Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

In a warming India, cases of chronic kidney disease are on the rise among otherwise healthy people. The disease is particularly prevalent in outdoor workers who lack access to water, shade, or rest.

On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”

“Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity.” Actually I’m not even sure they’re doing that, though many are indeed trying. share.google/XNaLs2bBjdMG...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

“… and his wife Sally”: The Binford Legacy and Uncredited Work in Archaeology. 🧪 🏺

It seems like it’s dangerous for scientists to speak out against Colossal’s “de extinction research”. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Join online next Thursday! Engaging Human Aspirations to Motivate Progress Towards a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together 🌍🌐 www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/plane...

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

#HeritageHighlights 🎤Today, South Asian Women in the Field (SAWIF) recorded their first #podcast in the series. In conversation with Prof Rajani we discussed the changing field of remote sensing #archaeology and what its like for women in this field. Stay tuned for the release!

A great line up for our session on the dangers of practicing archaeology "while female" at WAC-10 in Darwin! Note that students can attend virtually for FREE! Runs 22-28 June. For more information and to sign up: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

This Thursday at 5.30pm BST I'm giving an ARFA seminar via Zoom about my recent research into the misuse of archaeological ideas by the far right. Free, online and hopefully with some good discussion

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

Happy birthday Beatrice de Cardi, born #OnThisDay in AD 1914 🏺 A true #Trowelblazer, she helped lay the foundations of British archaeology and kept doing fieldwork until she was 93! She wrote a retrospective of her fieldwork in Antiquity in 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...

New paper out! Not sure why it comes associated with this photo from Africa but the markers are still useful for anyone applying ZooMS in Australia!! 😊

Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

A fantastic opportunity to support participation of early career female scholars from low exchange rate countries at the World Archaeological Congress in Darwin! It's easy to do and every donation helps to support greater equity in our discipline. worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/studen...

The @upshot.nytimes.com has put together a vivid illustration of how the Trump administration has hollowed out American science. Gift link: nyti.ms/4kBTVql

Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

More evidence that humans have been translocating species and reshaping ecosystems for centuries. Indeed research points to millennia of such impacts.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Research Associate in Archaeology of Later Pastoralism in Eastern Africa (Fixed term)- University of Cambridge - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR057/r...

I gotta say, “women are going to space” sounds a lot nicer than “the ultra rich are taking hyper-polluting joyrides to space while the planet descends into climate chaos”

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Help me grow my channel by sharing and subscribing youtube.com/@bioanttalks... #anthropology #womeninscience #bioant

Women anthropologists, please apply! www.anthropology-news.org/articles/cal...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

Come and see me on my world DOMINATION tour in the Autumn! I'll be looking at the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire - starting with a lost monastery in Wales, travelling all the way to the palace of Nicaea in what's now western Turkey. There will be saints, sinners and plenty of surprises!

More evidence that the supposedly ‘unique’ capacity of Homo sapiens to adapt to a diverse array of environments is not so unique after all. Other members of our lineage clearly possessed this behavioral plasticity, including the mysterious Denisovans.

Pleased to be part of this exciting research out of Arabia! An extraordinary long-term climate record reveals multiple wet phases in what is now desert, which would have facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Arabia - including of early humans!

Pleased to have joined Abdallah Zaki and an international team to study large scale flooding of the Empty Quarter 9,000 years ago. Important implications for arid zones and human-environment relations. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

For final submitters: Our WAC women in archaeology theme received such overwhelming interest that WAC asked us to split into into two. Find our sessions in Themes 18 & 26. Deadline: 31 March! I think the huge response says a lot about how desperately women want to see change in the discipline...

Deadline today!!!

I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The evidence across multiple studies is clear: diversity is not just about equality but about producing better science. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🏺 #archaeology sky: I'll be at the SAA in Denver in April and Chip Colwell of Sapiens and I will be holding an informal "Meet the editors event"! Do you want to know more about Current Anthropology and Sapiens? Are you interested in publishing with CA or Sapiens? Come say hi and ask your questions!

(1/9) I’m hiring! Join my ‘Terraform’ ERC project at the University of Malta, looking at the origin, evolution, and impacts of agricultural terracing in the Maltese Islands. Please circulate to anyone you think could be interested. Starting in the summer.

Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year. Amanda’s Story: Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…

Such cowardice by @nationalacademies.org. National Academies is altering pending reports to appease Trump administration, some members say www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n... via @statnews.com

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

Agree 💯 Neutrality is complicity. Musk needs to be removed.

So much damage in just the first month! Scientists must fight back!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch! Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017