Chris Stantis

i personally don't believe you have to smile to look stylish. for instance: IG charlie_the_griffon

Closing ceremony for the isotopes conference. It's funny to us

Excited to read this! “Trans Inclusive Practices for Natural History Collections: Recommendations Based on Existing Efforts and Survey Data: Journal of Museum Education” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

hi I’m your new press secretary and this is my first time reading words out loud www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

We found that the most gendered experience wasn’t work-life balance, the focus of most retention efforts. It was feeling devalued, in formal evaluations, but particularly in everyday interactions. Unlike every other topic, the gender gap in devaluation was larger among more senior faculty.

Short break on the way to the conference auditorium at Hong Kong University

Someone got tired by the time they were supposed to be drawing a face.

I feel like, since the pandemic started, we not only failed to structurally integrate the necessary infrastructures for hybrid events, but lost several mechanisms we USED to have. Where's the widespread hashtag use? Where's the conference accounts posting reminders? Maybe it's happenstance, i dunno

Someone likes me airing out the house

Your emails this Friday afternoon can't hurt me. I've gone into the woods to pick berries

After 167 years, this Salish woolly dog pelt has returned to B.C. thenarwhal.ca/salish-wooll... If you haven't heard of it, this dog pelt, and Salish wooly dogs in general, are fascinating. See: hakaimagazine.com/features/the... hakaimagazine.com/news/the-sto...

I was holding off on announcing this until things were formalized, but my PhD dissertation has formally been accepted following a successful review by my committee. After a lot of blood, sweat, and tears - it's PhDone. 🔥

💯 coffee is key!

Coffee and tea are big ones. Chocolate, even though it tends to melt a bit. Also I've learned to bring UCB rechargeable fans with me for hot fieldwork days.

People who travel far for field research (archaeologists, biologists, any of y'all): what do you make sure you bring with you from home? For me, medication, obvs, but I bring my Aeropress so I can have coffee how I like it

Apropos to discussions today, a piece I wrote in 2017 -- the "before times" here on Bluesky -- about how the Brain Eater comes for (some, not all) writers and other creatives, and what happens then. whatever.scalzi.com/2017/05/03/t...

"...the concept of “African literature” is fluid in nature, continually in motion and never reducible to stable or enclosed boundaries." Read more at: www.theelephant.info/analysis/202... The Elephant - African analysis, opinion and investigation

I'm a month out from the conference, so I'm sending furtive lil notes to people I like- "will you be there?" so I know there's people I don't need to be nervous with.

I'm so tired with this evening class, but my students are so good. It's a stacked class of undergraduates and graduates, and the discussions are great 😊

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

How's this semester going, you ask?

I hope the Hugo Awards continues to have a 'judge's packet' of review materis like they did this year- most of the novels, novelletes, novellas, short stories, etc, all in one place upon registration. I can see 2,492 ballots cast this year with this system, compared to 1,338 from last year.

One of my students took her CV to the university career center. No one read her content, they just gave her an AI prompt for formatting.

I've decided. In honor of Dolly, I'm going to let Jolene take him. Just once. As a treat.

I didn't pack mascara for campus today I'm unprepared for this news

What would it take to convince Seal to change the lyrics to 'kiss from a rose on the grave' in a re-master

I shall do my best.

Hardest to-do at the end of the list

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

Am I hallucinating that the Rolex awards for oceanic sustainability research and philanthropy also involve being given a watch?

One more week until the votes for the Hugos need to be in! There's so many good nominations this year, across the board.

horse girls, historical reenactors, train guys, trauma nurses...i'm NOT saying you should collect neurodivergent friends on purpose btw. i'm saying you're a writer so your friends are already neurodivergent

Copper alloy button taken in for recording by my Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) last week on the Portable Antiquities Scheme, part of the T&Cs of having a mudlarking permit. Usually items have to be over 300yrs old to be recorded, but this button is rare & has an important London transport story 1/

I am not sure how many more stories like this that I can handle before snapping. What kind of evil justifies abducting a grandmother on chemo?

Yeah, I teach stats as a professor. I am also re-running all my code for my personal research because I forgot negative numbers exist.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

Nice day foraging for chanterelles