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Archaeologist (retd.), idiot looking for a village, used to run @uvicanthro on tw*tter, paleocoasts, dog!, yyj

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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The real racists are the ones always talking about racism, nation’s racists say
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ZȺWIZUT Carl Olsen ... thought about the owls and nesting birds, about the spe’uth (bears) that make their homes in SELE₭TEȽ [unceded Goldstream Park] and fed beside him while he and other nation members harvested fish for winter. #longform #indigenous 🇨🇦🐟🐻🦉 indiginews.com/features/eld...
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Elder fights to save salmon habitat and former W̱SÁNEĆ village from a highway
30 years after his hunting arrest set off a landmark court case, ZȺWIZUT keeps holding the Crown to its treaties — as he tries to halt a highway’s expansion
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Five First Nations on Vancouver Island are building out capacity to quickly check the genomics of the salmon in their territories. This will help manage fisheries and conservation, and give First Nations soverignty over their own data. Today by me on @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
thetyee.ca
First Nations Invest in Genomics Testing for their Fisheries | The Tyee
Five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations will soon no longer need to rely on DFO to run data that informs management and conservation.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Kahnawake Cultural Centre has officially opened up in Quebec and tells the Haudenosaunee history from their own perspective [and] for items to be repatriated: a report from APTN @aptnnews.bsky.social 🏺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcf9...
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Museum from Haudenosaunee perspective opens in Quebec | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Professional baseball player is now a PhD candidate in Etruscan Archaeology 🏺⚾ www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...
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He was one of baseball’s top closers. Now he’s a world-traveling archaeologist (Gift Article)
Brad Lidge made two All-Star games as an MLB closer. Then his curiosity led him in a different direction.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
thedartmouth.com
Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What could possibly be wrong with an AI generated map of first peopling of the Pacific? Almost everything. From Richards et al 2026 "Lessons from pseudoscience in the Pacific in face of GenAI" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🏺 (open access) #archaeology
An attractive AI generated map of peopling of the Pacific, showing Hawai'i twice, Lapita originating in NZ and proceeding westwards, New Guinea labelled as Borneo, and many other absolute clangers.  From linked article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03122417.2026.2706246?needAccess=true
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On campus today @uvic.ca : Jomon and Coast Salish Archaeologies from @b-thom.bsky.social 🏺🎏🍁
Screenshot of poster announcing public talk. Text of poster is: Bringing Jōmon and Coast Salish Archaeologies Into Conversation

Dr. Brian Thom: Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, UVic

Monday, September 21st, 2026
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
COR B235
On opposite shores of the North Pacific lie the ancestral lands of two of the world's most enduring maritime cultures: the Jōmon of Japan and the Coast Salish of Canada. For millennia, their ancestors thrived, leaving behind rich archaeological legacies that reveal sophisticated social worlds and deep coastal connections. Today, while facing rapid urban development, the public fate of these ancestral places could not be more different.

This talk explores the synergies and inspirations from bringing these two landscapes into conversation: asking how Jōmon's celebrated public archaeology can teach Canadian practitioners, and how the Indigenous-led, collaborative archaeology of Coast Salish territories offers new perspectives for colleagues in Japan.

EVERYONE WELCOME
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Archaeology of tattooing in Kamchatka and surrounding regions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #archaeology #tattoos 🏺🪡 (open access)
Images of archaeological small human effigies in ivory, wood and other materials showiung atterns of facial tattoos dating up to 1500 years ago. Figure 3 from the article, reading: Fig. 3. Images with a face-tattoo from the archaeological cultures of Northern Pacific: 1 – mask from the jaundice of the ancient barbary plant Dorset (3500 years ago), to: (Miniature ivory mask, 2023); 2, 3 – masks from the wood of the Dorset plant (1500–1000 years ago), to: (Maskette, 2026, Masques dorsétiens, 2026); 4 – stone representation (Aleutian Islands, 1200–100 years ago), to: (Turner, 2002), 5 – head from the claw of the ancient marine culture Punuk (700–500 years ago), to: (Head. Old Bering Sea, 2026); 6 - a figurine made from the claw of an ancient Siberian marine culture (Figure. Punuk, 2026)Figure 2 from article showing stone tools and needle-like pins used in tattooing. Caption reads: Fig. 2. Tattoo tools: А – artifacts of the Ushki V site (cultural horizon VII) (Kamchatka, Russia) (1, 2 – cutters, 3, 4 – arrowheads) (Ponkratova, Volkov, Lbova, 2022, p. 255, Fig. 2); В – Tattoo tool collection, Atka Island (Alaska, USA) (1, 3 – needles with handles, 2, 4–7 – needle handles) (photo by I.Yu. Ponkratova) (collection no. 2868 of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (St. Petersburg, Russia).
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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A fresh new perspective on the human story, Early Man was a Woman by Ulli Lust is a nonfiction graphic novel that highlights women in prehistory. Originally published in German, the English translation has now hit bookshelves. www.science.org/content/arti... #booksky #nonfiction #paleo
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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory
Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New archaeological excavations & dating at Widgingarri Shelter 1 in NW Australia shows human occupation by ≥55 ± 4 thousand years ago, including abundant stone tools and use of hematite - one of earliest sites in all of Sahul 🇦🇺🦘🏺 #archaeology Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Figure 6 from the article showing line drawings of select stone tools anotated with percussion direction and angle. 

