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Catherine Frieman

@cjfrieman.bsky.social
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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
Honestly, something that would immediately improve things for higher ed workers is if somebody started a dedicated news outlet reporting on higher education from a labor perspective. Or if a major paper assigned even just one reporter to focus on higher education labor issues.
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 12h
Much against my better judgement i'm an ice hockey fan and this is hands down the funniest thing I've ever read. There is no sport less sexy or more vicerally gross than (men's*) ice hockey --- *women ice hockey players are glorious, fearsome Valkyries
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13h
Stone and bone tools from c. 5375 cal BC Eilsleben, Germany. Whilst the stone axes clearly reflect #Neolithic traditions, the flint and bone tools point to contact with local #Mesolithic foragers on Europe's Neolithic frontier. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Three polished stone axes, three flint tools (an arrowhead, drill and scraper) and two bone awls.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h
5. Sharing is caring. Condescension is contempt.
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 13h
I keep thinking about how so many different domains are working with vastly foreshortened concepts of the future. There is a radical sort of hope and belief in fellow people that goes along with building something you want to last for generations
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h
I'm kinda fully over that "the British conquered the world for spices and don't use any of them" joke because for one, you cannot recycle material for 5 straight generations and get a laugh worth a damn but also because in order to make it you have to agree with Tommy Robinson about who is British
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14h
I am most of the way thru Dave Eggers' new and very well reviewed novel contrapposto and i have to say I'm not impressed. I understand the genre conventions he's working in, and the drawings are fun, but i genuinely don't get the hype - especially with such a flat, 2003 vintage mpdg 2nd protag
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20h
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology
A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗃️ I have never seen these highlighted before
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Neato Tito @neatotito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Illustration of a man firing a rifle at two bears attacking him

Man - Me
Further away bear - self doubt
Closer bear- This one is just a real bear
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 20h
See How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in Action
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See How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in Action
People have spoken for decades, and with great certainty, of the impending death of print. But even here into the 21st century, presses continue to run around the world, putting out books and periodic...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
also the perfect hockey player x figure skater romance already exists and it's called The Cutting Edge
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THE CUTTING EDGE (1992) | Official Trailer | MGM
YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one would dare call this lovely research translation work crum(b)y 😉
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Ben Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is great. It articulates a lot of things that I and my colleagues have been trying to put together, but does it better and more clearly, and draws a clear line between the privatization of research funding, university self-governance, and faculty/worker organizing. Well done. 1/5
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cuts like those proposed at Edinburgh are cultural vandalism, & the destruction of future opportunities for countless students. Pitting students and staff against each other is callous disregard for the immense work that teaching staff put into educating & encouraging young people.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, staff @ University of #Edinburgh are striking to protest recently announced cuts - incl. the forced closure of >90 courses. Principal Prof Sir Peter Mathieson accused the union of "weaponising" students. I find this enraging, so: a short (quite personal) thread. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Falmouth University's Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society welcomes PhD applications for 2027 that take creative, critical approaches to heritage www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/cen... #research #phd #heritage #ICH
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Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society
The Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society addresses people’s relationships with past, present and future cultural places and landscapes.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do join us at the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas, University of Canberra at 5.45pm Tuesday 6 October for David Munns (John Jay College, City University of New York) on Big Science in Australia since WW2 - part of our CoPI Australian Futures series. events.humanitix.com/big-science-...
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Big Science in Australia: Histories and Futures
A talk on how post-World War Two science and technology have reshaped Australia’s sense of itself in the world.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
Thus, the Vanderbilt Report is ultimately a rejection of empiricism, an effort to pretend that over half a century of peer-reviewed scholarship in many different fields either didn't happen or is somehow invalid for the simple reason that it conflicts with the authors' priors.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/09/2026
The Vanderbilt Report masquerades as a 'disinterested' inquiry into the supposed corruption of scholarship by politics. It's actually a compendium of various personal grievances that the authors have accrued over time with their fields, which they blamed on a made-up bogeyman called "postmodernism."
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
The fact that the preferred political movement of the free speech set immediately set about establishing “western civics centers” while gutting the rest of the humanities and supports for marginalized students really does tell you what the source of their concerns really were
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Archives and online catalogues are fragile, massively underfunded and rarely given priority. Yet this is the infrastructure on which academic and commercial research relies. Sigh.
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Lisa-Marie Shillito @archaeologylisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introduction to Archaeological Science has a cover! As well as the usual peer review, text was reviewed by students, who gave feedback on how well it works for its intended audience. If you decide to use it, let us know! (pre-order for Nov 30th publication date). www.routledge.com/Introduction...
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Introduction to Archaeological Science
Introduction to Archaeological Science offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to archaeological science for students encountering the field for the first time. This book presents the principal are...
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TRACES labo d’archéologie @umr5608traces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Du 2 au 4/10 c'est le festival de cinéma "Objectif Préhistoire" au Centre de Préhistoire du Pech Merle à Cabrerets (46) 🎬 24 films en compétition 🏆 3 prix 😎 2 membres du labo dans le jury ➡️ traces.univ-tlse2.fr/accueil/agen...
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Objectif Préhistoire - TRACES : UMR 5608
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Neotropical Zooarchaeology Working Group has already published the full texts of eleven presentations given at the Fifth Academic Conference held in Santiago de Chile in 2024. The collection is available via the following link: revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/co... #ICAZ #Zooarch #NZWG
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Emailed both the journo and the minister this morning to flag the likely unintended use of an antisemitic slur. No response as of yet and no change to the article... i get it's Sunday, but i guess we'll see
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026
#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...
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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love to see the guardian running a headline that includes an (admittedly perhaps obscure?) antisemitic slur - which, bonus points, is a direct quote from the asst minister did citizenship and multicultural affairs
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Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anthropology Defended!
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Anthropology Defended Archives - Anthropology News
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Assume this means the old rules restricting the hoi polloi from the bod have gone out the windows and anyone can get a reader card now... no?
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Apply for a Bodleian Reader card
Applying for a Bodleian Libraries Reader Card if you are not a member of the University of Oxford.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This one's a bit more niche
The famous New Yorker cartoon by Tom Toro showing a man in a threadbare suit telling children sitting around a fire "yes, the planet got destroyed but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders" edited to read
"yes we're down to our last 500 women, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders"
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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
If you want a six minute summary of how to support trans+ fieldworkers, then why not check out this video we made (voiced by the incredible @izzyvalkyrie.bsky.social)?
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
Having something that looks authoritative can also make a big difference as a resource when advocating for trans inclusivity, so here's a version that goes one step further than our university website and can actually be printed and cited academically: doi.org/10.17613/355...
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
—William E. Stafford, “At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border”
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed—or were killed—on this ground hallowed by neglect and an air so tame that people celebrate it by forgetting its name.
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no monument stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky.
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Notably the journalist who covered it is part of the Tarball Center for AI journalism, funded by by a who’s who of EA/rationalists and AI-tied philanthropy. It’s an industry aligned group, like we used to see with tobacco and still see with fossil fuels. Sucks to see this in science.
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