Check out the latest Graduate Voice featuring Kelly Sullivan, a 2024 MSU grad in biology and anthropology, now excavating history at Colonial Michilimackinac. #GradVoices #Archaeology spr.ly/63321f1CYl

Senior Paige Topping joined MSU students, faculty & alumni in Tuscany for the Monteverdi Field School. Read about her archaeology journey abroad! 🇮🇹 #MSUAbroad http://spr.ly/633274aUsN

The @acls1919.bsky.social, AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the unlawful dismantling of the NEH: "Congress believed NEH to be essential to the functioning of our democracy, & the public interest would be served by honoring that determination."

My middle school robotics team made it to state championships, and we are heading there today! Excited to just be there, and proud of my kids. #vexiq

"Get in Dorks, we are going protesting." - @cdelawalla.bsky.social

Excellent @newyorker.com article on two of my colleagues' work: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How is this an official government website? The font looks like my first website I made in the early 1990s using HTML. doge.gov/savings

Another reason to 1) buy paper copies of books from your local bookseller and 2) check out e-books from your local library instead of buying them from Amazon. lithub.com/next-week-am...

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

msmagazine.com/2025/01/21/a... Rage, read, organize, repeat.

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

A Reddit user created an infographic to illustrate that federal employees are not the adversaries. Stay united and keep your strength! Original Post: From the fednews community on Reddit https://buff.ly/4aZTmmJ #FederalWorkers #CivilService #HoldTheLine #PublicService #SupportFederalEmployee

Universities announcing job losses and/ or course closures in just the last two weeks: *Cardiff *University of the Creative Arts *Dundee *Durham *Kent *Lancaster *Newcastle *Open University *Reading *University of the West of England

We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️

The National Transportation Safety Board telling media they can only receive updates via the government-aligned website of the oligarch who is running the administration. The government helping to make X relevant is one of a myriad of ways Musk's public role boosts his private businesses.

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

I wrote a letter to MSU about the recent executive orders. danny.hellmo.space/posts/an-ope... #highered #dei #edusky #physicssky #astrosky #michiganstate #msu

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

NIN's album Year Zero seems like a fitting soundtrack for 2025 thus far 😭

No matter how right he is, it's hard to watch Mike Davis' predictions in Ecology of Fear come true in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles wildfires are at risk of contaminating the city's water supply, with ash, pathogens, toxic chemicals, flame retardants, and even melted pipes able to enter reservoirs and aqueducts. Several communities have advised residents not to drink tap water.

“My house is one of many that burned down. This event, for me, has destroyed any boundary between my work as a climate scientist and the rest of my life.” Read more from NASA JPL scientist Ben Hamlington:

I am so sad to hear that Inspiration Point shelter, which was built by volunteers, has burnt down. My dissertation examined the history and archaeology of Mount Lowe in the San Gabriels. Nearly the entire neighborhood and landscape is gone. A number of our friends have lost homes. #eatonfire

LA Fire TikTok comments are BLEAK. Every conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard plus a bunch that are brand new.

With @sheffielduni.bsky.social putting up more academics in world renowned departments up for voluntary #redundancy .. it’s worth reading what happened to #archaeology back in 2021. We said this would happen & that #archaeology was just the start… @ucu.org.uk ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/campaigns/st...

Winter at Michigan State University

Ah, the memories... #GoWhite www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYfGCQxW/

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

I decided 2025 is the year I switch back to print media. I subscribed to a few of my favorite magazines and newspapers. We need accurate, solid media reporting in this day and age.

Currently reading this book and 50% of the way done. Very curious to see the movie version. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’m convinced the “do audiobooks count as reading?” argument all derives from those mid-90s summer reading pizza challenges. Folks - we’re all in our 30s and 40s now. It’s no longer a competition. Go buy your favorite pie with your adult money and let people enjoy books however they want.

Haslett school district sent out a survey asking for generic feedback about the district. The responses (which you can up vote or down vote) broke down into 4 buckets 1: We need more DEI 2. We need less DEI 3. Pay teachers more 4. Other (food sucks, too much homework, I love Haslett sports)

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This breaks my heart as a former #vandal faculty member and spouse of an alum.