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Archaeologist specializing in Late Neolithic/Halaf Şanlıurfa, Turkey; D.C.-born; foodie; astronomy & gardening buff; former guardian of Urfalı cat Commander Orion 🌈🖤; current guardian of not-a-Guest-anymore Cat Italy!

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 10h
🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...
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Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak
Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5h
“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 13h
🚨Postdoc job alert: Come work with my paleontology & evolution group in Edinburgh! Researcher in Cognitive Evolution Over Deep Time. You'll study how brains & neurons have evolved over time, and predict neuron count in extinct species! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTC355/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time at The University of Edinburgh
Apply for the Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cognitive Evolution over Deep Time role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 5h
Hey #Charlottesville #Cville, want to see what's happening to historic Lewis Mountain??? @livablecville.bsky.social @cvilledems.bsky.social @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 5h
Is it Fashion Week? Regardless, show me your best #catfashion. Here Italy is dressed in his best tuxedo, long whiskers, and a handsome smolder. (Italy is actually also wearing a burgundy bowtie here, but it has dribbles of liquid antibiotic on it. Cheer him on to take more, please!)
Dressed to impress, my tuxedo cat Italy has long whiskees and eyes tgat would intrigue the late phtographer Man Ray.My tuxedo cat has long whoskers and a deep smolder.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h
👇🎯 Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 8h
Not good news.
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...
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Upcoming Federal Resignations Anthology
Forthcoming book showcases the best federal resignation letters of 2025, from Bicycle Comics
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait, wait...is #FatBearWeek already over?!
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explore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026
Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.
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Cairngorm Reindeer Herd @cairngormreindeer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Doesn't mum make a great chin rest? Here is the gorgeous Winnie with her wee calf, born in May this year! Generally reindeer aren't cuddly or tactile with each other with the exception of mothers and calves who are often lying together or grooming each other! 😍
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇
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James Davenport @jradavenport.com · 29/09/2026
Are you looking to apply for the Astronomy PhD program at the University of Washington this cycle? Please look at our website and see the new Expression of Interest form!! astro.washington.edu/graduate-adm...
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Graduate Admissions | Department of Astronomy | University of Washington
The Department of Astronomy is accepting applications to our graduate program for Fall 2027 admissions.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 29/09/2026
DC folks, If you can spare something, or just share ⬇️
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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#AlaskaSky
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026
That's one third the number of US ground troops that invaded Iraq.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026
Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things I learned today: if ICE comes to a childcare center to abduct a child in their care, if they have the right warrant signed by a real judge the childcare workers can no longer legally stop it, even though their license relies on not releasing children to persons the parents have not authorized
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS RIGHT HERE! If LLMs are trained on the morass of garbage that is out there on the internet, that is what it will spit out in very authoritative-sounding text.
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Sandy @sandeelio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Day 29 - Movie or TV character who is an angel Wings of Desire (1987) Wim Wenders --this is one of the most beautifully moving films I have ever seen.
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First physical copies of Embedded Pedagogies in the wild!!
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ohhhhhhhh!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ *toddles off to find her stash of black and white #archaeology conference tote bags* 🏺
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Charlottesville people, behold the new Lewis Mountain. 😪😢😭 #Cville #UVA
A patch of denuded red clay where trees have been cleared on a mountain slope. Woodard Properties is tearing up Lewis Mountain to build expensive housing above University Heights, which is owned by Frye Properties. Kiss your historic landscapes and wooded ecosystems goodbye.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bats evolved in what is now the UK??
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Charlottesville people, behold the new Lewis Mountain. 😪😢😭 #Cville #UVA
A patch of denuded red clay where trees have been cleared on a mountain slope. Woodard Properties is tearing up Lewis Mountain to build expensive housing above University Heights, which is owned by Frye Properties. Kiss your historic landscapes and wooded ecosystems goodbye.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do we have an opinion of Staunton's Queen City Mischief and Magic on here? They've tried to make it clear they support the LGBTQIA+ community even though it's Harry Potter (and now also Wizard of Oz/Wicked) themed from bf JK went crazy. It really, really helps Staunton's small businesses.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Both the NCAA and Kentucky State University have benefited from the excellence of Aminata Seck in both her studies and her athleticism. Yet, in her moment of need, they seem to have abandoned her.“ - Nandita Sharma (@nsharma101.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Erin aka Bippy in Alaska @itsbippy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Alaska is Indivisible! Light brigade is out. You will see messages about voting all over Anchorage. When you see him snap a pic pop them up on social media with #StandUpAlaska. Now is the time to make a plan to vote! Early voting October 19. 
