So, is membership in Sigma Xi worth paying dues for? I've been nominated and am curious what folks think. #academicsky

“From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans” 🌱 This article advances #feminist recommendations for structural change to better support and sustain participation in #archaeology. Check out the latest FirstView article from Samantha Fladd et al. here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Another new article! "From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans: Feminist Recommendations for Change" in @saa-aap.bsky.social by Samantha Fladd, Sarah Kurnick, and a bunch of other awesome feminist archaeologists! 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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I coauthored the part on media coverage! Check out Table 2, a framework for weighing risks/rewards of different levels of media engagement by scholars: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

My review of "Mothering and Archaeology" edited by @savarchaeoalliance.bsky.social and Suzanne Spencer-Wood is out in Historical Archaeology! rdcu.be/eZpdj #academicsky 🏺

Monday was my first day of Archaeology and Disability class! 🏺♿ Besides getting to know one another and going over the syllabus, we collaboratively created a timeline of disability history from our own existing knowledge.

✈️Attending #SHA2026? ☕ Meet the #SAA's @saa-aap.bsky.social#SHA2026#SAAditorial team! 📅 Fri Jan 9, 10–12 📍 Illy Cafe, Detroit Marriott Let’s talk #publishing and celebrate your #archaeological research!

Hey fellow archaeologists! Are you going to the Society for Historical Archaeology 🏺 #sha2026 meeting this week? Come chat with me and Maureen Meyers about publishing in Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social on Friday morning!

My Archaeology and Disability 🏺♿ course starts on 1/5, but I'm traveling with my family 12/17–1/2, so I am getting everything ready now! I'm really excited about the grading (or, really, #ungrading) structure of the course, which gives students a lot of freedom, choice, and room for risk-taking! 🧵

Super excited to be preparing for my Archaeology 🏺 and Disability ♿ course for winter quarter! Registration starts this week, and I hope lots of awesome @stanford.edu students sign up! I'll be posting about the class here on BlueSky too, and would love to have some good pedagogy conversations!

I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching? "Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies" Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific #academicsky 🏺♿

A song for the academic job market: www.youtube.com/shorts/b-pnz... "I am just fine, just as I am. I don't have to try to be better than anybody else 'cause I love myself just the way that I am." @mamanous.bsky.social 's intended audience might be my kids, but I sing her songs to myself daily.

I'm starting to work on designing my "Archaeology and the Public" course for next spring. Does anyone have syllabi, assignments, or lesson plans they'd be willing to share on the subjects of public arch, collaborative arch, pseudoarch, or journalistic & pop culture depictions of arch?🏺 #academicsky

This, AND even if they were only the rights of a tiny minority, they'd be worth fighting for.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

UGH. People! Let's be clear about who our enemies are! The university admin staff is a potential ally who you should befriend, not an enemy you should be rude to. Strategy!

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

DID YOU KNOW that the biggest danger to the children of this world is moms who text?!

This morning, I was walking my child to school, holding their hand, and with my other hand, I pulled out my phone and sent my partner a quick text. A complete stranger said to me "Don't ignore your child's safety, looking at your phone!" PSA: it is rude to comment on strangers' parenting.

WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology

Deadline extended to 8/20! Join us? 🏺♿

Just finished @annaleen.bsky.social 's latest, Automatic Noodle! What a delightful book about queer/trans/crip/robot resilience, chosen family, and noodles! I will now need to head to Terra Cotta Warrior to try biang biang noodles for myself.

CALL FOR PRESENTERS 🏺♿🧵 Overcoming Access Barriers in Archaeology A Lightning Round session at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology #saa2026 April 29–May 3, 2026 San Francisco, CA

Worth. Every. Penny. WHO TRIES TO STEAL HORSES OFF A CAROUSEL??

TFW you can't find the historic newspaper you need for the decade you need it through your university library or public library, only online behind a paywall... and then you remember that you have RESEARCH FUNDING!

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

I'm so sad to hear that SAPIENS is stopping publishing; it's an amazing resource in so many ways. 🏺

Read this whole thread. We all need to be more aware of the structure of complicity with Israeli war crimes that exists within archaeology, and actively and vocally refuse cooperation and collaboration #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺

It always amazes me to stumble on communities of people who are passionate about something I'd never deeply considered before. Today's example is carousel history: I'm doing research for an article on the carousel from Belchertown State School.

The Placental Steroid Hypothesis of Human Brain Evolution 🏺🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The theory suggests female reproductive innovations, rather than male traits, were the key driver of human cognitive advancement

Super excited about this call for papers in @saa-aap.bsky.social on "Advances in Archaeological Labor Management"! 🏺

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

A) people recoil in horror when I tell them the amount of reviewing I do in a year B) sometimes I do service because, if I didn't, a person with less power would be harmed (e.g., tenure) C) women are treated very differently when we say no to these types of requests

I gotta say, as terrifying as this bill is, I am getting some real enjoyment from watching the Republicans in Congress be a mess.

Hoping this is out in time to be analyzed by my students in my "Archaeology and the Public" course next spring!

Alright #academicsky #feministsky, what are your favorite pieces of feminist theorizing about mothering and parenting, published in the 21st century?

We welcomed @worldarch.bsky.social 's recent decision to exclude from the Darwin congress an archaeologist at a university based in an illegal Israeli settlement on Palestinian land. But we were also alarmed by the oversight which almost led to #wac10 attendees sharing the space with a war criminal.

#wac10 #wacwithoutapartheid #worldarchaeologicalcongress #archaeology #🏺

At its meeting of 21 June 2025, the World Archaeological Congress Council resolved to exclude from WAC-10 participation scholars affiliated with Ariel University, an institution located within an Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory (West Bank). 🏺 #WAC10

We continue to call on WAC to implement an ethical strategy, avoiding further risk of complicity in Israel’s war crimes, for the organisation, its members, and attendees of the congress. We urge WAC respond to our March 31st demands in full #wacwithoutapartheid #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #🏺

This decision is in line with international law, and WAC’s own ethical commitments, principles and resolutions (i.e. the bare minimum). #wacwithoutapartheid #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #🏺

AAA welcomes @worldarch.bsky.social’s decision to exclude from participation at WAC-10 Darwin an archaeologist affiliated with Ariel University, an illegal institute built on illegally occupied Palestinian land, and therefore a war crime. #wacwithoutapartheid #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #🏺

Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

Fuck.

When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied Told I “might want kids.” Told I “might meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