Calling all field scientists 🧪 (but especially archaeologists 🏺🪏)... my field school students are asking about GIS certificate programs, does anyone have any recommendations?

To my American friends, May tomorrow's Independence Day festivities bring renewed vigour in your fight against authoritarianism, and I hope that you awake on Sunday with just as many fingers and toes as you go to sleep with tonight. Very faithfully yours, Curt

Have you ever had such a shitty friend group that when you and your gang cosplayed as big boys you got excommunicated by the Pope?

New Cambridge Element, Incorporating Native American Philosophies and Ontologies in Archaeological Practice by Nathan R. Lawres, Delaney O'Connell and Matthew C. Sanger, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4vDDYFQ

10 more hours for the sale on the Tasting History cookbook

Overheard a conversation in the coffee shop on my way to work. The word "Neanderthal" piqued my interest. An older gentleman was correcting his friend, who used the word in the pejorative, explaining how Neanderthals weren't the ignorant brutes we once thought. It's working folks! Keep it up!🏺

genAI is and always has been exactly this: Billions of dollars funded by taxpayers, invested by non-tax paying companies, to steal data, to feed a lie-machine, to fade skills, to make people dependent, to then crank up the price for a gutted work force, and expect ROI? Absolutely friggin' stupid.

Had a guest speaker at work today present on AI. She explained what AI was and what it was not; how it's essentially a glorified copy+paste machine lacking even a modicum of credibility; how the window of ethical use is so vanishingly small and illusory that its existence is suspect. 💯 No notes.

And this is why AI does not have a place in the classroom: this is where students/the younger generations learn to think. Any big company owned by billionaires telling you they want control over that process should be distrusted immediately, and what the hell are we doing instead jfc

This video took over TEN YEARS to make! So you know it's a good one It summarizes a major avenue of research that took me from PhD student to Postdoc to now Don't miss out on it! It's educational and fun youtu.be/mn_51q5mTM8?...

The fact the gov is stopping their exhibit is wild. Oral histories & archaeology have supported the Innu's timeline in Labrador as thousands, not hundreds, of years. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Here is a very comprehensive article on what is happening. #CanArch we need to be keeping on top of this as it develops. We're watching erasure of a culture being attempted by the NL gov, saying Innu people have only been in Lab for 300 years. theindependent.ca/news/provinc...

I don't know if #archaeologists are following what happened in Nfld today, but it is colonialism in action. After 2 years of prep, right before #IndigenousPeoplesDay, the NL Gov told the Innu that they cannot open their exhibit b/c it doesn't align with the gov's interp of their history. Yeah. 🏺

I dunno, man. But I think that maybe sending 6.5 million gallons of eutrophic and microbe-rich water into a storm drain is bad for whatever system that drain empties into and might have undesired knock-on effects. But I've only got a humanities degree, so what do I know?

The Reflecting Pool is such a perfectly on-the-nose example of Trump. Extremely unnecessary and public addressing a non-problem. Vanity trumps expert consultation. Immediately (and predictably) goes to shit. Costs balloon. The "fixes" cause more damage than if nothing was done at all. Rinse repeat.

There's a gulf of difference between the oligarachic genesis and top-down push of genAI, and an accessibility device being sold to the general populace via infomercial under the guise of a fun new gadget conveniently fixing a problem that didn't exist to justify production costs in an ableist world.

I mean honestly? Legit. 10/10, no notes, when is the adaptation coming out?

None. Straight up none.

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We live in an age of extreme inequality. As archaeologists and anthropologists, I believe it is fundamentally important that we demonstrate that imbalance of power is not inevitable and that there are many other ways of existing as a society.

I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231

There. Fixed if for you.

Not now deadly fungal storms. Jesus. Read the room.

Humanities and Social Sciences: It appears that de-prioritizing the entrenchment of systems of wealth-based power and acknowledging generational disenfranchisement elevates the collective good. Governments: No. *Everyone disliked that.* Conservative Brainiacs: This is the university's fault.

