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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 15h

It’s out! Season 2 had officially started, with guest @donomeara.bsky.social talking us through The Archaeology of… Poo! 💩 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 15h

We are hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in European Prehistory Fixed-term | Full time | Hybrid Know someone who might be a good fit? Tag them in comments! 🔗Find out more: tinyurl.com/EuroPreHist 📷 Charlotte Frearson #Jobs #Careers #Hiring #Archaeology #UCL

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h

I mean much the same minus the allergies but i was 20 and that seemed fun

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h

Neat! One of my more memorable digs as a student was at the broch on Lismore. Really stunning place to work and a lovely local community

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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I come back from fieldwork to find an advance copy of Walkover Country: Archaeology Poems from the Plains, my first collection of poetry and one centered on #CRM #archaeology and the emotions and physical toll present in the profession. You’ll be able to order your copy soon from Spartan Press. 🏺

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's rare for CRM issues to get news coverage so I'm absolutely THRILLED that @science.org is reporting on the Chronicle Heritage shutdown!! Excellent work by @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social 🙌

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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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Dr. Smiti Nathan @smitinathan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎙️ In this episode of Curiosity Meets the Past, biocultural anthropologist, Alex McDougle, guides us through her work on free and enslaved Black communities in Maryland during the 1700s and 1800s 🏺 youtu.be/plZypKq8UiI This video is part of the 50x50: Science Across America series 🧪

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How This Bioarchaeologist Connects Maryland's Past to Its Present

YouTube video by Dr. Smiti Nathan

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In addition to spending less money and making fewer new grants, SBE also dramatically narrowed where it made those new grants. Areas such as economics, sociology, and archaeology received few to no grants.

Grantmaking gutted
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) awarded far fewer new awards than typical in fiscal year 2026—just 91. (The fiscal year runs from 1 October to 30 September.) Most of the new grants focused on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, in alignment with White House priorities; offices that support fields such as economics, sociology, and research ethics, as well as postdoctoral fellowships, awarded no grants at all.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I notice this when i talk to my us family about the news. My news diet is largely non American which doesn't mean it's better but I can see places where the us press has converged on conspiratorial ideas the international press rightly ignores

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

UNM has a tenure track posting in Anthropology for an archaeologist to be a “core faculty member” at the Center for Stable Isotopes. Application access is thru unmjobs.unm.edu posting #38046 #AnthroSky #PhDLife #AnthroJob

The UNM Department of Anthropology invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Archaeology to begin in August 2027. We seek to hire an integrative archaeologist with a focus in the analysis of stable isotopes to address anthropological questions, including but not limited to the reconstruction past human habitats, diets, modifications of the environment, or responses to climate change. Research foci should complement, and not duplicate, existing specializations in our program. UNM Archaeology has long been a leader in theoretically informed, question-driven, and methodologically sophisticated anthropological archaeological research addressing long-term perspectives on the human experience across the globe. The successful candidate will add to Archaeology's record of innovative, collaborative, and ground-breaking research on cultural dynamics and past human-environment interactions.
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to become a core faculty member in the UNM Center for Stable Isotopes (CSI), an interdisciplinary research and analytical facility supporting stable isotope research across Anthropology, Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Chemistry, and the Biomedical Sciences. The candidate will collaborate with faculty and students across these disciplines and help train early career scientists in stable isotope methods.
The position offers opportunities to expand CSt's state-of-the-art analytical capacity through the development of new methods and capabilities. We seek a scientist who thrives in the laboratory and is committed to instrument development, calibration, quality control, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The successful candidate will also have opportunities to contribute to our two-week summer training course, IsoCamp (isocamp.org), and to pursue a leadership role within CSl.
CSI is a student-centered facility that provides broad access to instrumentation as well as hands-on traini…

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think we all knew Watson’s “Rosie didn’t realize [because she was a woman and so obviously inferior to my genius]” schtick was bullshit. What’s boggling to me here is the implication that no one since ever looked at the rest of her notes. 🧪

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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t

New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Been predicting this kinda art is gonna experience a surge in popularity; a step back from the furiously over-rendered, over-detailed, seamlessly smooth stuff genAI has made inescapable. A renaissance of crunchy, ultra-unique, unmistakably-handmade aesthetics.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Years of working in left archives and engaging in left politics has made me wary when I hear or read "Zionist" - not because it is inherently offensive or abusive or antisemitic - but because it provides cover for a huge range of different arguments and attitudes. Political parties should know this!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My partner saw it a few months ago here in Australia and said it was excellent! Enjoy!!

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please come and join Saffy Setohy, David Bennett and I on the 12th October at the Drumadoon Estate for a guided walk and landscape design workshop on An Archaeology of Trees. Part funded by the Carena Institute Of Sustainable Archaeologies.

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An Archaeology of Trees

An Archeology of Trees is a creative, outdoor workshop exploring temperate rainforest environments of Arran, led by Artist Saffy Setohy.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The joy it gives you really shows😊

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I just want you to know that i always enjoy these threads and i have so much respect for how much of your time you spend eating within your environment

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Genuinely haven't had a good experience with a n american carrier in decades

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sorry for your flames but thanks for the photos.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love how often the onion does archaeology articles🏺, they nail it every time 😂

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And before you can say "gnōthi seauton " Craft potters of the 70s were banging grails out by the dozen. Out of nowhere you couldn't move for medieval inspired pottery goblets!

vintage studio pottery stoneware goblets or footed cups with an earthy speckled brown, tan, and grey glaze, typical of 1970s craft pottery.

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In fact, I bet your childhood house had a chipped pottery goblet that originated in the 70s. I know ours did. No one ever used it, and in fact I'm certain not anyone recalls buying it! Roger and Doreen Birkett's Cornish Tremar Pottery, probably produced the high-water mark of the genre.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh lol i thought this was a reasons to this thread about poshness and cleanliness!

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Martyn Barber @martynjb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A while ago I said I might post about modern Stonehenge myths, some of which pop up frequently in all manner of places, including stuff written by actual archaeologists. So – to begin with, the old chestnut about (allegedly) being able to hire a hammer when visiting Stonehenge. #StandingStoneSunday

A colour photo showing two of the trilithons at Stonehenge, with a few other stones visible. In the foreground is a sign saying "No Admittance", while in between the two upright sarsens of one trilithon is an orange and white traffic cone.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My potato ambivalent partner grows potatoes for me every year. The secret to a multi decade relationship...

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm 23rd in the reservation queue so I'll tell you sometime in 2028 😅

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reserved it at my local library on this description

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly. Fwiw my bestie who had the same uni experience as me but West Coast flavour loves them and only sort of gets why i don't - i know I'm an outlier

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I went to uni with a bunch of the ny prep school kids these books were ostensibly caricaturing and idk they read like a documentary to me. I find them unreadable because even in satire they reinforced the idea that these folk really were the most special

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

The new Lipstick sculpture was really effective. That's the Beinecke Library in the background.

Student speaker, seen from behind, addresses the crowd. Big lipstick sculpture to the left. Flag on a pole to the right. Beinecke Library in the background.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 03/10/2026

You can read more about the Lipstick sculpture in the Democratize Yale zine! Yale's new anti-free-speech rules forbid the construction of anything like it on campus today. Students yesterday built their replica in defiance of those rules. GOOD FOR THEM! bsky.app/profile/greg...

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Anyhow the dashwoods pre loss of dad are just about posh enough fit M to get away with it, but post dead dad, they def are not - it comes across a bit petit trianon of Marianne. A+ characterisation

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also the answer is 100% weird class bullshit - the poor are naturally dirty so must work to be clean etc etc

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