Keith Chan

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

Fool, this was the plan all along!

If you want a bad time, try transferring data from an old Mac Mini to a new one with 1 monitor cord, 1 Magic Trackpad (Lightning cable), and 1 keyboard (USB-A) between them.

But doctor, I AM the Microsoft Authenticator app

My AnVRopomotron virtual anthropology museum is also on VIVERSE! www.viverse.com/zqmAxGM

Thanks to a suggestion by @mattcool.tech, PaleoCalifornia is now on Viverse! www.viverse.com/y8nfExE @viverse.com #webXR

PaleoCalifornia Part 2 is out! It is a WebXR educational theme park ride featuring Creative Commons models from @tarpits.org. View it in any web browser or in VR headsets at www.paleoca.com! #WebXR #AFrame #ThreeJS #EduSky

Don’t underestimate Adobe software’s ability to cause a full day crash-out

The latest #aaba2026 meeting was the best yet! I have so many highlights, from the art expo and silent auction to the education committee workshop and course seeing the fascinating talks and posters. I’m so glad my 3D prints were so well received.

What a wonderful discussion about the science of who we are! Thank you so much for this opportunity to talk with so many thinkers.

A few more days!

We can trace ourselves to her. She lived 150 000-200 000 years ago. Our mothers mothers mothers, and their mothers mothers... all through the female line. What does she mean to you? Come share with @keithcchan.bsky.social and me at The Foremothers Cafe on #ENGAGE Oct 23rd at 7 pm. Image: ChatGPT

Come have a fun talk in Engage!

Thanks AT&T. I wonder what Spectrum is like.

Disney ban, meet Target ban. It’s too bad I won’t be enjoying the Fantastic Four home release, but I want to live in a functional society instead of just seeing one on screen.

Took 20 minutes to park on campus and I need another 5 in the car to chill the f out

We recently paid people to unfollow the most divisive accounts on X. After a month, they felt 23% less animosity towards other political groups Their experience was so positive that half declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study and they felt less animosity 11 months later.

I learned about the new Pope through the new Mexican radio station in San Diego. “Why are they talking about a new potato?”

"Tsutaya et al. used ancient proteomic analysis on a previously unidentified hominin mandible from Taiwan and identified it as having belonged to a male Denisovan." #paleoanthropology

I got brake checked and the most insulting part was that they didn’t get anywhere as close to me as we got to each other in our simultaneous lane change.

Losing the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) would be an act of monumental neglect. I made a video about what’s at risk, and how orgs like @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social and the American Alliance of Museums need us to help advocate for these critical places. youtu.be/fYLC-KWy-Ks?...

If you’d rather have this in text form with citations, I gotchu 💛 bit.ly/3XWWUki

Incredible orangutan fossil from Vietnam highlights how diverse this group of apes was in the past; today there are only 3 highly endangered species living on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra (article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

I went to Target for the first time in months. Don't worry: I didn't buy anything. I just flipped off the things I used to buy.

Best accomplishment last week: got elected undergraduate advisor. This week: beat my class in a game of Kahoot.

Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate fish during feeding, but also engage in what appears to be playful behavior: cnn.it/3QRn188

PLAY THIS (archaeology) GAME! Katrine Haydock, one of our brilliant undergraduates has developed a video game for her dissertation to understand the impact of archaeological methods on gameplay. Please play it and take the survey. 🏺 katrinehaydock.itch.io

Two days of rain in San Diego and people are taking it as a personal attack

#BiologicalAnthropology @bioanth.org folks attending #AABA2025... share your photography, sculpture, paintings, other artistic works, #SciComm projects or engaging learning activities at this year's expo in Baltimore! Submit through the link below.

How come the Doomsday Clock is always minutes from midnight? What does 12:15 look like and how is it different from 12:05? Heck the fact that there is a midnight implies there’s a 4pm. What’s that like?

I got a perfect score! (Then again, I did write it…) 🧪🏺

I love that a Wikipedia editor added subtitles to the audio file of a howler monkey's call

I have a new camera and I now have birder cred. Someone next to me in an aviary with a huge camera pointed at a bird whispered to me “that’s a roasted sapphire” and I’m like “… magnificent.”

Got zero work done due to unexpected Internet troubleshooting. It works but I changed nothing and I see bugs out of the corner of my eyes.

I have proof that it isn't, but every Microsoft verification code looks like the same number to me.

What did we learn about Neanderthals this year? Here are my top 10 discoveries, neatly collected in a year-end countdown! 🏺🧪 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

I am super excited for this! We have just opened the Call for Paper for our upcoming #archaeogaming conference! Check out the details in the link below, and let me know if you have questions. Plenty more announcements to follow soon!

Not a good start to the work session! I replugged in the GPU power cable and it seems fine now.

Amazing to think that this happens regularly in our cells

Delighted to publish my new molecular animation: DNA Break Repair by Homologous Recombination youtu.be/Xe-83tBcxhs

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪 Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool! www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

After a lot of talk about it in my anthropology classes I'm finally watching Lucy, the Scarlett Johansson film. None of the biology is remotely accurate, like you have to work to get something this wrong. 4/5 stars.

Alright - archaeology question! *Many* of my recent followers are archaeologists. And while I love sharing simulations about various topics... I'm out of my depth with archaeology. So - I'll turn the task around. You tell me - what are some cool archaeology simulations / games / interactives?

How about some siamang photos from the San Diego Zoo?