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Ross Jamieson

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An archaeologist at Simon Fraser University. I study Spanish colonialism in Ecuador, as well as material culture and the modern world. www.sfu.ca/archaeology/about/people…

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Our more in-depth story on the sudden shut down of Chronicle Heritage. I talk to a handful of employees who recount their experience and concerns following the company’s dissolution. Many worry about the thousands of artifacts still in Chronicle’s care. #Archaeology #CRM 🧪🏺 New at @science.org
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Major employer of archaeologists shuts down, leaving workers in the lurch
The “ungraceful exit” of Chronicle Heritage leaves many researchers fearful for the future
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For less than whatever PR company is charging to advise Newcastle University, I will advise them not to do this On the plus side, a delightfully bonkers move and an excuse to show pictures of That Wedding again www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, this is ...something: universityaffairs.ca/news/remove-... I am tired. So very tired. This is really hard work. #AcademicSky 🧪
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Remove EDI from research funding decisions, parliamentary committee says - University Affairs
The Standing Committee on Science and Research says ‘discriminatory’ EDI policies are ‘weakening the quality of Canadian research’.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today we have "Canadian Sugar Was Built on Violence" by @donicabelisle.bsky.social Canadian sugar company Rogers Sugar (formerly B.C. Sugar) profited from violent, exploitation-based plantation labor. niche-canada.org/2026/09/21/c... #envhist #foodhistory #aghist #cdnhist #foodhistory #labour
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Canadian Sugar Was Built on Violence
Canadian sugar profits, including those of Rogers Sugar/B.C. Sugar, were built upon a history of violent, exploited plantation labor.
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James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The extent of the programmes being cut at the University of Edinburgh (where I took part in an event with Raja Shehadeh a fortnight ago) is extraordinary (archive.is/tACqv) - Celtic & Scottish Lit (UG), Scottish Literature (UG) & BD Divinity (UG) among the 90, not to mention Arabic & Persian.
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Canadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy Committee @cchac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We think this is brilliant! heritageadvocacy.ca/austerity-to...
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Austerity Tours
Museum of Vancouver Austerity Tours poster (English only) Austerity Tours: How Decades of Funding Stagnation Affects the MOV The MOV’s Austerity Tours will highlight the problems, risks and missed …
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'the Waymo effect is what happens when a technology removes the friction of dealing with another human being, and we experience that removal as pure gain – because the costs of the friction were always visible to us, while its benefits were not.'
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The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bayeux Tapestry good but massively upstaged by seeing a cat in a ruff right before
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More to say but, mostly he's just the best. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian
After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy 250th birthday, America! To celebrate the occasion, we're closing your oldest natural history museum. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/a... #scicomm #Philadelphia
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Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to close museum on Sept. 30
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will close its museum in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2026, NBC10 confirmed.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Easily one of the most spectacular natural events I’ve ever seen: an endless river of Sooty Shearwaters along the Washington coast. These ocean-dwelling birds migrate 40,000 miles each year, foraging in massive flocks. This went nonstop for at least an hour. Best estimate is 100,000 birds.
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The Archaeological Conservancy @thearchcons.org · 28/08/2026
MONTREAL, CANADA—A 2,000-year-old pre-Hispanic bowl is being returned to Peru after it was identified at a Montreal auction house. The Nasca-style bowl had been listed for sale as part of a lot of three bowls before Peruvian authorities recognized its significance. Read more: buff.ly/6HqfOay
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RCMP contributes to the safe return of a 2,000-year-old Peruvian cultural artifact
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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We've got a book for that! Interested in reading the real story of Lake Ontario? Daniel Macfarlane, associate professor at Western Michigan University, has written the authoritative history of the use and abuse of Lake Ontario. Read it now! #LakeOntario #researchthatmatters buff.ly/woiwybh
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#c0ffee 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ @caffeinated-dev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Loch Himup
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
This travesty started in 2009 but I hope our current Mayor @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can look into this and take the appropriate steps. This story makes my blood boil! www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/25/f...
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Paved-Over Historic Black Cemetery Is Now Up For Sale, Lawyer Says
Whoever buys the former burial ground for freed slaves in Queens will face strong restrictions on how they develop the site.
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Marie Jasmin @mariejasmin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is how it became illegal to repair your own John Deere tractor and why a Canadian musician selling a song to a Canadian must hand over 30% to Apple. But now that Trump has just thrown this trade agreement in the dumpster, poured bourbon all over and set fire to it..... ....we could be free.
