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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On ASOR and my Choice to Affectively Disengage Today, after twenty years as a member of @asor-research.bsky.social, I am choosing to let my membership lapse. I am choosing affective disengagement, meaning that I am withdrawing my participation and divesting from the organization. link 👇

PDF of the letter which can be accessed as a text file in the link in the reply

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats @houseforeign.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov announced he will not clear the Trump administration’s proposed $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel due to concerns that those munitions would not be used in accordance with U.S. and international law.

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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton

The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It was an absolute pleasure to join in this conversation w Sarah and Girish on corporate AI and the different harms they are inflicting on communities around the world

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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"the ivory tower has to do a much better job of cutting out the middleman and recognizing and elevating who the real experts are"(Kobby Graham) Such a powerful conversation🔥🙌🔥

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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

another great episode! I loved the pairing of speakers and topics — all about the politics of water, landscapes, and resources

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Girish Daswani @girishdaswani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A conversation with three of my favourite people, Beverly Bain, Uahikea Maile & Rinaldo Walcott. Tune in to this episode. It's inspiring and with several mic drop moments. What does it mean to recreate the conditions of our relations in ways that are not built on colonialism, capitalism, death?

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Film criticism aside, Emily Wilson's review of the Odyssey concerned me because it misrepresents Late Bronze Age history and reinforces an old Eurocentric pattern of dismissing the experiences--and reality--of ancient peoples other than the Greeks.

Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to ‘our civilisation’ from ‘the sea peoples’ – a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture. ‘Our civilisation is under attack,’ Penelope wails. Odysseus comforts her by saying that ‘Bronze Age civilisation’, including literacy, will rise again from the ashes. The current consensus, as Nolan clearly knows, is that there was no such thing as ‘the sea peoples’, and that the Greek-speaking world’s shift away from the more centralised, literate palace culture of the Mycenaeans in the 11th century BCE towards the fragmented social formations of the early Greek Iron Age was caused by a range of factors, including climate change, earthquakes and internal unrest. Nolan uses these competing historical theories to create a characteristic narrative twist about the identity of ‘the sea peoples’, which I will not spoil, though you can probably guess it.

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🚨🏺🩸Look: In addition to being actively complicit with Israel's apartheid & genocide in Palestine, @asor-research.bsky.social is now touring occupied Cyprus AND posting about it on their socials. Yet another reason to abide by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social 's call to boycott them

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Roman theatre at Soli
ASOR TOURING OCCUPIED CYPRUS

Bellapais Monastery
not one to care about ethics, asor not only tours in occupied cyprus, but also posts about it. This is yet another reason to #boycottasor

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

More disgusting complicity by Zionist ASOR, w receipts spanning from the 1940s to last week's Zionist conference on "Judea & Samaria" ( = occupied West Bank). Thanks, @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for yet another well researched, & ethically solid, essay #boycottasor 🔗 tinyurl.com/3p2mxjt5

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Archaeology, Zionism & ‘Apolitical Neutrality’ or More Reasons to Boycott ASOR

The hosting of Huckabee at archaeological events—including those hosted by ASOR and its overseas research center—marks a glaring divergence from ASOR’s supposed apolitical nature.

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🚨🚨🚨 "Israeli airstrikes caused severe damaged to the archaeological site of Tyre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site" Quotes + pics 👇 from Green Southerners 🧵1/: www.facebook.com/share/p/17wX...

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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

What a terrifying article ‘Already data centres are using 22 per cent of all electricity in the country – the highest proportion in the world. That figure is set to grow to more than 30 per cent in the next five years.’ This is all with next to 0 consultation with the people of Ireland…

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Of the " thousands of pages" of academic work the author fed into LLMs for translation -- how many do we think were copyrighted? How many authors have now had their work stolen and used to these systems?

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Christine Johnston @archaeologuest.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's heartbreaking and enraging that this was written almost two years ago, and since then, the genocidal violence has not only been allowed to continue in Palestine, but also to expand into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, with global impacts #EOPalestine

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This looks awesome! A data viz course from the authors of Data Feminism, @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social. So excited to teach with these materials! openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...

A screenshot of one of the course pages from the Data Feminism for Data Visualization course. The text reads: "Course:
Data Feminism for Data Visualization
Authors:
Lauren Klein
Catherine D'Ignazio

To get a certificate of completion, sign in to track your progress

Content updated in October 2025

This course draws from the award-winning book Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), challenging students to consider how examining questions of gender, power, and justice can transform the way we visualize data. Drawing from the rich history of feminist activism and critical thought, we will learn to recognize and counter biases in conventional visualization practices while developing skills to create more ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible visualizations of our own. The course brings real-world examples of data visualization in conversation with theoretical frameworks that question whose perspectives are included (or not) in data science and data communication, illustrating the need for approaches that employ visualization to amplify minoritized perspectives and draw attention to issues of equity and justice.

