3-Week Reading Group ⬇️ 📚 How the Mighty Fall: Political Collapse in the Ancient Maya City of Copán led by Catherine Nuckols, Times TBA ➡️ RSVP: saveancientstudies.org/events #FREE #SummerReadingList #SummerReadingGroup

Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...

I'm sure it's completely coincidental that Vanderbilt & Wash U spearheaded a report casting doubt on scholarship in "the humanities and humanistic social sciences," disciplines at the forefront of critiquing tech-fascism, at the very same moment they're about to cash in on tech-fascist investments.

Cited Professors Say the Vanderbilt Report Misrepresents Their Work The report on the state of humanities scholarship has generated a lot of debate in academic circles and received backlash from the leading anthropology association. https://bit.ly/4aoW45U #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

"May Your Condition Be Like Living A Million Times" Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Assistant Professor of Egyptology @yale.edu discusses the "Unfolding History" Exhibition at the Peabody Museum with the New Haven Independent www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/05/20/m...

As I revamp my Ancient & Medieval slavery ⛓️ seminar for the fall, I wanted to note that my fav. book this year so far is Katharine Huemoeller's _The Child Follows the Womb: Gender, Reproduction, and Roman Slavery_ www.jstor.org/stable/jj.37... (access it here or buy through @yalebooks.bsky.social).

A recently discovered femur and tibia of a 1.8-million-year-old hominin, Paranthropus robustus, allows researchers to recreate its locomotor patterns, suggesting it spent a lot of time in trees—much more than its contemporary, Australopithecus africanus. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/89AT50Z1bTI

Calling all paleoanthropologists! I'm back freelancing and looking for stories to pitch. New paper dropping? Cool find you want the world to know about? Reach out! 🧪🏺✍️

My department (Tulane anthro) is hiring a VAP for biological anthropology (3:3 teaching load). It's a short turn-around for application, but the initial application is not a huge packet. Happy to answer questions about working here! tulane-ibqejb.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Big life update — I'm joining UC San Diego as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology! My lab will explore kinship and maternity in antiquity, combining bioarchaeological analyses with novel imaging techniques. If you're interested in joining the lab, let's connect! Go Tritons 💙🔱💛

me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever

We are delighted to announce that every research article accepted for publication in Antiquity after 1 June 2026 will be published completely #OpenAccess at no cost to the author or reader! More information here: www.cambridge.org/core/service... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org 🏺 #Archaeology

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

🌏 💙 💚 Got love for your planet? #SpeakUp4Science! Science makes America healthier, safer and more prosperous. Tell Congress to reject proposed cuts to federal research agencies and reinvest in American science. https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/speak-up-for-science #EarthDay

Calling all California researchers! Please sign and support the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, which will help create a new California Foundation for Science and Health Research (like a state-level NIH/NSF) with $23 billion in funding! www.fundcascience.org

Delighted to be part of this new special issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on “Kinship Trouble” (link to full Table of Contents in next post) with perspectives from archaeology, archaeogenetics, and social anthropology. Critical as data from archaeogenetics becomes pervasive.

New study of the effects of micro-CT scanning on ancient DNA preservation in ancient bones: no significant effect on conventional preservation metrics. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

There is a new, open access anthology (=great teaching resource) about _Women's healthcare in ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE_ edited by Ulrike Steinert. search.worldcat.org/title/Women'... I would then combine this with the ancient medicine sourcebook www.ucpress.edu/books/medici...

🚨Job alert! Our new @erc.europa.eu funded project 'MEMELAND' needs a #palynologist Postdoctoral Research Associate #PDRA for 3.5 years. You'll help transform our understanding of the impact of #medieval farming on biodiversity! Full details & to apply 👇 #archaeobotany www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

New Anthropology Watch page from @americananthro.bsky.social is tracking program closures and suspensions of admissions at universities and colleges. Currently listing six graduate programs with admissions pauses, six impending program closures. americananthro.org/anthropology...

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Fewer boys are born when mothers are exposed to extreme heat, according to data on 5 million live births. In sub-Saharan Africa, first-trimester heat stress causes pregnancy loss. In India, sex-selective abortions drive the trend. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/zNwy50YoaoE

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Are you interested in human DNA from ancient sediments? Do you want to do a PhD in Vienna? We have two open positions in our group! You can learn more and apply here (scroll down to the very bottom, ours are the last two listings): careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Next Thursday (2/19), I'll be presenting some of my research in the Badè Museum's lecture series on Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. It will be live-streaming on YouTube, so please tune in if you're interested! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMye...

Excited to share that our co-edited volume on the Iron Age Philistine cemetery from Ashkelon is now out! This volume presents the bioarchaeological findings from the c. 250 individuals, each with a dedicated catalogue entry that synthesizes their stratigraphic, osteological & artifactual contexts.

"If someone tells you it is raining and another tells you it is dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the ****ing window and find out which is true" Jonathan Foster, on journalism

Plato has been silenced. Government censorship is alive and well in the USA Disgusting hypocrisy from people who pretend to be for free speech www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Full article: Cradled by architecture: infancy and delayed personhood in Neolithic Anatolia and the Balkans www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

New video of talk by @christinawarinner.bsky.social given at Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny posted by @ucsandiego.bsky.social explaining how advances in #aDNA and #proteomics can investigate the complex and diverse microbial communities from dental calculus

Today is the final day for New York high school seniors to apply to CUNY for free! 🎓 You can apply to up to six of our colleges with one application! Go to cuny.edu/apply.

I fundamentally do not understand why anyone is interested in these parlor tricks. It's outperformed nothing because recombining word patterns into a text isn't writing. Writing is born out of human experiences filtered through a unique sensibility. Only Han Kang can make more Han Kang.

Looking forward to joining the @royalsociety.org Proceedings B editorial board in 2026 – send us your papers!

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

For the final throwback on our countdown to Halloween we return to our series on the presence of the Undead. Melissa Cradic guides us through the complexities of excavating ancient graves and relationships between the living & the disembodied dead in the Near East peoplingthepast.com/2022/10/21/b...

The ISAW NYU program for the Ph.D. in the Ancient World is now accepting applications for Fall 2026 enrollment. More info: isaw.nyu.edu/graduate-stu... Recommended Deadline: December 18, 2025 Final deadline: January 4, 2026 @isawnyu.bsky.social

In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Gorillas likely experience menopause, according to an analysis of over 30 years of data from wild mountain gorillas in Uganda, which shows that females can live for a decade or more after their last baby. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/kxyz50Xf1ER

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts. Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible? Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There is a lot going on here but these results are wonderful (even if I find some of the archaeologists’ comments problematic). Here are a few notes to be followed up with a blog post at “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives” 1/

History requires deep, extensive research a lot of that research will end up not being directly relevant. You won't know that until you get in it. Research isn't just pulling a doc with all the answers, it's finding connections, it's understanding what's *not* being said, it's knowing context.

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪 Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...