Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

I assisted my colleague with a Remembrance Day embroidery workshop yesterday, & made this!! I learned most of the stitches during the workshop so I could assist participants, & made this in between actually helping :) #embroidery

It's wild that I've paid conference registration to present virtually at a conference in the states, but there are only 5 papers I can attend virtually. That...sucks. 🏺

I had my first physio appointment today! We measured the baseline of my mobility, did a heat & electric pulse treatemnt for the swelling, & I have some homework. I'm looking forward to walking better soon!

Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.

#HistoryMatters #ScienceMatters

Irish people are embracing the language, the music, the heritage etc. from a place of deficit forced on them by colonialism. They are reclaiming what's theirs, which is healthy & shows a maturing society, distancing itself from colonial attitudes towards native culture.

Truely feeling like Jess from New Girl today when I uttered, while rumaging in my purse, 'Where are my car keys? All I can find are lollypops!'😂

It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat

CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN LAUNCH: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’ Please pre-order or donate before 6 December to enable us to print this book by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot, which will have a major impact on the study of Pictish kingship and society: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Knee update: It has been 2 months since my accident! My ortho followup said I am good to start physio & not use the brqce anymore! I still can't bend it well, but I can walk around slowly or with a cane ✨️ Also my dr showed me my CT scan, & I really want a copy! Healing up, slowly!

What if, hear me out, we supported the researchers we already have (myself & my colleagues included) who are struggling to find finding & research positions as it is, & are frequently looking outside the continent for actual opportunities?

This is brilliant. Please share widely.

What am I supposed to post about now that #31DaysofGraves is over??

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

If you are attending the #CNEHA conference irl this year, my colleague Alessandra & I just recorded our virtual talk on gravestone painting & preservation issues! Do check it out in the virtual session on Sat! #archaeology #conference 🏺

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires. Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

‼️ ICYMI: Amazon Ring announced a partnership with the notorious surveillance tech company Flock, which was recently exposed for secretly sharing camera data w/ ICE & law enforcement investigating people who travel for abortion care.

The Indigenous knowledge statement was made by Eric Kaufmann, multi-time author at Quillette and director of the "Centre for Heterodox Social Science." He teaches an online public course about "woke," featuring readings from Christopher Rufo, James Lindsay, Richard Hanania, to name just a few.

Holy guys. I've been reading more about this & it is So Scary. We need diversity in research. We need everyone's voices & ideas. #cbc #academia @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social I've been reading this meeting record on the topic & it is Chilling. www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...

harvard medical school got bombed yesterday and it barely made news

Bases My potato 🤝 loaded

I never watch baseball, but we are watching this & I Am Stressed!! 🐦

Oh that's going to be a Hard No on mining applicants data for weird anti-EDI stuff??? Check out the letter below if you hold/have applied to Tri-Council funding in Canada! #academia #tricouncil #sshrc

A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

🧵 This is trending on Korean socials

Please admire my Pierrot costume, based on Derain's painting! ✨️ #halloween #halloween2025 #costume

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱 Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

Day 29, Occupation: The grave of Reverend William Dutton, a Methodist minister in Greenspond, NL, who died in Dec 1870. He had only arrived in July of that year, before dying of typhoid fever. His stone is detailed, with an open book on top, a rose laying on the pages. #31DaysofGraves

Day 27, Tree: The gorgeous forested graveyard in Elliston, NL, featuring me! Day 28, Column: This gravestone in Trepassey Old RC Cemetery is so ornate! The columns on the side frame a detailed central IHS with vines and blossoms. #31DaysofGraves

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Tomorrow I have my 6 (actually 7) week follow up with the orthopedic surgeon! Hopefully we find out something, but I know it's not all good in there because mobility is limited still & pain is kicking around too. 🫠

Haddon Hall are interpreting burn marks as apotropaic rather than accidents & the Trip to Jerusalem changed the website to reflect its real history! Pleased that the Mythbusting book is doing its job! Now, we just need Colchester Castle to stop with the spiral stairs myth...

Saw something that @realgdt.bsky.social said the other day, and remembered I had something I started a while ago that I should finish up. I'm so tired of all this.

Tonight was @ohfolkthat.bsky.social 's traditional pumpkin carving night! @stgiles.bsky.social & I went for the dynamic duo 💁‍♀️✨️

I think it would be interesting to go back in time 15 years and show this to the version of myself getting ready to take my comprehensive exams. Just the screenshot and the quote would blow my mind.

We're currently watching youtubers Sam & Colby's recent Paris Catacombs video, entering illegally with urban explorers. Time to see if they are disrespectful to the remains 😬 1/

We've added some of the Louvre theft details here. I will keep updating as things get clarified. Fingers crossed now that there is DNA on the abandoned helmet. art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...

Time is running out! If you have a community archaeology project in the UK, this is a reminder that the Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is still accepting applications for 2025's round of funding - but there are only a few weeks to go.

Internet Archive reaches new 1-trillion page landmark almost 30 years after it started backing up the WWW - and more than 100,000TB of files have been safeguarded since By Wayne Williams www.techradar.com/pro/internet... Well done @archive.org !! #publicdomain #CulturalHeritage

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

I've noticed that random people have been telling me that my knee 'is gonna be a lifetime injury' & I don't appreciate it. Like I am realizing that might be the case & trying not to let it absorb me ☹️ please stop??

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale! This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...

I organized a talk on #archaeology for International Archaeology Day, & I just need to brag that it sold out, the speaker was great, & people were waiting outside the door to see if they could snag seats from anyone who didn't show up! I'm so pleased! 🏺❤️

Happy International Archaeology Day 2025!! We hope you are all out there, chatting about archaeology, learning about heritage in your area, and spreading joy and knowledge! Don't forget, our Call for Sessions for the 2026 CAA/ACA conference is live on our website. Link in Bio! #archaeology #CanArch

1/1 BREAKING🚨: It's Official. There's a Black hole on the loose in the Milky way galaxy Astronomers have officially confirmed the first-ever rogue black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy! Using data from Hubble and Gaia, scientists spotted this cosmic ghost not by its light (it emits none)