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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So, is membership in Sigma Xi worth paying dues for? I've been nominated and am curious what folks think. #academicsky

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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans” 🌱 This article advances #feminist recommendations for structural change to better support and sustain participation in #archaeology. Check out the latest FirstView article from Samantha Fladd et al. here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Another new article! "From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans: Feminist Recommendations for Change" in @saa-aap.bsky.social by Samantha Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, and a bunch of other awesome feminist archaeologists! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My review of "Mothering and Archaeology" edited by @savarchaeoalliance.bsky.social and Suzanne Spencer-Wood is out in Historical Archaeology! rdcu.be/eZpdj #academicsky 🏺

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Mothering and Archaeology: Past and Present Perspectives

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Monday was my first day of Archaeology and Disability class! 🏺♿ Besides getting to know one another and going over the syllabus, we collaboratively created a timeline of disability history from our own existing knowledge.

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 22/12/2025

✈️Attending #SHA2026? ☕ Meet the #SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social editorial team! 📅 Fri Jan 9, 10–12 📍 Illy Cafe, Detroit Marriott Let’s talk #publishing and celebrate your #archaeological research!

Promotional image announcing a meeting at Illy Cafe, Detroit Marriott, with the text: "Raise a cup to archaeological research! Join us on Friday January 9, 10:00-12 noon, 400 Renaissance Drive, SHA 2026". The flyer includes a photo of a person in safety gear examining artifacts in a lab. Coffee beans are scattered around the flyer, enhancing the theme.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Hey fellow archaeologists! Are you going to the Society for Historical Archaeology 🏺 #sha2026 meeting this week? Come chat with me and Maureen Meyers about publishing in Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social on Friday morning!

Meet the Editorial Board! 9 January 2026, 10am–12pm, Illy Cafe, Detroit Marriott, 400 Renaissance Drive.
Come join members of the editorial board of Advances in Archaeological Practice for a chat and a cuppy. We'll be at Illy Cafe in the Marriott from 10am–12pm on Friday, January 9 and are ready for any questions about publishing in the journal. We'd also love to see our published authors to celebrate you!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

My Archaeology and Disability 🏺♿ course starts on 1/5, but I'm traveling with my family 12/17–1/2, so I am getting everything ready now! I'm really excited about the grading (or, really, #ungrading) structure of the course, which gives students a lot of freedom, choice, and room for risk-taking! 🧵

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Super excited to be preparing for my Archaeology 🏺 and Disability ♿ course for winter quarter! Registration starts this week, and I hope lots of awesome @stanford.edu students sign up! I'll be posting about the class here on BlueSky too, and would love to have some good pedagogy conversations!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching? "Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies" Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific #academicsky 🏺♿

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

A song for the academic job market: www.youtube.com/shorts/b-pnz... "I am just fine, just as I am. I don't have to try to be better than anybody else 'cause I love myself just the way that I am." @mamanous.bsky.social 's intended audience might be my kids, but I sing her songs to myself daily.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I'm starting to work on designing my "Archaeology and the Public" course for next spring. Does anyone have syllabi, assignments, or lesson plans they'd be willing to share on the subjects of public arch, collaborative arch, pseudoarch, or journalistic & pop culture depictions of arch?🏺 #academicsky

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This, AND even if they were only the rights of a tiny minority, they'd be worth fighting for.

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

UGH. People! Let's be clear about who our enemies are! The university admin staff is a potential ally who you should befriend, not an enemy you should be rude to. Strategy!

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

DID YOU KNOW that the biggest danger to the children of this world is moms who text?!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This morning, I was walking my child to school, holding their hand, and with my other hand, I pulled out my phone and sent my partner a quick text. A complete stranger said to me "Don't ignore your child's safety, looking at your phone!" PSA: it is rude to comment on strangers' parenting.

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology

EXTENDED
DEADLINE:
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NEW DEADLINE FOR SIGNATURES: FRIDAY 15TH OF AUGUST. THIS IS TO GIVE EVERYONE THE CHANCE TO SIGN, SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE AND TALK ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN AND HOW ARCHAEOLOGY CAN NO LONGER BE COMPLICIT IN ISRAEL’S CRIMES.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Deadline extended to 8/20! Join us? 🏺♿

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Just finished @annaleen.bsky.social 's latest, Automatic Noodle! What a delightful book about queer/trans/crip/robot resilience, chosen family, and noodles! I will now need to head to Terra Cotta Warrior to try biang biang noodles for myself.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Worth. Every. Penny. WHO TRIES TO STEAL HORSES OFF A CAROUSEL??

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

TFW you can't find the historic newspaper you need for the decade you need it through your university library or public library, only online behind a paywall... and then you remember that you have RESEARCH FUNDING!

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a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money .

ALT: a baby is looking out of a window with the words take my money .

