📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH

Just a girl, standing in front of a major online platform for antiques, asking it to PLEASE stop selling mislabeled human remains via Facebook ads

Use this one weird trick to help folks near you and get literally heaps of snacks: www.redcrossblood.org (or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)

Use this one weird trick to help folks near you and get literally heaps of snacks: www.redcrossblood.org (or check your local hospital for other local providers! Lots of ways to help give blood!)

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️ We are looking for a Post-Doc in Digital Provenance Studies (2 years, FT, TV-L 13). Note: German language fluency essential. Deadline: November 19, 2025. More info at the link. Thank you for sharing and spreading the word. 🙏🏼

Every food bank is getting slammed and it will only get harder. I am happy to match donations up to $50 total for Westside or your local food bank and send you a little watercolor doodle if you like.

Romantic in the sense of John Keats dying of tuberculosis

When Game 7 goes into extra innings

Every food bank is getting slammed and it will only get harder. I am happy to match donations up to $50 total for Westside or your local food bank and send you a little watercolor doodle if you like.

Happy tenth anniversary to the sssssingle best hat I’ve ever owned

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

OTTAWA, CANADA—The Vatican Museums will transfer several dozen Indigenous belongings—including an Inuvialuit kayak and ceremonial items—back to communities in Canada via a church-to-church process. Read more: buff.ly/UIuejRk CBC coverage: buff.ly/7wbXCfS

at this point I’m just rooting for Baseball because this series is straight up a good time

🏺“You think that by digging up sculptures you’ve saved them, but you never dig up sthg that is capable of standing on its own two feet. You must intervene at once in order to ensure that it doesn’t crumble under your 👀." 🛋️ ▶️ ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/herculaneu... #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

NEW Sudan is a diverse country with a rich cultural heritage that is under threat from conflict. In a guest editorial, Habab Idriss Ahmed & Geoff Emberling discuss the brave efforts of the Sudanese antiquities department (NCAM) to protect Sudan's #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Gave a talk I have given to probably hundreds of students and one of the featured collector’s monograms is part of their research group! A single slide helped solve a provenance mystery! First time we’ve had a discovery happen DURING a talk, v. excited to be part of their provenance community

I have read through the new OCLC blog post about AI in archives (hangingtogether.org/exploring-ai...) and liveblogged my response over on Mastodon. Overall, it really doesn't feel like they consulted with archivists or took our expertise seriously. Some highlights:

Our analysis indicates that several specimens of dubious origin collected by Charles Craven are likely to have originated in Amazonia, not in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco as stated on their original labels with implications for our understanding of historical extinctions 9/10

The urge to open an Old Bay-themed food truck in these barren lands is rising

How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/ @snf-fns.ch  #MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Daniel Smith, no 😭😭😭 (Daniel Smith was established in 1976, there’s literally no reason for this)

Duck duck boo: bad Halloween anatomy, adorable actual duckling behavior ✨

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio. https://scim.ag/4791YqA

A new paper by an international team of researchers, including #NHMLA's Curator of Marine Mammals, Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe, uncovers more secrets of aquasloths with one of the most complete skeletons ever discovered: go.nhm.org/aquatic-sloths

New open-access publication: Discover how a multidisciplinary approach helped identify and contextualise three Qurʾānic parchment fragments from the University of Münster collection, revealing their shared origins in an Umayyad Qur’an: www.nature.com/articles/s40...

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

Emma Hagström Molin examines the rise of provenance in nineteenth-century Europe through a case study of manuscript research, analyzing the ways in which the Benedictine scholar Beda Dudík worked with classification: id.erudit.org/iderud...

I make the interns learn about microfilm because I enjoy my role as departmental spooky skeleton

If you work in a classics library, as the classics librarian in a general academic library, in any research library or heritage institution that contains some classics content, or are in any capacity involved in cataloguing or taxonomising ancient world data, you may be interested in… #digiclasswiki

The elimination of exact text search from a growing number of services is a form of enshittification that I keep getting surprised by. It's search: computationally expensive (?) and a foundationally useful tool. Blunting it into uselessness is a shocking capitulation to the internet as garbage pile

This is why museum documentation matters! Without, it's very easy to misplaced an entire buffalo for decades

I was invited to provide some comments on the fascinating story below, which discusses the earliest known examples of the use of blue pigment during the European Palaeolithic. Interesting results with some intriguing implications. www.science.org/content/arti...

CFP: The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2026 How do museums navigate truth, fakes, and knowledge sovereignty in the digital age? The 8th edition of this international conference (19–23 Jan 2026, Vienna/online) invites contributions on AI in museums, digital provenance, disinformation […]

3 jours passionnants (1-3 oct.) de colloque "Études de #provenance des collections de sciences naturelles et humaines" au Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Ceci ne concerne pas que les biens spoliés en 39-45 ou contexte colonial (avec #restitution ?), mais une démarche de documentation des collections.

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

Inscriptions in forgotten locales: a provenance tale of a fragment at the Powell-Cotton Museum www.instagram.com/p/DPDtiMviY-...

when in doubt can I recommend doodles

honestly feels really nice to just help support some cool science education in a nice museum — make some sharks smile and donate if you can too!

Innocently in the pastels aisle and BAM

Likewise, this modest missal passed into the hands of Luigi Celotti, fleeing Italy with trunks of mss. Celotti’s sales in London in the 1820s finally taught the English to collect mss as art and this very book was in Lot 303! www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/mis...

As many of you know, I have spent many years working on tracing the dispersal of the Neferibresaneith ushabtis on the market around the world. We are publishing an update to this article: www.jstor.org/stable/26555... which has a number of tables at the end listing those identified by 2018.