Caption reads as below:
 Examples of cores recovered from WS1, including cores-on-flakes (a–c), multiplatform cores (d, e) and a bipolar core (f). Areas shaded in blue represent ventral surfaces and/or striking platforms of the original flake blank of core-on-flakes. Arrows indicate the direction of complete (i.e. containing both proximal and distal ends) and partial scars, with the former marked with a circular marker at one end.
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The figure displays six panels (a to f) illustrating various stone artefact core shapes and their features. Panels a, b, and c feature multiple views of larger rocks with prominent blue surfaces, alongside outlines and a 5 cm scale bar. Panels d, e, and f present smaller rocks outlined in gray, with scale bars of 3 cm for d and 1 cm for e and f. Each panel reveals knapping scars and structural details, emphasizing the diversity in shape, texture, and surface features across the rocks.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It took 35 years but the Newfoundland cod stock has been declared healthy. Needless to say, destructive and poorly monitored foreign bottom trawlers have been given a quota. 🎣 www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i... #santayana #newfoundland #fisheries
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As Northern cod stocks rebound, Newfoundlanders are expressing cautious optimism over a fish they nearly lostIn cod we trust
As Northern cod stocks rebound, Newfoundlanders are expressing cautious optimism over a fish they nearly lost
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The true meaning of space junk 👾 @drspacejunk.bsky.social
A multi-panel black and white cartoon showing Donald Trump floating away in space until the heat death of the universe while still ranting about his enemies and grievances.
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Vancouver Island Local History Society @vilocalhistory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Travelling The Great Land Grab exhibit has costs – we hire an installer and rent a truck. Help us make it affordable and accessible to small venues! We have a goal of raising $5,000. You can donate on our CanadaHelps page and receive a tax receipt: Canadahelps.org/en/charities/vilocalhistory/
Graphic with white text on green background. An image in the centre shows a person interacting with an exhibit piece. “Help us raise $5,000 and keep the cost of hosting the exhibit low for Vancouver Island communities.”
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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New, fun, one-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Tlingits Narrated by Dr. Rosita Worl #WeAreAmerica250 #PeopleOfTheTides #Alaska #Resilience youtu.be/y89ULhPNIFo?...
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Tlingits, Narrated by Rosita Worl
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Unexpected parties come together to restore a traditional place name on Orcas Island, at entrance to Puget Sound salish-current.org/2025/07/11/l... #Haida #Lummi @b-thom.bsky.social #indigenous
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Lummi reclaims traditional name for TiLeqw-iLhch at Haida Point
A day of ceremony, food and gifts celebrated the reclaiming of Indigenous place names in the San Juan Islands.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Finally, some attention to the evolution of the male pelvis 🦴 #openaccess #oa #bioanth 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Geometric morphometric scatterplot from linked article showing distinct groupings of male and female pelvises
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tenure track Assistant Professor opening at @uvicanthro.bsky.social @uvic.ca with preference for, but not exclusively limited to, Indigenous archaeologist and speciality in Salish Sea archaeology. 🏺please share. www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
uvic.ca
UVic ANTH Assistant Professor NWC Archaeology - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"In her response to the lawsuit, Whidbey Telecom CEO Donna Hilty admits a shell midden was disturbed and that a suspected cranial fragment that was found was later lost." Yet another careless disturbance of Indigenous ancestors, this time in Pt. Roberts🏺 #Lummi salish-current.org/2026/08/03/d...
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Disturbance of Indigenous burial sites is not rare in region
Point Roberts case goes to trial beginning Oct. 4  A jury trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 4 in federal court in the case ... Read more
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
John Price and Lorna Wanosts'a7 Williams: "The threat to the land, regardless of ownership, comes not from Indigenous peoples but from forest fires, flooding, and pollution — an unmitigated environmental catastrophe [...] from unfettered growth." 🇨🇦 #bcpoli www.timescolonist.com/opinion/mark...
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Marking 180 years: The Oregon Treaty, DRIPA and the future of reconciliation
Those who effectively stole the lands in 1846 are now accusing those whose lands they took of threatening private property. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sad to hear of the death of Dr Olga Soffer, extensively used her work in my early career. Weird framing of the obit for such an eminent archaeologist, however. 🏺https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/science/olga-soffer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2lA.ocYB.Tvi2eSLiw2mU&smid=url-share
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Olga Soffer, Fashion Maven Who Studied Caveman Couture, Dies at 83 (Gift Article)
After working for a department store, she switched to archaeology and made important discoveries about prehistoric clothes and gender roles.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is a masterpiece of the simple, yet attractive, digital presentation of a short historical narrative, in this case the war diary of a young Belgian soldier, François Stevens, in May 1940 when Germany invaded. In 🇬🇧 🇳🇱 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 tom-michiels.github.io/oorlogsdagbo...
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Oorlogsdagboek François Stevens — 10 mei · 28 mei 1940
Interactieve website rond het handgeschreven oorlogsdagboek van soldaat François Stevens tijdens de Achttiendaagse Veldtocht (10–28 mei 1940).
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
UK women's voting rights poster from 1913, designed and produced by the Suffrage Atelier. Source: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75893/... 👩‍⚕️👷‍♀️👩‍🏫👩‍🎓🤵‍♀️
Landscape format poster in green, red and black on white ground. Two strips of five images each, one above the other. The top row has the legend 'What a Woman may be and yet not have the Vote' and five images: Mayor, Nurse, Mother, Doctor or Teacher, Factory Hand. The bottom row has the legend 'What a Man may be & yet not lose the Vote' with five images: Convict, Lunatic, Proprietor of white Slaves, Unfit for Service, Drunkard.

