and archaeology to broad audiences. I'm currently PAINTING the cover (with watercolors!). Buy the paperback not hardcover! www.routledge.com/Thinking-thr...
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Thinking through Archaeological Complexity
Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity explores how archaeologists can engage with complex adaptive systems, examining dynamic interactions between humans and environments across space and through...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
All y'all who are porting your tweets from the Old Place over... I kinda love starting over. Like when I graduated from WSU and had to have my email just disappear... time for a fresh slate... who will BSKY Stefani *be*
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds and says fresh start
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What are the coolest current methods in Social Science? I did a lecture and activity on topic modeling yesterday and my students *loved* it. Agent-based modeling and network analysis coming up, but would love to know your thoughts! Science and Archaeology Bsky Pipe Up! 🧪 🏺!
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Welp, I finally deactivated my profile on the Other Site. Hello bluesky, you're it now. Please become a better place for interacting with my fellow scientists.
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a man in a bow tie says " science rules "
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
This. This is me.
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
Now that Bluesky has GIFs it is officially more useful than The Place Formerly Known as Twitter. I can resume my way of naturally communicating--with muppets!
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
A plot showing prestige (impact factor) on vertical axis and fees charged by journals on horizontal axis.
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
SOUND THE JOB KLAXON! My department at the **MOAB** Campus is hiring! Recreation resource management and nature based tourism! Environment and Society is a great department, Moab is beautiful, and we are truly interdisciplinary. Join us! Due Dec 8! careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/7083/as...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
So proud to be external faculty at @sfiscience.bsky.social a "playground for geniuses". www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Had a lovely few day workshop at SFI on collective adaptation. Highlights included birding with @carlbergstrom.com, bringin my Ph.D. student Stan Rhodes and watching him *shine*, and doing great science. I even told folks to Heliotown, our own private Meow Wolf like space.
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 13/07/2023
Welcome to @katietherockdoc.bsky.social, who just joined Bluesky! Katie is a scientist who has worked on the House Natural Resource Committee, now Deputy Director at Blue Green Alliance, and her profile pic is her testifying before congress. She's a badass scientist who works on Policy! Follow! 🧪
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See what's next.
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 04/07/2023
🧪 I got interviewed by a journalist at New Scientist during finals week and completely forgot about it, because <finals week>. Apparently I didn't sound like a complete idiot. www.newscientist.com/article/mg2583…
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The civilisation myth: How new discoveries are rewriting human history
In an evolutionary eyeblink, our species has gone from hunting and gathering to living in complex societies. We need to rethink the story of this monumental transition
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 03/07/2023
Timeline cleanse. A beautiful mulga in Australia a few years back.
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 27/06/2023
New publication day, and first time being anchor author! Published in Phil Trans B, where Isaac Newton was published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full…
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 26/06/2023
Emu (karlaya) tracks in Martu territory, Western Desert of Australia. 🧪 photo by me. :)
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 24/06/2023
Grant writing: how can it bring so much hope and so much despair simultaneously? 🧪
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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
Reskeet if you hope you see a cool bird tomorrow
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
Hey Sci-Bluesky! 🧪 I hear it's Crab Day *and* it's my birthday, so please tell me, Dr. 🦀🌲, your favorite crab fact! I'm an archaeologist, so here's one. Neanderthals feasted on crabs 90kya and we can even speciate the char remains! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.338…
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The exploitation of crabs by Last Interglacial Iberian Neanderthals: The evidence from Gruta da Figu...
Hominin consumption of small prey has been much discussed over the past decades. Such resources are often considered to be unproductive in the Middle Palaeolithic due to their limited meat yield and c...
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
Nice new visualization of lake coring from WaPo. 🧪 Gives a good idea of what paleoecologists and archaeoecologists do to understand past climate. I wanna go hug this lake. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi…
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Stefani Crabtree 🦀🌲 @stefanicrabtree.bsky.social · 22/06/2023
Hey hey bluesky, nice to be here, invited on my birthday no less!
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