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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire

@antharkymax.bsky.social
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Anthropological archaeologist with a penchant for politics. Student of the ancient Maya. Practitioner of slow archaeology. Dad. Probably anarchist. Professional educator, writer, editor, and researcher. Not necessarily in that order.

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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sorry. It's exactly what you stated you wanted to see in your pod: Fremen beach landing and being in awe of water everywhere. Pretty intense military-Sicario helicopter vibes. Dope experience, esp. because entirely unanticipated.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
lol "It’s unlikely that the blind poet — who may or may not have even existed — was a committed white nationalist who shared Musk and his ilk’s obsession with European beauty standards developed three millennia after his time."
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The incredible #Fremen beach-landing scene from #Dune Part 3 given to me in #Imax 70mm before The #Odyssey was the best part of that movie-going experience.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Have you seen the entire scene from #Dune Part 3 as the solo trailer to The Odyssey in Imax? Truly amazing.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
New #TheMayanist issue, co-edited by Amy Gillaspie, on #Maya #Collections, #Photography, #History, #Figurines, and #Archaeology. #Art by Lucerito Ochoa Say. www.goafar.org/themayanist
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New #TheMayanist issue, co-edited by Sarah Newman and Franco Rossi, on #Maya #Ontology through the lens of #Anthropology, #Archaeology, and #Epigraphy. #Art by Lucerito Ochoa Say. www.goafar.org/themayanist
Cover of Issue 13 of The Mayanist, representing a Tzeltal Maya shaman performing a ceremony.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This morning I took some time to engage once more with Max Liboiron's #Pollution is #Colonialism. Every time, this book challenges and provokes thoughts. Can't recommend it enough. www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is...
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Pollution Is Colonialism
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Fabulous mini-pod, #sharkweek series by #Radiolab. First episode includes an insane account of a rare shark attack. radiolab.org/podcast/maki...
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Making a Monster
Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I often think about this.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Fabulous map
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
STOP COMPETITIVE AI GROWTH. That is how AI will destroy the world as we know it. Not following some dumb robot overtake plot. Those kinds of narratives are silly smokescreens.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#GenAI is gobbling up #energy, from chips to queries. As this continues, we run ahead towards a catastrophic rise in carbon emissions, #resource depletion, & scarcity wars. This piece by #MIT researchers is scratching the surface of this topic pretty well. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New (12th) issue of The Mayanist just released! #Bilingual, #Open-access, #illustrated #journal on the ancient #Maya. Beyond #archaeology, this issue is all about #epigraphy. #Watercolor #art by Lucerito Ochoa Say. www.goafar.org/themayanist
A Maya lady sits down, offering incense, in front of an ancient Maya temple/
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Drift: a journal of roamings in the margins of archaeology @drift-journal.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Call for Papers! The Drift is not a place of arrival, but of movement, slow, erratic, persistent. It is a space for thought that slips, for language that leaks, for research that resists tidy conclusions. We welcome work that meanders, that ferments, that doesn’t quite fit elsewhere.
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Drift: Roamings in the Margins of Archaeology - Drift is a journal of roamings in the margins of archaeology.
Drift: a journal of roamings in the margins of archaeology is an independent, free, global and open journal that encourages free exploration of (…)
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This new translation of a 2020 The Mayanist article "De Belice a Bagan: Enmarcando un análisis comparativo de las sociedades tropicales" by Gyles Iannone, completes our 2nd entire #bilingual issue. Art by Aaron Alfano. Find it here: www.goafar.org/themayanist #archaeology #Maya #openaccess
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I'm seeing lots of posts about "the farmers doing this to themselves", or "not yet feeling the squeeze" but in truth, every American depends upon these farmers. In that sense, these farmers did it to every Americans. The double blow of no work force and tariffs may cause a US famine.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I had a fabulous conversation with my 4.5 y'o daughter this morning about #online piracy. She was simultaneously excited that #pirates do exist (unlike #vampires or #dragons), but oh so confused by how they can possibly operate without boats or parrots.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Can you name the site? #ancientbluesky #Maya #ancientmaya #ancientarchitecture #archaeology
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This was one of my all-time favourite. As an anthropologist, it's always amazing to hear our perspective portrayed in the media. As I was fully hoping she'd recommend Graeber's Debt, I was elated to hear her recommend it as part of your 3-books bit. Congrats on a fabulous episode, Mr. Klein.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
As always, it's an honour to see one my photos (of La Corona Element 56, excavated in 2015) used by a press to which I contributed. It would be even more fun if I had either been asked (I would of course have agreed), or even told about it 🤷 #epigraphy #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Maya #Guatemala
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A very timeline pod drop.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The feedback I get on BSKY is simply mind-blowing. I must be doing this like a pro. 😆
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#Digital #archaeology connections. I'm currently designing an online, asynchronous Intro to Arky course. Please share your favourite resource with me :) Looking for virtual sites and visits and such. Merci :)
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Looking forward to being able to read this one in Canada. I'm wrapping up Podany's "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings", and I'm officially hooked on Mesopotamian epigraphy. The contrast in the records that we have for the Maya world are fascinating.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Regime changes, as liminal periods, are fraught with surprises and dangers.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My 4 y'o daughter is a fan.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social David Graeber is quoted and heard in this excellent and recent podcast by Ezra Klein: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...
