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Suzanne Pilaar Birch

@suziebirch.bsky.social
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Associate Prof in Anthropology and Geography at UGA. Co-founder of TrowelBlazers and Open Quaternary. Climate change, environmental adaptation, & archaeological science.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/10/2026
The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse
Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's October 1...No Atlantic hurricanes. My analysis. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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It’s October And Not A Single Atlantic Hurricane Has Formed
Will we make it through the entire 2026 season without a hurricane in the Atlantic basin? Some analysis of what is happening.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There are people trying to pitch under the name of real science writers. Yes. This is a scam that happens. And it's BAD. Because our only currency in our field? Is our reputation. I am doing something about it, and telling you so you can, too. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/2-factor-a...
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2-Factor Authorification
I hate that I even have to do this.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Lisa-Marie Shillito @archaeologylisa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introduction to Archaeological Science has a cover! As well as the usual peer review, text was reviewed by students, who gave feedback on how well it works for its intended audience. If you decide to use it, let us know! (pre-order for Nov 30th publication date). www.routledge.com/Introduction...
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Introduction to Archaeological Science
Introduction to Archaeological Science offers a clear, comprehensive introduction to archaeological science for students encountering the field for the first time. This book presents the principal are...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The doors of the Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing on Sunday...for now. But this isn't over. We're meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences when doors close to gather for a moment of resolve followed by a march to City Hall. Join us. art by @lindzeamays.bsky.social luma.com/7ggkgtjb
a t. rex holds a candle in front of the words This isn't over, next to save the academy candle vigil, 5pm Sunday Sept 27, 1900 ben franklin parkway
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🧵👇🎯💯
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you want to be a leader for science-driven policy? Apply for our Local Science Partners program! Through training and resources, we empower our members to influence policy on a federal level Learn more and apply by 18 October: www.agu.org/honors/local...
Get Trained with AGU's Local Science Partners
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Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@neotomadb.bsky.social is included as one of the @agu.org's Impactful Datasets in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences data.agu.org/impactful-da... and agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...!
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Impactful Datasets — AGU
133 datasets nominated by the Earth and space science community.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Registration for TAG is now open!
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every damn time. We all need a committee of "NO".
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Nagissa Mahmoudi @nagissa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are hiring TWO new faculty members in Earth & Planetary Sciences at McGill! 🌎 We’re looking for new colleagues in: ⛏️ Critical Minerals for Sustainability 🌋 Solid Earth Processes If either is a good fit for you, please apply! Deadline is October 1. www.mcgill.ca/eps/about-us...
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Employment Opportunities
Current Openings Join our extraordinary and diverse department! Tenure-track appointment in Critical Minerals for Sustainability Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University (www.m...
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prehistoric Archaeology Researcher | Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Prehistoric therapeutic practices | Lithic analysis | Use-wear | Bioarchaeology | Prehistory 24-month research opportunity. higherjobz.com/prehistoric-... #Acadhiring #Academicjobs #Archaeology #Prehistory
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Prehistoric Archaeology Researcher | Sapienza – Italy
Prehistoric Archaeology Researcher position at Sapienza University, Italy, researching therapeutic practices in prehistoric societies.
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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The AMOC is going to stop in the next 50 years, making the UK a frozen wasteland where agriculture will be impossible. I hope you like turnips, because our MPs are spending their time debating Eurovision.
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is NOT the future of scientific papers. #DataSharing already allows you to rerun analyses. A paper that is not static or does not provide the same answer all the times cannot grant #reproducibility. The dynamic part of a paper is made by other researchers.... 🧪 #science #academia #research
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Sam Brown @drsambrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You guys! The IZAZ Workshop is tomorrow! Today is the last day to register and join us to chat all things ZooMS and Zooarchaeology!
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Gabriele Russo @gabrieleru1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨 I’m very happy to finally share two papers published together today in Communications Earth & Environment! 🎉 They represent a big part of my #PhD research and tell one connected story about #animals, #environments and #hominin life along the Lebanese coast during the #Paleolithic 🧵 1/9 🦣🧪🏺
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DAI @dai-weltweit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#AutumnSchool: #Naturwissenschaften_DAI bietet Studierenden eine spannende Einführung in Methoden der 🌱 #Archäobotanik, 🐂 #Archäozoologie und 🌲 #Dendrochronologie. 📅 05.-09.10.2026 📍Skopje, Nordmazedonien Bewerbungsfrist: 12.09.2026 👉 Alle Details: www.dainst.org/newsroom/cal...
Bildkachel: Foto einer Ausgrabung- und Funbearbeitungssituation mit mächtigen antiken Mauern im Hintergrund und Kleinfunden im Vordergrund, um die herum mehre Menschen aufmerksam stehen bzw. sitzen.

Titel: Herbstschule, 05.-09.10.2026
unten: Skopje - Nordmazedonien, Archäobotanik, Archäozoologie, DendrochronologieBildkachel: Titel: DAI, Referate für Naturwissenschaften
Oberes Bild: Mehrere Menschen stehen über und um ausgebreitete archäologische Kleinfunde herum. Beschriftung: Fundbearbeitung in der römischen und spätantiken Ausgrabungsstätte von Scupi.

