Donald Trump has made it impossible to observe that societal norm in which even those we detest are granted an if-you-can't-say-anything-nice silence when they expire. When his stain is wiped off this vale, I'll use all the maledicta I know and dance in the street with the best Americans I can find.

A wannabe true crime detective in Tucson goes and disturbs a Hohokam cemetery. Unbelievably stupid and genuinely harmful, and it sounds like this fool is completely undeterred. Gift article 🎁

Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape named one of country’s ‘most endangered’ historic places sourcenm.com/2026/05/20/g...

Ugh, UVM: “The Enrollment Cliff Is Here. Which Schools Will Survive It?” www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Another interesting Colossal + pseudoarch combo I just learned about - Graham Hancock is on Colossal's Cultural Advisory Board 🤔

Exactly. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

Geologists in movies: an analysis of gender, cause of death, etc. 35% of them die. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🏺🪨⚰️⚒️

Why are the Phillies trending on Bluesky?

The speaker at our commencement today & gotta admit it was good : www.ncaa.org/news/2026/2/...

This is so fucked up. Years of scholarship stolen and resold on Amazon, without a word of the archaeologists and historians who did the labour, the interpretations…the actual work. Dystopian stuff. theamericanscholar.org/who-is-blake...

One of the few things I really miss about my old curatorial gig was walking through these every morning. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/s...

Construction crews building President Trump’s hostile border wall razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in Arizona estimated to be at least 1,000 years old.

Beautiful imagery from neeneecreative.com on this one.

Lord help me, I’m a few weeks away from having a 13yo.

One of the accounts I miss from Twitter (Super 70s Sports):

Also, important obligatory update from Vermont: Today — April 14, 2026 — is @benandjerrys.bsky.social Free Cone Day, if you find yourself close to a scoop shop: www.benjerry.com/scoop-shops/...

My students brought this one in for scrutiny, WTF? "This work indicates that cosmological simulations and ultrahigh-spatial-resolution oxygen abundances can together provide an archaeological probe of the star-formation and merger histories of spiral galaxies." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The National Science Foundation has proposed eliminating the directorate that includes most of the federal funding for fieldwork and research in human origins. It's a sudden acceleration of a decades-long trend. I comment on what this means. www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

“Acoma Gov. Charles Riley said that the pueblo submitted more than 400 public comments in opposition to ending an oil-and-gas drilling ban near Chaco Canyon, and young people went door-to-door to help older and more rural residents submit comments online.” 🥹❤️

Wow, someone worked in Freddy Jones Band--didn't see that coming. Old school.

First sign of spring…finally.

This brings me back to a simpler time in a good way: weather.com/retro/

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...

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

So over the top Texan, but I’m not opposed to it TBH:

ACTION ALERT⚠️ Dept. of Interior is trying to rush through a revocation of Biden’s public law protecting lands around Chaco Canyon from new oil/gas leases. They’ve given only 7 day for public comment, during Easter/Passover. Thread 🧵 below on why you should care, but here’s a link to comment! 🏺

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So nice to see @kjkillackey.bsky.social's work on this NYT writeup and not the usual AI trash. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/s...

Good timing, going straight into my Ruins course this semester.

Happy first day of spring, I guess.

Great write up, this is how it’s done.

It's Wednesday so I have to hide my @effinbirds.com desk calendar for office hours.

Moving petroglyphs and bulldozing roads to Native America sites.

Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase https://theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-another-vase-1830499658/

An important historical intervention, and a strong argument for the necessity and strength of public history: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

This quote about horses must be from a @theonion.com piece, right?

@sarahebond.bsky.social reviewed a new book about The Met’s 2022 polychromy exhibition that highlights the foremost scholars studying polychromy today. It marks an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.