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Rainforest Action Network @ran.org · 24/08/2026
The Trump admin is seeking to eliminate the drill-free buffer zone around the Chaco Culture national historic park, one of the country's 27 world heritage sites. This "drill baby drill" agenda comes at a time when we need to make a rapid transition to clean energy. bit.ly/4gfYvLw
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Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm
Administration's plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
' evidence has come to light [e.g. Malik Al Nasir's book] that Sandbach, Tinne and Company – a corporation closely linked to the merchants who got the biggest taxpayer-funded compensation payouts – continued to traffic enslaved Africans illegally after abolition to Guyana, in South America.' 1/3
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British corporation continued trafficking of enslaved Africans to Guyana 40 years after abolition
Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”' 3/3
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'All...directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average'. 2/3
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'All told, spending by nearly all of NSF’s eight main directorates is being curtailed by between 20% and 40% relative to the previous year. These reductions have come despite Congress’s directive that the agency not reduce spending for any of its directorates by more than 5%'. 1/3
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/08/2026
Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r
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Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages
Spanish authorities on Thursday removed the remains of three kings who ruled the Aragón region in the 11th ​century from a monastery threatened by a wildfire.
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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Tucked into one of the first floor cases, an unconventional candlestick made from an eagle's foot. Collected in Norway by Henry Balfour and donated to the Museum in 1932.
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IndigiNews @indiginews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A decade after fuel spill, Híɫzaqv are again defending their waters — this time from invading European green crabs A 110,000-litre diesel spill devastated a nation‘s clam beds in 2016. In its wake, a highly invasive species now imperils Híɫzaqv food, culture and livelihoods Story by Sonal Gupta
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Decade after fuel spill, Híɫzaqv are again defending their waters — this time from invading European green crabs
A 110,000-litre diesel spill devastated a nation‘s clam beds in 2016. In its wake, a highly invasive species now imperils Híɫzaqv food, culture and livelihoods
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is such a good opportunity for political and popular education: share.inquirer.com/ipy2EE - Go to it Philly! I have faith in you. Create an annotated guide and stand around the area to distribute those. Organize lots of events across the city focused on the *real* history.
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Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 30/06/2026
“It’s a fantastic place to visit. So it was a really depressing thought that after 15 years we weren’t going to be able to do our thing here.”
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Federal Cuts Put the Squeeze on Summer Jobs for Youth | The Tyee
This summer, stagnant funding for museums means it’s harder for heritage sites to stay open.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New First Aid for Finds: www.firstaidforfinds.org
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Home | First Aid for Finds
Advice on First Aid actions for the excavation, lifting, cleaning, identification and post-excavation storage and transport of archaeological finds.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"We didn’t want to tell just the history and the story of what happened at the Mohawk Institute," Patterson said. "It had to be through a lens where people could connect and understand that the survivors are people. These were the children."
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A residential school survivors’ exhibition exposes the Mush Hole to the world
A travelling exhibition of testimonies from survivors of the Mohawk Institute residential school (called the Mush Hole) opened in Montreal on May 25.
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This is an interesting piece and connects to a convo i was having with friends yesterday, about how one of my challenges recently is persuading students that I want *their* thoughts and analysis about things, and that it coming *from them* is the entire point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The 2026 field season at Golemo Gradište in North Macedonia is underway. This year SFU archaeology students Jo Hughes, Chelsea Noble, and Kayla Blake have joined Dr. Sabrina Higgins as volunteers on the project, where they are excavating part of a late antique church.
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Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This morning I learnt that mss are still kept in these 17thC boxes lined with zinc in our old university library. Zero condensation! And pretty painted doors!
Eight painted boxes in a library, one of the open to show zinc lining and bound manuscripts Detail from the interior of the old library in the univeesity of Salamanca, with wooden bookcases in two levels and sculpture on top
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"The University of Utah required a student to remove the phrases 'environmental justice' and 'communities disproportionately affected by climate change' from advertisements for a school-sponsored Earth Day event." www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
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University of Utah student told to remove mention of ‘environmental justice’ from Earth Day flyer
She was also told to remove the phrase “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” from an email advertisement, she said.
