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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 5h

Chronicle Heritage, the largest cultural resources management firm in the US, abruptly shuttered its operations last week. The sudden closure leaves many archaeologists without work just as the US field season is coming to a close. This is a developing story. 🧪🏺 #Archaeology at @science.org

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Exclusive: Archaeology megafirm abruptly shuts down

Chronicle Heritage was largest U.S. cultural resources management company

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 4h

Permitting protects you from the excesses of tech bros, oil executives, & all sorts of other polluting corporations, as well as holding the government accountable for its promises. People act like killing regulations will kick start the solarpunk utopia but it's just gonna be a handout to polluters.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 4h

The permitting required under these acts protects you, your health, the air you breath, the water you drink, our shared heritage, your neighbors ancestral heritage & religion, and endangered species habitat. PERMITTING PROTECTS YOU. I'm not ready to give up on it.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 4h

I just bought a goddamn house and the permitting changes in the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act have a pretty good chance of destroying my job, if they end up gutting the National Historic Preservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 4h

I appreciate you! I got a pretty good reply from one of my senators, but still working on the other.

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 6h

Channeled my rage about this latest move to dismantle the National Historic Preservation Act by writing an impassioned email to my senators today. I'm so tired of being angry, but I won't stop until they do 😤

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 6h

My state offers weatherization seminars to residents. Yes obviously I am taking all of them.

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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 8h

This year, more than 9,000 volunteers contributed nearly 20,000 observations, setting a new observation record for the Monarch Blitz! Together, they documented over 91,000 milkweed plants and more than 29,000 monarchs (at all life stages)! 🌿🦋 Explore the full results ⤵️ www.cec.org/news/monarch...

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Monarch Blitz Celebrates 10 Years and Sets New Observation Record

Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), 6 October 2026—Thousands of people came together this summer to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Monarch

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 8h

This house also has a wood stove but I've never used one so I am going to wait until it can be professionally cleaned to use it but that just means propane only until mid December. And I am leaving the thermostat at 60° and just putting a sweater on my geriatric chihuahua.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 8h

I just moved into a house with a propane furnace and thankfully my union has a benefit where we can get a better deal but I am already planning to save up for balcony solar and replacing the water heater and furnace with electric units. Hopefully the federal rebates for heat pumps come back 🥲

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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 8h

The City Council hearing on the Academy of Natural Sciences museum closure has been moved to Monday, October 26th at 2pm. Thank you, City Council for your continued commitment to this issue. Let’s make the turnout for the new date even larger than it would have been this week. #SaveTheAcademy

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 9h

hell yeah, unionized wizards although seems a shame they couldn't call themselves a guild or a league or an order...

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 10h

I found the instruction manual online, it's an Avalon Rainer. This is very different from scouting camp fires.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 11h

Just in time for spooky season, the volunteer coordinator sent us Indiana bat maternity roost data from our study site this year. Results are fun scary, not scary scary: were seeing a slow population growth at this site.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 11h

I've never used a wood stove before, I need to call an expert

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Vermont Public @vermontpublic.org · 13h

The hope is to find out exactly where Vermont’s eastern monarchs are going as they migrate south for the winter, and to better protect them, as the insects face mounting threats from climate change, habitat loss and pesticide use. Read more: sbrew.link/yRZglKUm

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Environmental Law Institute @eliorg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨 ELI Breaking News Webinar: EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a WOTUS rule that could leave many wetlands and streams without federal protection. Join ELI as we discuss the implications for states seeking to protect their waters. Register: www.eli.org/events/end-f...

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 15h

I cannot stress enough that the permitting reform bill will rescind the NHPA and 60 years of preservation practice. There will not be a CRM industry in January. Data centers will go unchecked. Transmission lines will run through the Sand Creek Massacre site. THPOs will be run by the federal gov.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15h

I stood in the presence of several very ancient oaks in Bandon's Castlebernard Woods a few months ago, and was in total awe. Such trees are now *incredibly* rare in Ireland. Please support Bandon Environmental Action Group in getting the 34.5-acre ecosystem protected. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

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Public urged to join fight to protect ancient West Cork woodland

Some of these magnificent trees date back hundreds of years

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 14h

"Oh I'm working from home today! I can try out the wood stove!" (Just moved, kitchen a mess) "where are my matches?"

