Sean Bergin

🧵 We have sacrificed so much for you over these past 18 months. And it took only 3 days for you to destroy one of the last things I was hanging onto - the ability to keep my kids safe. A big fear, more than for my own safety caring for hospitalized COVID patients, was … 1/

⚠️If the Xbox Series X restock happens at Microsoft in 1 minute, it'll be here. No promises. 👉Xbox Series X ($499) mttswdr.co/xbox-series-x-… techradar.com/news/xbox-seri…

Why is Mitch pushing for this SCOTUS nomination? Because he’s trying to take away your health care.

If you want to be an “originalist” in law, maybe you should go all the way. Cooking on a hearth. Leeches for medicine. An old mule for transportation. Or maybe you can recognize that the world changes.

Some things never change. Snowball fight 124 years ago. Lyon, France, 1896. Colorized and speed adjusted. Original in black and white by Louis Lumiere. twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/s…

What might be causing all the radar returns around #Phoenix between 6-7 PM this evening? Is it rain or something else? Any guesses? #azwx

A couple of people have asked what might happen if we needed to start next term partly online. Here's a little video I've made, reflecting on that question. #totallyprofessional #wfh

My new catch phrase....

😂 #HistoryHumour

Just a reminder for faculty returning in the fall, we do award posthumous tenure.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our #webinar series focused on the application of social network analysis to understand human cultural evolution. Sign up & join leading experts in #archaeology, behavioural ecology & evolutionary #Anthropology 👉bit.ly/webpaleodem

We’re in the midst of a public health crisis. For the first time ever, @AZDHS has instructed AZ hospitals to activate crisis standards of care. To critics asking “why is the death rate flat?” - it’s because deaths lag severe infection by about 3 weeks. Sadly, that will rise too.

Apply for our annual Winter School on Agent-Based Modeling of Social-Ecological Systems by October 1. complexity.asu.edu/cbie/wintersch…

BREAKING: Outdoor clothing company Patagonia got over 500 companies across America, including big names like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Gap Inc. Levi Strauss & Co., Lyft and Walmart to commit to giving workers time off to vote in the November general election. Patagonia IS AWESOME

In a matter of months, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the academic job market close to collapse in many parts of the world. go.nature.com/2MENN2r

As magnanimous defecators, tapirs may help revive the Amazon. sciencenews.org/article/tapirs…

In honour of #MayThe4thBeWithYou #MayThe4th here are some amazing Calvin and Hobbes + Star Wars Mashups by Brian Kesinger!

I'm starting to miss things I hated.

The city of Ghadames on the edge of the Saharan desert in Libya is maybe one of the finest examples of desert urbanism still in existence. Inhabited since the 4th millennia B.C., many of its 1300 houses have been continually inhabited, improved, expanded, for over 3000 years.