Just out! Another story from a Harvard ASPR Fellow: Unearthing What Archaeologists Can and Cannot Know www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Important coverage so posting gift link: wapo.st/3MxNCZe

To be honest, I'm more interested in this beautiful illustration (and the artist behind it) than I am in the archaeology itself: phys.org/news/2025-12...

"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bastards about six weeks ago, but I pushed it, and shit got real on me."

Our local NPR station (@vermontpublic.org) had my back this morning, playing some GodSpeed You! Black Emperor on the brutal, snow-squally commute to school.

A recently published illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social . screw AI, hire an artist.

My Spotify Wrapped has been compromised by my tween's bizarre musical taste so I won't be sharing it.

Agreed. Best yet on the utter disaster university administrators and AI oligarchs have enacted.

I've taught more than 100 sections at a criminally underfunded public university and never once has it been a problem to make an accommodation for a student who needs a little extra time or whatever so I suspect this is not really a problem at the University of Chicago with its $10 billion endowment

I can't wait to see the final product on this one.

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

I have serious doubts about the Bundt pan turkey trend.

From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays

🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art... Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?

But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED. Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal). Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.” What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?

Shameful:

Hard no:

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago. www.science.org/content/arti...

NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Holy crap I want this SO bad.

'Dance your PhD' is a great but why in the world add the AI component? www.science.org/content/arti...

Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.

New pleasure is tormenting the pre-teen with 90s music. Yesterday it was Jane's Addiction. That was too much for him, but some day he'll come home with old vinyl and ask if I've ever heard of these bands (like he somehow discovered them).

No one likes Baby Ruths anymore.

Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives 🏺

Four days before the Louvre heist catapulted museum security to the global stage, thieves in California snatched more than 1,000 items, including Native American artifacts, from a Bay Area museum.

Billions in treasure lie on the seafloor. Finders keepers? 
As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archaeologists. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Destruction of cultural sites is only a small part of what is lost in severe weather events, but in a world where climate change driven catastrophic weather events are becoming more common, we need more and better methods for dealing with the impacts. 🏺 www.chron.com/news/article...

From hearing, this senator is winging it. Do your friggin homework dude: youtu.be/2EgENl6VEFA?...

The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?

East Wing archaeology: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Has anyone has done a Lego mockup of the East Wing being destroyed?

We should keep an eye on this: www.energy.senate.gov/hearings/202...

Back in the day, @audacityofdespair.bsky.social was a great follow on Twitter. He's seems to be revving up again on BlueSky and I highly recommend jumping on board.

Really good idea for an exhibition here that other museums could learn from. Artists created a set of VR interventions on existing works in a museum so anyone with the VR headset got the 'new' exhibition. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/i...

Amazing in all respects. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

One of the best!

John Oliver is good at his job youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

This is why I avoid Texas (as a Texan). And that was a smart and appropriate post.

How have I not seen this movie?

An important effort by tDAR to create a comprehensive regional digital archive, in this case of Huhugam archaeology, is critically considered in a new article in @saa-aap.bsky.social . news.asu.edu/20251007-art...