This morning I took some time to engage once more with Max Liboiron's #Pollution is #Colonialism. Every time, this book challenges and provokes thoughts. Can't recommend it enough. www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is...

Fabulous mini-pod, #sharkweek series by #Radiolab. First episode includes an insane account of a rare shark attack. radiolab.org/podcast/maki...

#GenAI is gobbling up #energy, from chips to queries. As this continues, we run ahead towards a catastrophic rise in carbon emissions, #resource depletion, & scarcity wars. This piece by #MIT researchers is scratching the surface of this topic pretty well. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

New (12th) issue of The Mayanist just released! #Bilingual, #Open-access, #illustrated #journal on the ancient #Maya. Beyond #archaeology, this issue is all about #epigraphy. #Watercolor #art by Lucerito Ochoa Say. www.goafar.org/themayanist

Call for Papers! The Drift is not a place of arrival, but of movement, slow, erratic, persistent. It is a space for thought that slips, for language that leaks, for research that resists tidy conclusions. We welcome work that meanders, that ferments, that doesn’t quite fit elsewhere.

This new translation of a 2020 The Mayanist article "De Belice a Bagan: Enmarcando un análisis comparativo de las sociedades tropicales" by Gyles Iannone, completes our 2nd entire #bilingual issue. Art by Aaron Alfano. Find it here: www.goafar.org/themayanist #archaeology #Maya #openaccess

I had a fabulous conversation with my 4.5 y'o daughter this morning about #online piracy. She was simultaneously excited that #pirates do exist (unlike #vampires or #dragons), but oh so confused by how they can possibly operate without boats or parrots.

Can you name the site? #ancientbluesky #Maya #ancientmaya #ancientarchitecture #archaeology

As always, it's an honour to see one my photos (of La Corona Element 56, excavated in 2015) used by a press to which I contributed. It would be even more fun if I had either been asked (I would of course have agreed), or even told about it 🤷 #epigraphy #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Maya #Guatemala

#Digital #archaeology connections. I'm currently designing an online, asynchronous Intro to Arky course. Please share your favourite resource with me :) Looking for virtual sites and visits and such. Merci :)

@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social David Graeber is quoted and heard in this excellent and recent podcast by Ezra Klein: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

Every weekday #morning, I walk both of my girls to garderie, and then #walk to campus for work (1.5 km). These days, at 815am, the sunrise is spectacular. #Proximity, as a life choice, is a vastly underrated way to impact one's carbon foot print. But in many contexts, it is also a precious luxury.

David Lynch, creator of the best TV show -- Twin Peaks -- and of amazing films -- e.g., Mulholland Drive -- but most importantly one of the most unique minds of all times, has passed. Somehow, I'm certain he was at peace. www.vulture.com/article/davi...

I miss #Chiapas. In #Palenque back in 2018. #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Maya

#Ontology for the win: atmos.earth/an-elven-all... #Anthropology

On Jan 2025 docket: launch and teach 3 courses, support 3 RAs, write and submit tenure dossier, edit journal issue, wrap up and submit 19-chapter volume, submit 3 internal and 1 major external grant applications, start writing new book. #academiclife #publishandperish

My department is hiring a tenure-track sociologist. Please distribute widely and encourage people to apply: mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

Written up here: www.stone-econ.org/news-and-blo...

Y un nuevo artículo traducido del Mayanist. "Observaciones basadas en la fotografía por transiluminación de la Relación de las cosas de Yucatán de Diego de Landa" por Harri Kettunen. Watercolor by Aaron Alfano. www.goafar.org/themayanist #Mayanist #Maya #ancientbluesky #epigraphy

I'm quite impressed with this book by Amanda Podany. As a #Mayanist, the perspective is enchanting. The epigraphic record for #cuneiform tablets is mind-blowing. I now know that the 1st to ever be named in written history, Kushim, was an administrator in charge of beer production. #ancientbluesky

Listening to yourself talk in your 3rd language for 2 hrs is humbling... But: great #Maya topics addressed in this public-oriented #podcast from ARCHIPIÉLAGO HISTÓRICO. Ramón A. González-Arango López is a keen and smart host. #ancientbluesky #archaeology archipielagohistorico.com/2024/11/28/1...

Since 2019, I've edited The Mayanist: an open-access, peer-reviewed, billingual, and illustrated journal on all things Maya. We ask for no $ to publish, opening the door to diverse authors. Read it for free here: goafar.org/themayanist #Archaeology #Maya #Ancientbluesky #Anthropology #openaccess

have a super cool AnthroDish episode today with paleobotanist & archaeologist Dr Shalen Prado on using phytoliths and pottery to uncover plant based eating in medieval Scotland! #archaeology #foodpodcast www.anthrodish.com/episodes/sha...

Main plaza of Sacul, in the Maya Mountains, near the Guatemala/Belize Border. Sacul is a truly amazing site, blending a Central Belizean and Peter style of architecture. Hard to reach, but worth the hike. #Archaeology #Maya #Peten #Guatemala #AncientBsky

Canadian winters have a special way of fanning my nostalgia for the tropical forest of Peten. #Guatemala #Peten #macaw

Back in 2021, I collaborated with watercolorist extraordinaire Aaron Alfano to produce this amazing reconstruction of the support area of the Later Classic Maya palace of La Corona, Guatemala. I still love this piece very much. #archaeology #watercolor #ancientmaya #palace #reconstruction

I was recently interviewed on CSUDH's pod "Uncovering the Ancient Maya". The hosts had amazing questions. I said "and what not" like 15 times. There are priceless bloopers at the end. You're welcome. #archaeology #podcast #ancientmaya #archaeopolitics soundcloud.com/user-9783927...

Two superposed thrones. Becan, Campeche.

Plan de Ayutla, Chiapas.