Bild unten: Eine Person nimmt eine Probe aus einem hölzernen Tür- oder Fenstersturz, über dem große Steine verbaut sind.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group's September Bone Tool of the Month is provided by Xenia Pop and is a quiver made from elk antler discovered at the Eneolithic necropolis of Urziceni-Vamă. www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-... #ICAZ #Zooarch #WorkedBone
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
~40% less grants relative to historic numbers.
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Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Probably outside my regular network but does anyone on here know anyone on here that does deer genetics? 🙃
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Eos @eos.org · 09/09/2026
80% of survey participants reported experiencing at least one harmful fieldwork interaction, such as aggression, harassment, stereotyping, and privacy violations. 🧪 New research in @aguadvances.bsky.social eos.org/research-spo...
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Four in Five Researchers Report Harmful Interactions During Geoscience Fieldwork. A New Survey Suggests a Path Forward. - Eos
A new survey documents the prevalence of harmful interactions that occur during fieldwork. Many instances go officially unreported.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A very on-theme #MolluscMonday: our new PNAS paper projects how 23,000+ mollusc species will change size as the ocean warms. Most shrink, some grow, and which happens comes down to body plan. Clams downsize. Squid may bulk up. 🦑 🧪 #MolluscMonday #HowToBuildAGiant #marinelife
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 05/09/2026
Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You've pre-ordered Tyrant Lizard Queen, yeah? Then I've got some bonus stuff for you! Fill out this form and St. Martin's Press will send you digital bonus material - including an alternate opening to the book - and a bookplate signed by yours truly. Details at the link! Open until Oct. 26th.
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Tyrant Lizard Queen Pre-Order Promotion
Hello, readers! Riley Black here. I've got some dinosaurian goodies for anyone who pre-orders Tyrant Lizard Queen, no matter the format! If you've pre-ordered my new book as a hardcover, ebook, or au...
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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You should pre-order Tyrant Lizard Queen.
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Tyrant Lizard Queen
From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehisto...
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Skye McDavid @skyemcdavid.com · 03/09/2026
SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument Now THIS is what I want my membership dues going towards @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social vertpaleo.org/svp-sues-the...
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SVP Sues the Trump Administration for Shrinking Bears Ears National Monument – Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If an online tool dies without you ever using it, will you miss it?
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The second round of the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open. Our most popular funding opportunity supports UK-based Postdoctoral researchers – or equivalent – in the humanities and social sciences. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Faculty of Cultural Heritage Studies of the Universidad Externado hosted the sixth Netropical Zooarchaeology Working Group academic meeting between August 10–13 in Bogotá, Colombia. Follow the link for details and photos from the meeting! www.uexternado.edu.co/estudios-del... #Zooarch #ICAZ
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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
As the #EAA2026 in Athens comes to an end, reposting Business as Always, on archaeology, Athens, and the politics of carrying on as usual. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/30/b... #EAA #Archaeology
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Business as usual
The EAA conference in Athens went ahead amid boycotts, protests and an unresolved crisis over Gaza and Israeli institutional participation. Nothing was resolved; archaeology continued. A short reflect...
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 01/09/2026
There's still time to RSVP for our Profiles in Courage panel discussion, celebrating different ways that scientists and science advocates can speak out and push back against anti-science and authoritarian actions. Join us this Wednesday! Register here: act.ucs.org/4zuh3zl
Event poster for Science Rising National Call on Sept 2, featuring portraits of five science advocates against anti-science actions.
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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Come and work with us!
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The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🌿 Group photo from the #PalaeoNoma2026 Tilia and #Neotoma Workshop at the University of Bonn—applied training in palaeoecological data preparation, curation, harmonisation and open-data workflows. Thanks to the organisers and participants. Supported by COST #PalaeoOpen, CPS and the AASP Foundation.
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The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🌿 Group photo from the #PalaeoNoma2026 Plant Nomenclature Workshop at the University of Bonn—practical training focused on algae, fungi, plants and fossil taxa. Thanks to Dr Julia Gravendyck, the organisers and participants. Supported by COST #PalaeoOpen, CPS and the AASP Foundation.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 27/08/2026
Ok I can share—today MSLIS student Nadja Robot donated a teletype machine to @skeuomorphpress.org’s Undead Media Lab But this is not just any teletype—it’s the one Michael S. Hart used to digitize the Declaration of Independence & Alice in Wonderland—the 1st texts in what became Project Gutenberg
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?
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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Zooarchaeology Interest Group (ZIG) has begun preparing for next year's SAA meeting. They are now welcoming submissions for ZIG-sponsored sessions. The deadline for submissions is the 10th of September, find more info on page 23 of our recent newsletter, or saa.org/AnnualMeeting #ICAZ #Zooarch
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Annual Meeting
Submission System Opens
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📢Join us TOMORROW for Science Votes the Future’s webinar series: Engaging in Election Efforts on Your Campus 🎓 Register here ⬇️ agu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
*finds interesting thing online* *sends interesting thing to myself via email* DING!!! *Oooh! Who's sending me emails?* Repeat until death or redundancy.
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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🚨 FINAL DAY TO COMMENT 📝 OMB is already asking federal agencies to implement it's harmful federal grantmaking rule. We have until 24 August to submit comments. Read more and take action today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/hnvotzeb
Help stop NSF from implementing harmful grantmaking changes
• National Science Foundation (NSF) is updating their grantmaking guidance to align with the proposed OMB federal grantmaking rule
Submit your comment before 24 August!
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