Next Monday! Dr. Corey Noxon Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan Monday, October 27 11:30 am–12:45 pm Cornett B235 @uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology events.uvic.ca/anthropology...

I thought the internet emerged partially from designs to build resilience in information networks in the face of localised outage (nuclear strikes). Now we have massive servers presenting high-risk points of massive failure. #AWS

A hectic work schedule has prevented me from having some time to reflect on a fantastic trip to visit some Northern #Jomon UNESCO sites I recently took with @b-thom.bsky.social & archaeologist Shaun Canute from the Cowichan Tribes as part of a collaborative research project we're starting. 🏺

Looking through my photos, and I forgot to share one of my favorite parts of my Golden Jomon trip: Cultural Property Battle cards. Their stats are: Designation, Est. value, Rarity, Period. These are from Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture. I would have absolutely tried to find them all with time.

If you missed out on our #digital #archaeology conference earlier this month you can catch up at our YouTube channel! Start with the amazing keynote from Brett Leavy (Bilbie XR Labs) on "Visualising Ancestral Futures". youtu.be/alVaRjusYqM

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

🚨 Call for Papers OPEN for #CAA2026 in Vienna 🇦🇹! Members of CAA Poland 🇵🇱 are co-organizing 4 sessions: 🔹 S10: Sensory Archaeology 🔹 S46: Human Factor in Data Recording 🔹 S48: Mobile GIS 🔹 S50: Endangered Heritage 📅 Submit by 26 Oct 2025

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Always nice to see a company have to reverse course after getting blowback for a clear cash grab. www.androidcentral.com/accessories/...

Our new collaborative project just hit the news in BC! We had a fantastic time touring Northern #Jomon UNESCO sites this week. Lots of great discussions with our Cowichan and UVic partners with lots of exciting research themes to explore. #archaeology 🏺 www.timescolonist.com/local-news/e...

🤩📣 @caa-australasia.bsky.social is hosting their third online conference this week, 2nd and 3rd of October. IT'S FREE and Everyone is welcome! Please join us for some interesting sessions! au.caa-international.org/2025-confere...

Nice article and video from NHK regarding ongoing work at the Tsuzuraozaki lakebed site in Shiga prefecture. Project members have recently found a cluster of 6 Kofun Period jars together using a remote submersible. #Japan #Jomon #archaeology 🏺 www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20...

phys.org/news/2025-09... #archaeology #Japan #Jomon #3D 🏺

A couple more shots from the Norwich Cathedral. And in case you were wondering, I was unable to resist a little pet for the seat warmer.

The schedule for the 2025 CAA Australasia Online Conference is up online! The conference will take place Oct 2nd & 3rd, featuring a keynote by Brett Leavy & 20 presentations across 6 sessions. Links for abstracts & registration are listed in the link below!🏺 au.caa-international.org/2025-confere...

Haven't sat down to post much about it, but I had the opportunity to present at the Society for East Asian Archaeology this summer & do a bit of touring while there. Took far too many photos, but I thought I'd share some for a bit. Here's one of the Norwich Cathedral that I like.

Hey everyone! I am running a survey on the photogrammetry industry and would love for people of all skill levels who use photogrammetry to fill it out. Please share it around! I really appreciate your time on this one, hopefully we can learn a thing or two forms.gle/CaAuwmR7eFEY...

A friend of mine at Scan Space NZ put together a survey aimed at better understanding the current state of the #photogrammetry & #3D scanning industry, including those in #glam & other cultural heritage institutions. Please take a peek if you have time! #archaeology docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

Our free online #digital #archaeology conference is next week, Oct 2-3! Tickets are still available, and a full list of speakers is up on our website. events.humanitix.com/caa-australa... @caaint.bsky.social @caadk.bsky.social @caa-lac.bsky.social @caapoland.bsky.social @caa-uk.bsky.social

Another positive post to go along with my doom posting. Here's another friend who decided to come by and say hello while we excavated. 🏺 #archaeology #Japan #Yamanashi #cat

Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) on this moment. Not just the transcript but the video of a floor speech yesterday. A rallying cry:

Now is the time to contact your employers and rally to protect vulnerable colleagues. The administration is demanding that any valid H1-B visa holders outside the U.S. (or their employers) pay $100,000 for them to reenter the country, as of Sunday. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

We had a family chat this evening and decided to cancel our Disney+ subscription. #ABC and #Disney folding to pressure to pull #Kimmel off the air was shameful. Do better....

CAA Australasia's third free online digital archaeology conference, running on Thursday 2nd - Friday 3rd October is now open for registration events.humanitix.com/caa-australa... /em

This free online event in October from Dig Ventures looks like a wonderful opportunity for anyone with an interest in archaeology, gaming or technology in general 👇 digventures.com/product/reim...

News has been pretty bleak lately. Since it's possible to have both good & bad things happen at the same time I'm going to try to break up some of the doom posting with some lighter & happier posts. For instance, here's a little friend that came to visit while excavating last month 🏺 #archaeology

📢 @rijksmuseum.bsky.social's 2and3D Photography call for papers is still open—I recommend you throw your hat in the ring. 👍 I sit on the advisory board and it is one of my favourite heritage imaging conferences with a very welcoming and fun atmosphere! www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/... #GLAM3D

Mark your calendars! The 2025 CAA Australasia Online Conference is coming Oct 2nd-3rd with 21 talks by speakers from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia & Europe discussing a variety of interesting digital #archaeology projects! 🏺 Get your FREE tickets here: events.humanitix.com/caa-australa...

@b-thom.bsky.social In the spirit of back to school, we wanted to share that even professors are always finding excitement in learning new things!

Educational video for the day. youtu.be/kkZ7B-Fv-ck?...

Today is the last day to submit your abstracts for our free online digital archaeology conference (2-4 October)! CfP closes tonight at midnight! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @caaint.bsky.social @caa-lac.bsky.social @caapoland.bsky.social @caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy @caadk.bsky.social

Just today and tomorrow left to submit your abstracts for our free online digital archaeology conference (2-4 October)! We're accepting both 15-minute papers and 5-minute lightning talks. Submit your abstracts here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Hengjanefossen "Whiskey Falls", Lysefjord, Norway...wow

Brian Thom speaks with Vancouver Sun on Cowichan/Hul’qumi’num seasonal village known as Tl’uqtinus on the Fraser River vancouversun.com/news/cowicha... @b-thom.bsky.social

GREAT NEWS! 📢 The Call for sessions for CAA2026 has been extended to 31st August! Get yours in 😍 More details here: 2026.caaconference.org

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

📢 Conference alert! CAA Australasia are holding their third online conference, from Thurs 2nd to Sat 4th October, 2025. We're currently calling for abstracts on digital and computational archaeology (15-min presentations or 5-min lightning talks), due Tues 19th Aug: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

A fun online conference coming up for all the #digitalarchaeology peeps in the Oceania region!

Beautiful day to introduce the family to Stonehenge :) 🏺

Join us!!!

⚒️ 🧪 A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean. This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.

Due to reach 40°C in Kyoto today....

Panel starting up now!

Really looking forward to this event. A good digital field recording workflow is something I've been interested in a while and I'm really curious to hear what the speakers have to speak about and share in the subject! #archaeology #digital 🏺

Delighted to share the latest paper from the ENCOUNTER project led by Oliver Craig where we examined the divergence of culinary tradition in Japan and Korea around the turn of the 1st millennium BCE, when rice and millet farming were introduced in Japan doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺 Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries. @archaeologyuk.bsky.social