The Women's Suffrage movement in Britain was advanced in 1903 when Emmeline Pankhurst established the Women's Social and Political Union. Voting rights for women over 30 were granted in 1918, but equal rights with men (that is, at age 21) were not granted until 1928. This poster was produced by the Suffrage Atelier, a society formed in 1909, to 'encourage artists to forward the Women's Movement, and particularly the enfranchisement of women, by means of pictorial publications'. The relatively unsophisticated technique of block printing was partly a consequence of limited funds, but it also allowed 'fresh cartoons [to be] got out at very short notice'.

Alt text from V&A
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Dulux Weathershield poster from 1990 crassly incorporating a modified image of Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde area. 🏺 Source V&A collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O233554...
View of Mesa Verde "Cliff Palace," an ancient Puebloan archaeological site / cliffside dwelling community, with one of the structures altered to be intact exterior and bright white compared to the reddish tones of the other structures.  The tagline is Dulux Weathershield is Good for Years.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This'll teach'em: "BC Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay and her senior staff have begun directing MLAs to no longer use the term “First Nations” in describing people but instead use terms like “Indian.”" #bcpoli www.nsnews.com/economy-law-...
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Rob Shaw: BC Conservatives urged to stop using term 'First Nations'
Leaked guidance from Kerry-Lynne Findlay's office encourages some MLAs to use 'Indian' instead
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Petroglyphs on Gabriola Island, B.C., vandalized by incised text reading "I 🖤 JESUS" www.timescolonist.com/local-news/i... 🏺 Article strangely gives benefit of the doubt to the vandal.
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'Irreplaceable' petroglyphs in Gabriola Island park vandalized
What appears to convey the message “I love Jesus” is scratched on a rock that features two small, face-like petroglyphs.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"A ritual meant to recognize dispossession becomes a form of reassurance instead. History is named and then absorbed." Reid Walker on the inadequacies and unintended outcomes of land acknowledgements. @b-thom.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...
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Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. (Gift Article)
Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Monumental New Mexico land art is almost finished (again), but now views more satellites than the intended target of Polaris. Impressive effort for a LoFi observatory which addresses archaeological themes more than it perhaps intends. 🏺🔭 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...
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He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of (Gift Article)
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 21/07/2026
"When we talked to the relevant French minister, he said their bombs were perfectly safe, so Jim replied 'Well, blow them up in the Mediterranean.' The French minister’s face blanched and he replied: 'There are too many people living around the Mediterranean.'" —Helen Caldicott
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How the movies (and the rest of the media) made me into an anti-nuclear weapons campaigner
What effect can movies and other media have on raising public awareness and inspiring public activism? Perhaps there is no better person to ask than Helen Caldicott, who—after first reading the 1957…
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A New Yorker in Victoria BC, 1868, unimpressed by the hospitality of then colonial Governor Frederick Seymour, takes it out on the Brits, aka a "DARN BLARSTED DIRTY SET OF BLARSTED ASSES." 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 #canadianhistory
Screenshot of a typescript portion reading "So we started with our pants turned up through the mud and mizzling rain back to the ship. Having had rain for four days past, and having on our thin boots, you can imagine how we enjoyed it. The distance we had to walk was over a mile. The English are a "GREAT & MAGNAMINOUS PEOPLE" but you never catch this "chile" in one of their HOSPITABLE houses again. "No, no! Not for Joe." They are a DARN BLARSTED DIRTY SET OF BLARSTED ASSES.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
They don't make archaeology book covers like they used to. 🏺 publications.gc.ca/collections/...
Cover of the book PRELIMINARY ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY,
MACKENZIE CORRIDOR
by
Jacques Cinq-Mars
Archaeological Survey of Canada
for the
Environmental-Social Program
Northern Pipelines
July 1973

