Happy Lunar New Year! 🔥🐴

Today! Join us virtually at 5 p.m. EST for a conversation between JCB Library Director Karin Wulf and Jennifer Schuessler, a journalist covering intellectual life and the world of ideas for the Culture section of The New York Times. Details and registration at jcblibrary.org/events/journ...

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

I accept you with minor revisions.

Ever seen one of our expert talks advertised and thought "Wish I was able to watch this from home"? Well, you're in luck - From Ship to Screen- Archery and the Mary Rose will be taking place Saturday 14th March 2026, and is online only! Find out more at maryrose.org/events/from-...

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My friend invited me to zoom into his archaeology lab methods class today to talk about my ceramic analysis research. It was so fun and the students seemed really into it. Gosh I wish someone would hire me to just teach something and keep up this research…

The god of small things: Seurat and the sea – review

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

I’m loving the reread almost as much as I enjoyed it the first time around. Jazz hands! 👐 I feel really bad for anyone who hasn’t read it and was exposed to the spoilers in the movie trailer.

Beautifully dramatic lighting effect in this altar depicting the god Sol found near Edinburgh. In the low light of the temple, worshippers would see Sol’s eyes, mouth and the rays of his solar crown glowing. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Ever wonder how you can tell a dinosaur’s age? In a new study establishing Nanotyrannus as a species, researchers cross-sectioned slices of its hyoid to gauge maturity and understand how quickly it grew. Read more about the brand new discovery here: nhm.org/new-nanotyra...

I’m loving the reread almost as much as I enjoyed it the first time around. Jazz hands! 👐 I feel really bad for anyone who hasn’t read it and was exposed to the spoilers in the movie trailer.

Armand Guillaumin Moulins en Hollandee

I just knitted Toby a neck warmer. It is arctic out there right now, and we have well over a foot of snow, and he doesn’t have much fur. It can be pulled over his ears too. Pretty sure he hates it but I feel a little better anyway. 😂 🐶

I just knitted Toby a neck warmer. It is arctic out there right now, and we have well over a foot of snow, and he doesn’t have much fur. It can be pulled over his ears too. Pretty sure he hates it but I feel a little better anyway. 😂 🐶

Martian meteorite that fell to Earth is full of ancient water, new scans reveal www.livescience.com/space/mars/m...

"Using comparative genomic data across primates, the researchers found examples of genes associated with burn injury responses which show signs of accelerated evolution in humans. These genes are involved in wound closure, inflammation and immune system response" phys.org/news/2026-02...

🏺 Excellent that we may be on the way to banning the sale of human remaining the UK. Congratulations to the British Association of Biological Anthropologists Task Force for getting it this far. It’s been a grey area because there’s no legal ownership for human remains.

The discovery of an ancient elephant bone in Spain is the first "direct archaeological testimony" of war elephants being used from Hannibal's time, a new study reports. 🏺🧪🐘

Check out the latest #digitalreview in @saa-aap.bsky.social of @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org that considers how archaeologists can best engage online, especially with short-form video: doi.org/10.1017/aap....

This Gambel's quail has recently declared himself king of the prickly pear patch and master of all he surveys

"Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait" by @brdemuth.bsky.social, Dean's Associate Professor at IBES and @brownhist.bsky.social, has been selected as the 2025-2026 Brown University Book Award 📕🏆 👏 Learn more: insite.browntextbook.com/BrownBookAward

New book about the archaeology of Rapa Nui, reviewed in the New York Times. Gift article 🎁

I forgot to share the cool coyote skull we found on top of the mesa last week. This was at the site we excavated in 2016.

I forgot to share the cool coyote skull we found on top of the mesa last week. This was at the site we excavated in 2016.

In the past three days, I wrote an entirely new sample syllabus and actually got my application in for a visiting professor job. Considering the state of the world and my exhaustion after flight delays, I think I deserve a small medal for getting this done. Or maybe a small visiting professorship? 🙏

Waiting for the ferry at Barra Point, Northbank, Gambia. Pied Kingfisher and working boats. #birding The Gambia

Should you use AI for that? Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no). It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices! sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...

#NAFO #Fellas #NoICE #BeGood #BruceSpringsteen I think we have our anthem.

I’m in Chicago, still hoping to make it home tonight. We’ve got a plane but no crew… good chance I’m spending the night here. But here are some pictures I took on the flight here of frozen Midwest fields and frozen Chicago 🥶

I’m in Chicago, still hoping to make it home tonight. We’ve got a plane but no crew… good chance I’m spending the night here. But here are some pictures I took on the flight here of frozen Midwest fields and frozen Chicago 🥶

this is so fucking beautiful, I'm crying again

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

One last very spicy breakfast burrito before heading to my gate at the Albuquerque airport. It was a whirlwind week of pottery analysis, adventures with old friends, and lots of food…

The friend I’m staying with in Albuquerque has a roadrunner living in a corner of her porch! It took over someone else’s nest. We got an inch of snow last night and there is no road clearing here, so roadrunner and humans are all staying home today.

If you need some extra distraction from *gestures broadly at everything,* Kilauea is here to help. The next eruptive episode, episode 41, looks to be kicking off right now! Fountains are starting to grow in height. USGS LIVE stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKu...

Sand hill cranes in the rain, on someone’s fancy lawn in Albuquerque

Some adorable ceramic storyteller figures at the Pueblo Cultural Center. They have a sweet little area where you press a button and each of them tells a short Pueblo story

An atmospheric drive to Albuquerque yesterday, with the winter storm coming. New Mexico doesn’t usually look anything like this, it was really cool to see it.

New Mexico sunset, horizon to horizon

This week I’m on a research trip to Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. It’s an Ancestral Puebloan site (not Aztec!) associated with Chaco Canyon. But this site was in use for a 150 years after Chaco and we’re looking at pottery from the very latest period… 1/ 🏺

New Mexico sunset, horizon to horizon

This week I’m on a research trip to Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. It’s an Ancestral Puebloan site (not Aztec!) associated with Chaco Canyon. But this site was in use for a 150 years after Chaco and we’re looking at pottery from the very latest period… 1/ 🏺

This morning’s huevos rancheros at Weck’s in Farmington New Mexico. It’s a chain but it’s so good, and comes with a heaping side of nostalgia for old friends and old times here in Farmington.

Flying to New Mexico today, but this was the weather on the way to the airport this morning. And the Providence airport is playing Christmas music. Apparently they lost power and xmas rebooted. Winter wonderland time warp 😵‍💫

Fair warning, for the next few days this will be a New Mexico chile and archaeology account. Enchiladas in the sunshine at El Patio, Albuquerque. A million miles away from this morning’s snow on the east coast.

Fair warning, for the next few days this will be a New Mexico chile and archaeology account. Enchiladas in the sunshine at El Patio, Albuquerque. A million miles away from this morning’s snow on the east coast.