Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night. This is a press freedom issue. Here’s what happened:

Anyone get video of the meteor over Vancouver? Everyone’s talking about the boom.

We came oh so close to having this limerick slinging light weight for a prime minister. Absolute mindless drivel. #canada

North America, Europe, and Israel also share responsibility for generations of instability in the Middle East. We also have seen that warring will not solve instability or improve human rights.

Hire and artist and talk to them. Lots wrong with this but the most evil being the “humans are white and other phenotypes are not” bit. I guess AI just mines this shit out out of our garbage… but still.

🏺 Since it’s Pokemon Day, it’s probably a good time to repost links to the various times I’ve decided that actually what the world needs most is an archaeologist talking about those dang pocket monsters. ⬇️

From my chat…. #hockey #canada

I was impressed by these. Available at the Superstore (I don’t normally go there but they have Canadian broccoli) #Whitehorse #Yukon

Spend a little time learning how monumentally broken our heritage protection frameworks are. Thank you @tessmachling.bsky.social for doing the hard work our sector organisations should be leading on. 🏺

This piece is a lot, but it's vital. And it resonates with Carole's own article underlining foundational role of patriarchy & misogyny: "A culture which reveres female youth and innocence despises female age and experience. It disgusts them, scares them..." broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-all-liv...

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Literally. When I went to the University clinic suspecting I was in perimenopause, the doctor got angry at me because she decided I must have a mood disorder instead. Turns out I was in perimenopause.

NEW Evidence for 4,500-year-old Paleo-Inuit settlement on the remote Kitsissut Islands, north of Greenland indicates the Arctic's first inhabitants were skilled seafarers who shaped High Arctic ecosystems from the beginning of glacial retreat. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

New open access paper on the state of glacial #archaeology. 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fantastic news! It appears that an individual has used a program to download the data from the historic places register and created a new site with it! If all the data is accurate, this will become a valuable site for researchers across the country. 🏺 #heritage heritageguide.ca/search?q=New...

Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers... Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...

Whitehorse Bessa L 25mm f3.5 Fuji C200

2026 marks the ten-year anniversary of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada! Have you seen the gorgeous cover of the second edition coming to mark the occasion? You can preorder now! www.portageandmainpress.com/Books/I/Indi...

Another year of archaeological field school planned at Tse'k'wa (“Rock House” in Dane-zaa Záágéʔ), also known as Charlie Lake Cave, in NE BC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🏺

Can you spot the #archaeology 🏺

Conspiracy Theory Wastes No Time Getting Racist https://theonion.com/conspiracy-theory-wastes-no-time-getting-racist-1839031580/

Lithic technological change, hominin history and climatic background from the late Middle Pleistocene to middle Late Pleistocene (ca. 300–50 ka) in China. Source: doi.org/10.1038/s414... #FossilFriday

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

The artwork that illustrated our PNAS paper on the oldest wooden tools was made by Gleiver Prieto, who has also worked with me on illustrations for previous projects, including the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of Marathousa 1. Gleiver's art really brings Pleistocene Megalopolis to life ✨ 🤩

Narratives & Temporality of Infrastructures - The Canadian Experience articles: What does Permafrost mean to you? Inuvialuit and Gwich’in Knowledge Holders’ Perceptions of a Thawing Relation Susanna Gartler Susan A. Crate cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an... @gamatulli.bsky.social

New study reveals five key risks of thawing Arctic permafrost—ranging from infrastructure damage to pollutant release. 🚨🌍 Read more about this transdisciplinary research by Alexandra Meyer & Susanna Gartler! 🌱✨ 👉 www.polarresearch.at/behind-the-s... #ClimateChange #Permafrost #Arctic #Sciecom

It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In #Whitehorse news. Found in my mailbox. Some serious 1960s #yukon vibes on this one.

Lake Laberge. #Watercolour on paper, A4. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2162.

New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name 🧪🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW Central to the origins of rice agriculture, paddy fields underpinned the formation of complex societies in East Asia. Stratigraphy reveals the evolution of the earliest paddy fields, showing how agricultural societies in eastern China developed. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum

O.M.G. Finally!!!

I've been out of academia for nearly 8 years at this point, but academic publishing has a long tail, so here's a brand new article I'm a co-author on, dealing with the genetics and migration history of people in medieval Berlin. 🧪🏺

"When a liar enters the city gate, at his back is a finger, at his front is a finger." - Sumerian proverb The fingers, presumably, are pointing at the liar, who has lied to those behind him and will lie to those in front of him. Source: cdli.earth/artifacts/34...

This is disastrous. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former IPIA scholar Dr. Solène Mallet Gauthier @somag.bsky.social was interviewed by Radio-Canada about CRM archaeology in Canada and the need for more archaeologists. Listen (in French) at the link below! 🏺

We strongly, yet paradoxically, condemn the killing of protesters, and yada yada yada?

If it actually gets warm this weekend I’m gonna go crazy. I’m jogging to work nude.

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Very cool article giving insight into the function of these remarkable structures. That they might represent sedentary villages is amazing.

This is a beautiful, interesting, and very sad piece. (gift link, not paywalled) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...

The good news: Over 500 items still left to get on my website for 75% off. Most expensive item is $7.50. The bad news: I am still not shipping to the US. But Europe, UK? The price is VERY right for you. (The price is also good for Australia, just close to par.) loxythemaker.com

"Section 66.1 of the revised Ontario Heritage Act . . . effectively moves the power to protect or destroy historical sites from scientific experts to political decision-makers." This shameful move skyrockets the potential for political abuses of archaeology in Ontario. 🏺

Thank you @LarchmontChron for including my painting in your article about the upcoming L.A.Art Show Jan 7-11th! larchmontchronicle.com/la-art-show-...

“At the edge of the precipice, courage is not jumping; it is staying.”~Jean Cocteau “The Step”, oil on panel, 18”x24”, 🟢 available via Pontone Gallery at L.A.Art Show January 7-11th, Booth 600. www.laartshow.com

I figured I’d have some fun this morning. This was the view from the grocery store parking lot at -44. Ice fog, Christmas Eve. #Watercolour on paper, 11x14 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt Painting of the day 2129.

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