Chapters
Introduction

Introduction
Chapter 1: Core Concepts & Foundational Principles

Motivation and Definitions of Feminism
Definitions of Power and Race
Definitions of Gender
Examine Power
Challenge Power - Part A
Challenge Power - Part B
Quiz
Test Your Knowledge
Chapter 2: Data Feminism Principles & Examples

Elevate Emotion and Embodiment - Part A
Elevate Emotion and Embodiment - Part B
Elevate Emotion and Embodiment - Part C
Rethink Binaries and Hierarchies
Embrace Pluralism - Part A
Embrace Pluralism - Part B
Consider Context
Make Labor Visible
Quiz
Test Your Knowledge
Chapter 3: Applying the Principles

Challenging Deficit Perspectives
Inclusive Language and Ordering Data
Who is Missing? Who is Erased?
Colors, Icons, Shapes, and People
What’s Wrong With This Viz?
Quiz
Test Your Knowledge
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Colors, Icons, Shapes, and People"

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

June is National Indigenous History month. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has summary reports that are a good start to understanding our shared history. nctr.ca/publications...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Rita L. Portela @westernspinster.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

1st review date 6/2 Indigenous friends - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY. Heard through the grapevine that there are very few applicants. $240K-266K The University of California, Office of the President (UCOP) is committed to the timely repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items...

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🚨💣🏛️🩸ISRAEL JUST BOMBED TYRE'S ANTIQUITIES AREA! 📸 from a clip recorded in the site's ancient hippodrome area. Source (shared w permission): www.instagram.com/stories/nell...

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Just published over at Everyday Orientalism @isisnaucratis.bsky.social This one connects the dots between everything we’ve talked about in our Nakba series so far. And more. #nakba #archaeology #biblicalarchaeology

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🚨 Biblical archaeologists' study of an ancient children mass grave in the ethnically cleansed village of Zakariyya enables the Nakba through the same dehumanizing tropes as the 2023 burnt babies hoax - MUST READ by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/a...

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Ancient Children Mass Graves and the Dehumanization of Palestinians: The Case of Zakariyya

by Archaeologists Against Apartheid cover picture: “Tell Zachariah”, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Zakariyya was a Palestinian village located 25 k…

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Senator Andy Kim runs into the street as an ICE armored vehicle behind him prepares to deploy chemical agents against protestors in front of Delaney Hall concentration camp in Newark, NJ. His hands are outstretched and he appears to be shouting.

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Interesting to see (+ have confirmed) that at the same time editors are resigning from @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social due to the org’s support for israeli war & heritage crimes, the same thing is happening at @asor-research.bsky.social Solidarity with our colleagues who have a conscience! 🇵🇸

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

FLAG: The Trump Justice Department is now acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection — calling the information about the prosecutions "partisan propaganda" (it is not).

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Trump's Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants

The Department of Justice is acknowledging it's removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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Cartoon in black and white from “The New Yorker,” by the artists “JOEDATOR and KEVIN MAHER.” A terrifying looking alien life form with three eyes and razer sharp mouth stands at a lectern on stage, talking to a sea of graduates sitting below. The alien is quoted as saying: “And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords—wait, why are you all booing?"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

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Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’m stealing this line for everything. Dear students: “AI is like a lamp post to a drunk person. You can lean on them, but it won’t get you home.”

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Canadian members of @freedomflotilla.bsky.social are free but Canada still has to: 1. Sanction Israel 2. Enact an arms embargo 3. Demand the end of the siege on Gaza 4. Call for the release of the 10,000 Palestinian hostages 5. Condemn the attacks and abduction of Canadians in international waters

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This passed the house today, so now is the time to call our senators (and yell at our house reps if they voted for it) This bullshit bill is an assault on trans people and on every kid’s right to read and see the world as it exists. Reps.fyi

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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Paging @mark-carney.bsky.social : Are you condoning this treatment of Canadian citizens by the pirat state who kidnapped them on international waters? bsky.app/profile/isis...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund just got its first applicant: Ex-Trump admin official Michael Caputo is requesting $2.7 million — claiming he was the target of "political weaponization" after the Justice Department investigated his potential Russia ties.

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Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund Gets Its First Applicant

Caputo, a former Trump administration official, is seeking $2.7 million in restitution after a DOJ investigation into his potential Russia ties.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

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Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn files suit to block Trump’s ‘slush fund’

The existence of the new lawsuit is a reminder that the “slush fund” controversy is unfolding on multiple fronts.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Absolutely horrendous. Textbook example of archaeology being used to enact state violence.

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

#2 in our Nakba x Archaeology series covers the stories of 2 Palestinian archaeologists whose lives & careers were irreversibly impacted by the ‘48 Nakba: Dimitri Baramki, and Yusra Al-Haifawiyah. The full 11 slide posts are available in 9 languages at the linktree in our bio #nakba #archaeology

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This executive summary on AI and higher ed does not name the way that AI powers genocide in Palestine and elsewhere, is a tool of white supremacy, or even name that scientific research at universities play a key function in the development of what are weapons of war, surveillance, and ecocide. Why?

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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 15/05/2026

Almost 200 former senior Canadian diplomats are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to impose "robust" sanctions on Israel over deteriorating conditions in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

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Former senior Canadian diplomats urge Ottawa to impose ‘robust’ sanctions on Israel

Almost 200 former senior Canadian diplomats are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to impose "robust" sanctions on Israel over deteriorating conditions in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 15/05/2026

The fact that we now have a Cambridge Companion on this topic is definitive evidence that the study of race in antiquity is **mainstream.** These 24 contributions are supportive and generative offerings for the certain futurity of this work.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15/05/2026

After Israel began expunging humanitarian organizations in Gaza for failing to comply with new rules, a Doctors Without Borders team was left scrambling to establish a permanent clinic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/huUHZP

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"hiding behind ambiguous language and silencing critical voices only serves to aid the aggressor [...] A community that cares about human life and heritage can do better. If the EAA Executive is unable or unwilling to lead the way in this regard, we as a community will move forward without them." ✊🏼

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

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