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

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Read Like a Criminal

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'm so sad to hear that SAPIENS is stopping publishing; it's an amazing resource in so many ways. 🏺

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Read this whole thread. We all need to be more aware of the structure of complicity with Israeli war crimes that exists within archaeology, and actively and vocally refuse cooperation and collaboration #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It always amazes me to stumble on communities of people who are passionate about something I'd never deeply considered before. Today's example is carousel history: I'm doing research for an article on the carousel from Belchertown State School.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The Placental Steroid Hypothesis of Human Brain Evolution 🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The theory suggests female reproductive innovations, rather than male traits, were the key driver of human cognitive advancement

Circular diagrams of the co-evolution of related traits in humans.

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Super excited about this call for papers in @saa-aap.bsky.social on "Advances in Archaeological Labor Management"! 🏺

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure) C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hoping this is out in time to be analyzed by my students in my "Archaeology and the Public" course next spring!

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Alright #academicsky #feministsky, what are your favorite pieces of feminist theorizing about mothering and parenting, published in the 21st century?

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

We welcomed @worldarch.bsky.social 's recent decision to exclude from the Darwin congress an archaeologist at a university based in an illegal Israeli settlement on Palestinian land. But we were also alarmed by the oversight which almost led to #wac10 attendees sharing the space with a war criminal.

ACTION!
HIJACK
#WAC10
NO BUSINESS AS USUAL UNDER GENOCIDE! BEFORE FRIDAY’S PLENARY SESSION AND VOTE, LET’S FLOOD WAC’S HASHTAG #WAC10, SO NOBODY AT THE CONGRESS CAN SAY THEY DIDN’T KNOW.

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THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS JUST AVOIDED ALLOWING AN ISRAELI WAR CRIMINAL ATTEND THE WAC-10 DARWIN CONGRESS. THE ILLEGAL SETTLTEMENT-BASED ARCHAEOLOGIST WAS ACCEPTED TO CHAIR A SESSION, AND HAD HIS NAME PRINTED IN THE PROGRAM, WITH HIS AFFILIATION FALSELY LISTED AS “ARIEL UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL.” WHILE THIS OVERSIGHT WAS A FAILURE ON WAC’S BEHALF (TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW, ITS OWN PRINCIPLES AND ITS DUTY TO ITS MEMBERSHIP), THE TIMELY REMOVAL OF THIS PARTICIPANT FROM THE CONGRESS WAS A WIN FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMMUNITY, WHICH HOLDS EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE AND AIMS TO DO BETTER. WE CONTINUE TO HOLD WAC ACCOUNTABLE, AS WE CALL ON THEM TO DO BETTER, BY PALESTINIANS AND THEIR HERITAGE, AND BY OUR PALESTINIAN COLLEAGUES.

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WE HAVE 7 DEMANDS WHICH WE DELIVERED TO WAC ON MARCH 31ST OF THIS YEAR. THEY ARE:

1. Respond to calls from our Palestinian colleagues and representative Palestinian civil society and academic organisations to join and support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, by pledging no ties with Israel or with its complicit institutions, and barring official representatives of said institutions in all WAC councils, committees and meetings
2. Publish a new statement condemning the deliberate destruction by the Israeli Occupation Forces of Palestinian cultural heritage and educational institutes in the Gaza Strip.

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WE HAVE 7 DEMANDS WHICH WE DELIVERED TO WAC ON MARCH 31ST OF THIS YEAR. THEY ARE:

3. Actively engage in establishing a taskforce of non-complicit archaeologists to a) investigate the war crimes of deliberate destruction, looting, illegal excavation, and appropriation of Palestinian cultural heritage, by the Israeli Occupation Forces, Israeli cultural and educational institutions, and armed Israeli settlers (the findings of said investigation should be shared urgently with all WAC members, as well as publicly and with the press), and b) provide assistance and support for the restoration of damaged cultural heritage.
4. Do due diligence in not collaborating with, platforming, or accepting participation of complicit individuals (i.e. suspected war criminals) in all WAC councils, committees and meetings.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

At its meeting of 21 June 2025, the World Archaeological Congress Council resolved to exclude from WAC-10 participation scholars affiliated with Ariel University, an institution located within an Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory (West Bank). 🏺 #WAC10

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We continue to call on WAC to implement an ethical strategy, avoiding further risk of complicity in Israel’s war crimes, for the organisation, its members, and attendees of the congress. We urge WAC respond to our March 31st demands in full #wacwithoutapartheid #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #🏺

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This decision is in line with international law, and WAC’s own ethical commitments, principles and resolutions (i.e. the bare minimum). #wacwithoutapartheid #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #🏺

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

AAA welcomes @worldarch.bsky.social’s decision to exclude from participation at WAC-10 Darwin an archaeologist affiliated with Ariel University, an illegal institute built on illegally occupied Palestinian land, and therefore a war crime. #wacwithoutapartheid #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #🏺

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied Told I “might want kids.” Told I “might meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵

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