As it turns out, having a baby slows down any ability I've had to keep up with social media! (Whoops...) Celebrating his 4-month-and-vaccinated status by hauling the whole family to California with me for the SAAs, where I'm part of an exciting Geophysics session AND receiving an award!!! 😱 #SAA2026

ASOR is offering Tigris Travel Grants covering the cost of travel and accommodation for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Chicago. Scholars must be citizens of Iraq and have an accepted paper on the Annual Meeting Academic Program. Learn more here: www.asor.org/fellowships/...

FYI - Live Science is hiring! Come work with me? (Remote, US based position)

Another new Hamoukar publication! This time, on my excavation of Early Bronze levels at the site.

The ASOR Program Committee seeks 4 new members to serve a 3-year term (2026–2028) with possibility of a 2nd term. We are interested in applications from members whose research area(s) are complementary to or not represented by current members of the PC. The brief app. is due Dec. 5: buff.ly/B16v7ds

Hot off the presses - new article on the faunal remains from Hamoukar! Big thanks to co-authors Max Price, Diana Fennimore, Salam Al Kuntar, and Clemens Reichel for helping get this out into the world.

New issue of American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 129, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social @driesdaems.bsky.social @archaeological.org

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Summer is in full swing, but it’s not too early to think about your fall calendar. The Annual Meeting Program-at-a-Glance, as well as information about business meetings and special events, can be found on the 2025 ASOR Annual Meeting Schedules Page. Check it out here: buff.ly/nZBO4y4

📰 Excavations at Nineveh, modern Iraq, uncover a relief depicting Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, surrounded by Mesopotamian deities 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via ‪@smithsonianmag.bsky.social‬ www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

I wrote a piece for @sapiens-org.bsky.social! Teaching with unprovenanced artifacts is tricky at best, so I discuss how my experiences with the Carlos Museum and my work in Iraq meet somewhere in the middle.

Back in the field and looking good! Stay tuned for updates on our 4th (wow!!) season at Qach Rresh, an Assyrian-Achaemenid admin site in Iraqi Kurdistan! 🏺 🪏 🤓

I'm glad I never knew about the nightmare that is Equipment Procurement Systems because I might've been scared off of being an archaeologist because of it 🫠 I was not built for this level of tracking down and filling out forms.

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

Available through open access at AI & Society rdcu.be/eiqHf #evolution #ai #artificiallife #evolutionarycomputing #computing #evolutionarytheory #blackmirror #academia #academicsky #aihype

An absolute embarrassment for Ohio, but no surprises there. I had an amazing education at Ohio State and this will effectively gut that and so many other institutions.

Working on Syrian archaeology or cultural heritage? Submit an abstract for @asor-research.bsky.social's annual meeting in the Archaeology of Syria session! Abstracts due March 15. Papers can be virtual or in-person, and scholarships are available for registration fees. www.asor.org/am/2025/call...

BlueSky, help me to spread the word! --> Abstract submissions are now open for the ASOR Panel on "Pop Culture and Near Eastern Archaeology" for the 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston (hybrid) - November 19-22, 2025! "The papers in this session represent a multidisciplinary discussion of approaches to

If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation.

Exciting results hitting the presses about the Neolithic in Oman!! @archbot44.bsky.social and @pi-hisoka.bsky.social run a pretty awesome project 😎🏺

I'm here at Harvard! Giving a talk today on Assyrian control and our results from excavating at Qach Rresh. Pop in if you're in Cambridge! 🏺😁

Red wine, dog, and getting this dang (overdue) draft done. 🍷🖋️

We have an @asor-research.bsky.social session! "Towards a Working Ancient Economy: The Bronze Age" Link here: www.asor.org/am/2025/appr...

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

Nice!! Can't wait to read.

A system to ensure equity of representation whereby certain peoples (based solely on geography) are given a larger, weighted share of consideration relative to their actual share of the population?? Seems like the new Executive Orders make this system illegal and discriminatory!

This is a hell of a time to announce that we received a 3 yr NSF grant for further investigations at Qach Rresh, where we study how imperial admin and control affected daily life... and how ppl were able to survive (or not) after the Assyrian empire collapsed. We'll see if it comes through.

🚨New excavation results!🚨 🏺 Our first results from excavations at Qach Rresh in Iraqi Kurdistan are published! QR is a site founded in the rural core of the Assyria at the empire's height (c. 700 BCE). It was likely used for administering rural production. OA link: doi.org/10.1017/irq....

Dr. Jones illustrating the most important and rewarding part of being an archaeologist.

🚨🏺🍑 Nature Ecology & Evolution (@natureecoevo.bsky.social) chose our work tracking the spread of peaches through Indigenous networks as one of ten ecology papers published in 2024 to be included in their Year in Review set! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Original: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Was NOT expecting this when I moved down to Atlanta... The pup is delighted, though.❄️🐶

The year 2024 saw an appalling act of cultural vandalism being enacted. In 2025, those responsible for such an affront to the city of Sheffield should pay the price for their insulting decision & resign. Please share & like the link. @sheffielducu.bsky.social ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

Happy first day of the new year, brought to you by 3.5 Ramesses IIs.

“Of the $54 billion or so in research that the federal government funds in U.S. higher education, $69 million goes to the humanities. That is, the humanities receive 0.13% of the federal total. For every thousand dollars the feds spend on research, the humanities receive a dollar and 30 cents.”

Thoguhts Of Life—Ive replaced evero screen in my goon cave w/ a diff. translation of the Epic Of Gilgamesh. My mind has become rather Honed

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Merry Christmas 🎄 from the HERDS Team in Oman 🇴🇲

Not a bad view for Christmas Eve.

In Oman! Troubleshooting drones and taking photos of camels 😍🏺

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I’d rather make students write on clay tablets than use AI to help me teach.

When a part of your UAV camera rig breaks 24 hours before heading out to the field, you make an emergency trip to the 3D printer... #Fridaythe13th 🏺

Testing out the new thermal camera for aerial thermography, so you can bet that the pup is the first subject. 🐶🌄

Parthian hedgehog from Nippur. Top 10 Mesopotamian artifact list. 🏺

I just love the unobtrusiveness of #landscape #history, just waiting for us to take a longer, wondering look. Here, the dark, composted fills of #RomanoBritish ditches in light silty soils bound a long curving drove running from the photo's mid-left margin to the top RH corner ... 1/n

Can't wait to be out in two weeks!! Everyone check this project out – SUCH a cool landscape! (Obligatory archaeology Bsky archaeology emoji 🏺)