Cover is a mosaic of drawn images of moose, fish, fox, etc made in an organic pop-art idiom, brightly coloured in blue, red, white and black.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Informative brass plaque on the Ok Glacier in Iceland. @historicalmarker.bsky.social #climatechange 🇮🇸🧊🫠
Image of a bilingual Icelandic/English sign at the Ok Glacier in Iceland.  English text reads:

Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier.  In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.  This monument is to acknowledge that we know  
what is happening and what needs to be done.  Only you know if we did it.
Photo credit: Dominic Boyer
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Carefully written piece on how overly-reductionistic zooarchaeological work focused on "survival" leads to "epistemic violence" #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏺
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Counting on kin and Country, not just calories: Beyond subsistence thinking in GunaiKurnai zooarchaeology, southeastern Australia
Zooarchaeology recognises that animal remains can register social relationships, ritual, identity, memory, and place, yet in Australia zooarchaeological interpretations have historically tended to ...
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
[DFO] announced a 55 per cent increase in allocation for Northern cod from 38,000 tonnes to 59,000 tonnes – but according to the government, Labrador Inuit will only get 3.3 per cent of that under the “Indigenous and Special Allocations” label. 🇨🇦 www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Giving allocation of cod to non-Inuit a sign of ‘reconciliation gap’
While the federal government is celebrating a recent boost in the amount of northern cod...
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Really interesting article, also reinforces how quickly salmon could have re-colonized coastal streams after last glacial maximum (likely very quickly indeed) @judeisabella.bsky.social 🐟
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carl Zimmer summarizes a new paper which surprisingly (and thoroughly) suggests a deadly Plague outbreak ca 5000 BP in Lake Baikal area, millennia before it was thought the infectious agent was deadly (gift link) 🏺 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/s...
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A Deadly Outbreak of Plague, Nearly 5,000 Years Before the Black Death
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Checkmate, anthropologists 🏺
Image from twitter asking "why do humans have 206 bones and not just one?", with the image showing one anatomically correct human skeleton and another with all the bones fused into a human-shaped blob.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
New depths in cynicism as Facebook/Meta plans to roll out AI enabled facial recognition in wearable glasses during times of political turmoil, to suppress anticipated opposition (3 month old article here: archive.ph/9tHvo) #AI
Screenshot from linked NY Times article reading: Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses."
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"If it can't be quantified it must not be valuable" - a droll, yet entirely accurate, video from Dr Jean Fan: "University Professors in the Neoliberal Academic Ecosystem" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO4.... #highered
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University Professors in the Neoliberal Academic Ecosystem
YouTube video by Prof. Jean Fan
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...
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Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk, They’re Now Getting Big Payouts
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“The authenticity of the wolf species [is going] missing, with all its cultural, ecological, and evolutionary value.” 🐺🍆🐶 www.biographic.com/nearly-half-...
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Nearly Half of Italy’s Wolves Are Part Dog Now. Is That a Problem? - bioGraphic
Wolf-dog hybrids are taking over Italy, raising scientists’ concerns for the future of the country’s wolves.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Now this is how to start off a short subject review "Zooarcheology is a Frankenstein hybrid, born from the ribs of a myriad of disciplines." 🏺🐟🧠 #archaeology library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
Screenshot of the title and abstract of the linked document PDF.  Text reads: Zooarcheology: animals talk, just to complete
the story
Paul Mazza
Abstract: Zooarcheology is a Frankenstein hybrid, born from the ribs of a myriad of
disciplines. Its research focuses on animal remains from archeological contexts under an
anthropological perspective with the primary and ultimate object of gaining information
about human behavior. It has been, and often still is, considered a subdiscipline of
archeology. And yet, it has the potential to greatly contribute to the advancement of
knowledge in archeology. By using a variety of analytical methods, it provides independent
lines of complementary scientific evidence from archeofaunal, geological, and sedimentary
archives. It can yield detailed information on the environments in which past peoples
lived, as well as on the intensity of human impacts on landscapes, on past human diets
and on their evolution through time. It can also provide insights into the nature of the
social organization of the people. All this reveals zooarcheology in a role that has not
often been recognized
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Students at Glendale Community College in Arizona www.gccaz.edu roundly boo when use of AI at their graduation ceremony omits hundreds of graduates. Students must use AI perfectly/not at all, or face expulsion, but Admin gets to "learn their lessons" in realtime. #highered #AI
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Geologists in movies: an analysis of gender, cause of death, etc. 35% of them die. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🏺🪨⚰️⚒️
From the linked article, Figure 3, as described below:

