This is my next book restoration project: a c.1910 revised edition of Mrs Beeton’s Household management. Of no great financial value even in immaculate condition, but of sentimental value to me, binding falling apart so badly that it can barely be handled.

Me watching a World Cup game: hhmmm, match footage would make good foreshortened anatomy reference for bird’s eye view illustrations. #SciArt #archaeology

Today is my last day at Scientific American, which has been sold to LabX media group. For three decades I've led the magazine's coverage of human origins, archaeology, paleontology, animal behavior, ecology, BIRDS. End of an era. Anyway this feels weird to say, but I'm now available for assignments!

Become ungovernable

Hey, it's publication day for "Anarchism and Archaeology" a chapter I wrote w/ Nika Shilobod, Judit del Rio, @archhelmer.bsky.social, @apolitopoulos.bsky.social James Flexner, Marian Verihuete-Azorin, Lewis Borck, James Birmingham & @blacktrowel.bsky.social folks. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

I gave a book report on the Phantom Tollbooth in 6th grade, complete with a large stuffed Milo that I sewed. I only remember two other students’ reports, one on “Les Miserables” and one on “IT”. Still have not read Les Mis but I immediately went out and read all the S. King I could find. #BookSky

On the Main Motion Council votes 15-1 to pause all data centres in Hamilton for up to two years. Approves drafting an Interim Control Bylaw. #yhmcc

Documenting Ireland’s vanishing boglands: ‘They hold millennia in their layers’

They are EVERYWHERE this season. Doesn’t matter where you go or don’t go, do frequent tick checks #HamOnt. I’ve seen the worse case scenario of long term undiagnosed Lyme disease via a childhood friend. You don’t want this.

Artificial intelligence relies on material resources: land, electricity, water, cooling systems, transmission lines, gas infrastructure, minerals and servers. When those demands become concentrated in one place, AI becomes an environmental and energy issue. #HamOnt

Digitising an entire collection of 7.4 million specimens is truly just nuts. (And I say this as someone who in her teens digitised a *lot* of natural history specimens.) What a great resource for science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The BHL also contains a surprising amount of archaeology, from the days when societies and journals had a broad span of interest

Contemplating throwing everything into the see and starting over as a bright eyed college student so I can take this class.

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

Finally got my hands on @sallypointer.bsky.social’s Nalbinding book! Looking forward to making @aroddick.bsky.social some incredibly lumpy socks. #booksky #archaeology #textiles #craft

Thanks to all the folks flagging W.E.B Du Bois' groundbreaking data visualization work, which helped people better understand how Black political power was being diluted. I had no idea. www.jasonforrestftw.com/projects/201...

UNANIMOUS 9-0 Hamilton City Council Planning Committee votes to create an Interim Control Bylaw to freeze data centre development in Hamilton. Graphic of how Council voted. It needs to be ratified next Wednesday. #HamOnt #yhmcc

🏺 Fell into a bit of a rabbit hole at work today after finding some mummified crocodiles in my research. Big fan of this one, currently at the Louvre. 📜

Listening to #HamOnt residents speak eloquently in support of the moratorium on data centre development.

We have extended the Games and Archaeological Play call for zines until July 17th! Anyone can submit a zine: you do not need to attend or register for the conference to submit. gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

Now on TPR: Hamilton City Council is poised to freeze new data centres for up to two years. 10 of 16 council members confirmed they support a city-wide interim control bylaw. Find out where your councillor stands before tomorrow's Planning Committee vote. #yhmcc #HamOnt (1/3)

Remains of an ~8,000-year-old prehistoric dog sled, found on Zhokhov Island, Russia. Used to transport obsidian tools over 1,500km, it is one of the earliest examples of working animals in the archaeological record #InternationalWorkingAnimalDay (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Hell yeah lobster mural

Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/

When the letters are finally down, it would be grand to see them repurposed like a Confederate statue in the hands of artist Kara Walker

I love a good textile metaphor in the archives.

an interesting thread that i don't exactly agree with. gaps in archives /are/ like rips in clothing if we don't attempt the fool's errand of presenting the "unrended garment" as whole cloth. visible mending, done with care, in a way makes repairs and imperfections clear. like stitches to a wound.

The last working ochre mine in the U.K, Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean, where colour has been mined for 4,500 years. A beautiful range is still mined & milled there: yellow ochre, red ochre (Terra Rosa d’Inghilterra), brown ochre, & rarer purple ochre, akin to ‘caput mortuum’.

Waiting for the #BayeauxTapestry BM ticket sales to go live feels a bit like 'our Glastonbury' 🎟️🔥 I've even set up an ⏰ on my phone. DM me if you know any elbow sharpening exercises I should be doing to prepare for the inevitable crush. #MuseumLife #countdown www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

The jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Teach about long & ongoing struggle for voting rights with the 3-lesson unit for grades 7+: "Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in U.S." by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social Find free lessons, SNCC toolkit, & more ⬇️ #teachoutsidetextbook www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

PHOTO The audience celebrates following the Committee of Adjustment decision to deny Steelport land severance. #hamont #yhmcc

This is the largest crowd that I have ever seen inside of Hamilton City Hall. Hundreds of people here at Committee of Adjustment to voice their opposition to AI data centres. #hamont

Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007)

Go #HamOnt

As vivid & fresh as if they'd been cut, and painted, this morning in the garden: flowers in a glass vase by Rachel Ruysch, 1700. Today is her birthday.

Hey #HamOnt, there's a group coalescing around opposing the #Steelport data centre plans, and one member has made a website with info on several options for getting involved: StopTheDataCentre.ca

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look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

She is made of but cardboard, so her time on this mortal coil will be brief, but I hope she entertains and educates many during her stay. Wish her luck, everyone. 🫡

In which Violet Frances describes how she developed the June @sciam.bsky.social cover art. The journey includes a print of Grace Jones & grappling w/what it means to be an artist in the age of generative AI. (Collabs like this one are why I love my job.) www.violetfrances.com/casestudies/... #SciArt

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Fingerprints from a possible # of fingers; artists documenting process & happy little mistakes; the unique character of well-used type/tools; physical light+color effects you cannot get on screen; the joy of making & getting art in the mail 🎨 are some of the nonAI visual art things fulfilling me rn

I attended @nrindernann.bsky.social’s very well run info meeting on this issue tonight. This article just alerted me to the possibility of a different data centre in Ward 1 where I live. @ward1wilson.bsky.social, I hope you’re also planning info meetings to address Ward 1 residents’ concerns.

I get why politicians *actually* support the building of massive datacentres -- it is of benefit to capitalists. But exactly what economic benefits are they *claiming* result for ordinary people, given that datacentres do demonstrable environmental harm and create practically no jobs? #cdnpoli