Went for a hike yesterday to revisit a historic cabin site for more photos and measurements of a particular area. While looking at what I thought was likely the stove, I noticed this iron piece poking out of the moss just in front of the stove. Turned it over to find a [brand] name embossed on it 😍🏺

Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

We do not need to support an illegal war.

For anyone who hasn't been following just how extreme the disinformation campaign against fundamental human rights has become, there are 37 BC MLAs who today voted to abolish the entire Human Rights Code.

Speaking of pyramid stuff... The past couple of days I've been watching with intrigue a mini [tabloid] media blitz regarding a new "paper" that claims the Pyramids of Giza were built by a pre-Egyptian civilization over 12,000 years ago. This blitz is odd, even by tabloid standards. The claim is 1/

All the fucking “let’s find the nuance” people are very quiet now that the nuance is that they paved the way for violent authoritarianism while people screamed at them they were paving the way for violent authoritarianism and they called that harassment

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

📜If you're over at the University of Leeds, I'll be giving a seminar on the 11th March about the work we're doing at @garstangmuseum.bsky.social on digitisation and reunited the distributed archaeological collection of John Garstang! dcch.leeds.ac.uk/events/recon...

Very dystopian stuff: Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts

Yesterday I was trying to formulate a joke around the whole Einstein AI app thing about a $60K university degree for people who don’t want to go to class so it’s just a sweater and piece of paper that says like I almost tried. And then they just went and made it real.

Pulling out some of the classics as I think through some ideas for an abstract I'm prepping for an edited volume on pseudoscience and extremism 👀

This is excellent news, I'm glad to see both that this "documentary" has been pulled and to see mainstream media giving this issue (Widdowson, Bexte, and Hergott's residential school denialist "documentaries") some spotlight.

Canadians should pay attention to this for many reasons, one of which is that Goodwin's colleague Eric Kaufman (mentioned in the article) was invited by Canadian Conservatives to give testimony when the Conservatives started going after SSHRC as part of their anti-DEI push.

This is excellent news, I'm glad to see both that this "documentary" has been pulled and to see mainstream media giving this issue (Widdowson, Bexte, and Hergott's residential school denialist "documentaries") some spotlight.

If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.

'No, we don't have to hand it to the far right. No, we don't have to take their grievances as legitimate. No, we don't have to debate them. There can be no compromising in the fight against the far right, reaction or fascism' Some thoughts on @reacpolrn.bsky.social reacpol.net/why-red-lines/

Back on my candlemaking BS 🙏 For those who are new here, I have a little side hustle making candles (I make my own jars too). I've even named a fragrance line after some of my Brother XII research, which always generates great conversations at markets about B12 and archaeology!

Well, I guess this fits. AI art is to actual art what Bari Weiss is to actual news.

Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less. The impact would be devastating. Please share, NBers.

Guys, one of the most iconic properties in St. John's is at risk of becoming condos that no one from here can ever afford. Also it's a heritsge property. Please help us save it 🙏 #yyt #nfld www.change.org/p/help-save-...

Happy Friday, everyone! Don't forget, our next Speaker Series event is next Tuesday, the 24th. Curious to learn more? Check out the link below! 🏺

Do you have any favourite zines? If so, could you reply with a link? Ta!

The damage to Canadian science hasn't been seen since Harper and is going much quieter this time. Cuts to ECCC, DFO, NRCan, NRC...

“No matter the specific framing, stories should avoid deferring to manipulators’ chosen language, explanations, or justifications.”

Me as today's flavour of fresh hell has arrived with the pseudoarch folks finding the mention of Atlantis and the "Cuba Underwater Formation" in the Epstein files.

SECTION 106 Regs under review…worth taking note if you are a US based archaeologist.

Working on various tasks this afternoon, a live look at my research methodology

I'm writing about the rapid spread of Epstein-related misinformation. If you are in social media groups where people are making unsubstantiated claims and/or confusing documented communications with uncorroborated FBI tips, please DM me or reach out on email or Signal. Contact info in my bio. TY!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Archaeologists study how people lived in the past by digging into the ground and examining the artifacts they left behind. A team of researchers has now applied that same logic to the International Space Station. The results offer a revealing look at how humans adapt to life beyond Earth. 🧪 🏺

"Historians, museums and universities all function as necessary accomplices to the political project that Israel is engaging in. And they are recruited to this ideological project by organisations like UKLFI...Israel’s attempt to rewrite history is also a dangerous attack on academic freedom." 🏺

📜 “Yesterday UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) announced that they had written to the British Museum to encourage them to remove references to ‘Palestine’ in the gallery panels and labels of their collections.”

The University Press release is really grim

Historians: this is the archaeological equivalent (morally if not legally) of cutting pictures out of medieval manuscripts in a library and selling them on eBay.

Today is my book's second birthday! It's relevant for understanding how militias both function think about themselves, including why many have a disjoint between their complacency about ICE alongside longstanding concerns about govt tyranny. share.google/g5peK0KVaZRM...

🏺 If the AI generated CSAM and or the white supremacist rhetoric wasn’t enough for archaeology orgs to leave X, maybe this will finally encourage them?

Musk talks about ancient aliens pseudoarchaeological junk, but it's not his only connection to the world of pseudoarchaeology - his racist and antisemitic grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, spent a lot of time in the 1950s searching for an allegedly grand lost city in the Kahalari desert.

Cool medieval ring. Might have helped cure boils (or so they thought). 🏺🧪

@tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca on what we know so far about the awful tragedy in Tumbler Ridge: thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

One of these "news outlets" yesterday also released the trailer for a new doc they've produced that features a prolific residential school denialist pushing around her own GPR unit and digging holes 😒. These are not people who have anything but their own self-serving, malicious interests in mind.

It is wildly irresponsible for two “news outlets” to name the alleged BC shooter and claim they were trans without official corroboration. The images and “story” are already spreading online. You are putting people in danger.

Here’s a working link! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As the only (I think?) local reporter in Tumbler Ridge, Trent Ernst has been heroically covering the tragedy unfolding in his town. Most of his reporting is happening on Facebook, which you can find here, along with links to his Patreon. www.facebook.com/tumblerridge...

If you care about heritage in space, you might have heard of For All Moonkind, run by Ole Miss law professor Michelle Hanlon. She's just published a blog saying that archaeologists have no contribution to make regarding heritage in space. spacelawandethics.substack.com/p/who-actual...

"RCMP say 10 people are dead after a mass shooting in the rural community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C.: nine victims and one suspect. Six people were found dead inside Tumbler Ridge Secondary School"

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

This! So. Much. Of. This. Our own ancestors did incredibly amazing stuff, built incredibly amazing monuments, achieved incredibly amazing things. - There's no need for #AncientAliens, the past already's much cooler than you'd ever imagined! 🤯🤩

This looks like it's going to be a fantastic collection! My cursed archaeology wheels are already spinning into an abstract

Join the discussion! How is archaeology being abused? What are its affects? Do you have examples of good in public engagement? What are some obstacles? How can we improve and empower ourselves as a field, discipline, and industry to share archaeology well? canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-m...