October 1974…guessing he was wrong?

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It's easy to use social media to spout off about archaeology. It's harder to spend 12 mos. digging in archives to find documentary films made about actual archaeology, get them digitized, cut together, and shared on the Internet to show folks what real archaeology looks like

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

"Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people"

It never ceases to amaze me how select cases of full professors deciding to leave the U.S. for a university abroad merit more attention than the adjunctification of higher education and the complete erosion of tenure-track openings.

We're using the latest technologies to teach students about archaeology!

Baby mammoth tooth! sketchfab.com/3d-models/ma...

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Found on Reddit, too priceless not to share here. www.reddit.com/r/RATM/s/oDq...

Whelp….I survived the pandemic, Delta variant, and all the waves. But today, finally, I was diagnosed with Covid (after 4 days of the absolute worst flu and strep symptoms I’ve ever experienced) Started showing symptoms shortly after returning from #saa2025.

Picuris tribal leadership reached out to SMU researchers Michael Adler and David Meltzer to initiate conversations with geneticist Eske Willerslev at Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen and Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. 🧪

A collaborative study initiated by the sovereign nation of Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico addresses gaps in traditional knowledge and furthers understanding of their population history and ancestry, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/3YLNzfF 🏺 🧬 🧪

DNA from ancient and present-day members of Picuris Pueblo confirm oral histories linking the tribe to the famed Chaco Canyon centre. https://go.nature.com/42ZHm0P

Happy to have been a small part of this much larger collaborative project www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Making friends, and working to recruit the next generation of archaeologists at #saa2025denver

Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...

This is why he hired a ghostwriter for his books about making deals.

Easter: Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

Score one for peer review & scientific integrity: It looks like the biblical Sodom paper is going to be retracted: cosmictusk.com/nature-scien... Happy to have played a small part in exposing flaws in this paper its lack of data transparency. h/t to @boslough.bsky.social #NotScience.

Exciting news! pubpeer.com/publications...

Holy shit…I…I….i actually agree with something Elno Musk said.

I did another meme.

J.D. Vance and Howard Lutnick tell me to trust in the president...but you know what doesn't pay my bills? Trust in a guy that bankrupted multiple casinos, and who just lost me more money in a single day than I'll earn in two months.

Go, @booker.senate.gov go!

What is the point of making a lined photography form if your field crew is just going to disregard the lines?! Mildly infuriating trying to transcribe this insanity.

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

Stand up. Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have uploaded the introductory chapter to my book, 'No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech' to ResearchGate and Academia dot Edu. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/44497710/No_...

Phrenologists after reading the news this morning:

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

I’m just a Caveman, your honor, but it’s unclear to me what authority He has to say this. The SI is not under the executive. It was established by congress, is overseen by congress, and is governed by its own board. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

This is a "Colored" [African-American] schoolhouse of Corsicana, Texas of the 1950s photographed in the 1980s. Did your high school look like this? Was your high school only for students of a particular skin color? If not, you have the US Department of Education to thank for it.

People who think using em dashes is proof of AI writing have clearly never written anything longer than a paragraph in their life 😭 Keep the beloved em dashes out of your accusations! Real writers who hate AI definitely know how to use em dashes. Leave us alone 🙈

If Republicans were serious about reforming higher education, they’d do something about University Parking Services.

This reads like a perfect case study in phylogenetics, why evolution doesn’t lead to global optima, and why extinction is the norm…except in a cultural evolutionary sense.

Is it live, or is it Memorex? 3D printed cuneiform tablet from the Bridwell Library at #SMU s3.smu.edu/bridwell/spe...

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

Hey #Archaeology folks, here's a question: How do you handle slurs in written documentation you're trying to digitally transcribe & curate? 1) Leave them to preserve integrity of the transcription & how they recorded things; 2) Censor them to reflect modern sentiment; 3) ??? Asking for a friend.

Job alert! @katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

This is atrociously bad, and there is absolutely no way that this closing is going to save money. www.wctv.tv/2025/03/11/h...

Please consider making a gift to our lab so we can continue providing opportunities for first gens, women, and Indigenous students in archaeology and STEM-related work. givingday.smu.edu/campaigns/ar...

Are your Congressional reps refusing to hold town halls? Tim Walz will come to your district and meet with residents instead.

Man, you just have to be the biggest rube in the universe to think that Trump is halting Ukraine aid because Zelensky didn't wear a tie or kiss the ring.

Taking out my frustration and sadness in Photoshop

With interest please... *Yes, I know that's not how it works...

Hello Bluesky! The Canadian Archaeological Association / Association canadienne d'archéologie has made the move from the other place! We're looking forward to connecting with the archaeological community over here, so please tag folks we should be following! #canarch #heritage 🏺