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Nature @nature.com · 26/09/2026
The finding suggests that geophysicists could be on the right track to understanding mysterious structures in Earth’s deep interior go.nature.com/46JIYy4
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Gravitational tug-of-war inside Earth is changing the length of our days
Nature - A battle of forces, driven by the motion of Earth’s core, can explain small variations in the planet’s rotation, study finds.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!! #SaveTheAcademy!! If anyone can do it, the people of Philadelphia can!! I protested during my lunch breaks to save Dream Garden, the Tiffany-Parrish stained glass mural in the foyer of my old office building, the Curtis Center, and it worked. You can do it again, Philly!
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#2027MMM ...But what if it's in Antarctica.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay
Rabbit sat reading, marginalia.
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 25/09/2026
Oh no, really shocked to learn about Rena passing. What a sad loss, far beyond archaeology. RIP.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watch the Stony Point President sit there and let his lawyer answer questions on his behalf right in front of him like an entitled coward. Meanwhile, Dairy Market's vendors are--sadly, for them--a revolving door. (I miss the short-lived Al Basha.) www.cbs19news.com/news/angry-c...
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Angry crowd at meeting over Dairy Market expansion
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- A huge crowd packed the Jefferson School on Wednesday night, many of them angry over plans to expand the Dairy Market into the 10th and
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#2027MMM So much potential.
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Little Italy update: the vet agreed to give him some appetite stimulant because all he's eaten since Sunday is a few spoonfuls of Gerber baby chicken goo. It worked, but it made me wonder- is he not eating because the upper respiratory infection following his pancreatitis made his throat sore?
A very handsome but sick tuxedo cat
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Global #Archaeology family, horrible, horrible news.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 23/09/2026
@jbozuwa.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social kicks off From Crisis to Capacity: Big Ideas Fueling Green Politics #climateweeknyc #cwnyc2026 hillheat.com/events/2026/...
Johanna Bozuwa
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WHALE PETROGLYPHS!!
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to Alaska Beacon's @yjrosen.bsky.social recognized for outstanding reporting on the impacts of ex-typhoon Halong in western Alaska last October. #akwx #AlaskaSky
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey #Charlottesville #cville, did you know that Woodard Properties has re-started tree clearance to build apartments on the slopes of historic and environmentally rich LEWIS MOUNTAIN directly above University Heights?? (UHeights is owned by Frye Properties.) Spread the word!
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I've said it many times before, but the one time I was able to walk around the interior of the enclosures at Göbekli Dr. Schmidt told me he expected eventually for them to find "bodies [or skulls] inside the walls". Can't wait to read this, very exciting! #HalafNotTwitter
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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wait...Eleanor Holmes Norton...as *NYC* Human Rights Commissioner? What am I missing.
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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah - this is not good. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives site also goes to a 403...
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/09/2026
Got notified an artist was located, hired, and paid for work through HireHumanArtists.com and I couldn't be more thrilled Pls hire more artists through here!!! Support human made! #hha
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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 22/09/2026
really feel like I accurately captured their essence in those scribbles
A photo of Ted, a tabby kitten lying on her side on a grey sofa looking pissed offA photo of Bill, a tabby kitten with white fluff lying curled up with a tv remote on a grey sofa looking confused
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This 🧵 will have readings that I assign in my Sociology of AI class.
A flyer for the class Sociology of AI

The overview says: SOC 3900 Sociology of AI uses a sociological lens to study what is popularly called "artificial intelligence." In this class students will learn about cutting edge research examining the origins, impacts, and struggles over the broad set of technologies and practices involving AI. Through an international focus, this class will cover numerous topics related to AI, including: gig work, algorithmic bias, data colonialism, resource extraction, digital labor, data center studies, and environmental and climate effects. This class will primarily focus on sociological research, but will also include scholarship from geography, history, international studies, and environmental studies, as well as other social scientific and humanistic disciplines. No prior knowledge of AI is required for this class
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 22/09/2026
I invite you all to do Skinktober with me this year. It started as a bit and now I refuse to let it die.
Line art drawing of a monkey tailed skink
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