Anthropologist. Co-Director of the Omo Valley Research Project @theOVRP
Nyangatom, Ethiopia
Joined August 2018
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Luke Glowacki retweeted
I recently made a map of all potential myths about post glacial flooding and one interesting point is that there are far fewer of those myths in Africa. Also, the shoreline changed less there than almost anywhere else. For example, there are hundreds of myths documented for Sahul: bullroarer.org/myths-that-re…
The consequences high sea levels for understanding human evolution are large. Likely many of the most important areas had high complexity and are underwater today. doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbeh…
Terrific @TheAtlantic piece on archaeologists' and anthropologists' slowly dawning realization that now-submerged areas on the coastal shelf--swathes of land drowned when the glaciers melted--may be where much of our species' early history took place. (Link in reply)
I'd like to know what it takes to replace the editor in chief of @ScienceMagazine Holden Thorp. He's done a significant harm to the reputation of Science mag, and hurt the credibility of science.
Luke Glowacki retweeted
Actual science will be done by AI, humans won't understand it, and our "science" journals will publish treatises on magic and spirits
"In Lakota science, there are four parts—matter, energy, relationality, and a unifying life force" That @ScienceMagazine, arguably the world's preeminent science journal, would publish this is mind boggling.
There are many systems of knowledge production: metaphysics, religion, traditional knowledge systems and so on. Some even use deductive and inductive inference. But there is only one science. No qualifiers. Just science. And anyone anywhere can use it.
"In Lakota science, there are four parts—matter, energy, relationality, and a unifying life force" That @ScienceMagazine, arguably the world's preeminent science journal, would publish this is mind boggling.
Science is one of our greatest achievements and protecting its integrity is critical for creating the kind of world we want to live in.
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there's just science. There is no such thing as indigenous science, christian science, muslim science. etc but there are other methods of knowledge production.
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NASA seeking astronauts. Applications due December 3rd. The ad is fascinating and worth a read. usajobs.gov/job/891970300
metaphysics masquerading as science and because of the people promulgating it the @ScienceMagazine editors bending over backwards pretending that it's something else. There are many systems of knowledge generation but that doesn't make them science.
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"In Lakota science, there are four parts—matter, energy, relationality, and a unifying life force" That @ScienceMagazine, arguably the world's preeminent science journal, would publish this is mind boggling.
Rabies still kills more than 50,000 people per year, mostly in Africa and Asia. We take for granted not living in fear of this 100% fatal disease.
Here's your chance to go as Bill Gates next Halloween. His Microsoft ID is up for auction.
historical.ha.com/itm/autogr…
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Some closure to the Kenyan mass starvation cult case.
I wish anthros would get interested again in studying unusual forms of social organization and belief. How do you get hundreds of adults to starve themselves and their children?
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Descartes created some of the first drawings of the earth's magnetic field proposing that tiny particles circulated in through the south pole and out through the north pole.
Rene Descartes made some of the earliest known drawings of snowflakes. The minds of truly curious people know no bounds. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
A year ago quantum computing was the biggest threat to encryption. It seemed almost implausible that in 12 months it would be AI. Yet, here we are.
How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science nytimes.com/2026/11/06/scien…
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Luke Glowacki retweeted
Delighted to establish this important intellectual connection with WEIRD in Arabic. Looking forward to a dialogue on these questions. @iyadrahwan @MohammadAtari90 @slingerland20 @mmuthukrishna @HSB_Lab