The manners of geologist deaths fall into eight categories (Fig. 3), described below:

    Category 1: Murder. A good example is the fatal elimination of ‘baddies’ by heroes such as James Bond, such as in the movie Dr No (1962), where ‘007’ kills the evil petrologist, Prof. Dent.
    Category 2: Work related. Typical examples are being hit by a volcanic bomb, falling into a crater or an opening fault, drowning in quicksand or lahar, and incineration in an oil pit. Grim stuff.
    Category 3: Killed by or because of Extra-Terrestrial encounters. That is, being killed directly by aliens or assimilation by aliens and consequently killed by former colleagues, such as the geologist in Prometheus (2012).
    Category 4. Miscellaneous accidents. Such as being crushed by falling crates as in Deep Star Six (1989).
    Category 5. Traffic accidents. Killed in exotic events like crashing with a spaceship on the asteroid in Armageddon (1998).
    Category 6. Health issues. Such as heart attack suffered by the geologist in Equinox (1970).
    Category 7. Suicide. Where it all gets too much, as in Walkabout (1971).
    Category 8. Unknown. A good example is the fate of the geologist in Gold (2016): suicide, or did he fake his death?

The causes of eternal passing are highlighted in the bar plot in Fig. 3. Murder is the most common, with 30 of 69 deaths. The numbers for the second and third reasons are close together, with deaths caused by interaction with extra-terrestrial creatures and unforgiving objects leading to 12 of 69 deaths, and with geological hazards (work related) coming in at 12 of 69 deaths. Accidents, traffic accidents and health issues make a total of 9 of 69 deaths. Notably, we count only one clear case of death by suicide, though in three cases, the fate of the geologist is unknown.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Images from Dutch doctor Willem ten Rhijne's 1683 work on Japanese and Chinese acupuncture techniques, which he had witnessed. via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social 🪡🇨🇳🇯🇵 publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
Copperplate engraving derived from Chinese diagram showing acupuncture and moxa points, featured in Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) - front sideCopperplate engraving derived from Japanese diagram showing acupuncture points, featured in Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683) - back side.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Jimmy Fallon show is "a ghostly simulacrum, merely rehearsing itself for its eventual, more profitable existence as a series of clips." An informed critique of the vapidity of complicity 📺. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...
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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon
Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Simulation of trying to escape the recent Tracy Arm Alaska mega-tsunami, on a jetski.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfF...
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Tracy Arm Experience - Jet Ski Run from Tsunami (wide view)
YouTube video by Patrick Lynett
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Retired academics and inbred think-tanks put under the spotlight in this longform review of residential school denialism in Canada 🇨🇦 by Emily Enns in @thetyee.ca . Interestingly, does not mention prominent role of archaeology findings in this controversy. 🏺 thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...
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Who’s Behind the Residential School Denialism Movement? | The Tyee
A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths.
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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
From only a couple of weeks ago: a lawyer advises BC realtors on what to know about archaeological sites, selling property, and the law. As always it reveals an underlying disdain for First Nations heritage @b-thom.bsky.social www.bcrea.bc.ca/legally-spea... 🏺🇨🇦
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Heritage and Archaeological Conservation Basics for REALTORS® #595 - British Columbia Real Estate Association
British Columbia’s Heritage Conservation Act1 (the “Act”) enables the protection and conservation of over 60,000 documented and likely many more undocumented heritage and archaeological sites in the p...
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