Microsoft to refund millions of customers over 365 subscription price increase for Copilot AI add-on

The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10. We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢 I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...

I maintain that if a metal detectorist finds a historical/archaeology artefact the most reward they should get is a pat on the head and the threat of a massive fine/jail time if they don't hand it over.

Learning to process acorns today ahead of the William & Mary Indigenous Peoples' Feast

You can’t even use SNAP to buy a hot rotisserie chicken unless you live in a state with a special waiver.

I love November because it starts with such optimism. We're going to write so many words together! If you want to write, and need some friends to write with, it's not too late to AcWriMo! Read more and sign up here: epilogueediting.substack.com/p/how-to-acw...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Type A cookies for a Halloween #cookieparty 🎃🖤

Hosted by the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) and the SAA Public Education Committee, watch archaeologists as they discuss challenges in research, excavation, fieldwork, and more, and answer your questions for the 2025–2026 FIRST #LEGO League #UNEARTHED Season!

Now accepting applications! #Anthropology departments are invited to apply for ACRN’s Department Advisory Initiative (DAI), which provides up to $1,000 in facilitator support. Applications are due Dec. 1. More info: anthrocareerready.net/for-instruct... #SfAA #SocialScience #AppliedAnthropology

Found the recipe!

Cooking up a special treat for the kids in my Archaeology of Institutions class. Reprising the turnip pudding from last time and trying a new dish, rice porridge. Both made to Bentham's specifications although scaled down a lot because experience tells me that no one wants more than a tiny taste🏺🗃️🍽️

Flirting in your thirties is just sending back and forth your latest bird sightings

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas. Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

In our second guide @cliocontemporary.bsky.social editor Sarah King provides advice to students considering PhD programs: "Embarking on a PhD in history can be incredibly rewarding, but before you apply, it's best to have a clear-eyed view of academia as a whole..."

Mesolithic and Neolithic homes. Perfect for your stoneage homework!

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Now the posters are up, it's official! It's Virginia Archaeology Month! Looking forward to all the great events 🏺🗃️

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social! “When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

Glad we weren't put off by dire predictions for rain and still made it to the Richmond Folk Festival feat. one of America's greatest culinary traditions - funnel cake. #RVA

I’m excited for the eBird Global Big Day on October 11, 2025. I’ll be out with @birdgirl09.bsky.social scouring the marine, forest, wetland, and agricultural lands to find as many species as we can. Last year we got 99 species. Can we beat that this year? #birds #birding #ebird #globalbigday

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Ok but Milo straight out of the can? Or mixed with milk but not dissolved? On top of ice cream? 🇦🇺

Had a grand time this afternoon chatting to students in Orlando, Florida about the advantages and limitations of tech in #archaeology. Give ‘em a few years and I’m sure one of them will crack my request for a portable C14 robot… Enthusiastic kids & doesn’t take too much of your time… get involved! 🏺

40 down, only 296 to go 😭 #quiltsky 🧵🪡

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

We're participating in this upcoming Robotics webinar hosted by the SAA on 10/1, 4pmCT/5pmET! Registration required t attend live, but the video will be on YouTube afterwards. tinyurl.com/2cu7nefy #FIRSTLEGOLeague #FLLUnearthed #Unearthed #LEGOrobotics #FIRSTChamp 🏺

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

PLEASE sign up for Skype a Scientist: www.skypeascientist.com They need more archaeologists! It's fun, answer kids questions on zoom for an hour.

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Universities “risk ceasing to educate citizens and instead training crisis managers who cannot question the architecture of crisis itself.” www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Quilting to avoid *gestures wildly at everything* 🧵🪡

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

'It is so cataclysmically bad' for #ECR now. So painfully true. It's abt historians, but has been like this in #archaeology since yrs. I'm one of the privileged ones, and has taken me 10 ys post-PhD to land a permanent position after changing countries eight times. frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

When in Ohio - buckeye ice cream in a puffle 🍽️

William & Mary is looking for a Linguistic Anthro with experience working with Indigenous communities in the US! 🏺📂

I did one this afternoon and it was honestly the best way to end the week - feeling excited to be bringing the joy and wonder of archaeology to a brand new audience 🏺

Have you recently published a book using anthropological perspectives to study the past? Or the role of the past in the present? Nominations for the Sutlive Prize are open now! #academicsky 🏺🗃️

Looking forward to sharing this with my class on the archaeology of institutions

Yesterday, the State Dept took yet another anti-immigrant action. It stopped the helpful policy of allowing individuals to apply for visa stamps at any US consular post in the world rather than just in their home country. Effective immediately, that policy is over. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

When the bride asks for cookies ... #cookieparty

hey archaeosky 🏺 are you going to SAA in SF next year? are you working on archaeology or heritage projects that questions empire or explores growth after empire? do i have a session for you!

Saw some awesome glass blowing at the Jamestown glasshouse today. Having just finished a huge project on archaeological glass, it was great to see some of the methods in action 🏺

“I have to have a licence to curate remains,” Biers said. “You can’t take photos of any human remains under 100 years old if you go to Barts pathology [department]. But it’s OK to turn a child’s spine into a handbag handle. I don’t understand this.” M’learned colleague Dr Trish Biers eloquently…

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference.