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www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW29... #murderbot

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Scientists have come under pressure in the information age; with fascist myth-making and autocratic political movements leading the anti-science aggression. @lewan.bsky.social put together a team to provide key info & guidance. I have some thoughts: www.protagonist-science.com/p/the-anti-a... 1/

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Anyone making an argument grounded in the notion that x nation or culture will behave a particular way because it is ancient (unlike y which is not) is a gullible sap who has fallen for modern ethnonationalist myth-making and their political analyses should be treated accordingly.

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and, again, exactly what you'd expect of a Roman palace (tsking to myself)

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The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

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It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems deeply unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.

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👏👏👏 @nteunion.bsky.social joins with the entire #ANU community in thanking the Minister, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social, for treating the ANU leadership & governance crisis with the seriousness it deserves. We now need action. The current situation at the ANU is untenable. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

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🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share! We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab. £53-64k in a great department. 🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Reminder of the call for applications for a new PaM Community co-chair - due by July 1st. Thanks!

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“Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses.” Sorry, but… why? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

grim stuff

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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

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This is wonderful. So now Harbin can be grouped with the Denisovans and we can finally meet this population face to face, what shall we call them? 🏺🦣 arstechnica.com/science/2025...

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

This is a very accurate description of how academic (and non-academic) publishing works for historians. If you ever wondered about when and why historians get paid or not, this is for you.

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I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good. #NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage New at @science.org 🏺🧪

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The general consensus forming around this very correct sentiment is that students' use of AI is encouraged by the transactional nature of higher ed. The systemic issue is that college educators, for the most part, aren't the ones who have made education transactional. So how can we fix this system?

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I only really care about "cheating" on assignments insofar as I give them the assignments to try to get them to use their minds. If that's not happening for one reason or another then I have a bigger problem than rule-following

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🏺 🗃️ New @trowelblazers.bsky.social publication coming soon, "TrowelBlazers as a Noun and a Verb: Online Activism through Sharing Histories of Women in Archaeology" , chapter in this volume edited by @archaeocobb.bsky.social and @kayth.bsky.social- pre-order now! www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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Our strontium isoscape of Türkiye is published today in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology! "Emerging strontium isoscapes of Anatolia (Türkiye): new datasets and perspectives in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr baseline studies" www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

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Very important announcement! 🚨 Flump is long 🐈‍⬛ #AntiquityPets

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@greenleejw.bsky.social this thread is for you

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say it with your whole chest: trans rights are human rights. trans and intersex folk and gender diversity have always existed. to be human is to build communities and we can only benefit when we welcome folks with diverse experiences and way of being into those communities.

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🎉 Applications now open for the 2026 Sir William Dobell Visiting Chair and Fellows in Art History at the Australian National University! 🎉 A perfect chance to spend time on our beautiful campus and make use of the national collections and archives a short walk away! We're a friendly bunch, too 😁

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just recorded a little interview about this find with a very nice abc journalist. to air later today... did my best to say a lot of nice things about the brilliant hyper competent archaeologists doing the work!

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If you've read that Atlantic story by Annie Lowrey about why ranked choice voting sucks, I'm telling you she's wrong. And I know this because I did something in 2017 Annie did not for this story - I talked to a mathemtician.

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New paper for the palaeofire fans! Presenting the SahulCHAR collection, containing 687 sedimentary charcoal records from across Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand 🔥 Read it open access: doi.org/10.5194/essd... This is the product of my final postdoc - thanks to all who contributed their data!

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The more you study something, the more you realize how vast and complicated that thing is. And this doesn’t mean we know nothing, it just means that specialists are never going to take a common-sense category labelled by a common noun as an obvious thing out there in the world that you can find.

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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator. 🧪🌎

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Legend www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2524145...

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It would be if I had my way.

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And if you're keen to have a six day intense course in field archaeology, there's a few spaces left... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog...

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New Cornish Cinematic Universe Villain Introduced.

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Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

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