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The 15th ICAZ International Conference will be held next year in Vancouver. Call for Sessions closes 31st of May 2026. For more details check out our website sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... or email icaz2027vancouver@gmail.com. #ICAZ #zooarch #Vancouver2027
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 16/04/2026
Children's toys from the 20th century working class community of Vaakunakylä 🇫🇮 The lives of children are often silent and neglected in historical accounts. #Archaeology helps give a voice to this marginalised group #WorldVoiceDay 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
A doll, plastic sheriff's badge and parts of a toy truck, covered in dirt after their excavation.
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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Shouldn't this be a self-guided tour?
A man in a grey jacket holding up a sign that reads "Ayn Rand Tour"
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Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW! Aurélie Manin reviews 'Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaelogical Historical Study' by Nicolas Delsol online.ucpress.edu/ah
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College (MA) to close doors after fall. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester
Massachusetts liberal arts college laments ‘heartbreaking reality’ and says financial pressures to blame
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/04/2026
In AD 1708, whilst transporting cargo from South America to Iberia, the San José Galleon was sunk off the coast of Colombia during a battle with the British. Learn about the non-invasive study of the gold coins in the shipwreck in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Golden coins on the seafloor, alongside remains of a shipwreck.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
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Iowa Archaeology @iowaarchaeology.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A HUGE congrats to Grinnell College's @cocalola.bsky.social on this grant, awarded to support important archaeological work & research at the Rock Springs, WY, Chinatown | 🏺https://thesandb.com/55311/news/anthropology-professor-laura-ng-receives-10000-grant-for-wyoming-chinatowns-research-project/
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Anthropology Professor Laura Ng receives $10,000 grant for Wyoming Chinatowns research project
The Far Western Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Anthropology Professor Laura Ng’s research project, titled “Wyoming Chinatowns and Emigrant Home Villages: Archaeologies of Labor, Racial...
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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Gugusse et l'Automate by Georges Méliès 1897 news.artnet.com/art-world/lo...
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Lost-Lost Film by French Cinema Pioneer Turns Up in Michigan | Artnet News
The 45-second Georges Méliès film, "Gugusse and the Automaton", was donated to the Library of Congress last year.
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University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New book! AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIP ARCHAEOLOGY by Laurie A. Wilkie and Katherine M. Kinkopf explores how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessible. Use code 31SAA26 for 50% off through 5/31/26.
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An Introduction to Crip Archaeology
A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessib...
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Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
First Nations Mayflower hero was sold into slavery, files in Malaga Archives reveal www.thetimes.com/article/1306...
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Mayflower hero was secretly sold into slavery, hidden files reveal
Crumbling documents discovered in a Malaga archive expose how an English merchant used a legal fiction to sell Squanto and other indigenous captives in 1614
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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#provenanceonview An installation at the Carlos on repatriation long in the making, as folks at AIA 2025 know, with a great deal of online content + shots of the unforgettable Fanta cans: carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/l...
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One Cup and Three Cans | Emory | Michael C. Carlos Museum
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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Illustration of two men fishing for crab (Zodiac Sign of Cancer) on Calendar page for June in the Queen Mary Psalter a fourteenth-century English psalter named after Mary I of England, who gained possession of it in 1553. #Coastalhistory #4oceans
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🎥 Documentary Screening: Ode to What Remains of Us by Sofia Esperto, documenting SFU Professor Hugo Cardoso’s research project. 📅 April 30 | 🕐 1:00 PM | 📍ASB 10900, SFU's Big Data Hub 🎟 Free — registration required. buff.ly/9wUsIvo 🎬 Check trailer & additional information from the link.
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Veronika Meduna @veronikameduna.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The last of the 'trimates' is now gone, too. Biruté Galdikas dedicated her life to studying orangutans www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Famed primatologist Biruté Galdikas dead at 79 | CBC News
Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She was the last living member of the renowned primatologists known as "trimate...
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The Commemoration of Incarceration in British Columbia @carceralbc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Dawson et al. 2026: Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage
This paper examines the use of digital twins – highly accurate virtual models of physical structures created through terrestrial LiDAR scanning – to support the commemoration of heritage sites with...
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SFU Archaeology @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Memorial for Dr. Roy L. Carlson Join us to celebrate the life and legacy of Roy with stories, memories, and good company. Sunday, April 26, 2026, 1:00 PM at Simon Fraser University(Burnaby), SWH 10081 Please check details & register from the link below. buff.ly/nKhD3vC
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