“100% trump and donor funded.” Well, that’s a bright spot in this whole East Wing demo debacle, because then there is no reason we can’t tear that gaudy shit down as soon as these Christofascists are ousted. It would make for great symbolism.

Seeing the recent posts by the new official US Department of of the Interior Bluesky account is making me sick to my stomach. Pure propagandist bullshit coming from a government agency I used to be proud to work for. How do we oust these mofos before it is too late?

I've been thinking about amaranth again, so here's our paper about finding domesticated amaranth seeds in archaeology at Aztec Ruins National Monument. Pueblo people have a long relationship with amaranth, but this was evidence that it went back as far as the 1100s. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—With federal staff furloughed during the government shutdown, Utah’s Cultural Site Stewards are stepping in at places like Dinosaur National Monument, Bears Ears, Parowan Gap, Nine Mile Canyon, and Buckhorn Wash to watch over archaeological sites. Read more: buff.ly/JVBmE2C

Yes, please. #shutdown

Pete Hegseth taking a nutshot on live TV when he was trying to act like a bigshot is what I needed to see today. What a perfect metaphor for this entire regime. m.youtube.com/watch

The faster everyone gets off fossil fuels and buries even the memory of this petro-state puppet, the better.

I JUST VOTED ON CA PROP 50 THE ELECTION RIGGING RESPONSE ACT. THANKS TO OUR MOST AMAZING, SOME SAY THE BEST EVER, GOVERNOR, GAVIN NEWSOM. I FEEL MIGHTY PATRIOTIC. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. --JLM

TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES: If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.

Megaconstellations now causing problems in optical satellites scenes. I wonder if the same is true for some space based rader acquisitions, which have wider swaths ? @gfun.earth @ericjfielding.bsky.social @geoandyhooper.bsky.social @spacefromspace.com

Great reporting by HCN.You might not see much change when you visit a park, but I can tell you that our parks were already severely understaffed/underfunded before DOGE. Now they are at a tipping point where the damage to cultural/natural resources will be irreversible. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

Absolutely fabulous Predynastic/ED study day at @theegyptcentre.bsky.social today! Every talk was engaging and it was so nice to catch up with many friends and colleagues! Kudos to the organisers!

Recent paper - open access: Environmental Challenges and Vanishing Archaeological Landscapes: Remotely Sensed Insights into the Climate-Water-Agriculture-Heritage Nexus in Southern Iraq www.mdpi.com/3301176

I can’t be the only one thinking that we need @maddow.msnbc.com for more than the first 100 days….

YESTERDAY: "There is no substitute for Starlink." --Elon Musk, bragging about how dependent Ukraine is on his product. TODAY: "We are shipping 40,000 units to Ukraine to replace Starlink." --Eutelsat, a French satellite company.

"town hall night in america" -- every congressional district, once a month, all on the same night: oldgoats.substack.com/p/lets-creat...

LIVESTREAM tomorrow at 4pm UK/11am EST with Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid (@moudhy.bsky.social) We will dig into cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia and the world's first stories about the fantastic people who lived in Ur, Babylon, and elsewhere youtube.com/live/ox7FOvK...

Inside the lobby at NSF…

From Jim’ll Paint It: #PunchNazis

The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Let’s be clear, the WBush admin wanted to sell off & privatise everything in the parks, too. I was privy to a leaked draft of re-written NPS Mgmt Policies produced by a Bush lackey, but we pushed back. We were successful. I’m not sure the same can be done now. shorturl.at/fmBjN

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

FREE well-timed book: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

If we don't have room for immigrants willing to work, maybe we should make room by deporting the white supremacists unwilling to think.

Massive protests are planned for Wednesday. Here are some tips for protesting safely. www.law.nyu.edu/centers/race...

Join us soon for this important conversation with someone who has been on the front lines for ages

If there’s one thing I’ve learned since starting to talk #RealArchaeology online it’s that conservatives often do not know what science grants are. It is not surprising to me that Trump is targeting them, they are a bogeyman in conspiracy communities. 🧪🏺 Bright Insight Lied youtu.be/2GQ-6dg59xk

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

New article! A team of us have developed a methodology (and script - see supplementary materials) for incorporating archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data into a model of past land use that is suitable for climate modelling 🧪🏺https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

As someone who used to work for NPS, & was also on my park’s committee to review filming permit applications, this is a bad move by the Biden Administration. 1/3 youtu.be/k4eZouItmO0?...

Jan 6th was a violent attack on our country, not a “day of love.” The truth is well documented, witnessed by dozens of GOP officials, it’s up to us to defend it against the relentless lies. My latest: adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/defending-...

I have to unload my MB3 (Miki Berenyi Trio - former lead singer of Lush) tickets for the show in Newport UK at LePub (Great venue!) on the 31st of this month. Two available on Ticketswap for less than what the venue is charging. Share away: www.ticketswap.com/listing/miki...

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

Amazing fog cover all day here in South Wales. We took a quick jaunt up the hill above our valley into the forest and found ourselves in a beautiful Tim Burtonesque landscape. #sleepyhollow #southwales #moody #forest

It’s Hugo’s Gotcha Day!! We’re celebrating FIVE years with this loveable, incredibly smart and handsome little man! We are so lucky to have him - he brings us joy daily! New Zealand Huntaways are the best! #gotchaday #adoptdontshop #dogsofbluesky #NewZealandHuntaway

Passing along this call for papers for EAA2025 in Belgrade. Please share widely with anyone you think might be interested! 🏺💀 #bioarchaeology #isotopes #archaeology #paleopathology #health #disease

ICYMI: 🏺 In the areas UA1 and UA2 of Uruk, remains of a big wall enclosure, a couple of rooms as well as a pre-dynastic terrace were found. The terrace is situated exactly below the Eanna Ziqqurrat and might be it’s predecessor. 🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...

NASA aficionados know Musk has often worked behind the scenes to lobby government officials in ways that manifestly hurt NASA and benefit his own company SpaceX. SpaceX both partners with and competes with NASA. Putting a 41-year-old with no relevant degrees (or any degrees) at NASA is preposterous.

Underreported: Elon just picked the head of NASA—a massive conflict-of-interest that will damage a government entity that he partners with, depends on, and in some cases competes with. The nominated NASA director is a high-school dropout billionaire who is pals with Musk. He has no business at NASA.

I’m very sad to hear that Colin Renfrew, a giant in the field of Prehistoric Archaeology, has joined the realm of the ancients. An academic archaeologist with one foot firmly in the trench, he combined theory & fieldwork with flair - and had a knack for asking the right questions. His work lives on

Wow 100k views in under 24 hours. Thanks all for the support! Link: youtu.be/KR9_oLmoQVI?...

Anniversary gift just received from my husband since as a PhD candidate he says I am always taking”Notez-n-Stuff.” 🤣 🤦‍♀️🏺 #indy #indianajones #archaeology #funnygifts

Confirmation that another big wave of harassment is about to come my way. Joe Rogan is hosting the two pseudoarchaeology YouTubers who have been non-stop lying about me. Episode should likely drop tomorrow We have to speak up and support each other Anti intellectualism is the real cancel culture

Impulse buy that was totally worth it. They might just live on our Welsh dresser all year long. 🦖 #Dinovember #DinoLights #HolidaySaurus

No! NO! Trump Admin did this • Trump negotiated with the Taliban • Trump drew down forces to 2,500 • Trump ordered 5k Taliban released • Trump agreed to May 1 exit • Trump refused to brief Biden’s team on Afghanistan situation • Trump shut down airbases crippling US to extract our assets.