@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

More edu resources here and on my website! Including printable zines: sites.google.com/view/emily-k...

Christopher Columbus sighted Puerto Rico #OnThisDay in AD 1493. The island had been occupied for at least 5000 years at this point, and new research investigates Puerto Rico's poorly-understood Early Period (c. 4200 BC–AD 250) with these beautiful pendants 🆓 buff.ly/qsY7H9M 🏺 #Archaeology

Happy Friday! Just wanted to share some beautiful color changes already happening with our clay samples, unfired and fired to 400 and 500°C.

Met with a 4th grade classroom just a few days ago and they had really great questions prepared!! Really cool to see how into archaeology they were 🪏🧪⚱️🍎

Sharing my newest open-access article, where I compared some new neutron activation analysis (NAA) data of Puerto Rican ceramics to previously studied ceramics in Puerto Rico, eastern Dominican Republic, and St. Croix! Also attached another pie chart figure! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Archaeologists partnered with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to better understand why Pensacola potters, who lived in Mobile Bay and adjacent coastal regions to the east and west around A.D. 1150-1700, used marine shell temper in their pottery. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/temp...

🏺 The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is hiring an archaeological analyst, based in Charlottesville, VA. bit.ly/DAACSanalyst

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

🏺DYK that the first people in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos made pottery with dust that originated in the Sahara?! Our new article confirms this, and a whole lot more about how the Lucayans engineered pottery in this challenging environment. doi.org/10.1080/1556... @emikracht.bsky.social

I loved working on this and so glad to see it published!! ✨️

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

New year and new undergraduate interns!! This year, I'll be mentoring with a focus on clay curation and experimental testing of ceramics! We started with making some test bars this week, including some clays from California and North Carolina, the latter obviously the beautiful bright red one 😍

I just finished making up some free printable zines on Caribbean archaeology! Featured are nine (for now) zines on different topics, including foodways, mythology, ballgames, language, edu resources, and more! Link here but also available on my website! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Anthropology collections manager job at the AMNH @amnh.org in New York! Additional info: A PhD (or PhD candidacy) is required to apply. Prior training in collections management and databases is essential. This is not a research position. Salary range $93-98k/year. careers.amnh.org/postings/4509

Want to learn more about ceramics and exchange in early Puerto Rico? New paper by myself and colleagues is now out! We looked at 12 sites and +300 ceramics to recreate ancient routes of interaction, including their directionality and intensity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

I spoke with several leading archaeologists to better understand the impact recent federal funding cuts will have on archaeology in the US. The future doesn’t look good. #NSF #NEH #archaeology #paleoanthropology #heritage New at @science.org 🏺🧪

Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say: 🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds. Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal... Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wanted to celebrate a little good news. Last Friday some other graduate students and I held an inaugural Anthropology Department Research Symposium for students! It was really successful, and we were able to get 100% of the costs covered for poster printing, awards, and plenty of food!

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut. It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

Did a pottery firing demo for my department here at UC-Santa Barbara. Couldn't figure out where to legally build a fire, so we improvised a bit! Overall, it was pretty successful! Commercial clay always fires pretty poorly, but most of the ceramics survived or can easily crossmend.

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Back to back conferences from the SAAs in Denver to UCLA but getting some great exploring done! Can it be summer yet?

SAAs Denver was a success! Had a great time catching up with colleagues and friends. Thanks to those who dropped by my poster! #saa2025

Quick plug for my SAA poster, I will be presenting some new radiocarbon dates at 2 ballcourt sites in Puerto Rico! My poster is Saturday morning from 10-12. Pending supplies, I will also have some Caribbean archaeology themed stickers and pins to give out. 😎🫡

as our department moves into a new building at the end of the semester we've had to say goodbye to our large globe and Al the allosaurus. but i cant say i hate the temporary replacements 🤪

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day! Celebrating by sharing this Caribbean archaeology infographic I made a while back, centered on women! 💖 (1/2)

In Science (p. 462) this week, my colleagues--Scott Fitzpatrick, Kristina Gill, Patrick Kirch, John Ruiz, Victor Thompson, Jason Younker--and I warn of the dire threat rising seas (0.81 cm in 2024!) and marine erosion pose for coastal archaeological sites worldwide. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans.

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey. Link: umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

🏺Made the local paper 😁 Excited about this research!

Hope everyone is enjoying some nice meals with loved ones and community today. Ever wonder what early Caribbean peoples ate? Find out below. As always, more resources and info on my website!

Huge congrats! 👏👏👏 Our archaeologist Ann Cordell was recognized with a lifetime achievement award from Southeastern Archaeological Conference. She earned her reputation as a premier expert on Florida pottery and for mentoring students & assisting peers. More www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/flor...

Figured I would reshare my educational resources I've been making the last few years here! These were the first ones I ever made; it started with wanting to teach myself Caribbean ceramics, and then wanting to share with others. More infographics and text friendly version in link in my bio!

Check out this new pub “Hunting, fishing, and foraging in times of conflict: the implications of choosing safety in the Mississippian Central Illinois River Valley” written with some great co-authors! doi.org/10.1080/0734...

This thread 🧵 collects all the #archaeology 🏺 starter packs Share far & wide. We could all use a little more archaeology in our lives @cjfrieman.bsky.social made the OG Archaeology and heritage list with first wave Twitter refugee scholars & orgs. Go follow Catherine now! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Hi all, making the move to this new platform. I'm a former collections assistant and student at Florida Museum of Natural History at UF, and current 3rd year PhD student at UC-Santa Barbara. I'm interested in exchange, mobility, and sociopolitical hierarchy in the early Indigenous Caribbean.