Carefully written piece on how overly-reductionistic zooarchaeological work focused on "survival" leads to "epistemic violence" #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏺

[DFO] announced a 55 per cent increase in allocation for Northern cod from 38,000 tonnes to 59,000 tonnes – but according to the government, Labrador Inuit will only get 3.3 per cent of that under the “Indigenous and Special Allocations” label. 🇨🇦 www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Really interesting article, also reinforces how quickly salmon could have re-colonized coastal streams after last glacial maximum (likely very quickly indeed) @judeisabella.bsky.social 🐟

Carl Zimmer summarizes a new paper which surprisingly (and thoroughly) suggests a deadly Plague outbreak ca 5000 BP in Lake Baikal area, millennia before it was thought the infectious agent was deadly (gift link) 🏺 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/s...

Checkmate, anthropologists 🏺

New depths in cynicism as Facebook/Meta plans to roll out AI enabled facial recognition in wearable glasses during times of political turmoil, to suppress anticipated opposition (3 month old article here: archive.ph/9tHvo) #AI

"If it can't be quantified it must not be valuable" - a droll, yet entirely accurate, video from Dr Jean Fan: "University Professors in the Neoliberal Academic Ecosystem" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO4.... #highered

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

“The authenticity of the wolf species [is going] missing, with all its cultural, ecological, and evolutionary value.” 🐺🍆🐶 www.biographic.com/nearly-half-...

Now this is how to start off a short subject review "Zooarcheology is a Frankenstein hybrid, born from the ribs of a myriad of disciplines." 🏺🐟🧠 #archaeology library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Students at Glendale Community College in Arizona www.gccaz.edu roundly boo when use of AI at their graduation ceremony omits hundreds of graduates. Students must use AI perfectly/not at all, or face expulsion, but Admin gets to "learn their lessons" in realtime. #highered #AI

Geologists in movies: an analysis of gender, cause of death, etc. 35% of them die. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🏺🪨⚰️⚒️

Images from Dutch doctor Willem ten Rhijne's 1683 work on Japanese and Chinese acupuncture techniques, which he had witnessed. via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social 🪡🇨🇳🇯🇵 publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

The Jimmy Fallon show is "a ghostly simulacrum, merely rehearsing itself for its eventual, more profitable existence as a series of clips." An informed critique of the vapidity of complicity 📺. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Simulation of trying to escape the recent Tracy Arm Alaska mega-tsunami, on a jetski.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfF...

Retired academics and inbred think-tanks put under the spotlight in this longform review of residential school denialism in Canada 🇨🇦 by Emily Enns in @thetyee.ca . Interestingly, does not mention prominent role of archaeology findings in this controversy. 🏺 thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

From only a couple of weeks ago: a lawyer advises BC realtors on what to know about archaeological sites, selling property, and the law. As always it reveals an underlying disdain for First Nations heritage @b-thom.bsky.social www.bcrea.bc.ca/legally-spea... 🏺🇨🇦

"Cameron’s strategy was “not inspiration, it was extraction … He took the unique biometric facial features of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl .... "" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

I know I just reposted this this morning but boosting again bc I just saw the absolute joke of a land acknowledgement the SAAs included in the conference program this year lmao Truly could not have put in less effort

Petersburg’s first canoe in a century — the kéet yaakw or killer whale canoe — will be paddled to Juneau for Celebration in June.

French patios are best patios 🫒🍷🌵🧀

Interesting new ethnographic article by O.P. Singh showing the quarrying and transportation of a #megalithic stone monument measuring 4.87 × 1.31 × 0.88 m, in far NE India. Article seems gated at the moment doi.org/10.1080/1751... @clonehenge.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology

Interesting new ethnographic article by O.P. Singh showing the quarrying and transportation of a #megalithic stone monument measuring 4.87 × 1.31 × 0.88 m, in far NE India. Article seems gated at the moment doi.org/10.1080/1751... @clonehenge.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology

Canada in uproar as shady maple syrup dealings erupt 🍁🥞 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Robert Phillips, the political executive of First Nations Summit: "What’s better: an empty box or no box at all? I think they’re basically the same.” BC First Nations oppose amendments to gut DRIPA #bcpoli vicnews.com/2026/04/01/f...

Poor governance in the form of "Crown Misconduct" is the root cause of anxieties caused by the recent Cowichan Decision: www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Cool shot of an eagle snatching up fistfuls of herring in Haida Gwaii. From @jagsbean on instagram. #herring #eagles #haidagwaii www.instagram.com/p/DWFVvDeARPm/ @iainmckechnie.bsky.social

Must find a copy of this alien themed woodcut by Drew Meger www.coreypress.com#/die-flucht/ 👽🛸

Canadian government targeted an 18% reduction in International Students at BC post-Secondary in 2024, received a 66% reduction instead 🤡 #highered. @b-thom.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Another iron artifact made from a meteorite has been found in China, this one is Bronze Age from the Sanxingdui locale and is perhaps 3,000 years old @drspacejunk.bsky.social 🏺 www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/a...

"Indigenous peoples are often presented as beings outside of history — always the same, never changing. ... instead of following a standard museum chronology, the exhibits reflect Indigenous understandings of history on their own terms" #museums www.dw.com/en/amazonias...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Duncan and his group, and others, have recently been turning up very old sites on the Nimpkish River and also in the Holberg area, in the 13,500 to 14,000 calBP frame. Only one published so far, another very close www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Archaeologists reveal the role of women in an early historic lumber camp in NE Oregon @bobmuckle.bsky.social 🏺#archaeology www.opb.org/article/2026...

Does it surprise anyone that body cam footage caught an agent using ChatGPT to compile an incident report?

Artificial turf sports fields are a long lasting source of water pollution lethal to salmon. Note: the chemical in question ultimately derives from vehicle tires, so the problem is likely much more widespread. 🐟🔫🛞 news.ubc.ca/2026/03/ubc-...

A comment from UBC adjunct professor James Hickling on the Cowichan Decision and private property rights in B.C. (PDF) #indigenous #bcpoli @b-thom.bsky.social ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bc...

My inner curmudgeon woke up a little sassy today 🏺#archaeology

RIP influential German philosopher Jürgen Habermas at age 96 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sea otters cracking open oysters at the Oregon Zoo 🦦⚒️🦪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHSB...

Gumbaynggirr academic Gary Foley's collection of documents and photographs - an interesting look into Indigenous activism in Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... #archives #ephemera

Seminar from @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social this week is on human #forensics - decomposition in the ocean, given by Dr Gail Anderson. On campus or by zoom (register in advance) sfu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Such a weird ambition or framing for an area where humans have lived for more than 10,000 years. But they actually mean non-Indigenous humans, or worse.🏺 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...

A Museum of Inconspicuous Things www.inconspicuous.info/p/a-museum-d...

Statement from @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social on the passing of Professor Emeritus Roy Carlson www.sfu.ca/archaeology/... 🏺 @b-thom.bsky.social @uvicanthro.bsky.social

Today in history #archaeology 🏺

According to Mark Collard on Twitter, SFU Professor Emeritus Roy Carlson, a stalwart of NW Coast Archaeology since the early 1960s, has passed away. @sfuarchaeology.bsky.social 🏺

The fall and rise of the Vancouver Island marmot: www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...