Just finished reading @badancient.bsky.social 's 'The Far Edges of the Known World: A New History of the Ancient Past'. A refreshing look at ancient history from the perspective of those normally considered on the periphery, centering a much-needed spotlight on the margins that changed the world.🏺

I'm a disabled/chronically ill, ace, nonbinary/intersex archaeology YouTuber building archaeological sites in Minecraft. I also run Archaeo SMP, where builds from previous seasons decay & appear in later seasons. Any archaeology Minecrafters, please get in touch! 🏳️‍🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSm...

Part of my survey of Archaeology YouTube that I presented at the CAAs identified, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the overwhelming majority of heritage YouTube content creators are cishet (and white and male). There is SO much room for diversity. Got some queer archaeology? Share it! 🌈🏺

Holy smokes! The latest episode of Gamechanger by @dropout.tv had the wife and I in stitches. 'Spin that Wheel' is top-tier comedy. 😂 If you're not subscribed, I honestly can't recommend it enough.

This context is good stuff. Hank Green does it again. youtu.be/pXVmkurTOgM?...

The more billionaires' spaceships I see blow up, the more I understand why recycling just isn't really a thing in the United States. Not going to stop me from recycling, though. I just understand, is all.

Are you an archaeologist seeking avenues into public communication? Want to learn about pop-sci writing, podcasts, videos? Join my SAA webinar next Wednesday 3 May at 1 pm EST! saa.org/Member/SAAMe...

Our 2nd speaker Audrey Lin @undeaddandy.bsky.social told us about how aDNA research combined w/Indigenous knowledge uncovered the history of the Coast Salish woolly dogs 🐕 a culturally important breed whose fur was used for weaving 🧶. Learn more about her work: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 3/n

This sounds like a fun opportunity!

No. From the word "Go," DHS and homeland security were thoroughly understood as the mechanism through which overt anti-Arab racism was institutionalized and pervasive clandestine domestic surveillance was justified. It has always been authoritarian terror with a thin but illusory veneer of safety.

Is genAI just neo-colonialism? ✅ Grand theft without repercussions. ✅ Redirecting communally needed resources to feed the machine. ✅ Expansion without a plan or goal beyond expansion itself? ✅ Top-down push from billionaire-class? ✅ Adopt, adapt, or die? Starting to sound and look rather duckish.

I don't think the whole "wish ill on him" approach to saving the country is working, guys.

I haven't checked the replies, so I imagine he means "cute as hell."

The Canadian Archaeological Association Meeting in Canmore was a blast, and my session on 'Combating Anti-intellectualism and Pseudoarchaeology through Public Engagement' went very well. Though it was only 4 papers, each presentation was standing room only, with lots of follow-up discussions. 🏺

"Why does everyone boo me?" wonder the most incurious people who are constantly telling the World that hundreds of millions of jobs will no longer exist soon, without providing any suggestion that there will be a massive restructuring of the global economy that will ensure people can continue living

I had an argument for a paper hinge on a citation I read once. Spent far too long tracking down the citation, only to realize that it referred to a website that turned out to be defunct. That entire section was scrapped because I couldn't verify the truth of the citation. That's just how it goes.🤷🏼

Like the old saying goes: If you put three archaeologists in a room, you'll have five different opinions. 🏺

Holy crow! Look at these. Just look at 'em! Stunning!

How to write an archaeology conference paper🏺: 1. Stay up all night thinking about a section. 2. Spend most of the day drafting, editing, re-writing, and editing some more. 3. Realize during dinner that a slide with a few short bullet points would be sufficient. 4. Sigh exasperatedly. 5. Repeat.

Easy. 2001's "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera". Pro Tip: do not, DO NOT play the drinking game to this movie.

This is why we need to bring back year names, asap! 2026? Pedestrian, numbers, meaningless. Year in which Artemis II returned from the Moon? Epic, speaks to a great deed, hero shit.

Hey hey: historian/game designer/Why We Roll alum Dr. Erica Bridges has launched her very cool post-apocalypse/new world/JRPG/Roman philosophy game, Nostos! @ericabridgesphd.bsky.social Go back it, please! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...