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Livi Heebsh.

@dialivia.bsky.social
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Wannabe Archaeologist, studying CHRM at UMD.

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Faye Getz 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇳🇱🇨🇦 @fayway.bsky.social · 5h
You can see why MAGA evangelicals loved this guy.
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My spouse is collecting CDs and DvD/Blurays for our library. I mentioned it to a younger co-worker, and they were like "Well how do you share the music?" My dear...let me sing you the song of Ripping a CD onto your computer and "burning" a mix-tape onto a new CD.
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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just saying. . . The trail starts in Knighton, home of the Offa’s Dyke Centre! Why not drop in and enjoy some excellent coffee and cake whilst perusing our updated bilingual exhibition on the early medieval Anglo-Cymric borderland.
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In the footsteps of Wales’s heroic rebel prince: hiking Glyndŵr’s Way
As Michael Sheen prepares to bring Owain Glyndŵr to life on stage, our writer walks the peaceful national trail named after the last Welsh Prince of Wales
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No Ashley, or Amandas. Have you ever met a Derrick (of any spelling variation)that wasnt a dick? Erik is just disappointing.
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Amanda Finley Digs All the Spooky Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Palestinian archaeologists race against time to save Gaza’s heritage
A Palestinian team rescued Gaza's artefacts. The question now is where to store them.
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The GOP hosts Xi Jinping last week. Then proceeds to blame China for Data Center hate? Bruh, this is just insanity.
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J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh
Alt: J. Jonah Jameson's Iconic Laugh
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is rhyming with the Peltier case in France...
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, my trust is spent. I can't help but hope, but I guard that shit jealousy now. Assume defeat is imminent, and prepare accordingly. If you're surprised, it'll be because something good happened. Not because you're naive.
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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Throwback to when I got so annoyed at the destruction of a shed (and of misuse of my friends) I co-authored a whole article about the contemporary archaeology of dig houses: doi.org/10.1558/jca....
A decrepit shed next to two more recently built structures and a firepit. The vegetation is brown and there are big agricultural fields behind the structure. It's the notorious "chicken shed," a building that was torn down at Catalhoyuk.