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Opinion | MAGA’s Big Tech Divide
The journalist James Pogue explicates the strange tensions between big tech and the new right.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Such an exciting time! Our second girl fell in love with the strategy and rapidly decreased her milk intake. Kidney beans rapidly became a favorite.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Spoiler: they only found the cave's shadow.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Damn. Good luck!
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Every weekday #morning, I walk both of my girls to garderie, and then #walk to campus for work (1.5 km). These days, at 815am, the sunrise is spectacular. #Proximity, as a life choice, is a vastly underrated way to impact one's carbon foot print. But in many contexts, it is also a precious luxury.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A rare, excellent, and recent interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmi...
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A rare dive into David Lynch's mind | Wild Card with Rachel Martin
YouTube video by NPR Podcasts
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lynch, creator of the best TV show -- Twin Peaks -- and of amazing films -- e.g., Mulholland Drive -- but most importantly one of the most unique minds of all times, has passed. Somehow, I'm certain he was at peace. www.vulture.com/article/davi...
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David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films
“People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.”
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I miss #Chiapas. In #Palenque back in 2018. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Maya
An ancient Maya pyramid covered in vegetation.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
As I was wrapping up Hyperion, I figured I may want to read the whole series, but I stopped after Fall. Fascinating stuff, but it gets a tad exhausting.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#Ontology for the win: atmos.earth/an-elven-all... #Anthropology
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An Elven Alliance Is Protecting Iceland’s Natural Wonders | Atmos
In the last century, environmental activists have used local belief in Huldufólk to protect the country’s landscapes—and elf culture.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Clearly Temple III
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
On Jan 2025 docket: launch and teach 3 courses, support 3 RAs, write and submit tenure dossier, edit journal issue, wrap up and submit 19-chapter volume, submit 3 internal and 1 major external grant applications, start writing new book. #academiclife #publishandperish
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Tim Haney @timhaney.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My department is hiring a tenure-track sociologist. Please distribute widely and encourage people to apply: mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...
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David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Written up here: www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...
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The mismeasure of human history?
David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL, responds to Amy Bogaard's and Sam Bowles' talks at the Stone Centre Symposium on the evolution of wealth inequality.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Y un nuevo artículo traducido del Mayanist. "Observaciones basadas en la fotografía por transiluminación de la Relación de las cosas de Yucatán de Diego de Landa" por Harri Kettunen. Watercolor by Aaron Alfano. www.goafar.org/themayanist #Mayanist #Maya #ancientbluesky #epigraphy
Frontispiece of the article "Observaciones basadas en la fotografía por transiluminación de la Relación de las cosas de Yucatán de Diego de Landa" by Harri Kettunen. The picture on the right side shows the infamous Diego de Landa asking Gaspar Antonio Chi to write down the misconstrued "Maya Alphabet" down for him.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Matthew, you're a bit like Tolkien. But unlike him, your secret post-tenure life project isn't writing about ancient Celtic songs, but about 1970s Euro Pop. Elton John is your Tom Bombadil.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I tend to respond a version of one of these when students wish me a nice rest over the "break". But maybe I should just say "thanks, you too".
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm reading it: most excellent and inspiring work!
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm quite impressed with this book by Amanda Podany. As a #Mayanist, the perspective is enchanting. The epigraphic record for #cuneiform tablets is mind-blowing. I now know that the 1st to ever be named in written history, Kushim, was an administrator in charge of beer production. #ancientbluesky
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Listening to yourself talk in your 3rd language for 2 hrs is humbling... But: great #Maya topics addressed in this public-oriented #podcast from ARCHIPIÉLAGO HISTÓRICO. Ramón A. González-Arango López is a keen and smart host. #ancientbluesky #archaeology archipielagohistorico.com/2024/11/28/1...
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114 Mundo Maya, Québec, y arqueología, con el Dr. Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire
El Dr. Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, arqueólogo especializado en la cultura maya, comparte su experiencia sobre los mayas y la diversidad cultural en América Latina. Abordan temas como la identidad …
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Since 2019, I've edited The Mayanist: an open-access, peer-reviewed, billingual, and illustrated journal on all things Maya. We ask for no $ to publish, opening the door to diverse authors. Read it for free here: goafar.org/themayanist #Archaeology #Maya #Ancientbluesky #Anthropology #openaccess
Cover page of the 11th issue of The Mayanist. The cover is a watercolour by Lucerito Ochoa Say portraying a crouching Maya man wearing a loincloth and holding a vessel filled with ash.
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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire @antharkymax.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
very cool topic
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