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 16h

I volunteer at a free community breakfast most weekends and about half the local candidates for office and elected officials are usually there helping out, whether or not it's election season. I don't have to let you know which ones, you already know. But it's the progressives.

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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Meme from Peaky Blinders. Cillian Murphy is instructing his men, "No hate-watching! No! Fucking! Hate! Watching!"

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 22h

I updated the blog with information regarding the "permit reform bill," drawn mostly from my notes from the @cultheritageprtnrs.bsky.social webinar today. It is IMPERATIVE that we don't get exhuasted, and we call our elected reps. This bill will end #archaeology in this country.

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Resource Page for ACHP changes to S106

On the left, an aerial view of 1940s Denver. On the right is a post-urban renewal image from the ealy 1970s. Note the expanse of parking lots where vibrant neighborhoods once stood. October 5, 2026…

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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#ICYMI: How can archaeologists assess systemic bias in museum collections? In a 2013 #AAP article, Angela Huster conducted a case study comparing recovered spindle whorls from an excavation site to those of two #museum collections, revealing #biases in how museums select #artifacts. 🔗 Read here!:

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Assessing Systematic Bias in Museum Collections | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Assessing Systematic Bias in Museum Collections - Volume 1 Issue 2

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My players have been taking turns trying their hand at GMing while I move and one of them said she didn't feel confident enough in the dnd rules to run a game so she wrote her own one page rpg from scratch. It was really fun, and I'm in awe of her creativity. I couldn't do that lol.

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the replies to this contain 100,000 variations of the "sickos" comic with different self-insert fursonas in them and that's beautiful

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣Last day to speak up for America’s Roadless Areas and the wildlife that depends on them. Nearly 45 million acres of America’s forests could soon be opened to road construction and logging putting intact landscapes and critical wildlife habitat at risk. Take action now: ow.ly/yWkU50ZUHNR

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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is the fifth day of the public losing access to The Academy of Natural Sciences. We can change that. save-the-academy.org youtu.be/v-R1t4YlYJ8?...

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Save the Academy of Natural Sciences

Don't mourn — organize. The museum's last public day is Sunday, Sept 27. Ten things you can do today.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ira Matt is an amazing speaker and any journalist, including #climate journalists, covering the #BipartisanAmerican#AffordabilityAndJobsAct #BAAJA #PermittingReforms, #NEPA, the #NHPA, or Section 106 really needs to talk to him and the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...and how much federal control over Tribal cultural interests can be expanded." Please contact your senators. Tell them you oppose the permitting reforms in the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act. www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

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U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ira Matt, the executive director of NATHPO, wrote about dangers to tribal sovereignty in the new senate bipartisan permitting compromise. "What is being presented as a bipartisan compromise appears to be a compromise over how much Tribal participation can be reduced and constrained..." #Section106 🏺

Ira Matt
Non-Profit Executive l Indigenous Leader l Tribal Sovereignty Advocate l Tribal Law and Policy Expert

I met with Senate staff this morning regarding the bipartisan permitting negotiations and proposed amendments to the National Historic Preservation Act. I have now reviewed the actual draft language provided today, which I am attaching here.

Perhaps most troubling, the draft would put into federal statute a new definition of a “property of traditional religious or cultural importance.” That should concern every Tribal Nation.

The federal government should not be defining for Tribal Nations what constitutes a place of traditional religious or cultural importance without direct and meaningful consultation with Tribal Nations themselves. These places derive their significance from our histories, religions, cultures, knowledge, and relationships to place, not from a definition negotiated in Congress.

This is not merely a technical change. It would place federal boundaries around what kinds of Tribal cultural places can receive recognition and protection under federal law.

