Let Me Tell You About Human Bones

They/them. Studying blog mostly, with a little fandom stuff sprinkled in

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Remember academics! your first of anything is going to suck. So embrace the suck and make the first rough draft. Stop procrastinating

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What’s something you did to plan for the future today ?

I added the conference dates for 2026 and 2027 for a forensic conference into my calendar today. And and I added to my calendar the abstract submission opening dates into my calendar with a weekly reminder about it. Conference planning for the win!

I made a separate calendar for all my academic things to make keeping track of my timeline easier

[metis-metis]

Nothing is quite as tragically funny to me as how finds are treated on site vs in a museum setting.

In a trench on a dig site: oh look another undecorated pottery sherd. The hundredth from this trench today! *holds with bare hands, covered in mud* nice, where’s the cassetto? YEET! I’ll clean that with a worn out plastic toothbrush in a bucket of water later. Another sherd? Oh damn, it’s from the wrong SO layer - into the spoils heap you go :(

The same pottery sherd, in a museum: so we need to sign this sherd out to examine it in a temperature controlled room. I’m going to wear powder free gloves and hold it with two hands no more than an inch above the padded surface of this table because I’d rather die than have any harm befall this sherd.

Or, in other words:

No hate to either museum-based archaeologists or field archaeologists. I have done both.

Also this is not to say I condone this. This is just a representation of the absolute whiplash my mostly-museum based arse got upon seeing how things were done on my first dig.

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Crazy how I get more then 5 hrs of sleep after a month and a half of constantly sleeping 3.5-5 hours and I no longer want to off my self or think everyone hates me

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...I swear I'm writing G-rated Dreamling fluff.

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Finding cool research papers to read and actually reading the cool research paper gives the same energy as buying new books and actually reading the new book

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Just applied for a research associate job at a very cool forensic focused university!!!

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Just another morning of coffee and osteology

[oldbookshop]

#I viscerally need Jack Harkness to get within ten feet of this Doctor for reasons

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The doctor being a queer icon for decades

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Happy Ace awareness week (or whenever you're seeing this who knows could be a bad Monday)! Here is a list of "things not to say to asexuals" from an asexual:

(these are all aphobic, call out aphobia if you hear it)

You're too young to know

How could you know if you haven't tried it?

Maybe your just a lesbian/gay/ect.

You just haven't met the right person

If you like sex how can you be ace?

But you have a boyfriend/girlfriend/significant other

You don't have to decide now

But you're not a virgin!

But you're so hot

Then why do dress like that

All teenagers/young adults/everyone feel(s) that way

But you had crushes when you were younger

But you said that (name of person) was attractive

You just have internalized....

That's not a real thing

You're just worried noone will sleep with you/be attracted to you/want to date you

You just want to be different/feel marginalized/be trendy

Nobody likes sex/find random people attractive (who's gonna tell them?)

Asexual is not a real thing

I don't believe in asexuals (bish what are Santa Claus?)

It's just your autism, depression, social anxiety, bpd, physical disability, ect.

That was made up by...

You can't be ace and have a dirty mind/make dirty jokes/talk about sex

You're only asexual because of your trauma

Are you sure

But, you have children/you're married

You're lying

Peoples appearance, clothing, age, libido, past experiences or relationships DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT invalidate their sexuality, so you shouldn't!

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Ah yes, let’s reflect on the fictional characters that have inspired my academic pursuits.

Raised on crime shows for the win, I guess

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Do not lick the bones, the bones will not lick you

[thesnadger]

Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.

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Really need research databases to work the same way filtering AO3 tags work.

I should be able to tag search for the content i want to read about

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If I had a nickel for everytime I leave a lifeguard job to study bones I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s funny that it happened twice

[theelusivepoetalien]

No Place For Transphobia in Anthropology: Session pulled from Annual Meeting program - The American Anthropological Association

The AAA and CASCA boards reached a decision to remove the session “Let’s Talk about Sex Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analyti

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The function of the “gender critical” scholarship advocated in this session, like the function of the “race science” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is to advance a “scientific” reason to question the humanity of already marginalized groups of people, in this case, those who exist outside a strict and narrow sex / gender binary.

Transgender and gender diverse identities have long existed, and we are committed to upholding the value and dignity of transgender people. We believe that a more just future is possible—one where gender diversity is welcomed and supported rather than marginalized and policed."

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Got to keep the streak alive