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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Matthieu Dugal @matthieudugal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cette plaquette de @julietalbot.bsky.social @alexandreklein.bsky.social est une redoutable synthèse à propos de ce que l’on pourrait peut-être appeler sans trop d’exagération « les vraies choses ». À lire de toute urgence.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There's no reason to keep supporting Amazon. You can buy books and stream elsewhere. It's just not worth it.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"So what did the seer say to you?" "That I would be the first to do something incredible, and that historians would speak of me centuries later."

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
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We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“Students are concerned that we’re going to be closed in two years, three years… They’re worried they’re not going to get courses they need because we don’t have the faculty to teach them.” I’m so sad to hear this about my former institution. But not surprised. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

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Illinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff just before fall semester

University officials say finances have taken a hit from declines in research funding and foreign student enrollment. Faculty say leaders’ slow response and lack of transparency have deepened the crisi...

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New opportunity: fully funded PhD position within the Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS Investigate experimentally the evolutionary significance of transformative Stone Age techniques in this project on cognitive demands, and explore the probability of their success. Deadline: 15 September 2026.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Great thread: This use of optimal foraging theory should speak to a lot of anthropologists/archaeologists. Widespread AI use in academia is unlikely to result in the hoped-for and oft promised economies of time, attention and labor.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Daniel - Desert Apostate @hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...

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Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing

A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.

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Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦 @danielloxton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“Correcting a false belief is not like correcting a math error. It requires something closer to what clinicians call grief work. The person must let go of a version of reality that has been sustaining them…” That’s one doozy of an asymmetry! “Make stuff up” vs basically “extended complex therapy”?

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Years ago, I got a tip: look into the human remains collection at the AMNH. The museum held the remains of more than 12,000 individuals from around the world, but wouldn't identify them. I identified many of the remains and published this piece: hyperallergic.com/a-new-york-m...

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A New York Museum's House of Bones

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

As someone who has studied history, I am often comforted by knowing there have been far worse times than these. As someone who has focused on the lives of ordinary people when studying history, however, I am painfully aware that it doesn't have to be worse than this to really suck for most people.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth

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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Fun fact about Colossal: they did *not* resurrect the dire wolf!

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Curt @neoriffic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The Canadian Archaeological Association Meeting in Canmore was a blast, and my session on 'Combating Anti-intellectualism and Pseudoarchaeology through Public Engagement' went very well. Though it was only 4 papers, each presentation was standing room only, with lots of follow-up discussions. 🏺

A bearded man speaking behind a podium, in front of a PowerPoint slide with the opening slide shown, called "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Archaeology YouTube."

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm at a loss for words. Both for the statement and for the underlying idea that citations are basically window dressing meant to give random statements an air of academic credibility. Pathetic.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The kids are alright. I'm so glad we're seeing multiple graduating classes reacting this way to AI shills who present it as a fait accompli with zero introspection. Why you would even bring up AI in a commencement speech to begin with is beyond me.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

in case it is helpful, i have put together this list of resources for people who want to resist uncritical ai adoption in work or other aspects of life: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Questioning AI Resource List

Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...

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Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sheffield’s archaeology department was second to none, world leading and internationally significant. All the things that universities purport to value. It was also full of good colleagues (which universities seem to value less, but is no less significant.) I’m sorry it is no more.

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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Very sorry to see that the last undergrad archaeology class at Uni #Sheffield was taught yesterday. The wanton destruction happening now in academia on both sides of the Atlantic will be widely seen as the violence it is one day. #SaveSheffield #SaveSheffieldArchaeology

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A great PhD with a great team, highly recommend!

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Happy April 30 to all who celebrate, better known in QC academia as FRQ announcement day.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Go home fortune cookie, you're drunk...

A ledt hand holding up the message from a fortune cookie which reads "You have a quiet and unobtrusive nature."

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Go home fortune cookie, you're drunk...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"The number of faculty over 60 skyrocketed to be a fourth or even third of the overall teaching staff at many leading institutions." It's much higher than that in many units, including mine. Lots of food for thought in this piece, though little in the way of actual solutions.

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Opinion | Professors Are Too Old

The academy’s gerontocracy problem is worse than anyone admits.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

There are few sweeter words in academia than "Our decision is to: Accept Submission".

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

TFW when a student in your social complexity seminar tells you the class radicalized them! #archaeology #anthropology 🏺

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Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Social Change and [Under] Development, Dept of Anthropology, U. of Auckland, 1997. Thats what did for me.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/04/2026

When power is built on disinformation, data become a threat.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

TFW when a student in your social complexity seminar tells you the class radicalized them! #archaeology #anthropology 🏺

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

As an ASU PhD, this fills me with white hot rage! The New American University indeed...

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In 1970, Regan’s education advisor famously said “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go through higher education].” They said the quiet part out loud over fifty years ago. An educated public is a threat to fascism.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

For the past two years, the final project in my pseudoarchaeology class (ANT2290) was to craft a zine on an archaeological site, that presents both the actual evidence and a fanciful interpretation of it based on pseudoscientific practices covered in class. This year's crop was outstanding!

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

One has a 3D pop-up pyramid in it :) Last year, I had a pop-up Wall of Jericho, it was amazing!

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is sad. Lynne Goldstein was an amazing archaeologist and formidable mentor. RIP 🏺🧪

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The Department of Anthropology is saddened to announce that former anthropology department chair
Lynne Goldstein passed away yesterday.
Goldstein (PhD Northwestern 1976) moved to MSU from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She served as MSU department chair from fall 1996 through summer 2006 and retired in August 2018.
Lynne was founding director of the Campus Archaeology Program (CAP), which was named one of the winners of the 2017 Governor's Awards for Historic Preservation in recognition of people and organizations who have preserved Michigan's vital historic and cultural resources.
She served as the editor of American Antiquity, the journal published by the Society for American Archaeology, and received numerous awards from that organization, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Lynne was also a 1992 recipient of a President's Award for Exceptional Service to the Profession by the American Anthropological Association. She is best known for her contributions to mortuary studies, as well as her work in Illinois, Wisconsin and in the Great Lakes region, particularly at the Aztalan site.
The department sends its heartfelt condolences to Lynne's family and those who knew her best.

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

One has a 3D pop-up pyramid in it :) Last year, I had a pop-up Wall of Jericho, it was amazing!

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In 1953, cartoonist and animator Paul Campani invented the iconic “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) for the equally iconic Bialetti Moka pot. The character is a caricature of Renato Bialetti, son of founder Alfredo Bialetti

A comic strip showing the “Omino coi baffi” (little guy with a mustache) making coffee in a moka pot

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Julien Riel-Salvatore @julienrs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In case anyone is still wondering why the social sciences and humanities have been systematically defunded and marginalized over the past generation. Seems like a basic knowledge of anthropology would be useful right about now. This 🔽 but read the entire thread.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

basic knowledge of anthropology would be great, Julien, but you're asking that of people who lack basic knowledge of Lord of the Rings, a book they might have read

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