Well it took 39 hours but I finally made it back to Boston! I'm exhausted and a bit under the weather, but at least the long flights gave me lots of time to listen to talks and books for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/6)
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First was a great talk by Ian Watts on how women drove the evolution of symbolic culture at @RadicalAnthro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z97r9jJUBKU (2/6) #anthropology
Next was a fascinating talk by Tina Lüdecke on the diet that made us human at the ASU Institute of Human Origins. Lüdecke uses an ingenious method that uses the geochemistry of fossilized teeth to precisely identify animal diets (including dinosaurs!), here using that approach to study how our ancestors ate and the relationship with brain size. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Jdkh4Pluk (3/6) #archaeology
Next was an amazing talk by @cyberlyra on confronting the political economy of modern AI at @citp. This is an absolute banger, with Vertesi fully embracing the current hype-fueled framing of AI to argue for a repositioning of how we understand and challenge today's economic and political capture dynamics by the industry (and many academics). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7juOynisls (4/6) #AI
