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Thank you, Dr Smith, for showing what a commitment to integrity looks like! Congratulations on this recognition for your efforts.

Oh, and a reminder: if you teach the Mansa Musa story about the price of gold in Cairo, be sure you pull out Warren Schultz's deconstruction of that story, just to get the facts straight: www.academia.edu/81562385/Man... #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #AfricanHistory 🗃️

Mansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations AnecdoteMansa Musa's Gold in Mamluk Cairo: A Reappraisal of a World Civilizations Anecdotewww.academia.edu

Thanks for the query @jackiantonovich.bsky.social. I already knew this study on the Chilean genomes was coming out, but I need some time to assess its historical significance. Here's a link to the last smallpox aDNA pub'd earlier this year. Not included in the present study: bsky.app/profile/moni...

Not science, but I was very proud that my main professional organization, @medievalacademy.bsky.social, est'd a "No AI" rule for its publication: www.medievalacademy.org/page/AIPolicy. Note that "AI tools cannot take ethical or legal responsibility for their output or enter into legal agreements."

What a great question! From feedback I've gotten, I'd say it's easily my 2020 "Four Black Deaths." Did it get a boost from COVID? No doubt, b/c people were in need of pandemic explanations. But card analogy has proved memorable to explain "biological archive." academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

The Four Black DeathsAbstract. The Black Death, often called the largest pandemic in human history, is conventionally defined as the massive plague outbreak of 1346 to 1353 c.eacademic.oup.com