Morgan, C., & Eddisford, D. (2015). Dig Houses, Dwelling, and Knowledge Production in Archaeology. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), 169–193.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you were wondering what makes an effective memorial. It's the one you can't ignore
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
youtu.be/nxyfBfCrbDw?... Let Milo break it down for you! #Savetheacademy #Waronscience #Archaeology #Paleo #Dinosaurs
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The Plan To Destroy America's Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... YOOOOOO DREXEL WANTS TO CLOSE THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE THE ACADEMY!!
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Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public
The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...
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Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wow. (Alt text: dude in a cowboy hat tells 60 Minutes, This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel is going to directly impact me." says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas).
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BRING THE UNION REP
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That's a beefy antelope, dang...
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Aiyeeeeeee
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Now You Know The More You Know PSA
ALT: Now You Know The More You Know PSA
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I know there might be other examples in the book...but its REALLY INTERESTING how this goes from Father (figure) to Daughter, and NOT brother to sister, or other forms of incest....
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Man Reacts: Brother Ew What Is That
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Eww
ALT: Eww
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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
She was also told by Biden not to criticize his legacy and performance. Which hurt her chances to even eek a win. She was a risky choice anyway, but This is why there should always be a primary. ALWAYS
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Sign the Petition
Stop global AI age verification through ID and face recognition on Discord
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you want to do something to keep youth athletes safe it isn’t demonizing trans youth. It’s demonizing sexual violence and holding those who perpetrate it accountable.
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
At this fucking point I dont even know if the shovel shes using to dig her grave has an edge to bite the natural bedrock shes hitting....
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Because: a) you don't know Jason Arday yet feel comfortable with your armchair diagnosis of him, b) its none of your business. c) its ghoulish and exploitative for you to be stripping his skin off his dead body to establish whether he was "autistic enough" for you to stop pestering him.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
also I know you name search, Benny, so once again let me say you're the worst excuse for a "science journalist" Ive come across. Thats just my opinion of you, of course. Long time hater!
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
*Clickclack* Ope her mask dropped off. Whoomp der it is! Smh
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
But he's white and male so - as I have also witnessed in the UK - he gets a slap on the wrist and moved to a new job so he can be sketchy and unethical somewhere else 🧐
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It wasn't "gauche." It was cruel, no matter what you thought Arday did. It was also exploitative, to use his death to promote your substack.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This was exactly what I thought when I read it, and Im glad someone had the better understanding of the methods to put it down, and so clearly. Kaufmann is so consumed by his desire to make his point that woke extremism has polluted the lily white waters of Canadian academia with "those" people.
The paper makes the following observation about Canada Research Chairs: “The average h-index of publication impact for Black or Indigenous chairs is 18, for female chairs is 28, and for White or Asian males is 38.”  Leaving aside issues about how the researchers assigned ethnicity/indigeneity, based on this observation, the paper says that “EDI hiring resulted in lost productivity equivalent to 10 to 15 per cent per “equity-deserving” (female, Black, Indigenous) Canada Research Chair between 2016 to 2025” and that “Across the wider tri-council agencies, EDI in the form of hiring discrimination and scholar-activist content costs the government an estimated $100 million per annum.”
The logic here seems to be as follows:
·   	H-index is a useful and appropriate measure of individual scholar quality
·   	“Equity-deserving” CRCs have lower H-index scores than others
·   	Any move to hire groups with lower H-index scores is a deliberate loss of quality whose value can be measured
·   	Hiring more “equity-deserving” CRCs is costly and reduces quality.
Note, though, that this entire construction is predicated on point one – the H-Index is an appropriate metric by which to compare individual professors’ scholarly output - being true.  However, as anyone with the tiniest amount of experience in bibliometrics will tell you, it is not.  There are many reasons for this but let me just give you the two most important ones.
An H-index, as you perhaps know, is a single-integer measure of scholarly output: a researcher has an H-index of h if they have published h papers that have each been cited at least h times.  As should be blindingly obvious, H-index is inextricably correlated with age.  An individual’s H-index ceiling is simply the number of papers published.  Older scholars have had more time to accumulate publications than younger ones, therefore their H-index ceiling is higher.  Ceteris paribus, given two scholars of identical talent and publication habits, the older one is …
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
oh incredibly gross
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/08/2026
the infuriating thing about all of the crises going on right now is that they were completely predictable the second they announced they were gutting food safety monitoring, everyone knew it would lead to a bunch of contamination and recalls! we could have just not done it! it's all so stupid
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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 31/08/2026
The OAH has joined an open letter calling on Congress to protect and strengthen Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Learn more about Section 106, read the letter, and find resources here: ow.ly/R1yx50ZH2cc #SpeakForHistory #OAH
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Heres some unnecessary pictures of the lunar eclipse over Lansing/E Lansing.
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
May they be found 🙏
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I know it's white supremacist and imperialist thinking, but it might be a lens that the thefts might be articulated through. "If I steal the "important" stuff, people will notice and be more incentivized to find me. But this is the stuff people can't immediately ID or care about."
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Do you think it might be perceived as less prestigious? Roman and Greek (and later) items might hold more cultural currency from...certain perpectives, so their theft would draw more ire from the public. Wheras the theft of gold from prehistoric cultural groups "in mud huts."
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A significant amount of which is fueled by proximity to power as well as antisemitism and anti-Black racism. www.axios.com/2022/03/10/r...
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The rise of white nationalist Hispanics
Experts say the far-right extremism among some Latino residents stems from those identifying as white and anti-Black sentiment.
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Coconino from 🌶️ New Mexico @coconinoite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🧵 Data center environmental impacts
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Knitting Cult Lady is screaming in my ear : "the Military Cult is not going to pre-emptively resist. It's going to comply, because these ossues are not central to the cults message"
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I mean...I had a nightmare last night of an invasion force flying a flag (black and red field with Trump's profile in gold) that was marching toward me. As a veteran, I often have nightmares about being recalled into service. But this was straight different. Do we need to prep for the worst?
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NOOOOOOOO
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Punishing Cofnas might only encourage more mentally ill people to commit suicide, hoping in the midst of their despair that their enemies would be punished if they kill themselves." Fuck you very much, John K Wilson. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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In Defense of Nathan Cofnas
We must not abandon academic freedom and punish anyone for being a harsh critic, even when there are tragic results.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Op-eds like these might be the slickest elements in the campaign to dismantle academic freedom by getting the public to associate it with arguments, persons, and ideas that are wrong AND vile AND weird.
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Michael Scott's Iconic 'No' Moment
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Livi Heebsh. @dialivia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I know its not much; I dont have nearly the education and experience you do, and you catch this crap so often that I dont know how you dont lose your mind...I hope you dont get mansplained by your family...that stings the worst for me.
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Green_Knight @green-knight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This. So much this. She chose to love her neighbours all the way. She looked at her pile of money and saw how she could make the world better. She will be missed.
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