Jessie Slater PhD
Archaeologist straddling great divide between arts/science, UK/US, sanity/madness. Herding researchers, data, & integrity @science.org. Have own opinions, especially about fútbol. she/her
ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-3930-9190/
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDChatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
- 'Scientific writing isn’t the packaging around knowledge. It’s one of the key places of knowledge production itself.' 🧪
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDAnniversary of a trauma that echoes down the years. What happens when you put government guns on the street, from Iran, to USA, to any number of massacres & atrocities against civilians down the years. As the world moves on, the families of Bloody Sunday innocent victims have to endure, resist
- Today in Irish History, Bloody Sunday in Derry, 30 January 1972 The fatal shooting of 13 unarmed demonstrators by the British Army in Derry in 1972. www.theirishstory.com/2012/01/29/t...
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- An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/20/c...
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDThe interesting applications of AI are all, like, "we built an open framework that uses processors on recycled cell phones to identify and triangulate the location of rare bugs in tropical rainforests" while big tech is going "what if we burned down that rainforest to summarize your emails?"
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDWriting is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDTech wythout wisdom ys dystopia For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
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- Listen to the robins
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDI’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhD6. Some more reasons, which I collected on this piece of paper in 2015, and remain possibly even more relevant in the frightening new world of 2026.
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDSo when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDJanuary 2026... #Archaeology 🏺
- 'What sleeps for a third of the day, nods off when it gets dark, and doesn’t function as well if it doesn’t get enough Zs? If you answered humans, you’re correct. But you’d also get points for jellyfish.' -- @nerdychristie.bsky.social 🧪🪼
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDThe new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx… 1/…
- 'The higher the traditional indicators like citation counts and impact factors are for African scholars, the lower their score for local relevance and community impact. The globally accepted metrics punish what matters most, while blocking African scholars’ career progress.'
- 'Objects like this remind us how little we know abt so many diff aspects of our past. These objects had names, ppl thought they were imbued by power. They may even have thought they were alive at times in their existence–& all stories that go w/ them are lost.'🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhD1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhD"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."
- I want to go to there.
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhD"Book Series in Order" is a gem of a website. www.bookseriesinorder.com
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhD“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDWhen we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDThe name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDScience has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: scim.ag/493Tpgx
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- Looking at my to do list
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDyou know what record absolutely rocks? SILENT ALARM
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- 'In the fight for justice, there’s always going to be risks...At the end of the day, we are asking, we are demanding, that our federal government obeys the law and abides by the Constitution.' www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
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- Reposted by Jessie Slater PhDWho has made this 🤣