And it does not stop there. The draft would create a new federal review regime for Tribal Historic Preservation programs, including evaluations at least every two years and potential suspension of funding or federal assumption of THPO functions for programs determined not to meet federally imposed timelines or metrics.

It would substantially narrow what qualifies as a federal undertaking, including excluding projects where the only federal involvement is most forms of financial assistance.

It would also arbitrarily limit what effects matter under Section 106, including heightened standards for visual, atmospheric, and audible effects and the exclusion of temporary effects.

Taken together, this is not simply an effort to make Section 106 more efficient. It would give the federal government greater authority to define the places that matter to us, judge how Tribal preservation programs operate, and narrow when and how Tribal Nations have a voice in decisions affecting those places.

What is being presented as a bipartisan compromise appears to be a compromise over how much Tribal participation can be reduced and constrained, and how much federal control over Tribal cultural interests can be expanded.

That is not respect for Tribal sovereignty. It is paternalism dressed up as permitting reform.

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 05/10/2026

The Trump administration’s interpretation of “harm” under the ESA could devastate the recovery of imperiled species, many which have cultural,spiritual and relational meaning and importance for tribal citizens.

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Native nations sue over Endangered Species Act changes - High Country News

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This will happen everyday with the "permit reform" bill. Obama waived S106 for the border wall; this bill will remove all opportunities for cultural resource review. 🏺 #historicpreservation #S106

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Such a great example of why focusing on a single species can lead us to miss the larger ecological picture.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check"

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've successfully painted half the living room so I just have to wait for it to dry, reinstall the curtains, move everything to that corner, and paint the other half.

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savetheacademy.bsky.social @savetheacademy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the third day America doesn’t have access to the public side of the Academy of Natural Sciences. We are demanding that change. #savetheacademy Meanwhile…

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU’RE REGISTERED, check to make sure. Trumpists are purging the rolls. www.vote.org/am-i-registe... Deadline is TOMORROW in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*.

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hundreds of archaeologists 🏺across the country just lost their jobs with no notice, but did you know that companies are actually required by law to provide formal notice of mass layoffs at least 60 days in advance?

A square graphic with a light red and dark red sunburst background and 5 black silhouettes of people at the bottom of the image. Above them, in a starburst graphic, is the text "Know Your Rights During A Mass Layoff"

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's lots of discussion about moving overseas to escape queerphobia, poor scientific funding, political research agendas. I'm in the (slow) process of moving Australia to Norway as a US citizen so I'll make a running thread about the financial realities of international moves.

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CT-9902 @mindorese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyway this is what I was vagueposting about yesterday. If you’re not in the industry it’s hard to understand the scale, but that’s maybe HALF of the jobs in the industry just POOF not to mention the projects they’re just… abandoning?

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Unionizing American Archaeology @unionizearch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday one of the largest CRM employers in the country, Chronicle Heritage, announced that they are dissolving the company and immediately fired and recalled all of their deployed field crews with no notice or severance. Private equity is a disease 🏺🪏

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, what a nice idea. (Closing streets for a safer Halloween.)

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Dr. Megan Fork @aforkintheriver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hearing about the incredible career of Dr. Ruth Patrick at today's mid-Atlantic @freshwaterscience.bsky.social meeting made it even clearer that keeping ANS going is crucial.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I got a pretty good reply from my senator about this, so they are listening. Historic Preservation has bipartisan support, so make your voice heard!

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Under avoid, minimize, mitigate, we avoid impacts by examining the site and ideally consulting early, before the project is even designed. If a site can't be fully avoided we deliberate on ways to minimize impacts, then we mitigate harms. There are ways to improve the process without destroying it!

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Section106 of the NHPA exists because the last time our country did a continent-wide infrastructure project (interstate system) we bulldozed a bunch of historical sites and sacred spaces, and there was no recourse for local communities or tribes to object or be involved in developing alternatives.

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Cassidy Aster 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them @cassidyaster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Turning my not inconsiderable nps interpretor training toward trying to get people to care about the permitting process.

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