1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months. Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market. www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...

Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!

PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico! Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social! For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺

Don't cross the picket line--no reading Science News today! These journalists deserve a fair contract that recognizes the value they bring to the company.

Hot off the press and OA! The new issue of Diyar has a special section on the history of art and museology in the Ottoman Empire. Check it out: nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/... Shared for reference; opinions not my own. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology

Senate hearings aren’t done for funsies. Section 106 is in the sights of the deregulation efforts of this administration. Speak up if you think it’s important cultural resources are considered in project permitting. www.culturalheritagepartners.com/section-106-...

Conflict and Correspondence is now available from the @univnebpress.bsky.social in hard, soft, and digital. #academicsky #Mexico #Urban #Guadalajara #belonging #conflict #cities Learn how tapatios found belonging through conflict in mid-century Mexico. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

PUBLICATION DAY for In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico! Use discount code 6AF25 for 40% off—that's $18 plus taxes and shipping (paperback/ebook)! Thanks, @univnebpress.bsky.social! For more: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Just over a week out from publication day for my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (@univnebpress.bsky.social). Read more below or at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺 #skystorians #Mexico #archaeology #heritage

‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”

Virtual exhibit: "Cristero Exiles in San Antonio" archivesarchsa.org/s/STMU_Exhib...

Just over a week out from publication day for my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (@univnebpress.bsky.social). Read more below or at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺 #skystorians #Mexico #archaeology #heritage

"Historians and general readers alike would benefit from this timely and comprehensive addition to literature on the Southwest and public lands," writes George Moncaster in H-Environment (@hnetreviews.bsky.social). bit.ly/46XdHZp

As I’ve said before, there’s no better time to be running a Latin American studies program because you learn about the future from our region’s past

Does anyone know of any reader of the conquest of Peru? For Mexico we have Schwartz and Seijas, but I am not sure there is one for Peru. Thank you!

El uso de toallitas húmedas y su vertido por el inodoro, produce graves daños ambientales en los ríos, además de dañar las depuradoras de aguas residuales. A pesar de que en los envases se indica que son biodegradables, no lo son a corto plazo. Habría que prohibir su fabricación y su venta.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE (@uncpress.bsky.social). I'm very proud of this book, which I've dedicated to Ryan White and all people with HIV/AIDS. Hopefully it's a worthy tribute. And sadly, the book's call for dignity and 1/ 🗃️

🧵 (1/5) We have a bunch of new followers today so we thought it was a good time for an introduction! 👋 ✅ We're a nonprofit network that allows users to build profiles, websites, and discussion groups. Our repository, KCWorks, is fully open access and anyone can upload items & receive DOIs!

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com

So far this month we’ve distributed: 8 tents 5 carts $2,770 in direct cash aid $1,000 for an ICE bond $600 for eviction prevention $3,973 in utility debt relief & helped fundraise $2k+ for an unhoused neighbor evicted from their camp We need help restocking tents!: tinyurl.com/remorahousew...

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech. hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

Took a too-short trip to El Tajín at the end of a too-short visit to #Mexico, and figured I'd write a bit about one of my favorite buildings in #Mesoamerica, the Pyramid of the Niches. 🏺🗃️🇲🇽 1/10

🏺 Great writeup of our collaborative project with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to understand and revitalize potting traditions!

since I am engaged in horn-tooting: I created a tool to systematically consult the records for every volume held at the Spanish Archivo General de Indias, and almost nobody uses it. www.scottcave.net/classic-inve...

Here is a fairly drafty first draft! I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it! www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia

More information about how to donate, including for people living in Alaska. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

hi everyone! please read today 1 of my favorite articles. it's by Michel-Rolph Trouillot. it talks about how Columbus Day was invented in the 19th century for Italian-Americans. it ain't anything real I'll happily send anyone the PDF if they want #medievalsky 🗃️ read.dukeupress.edu/public-cultu...

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST est paru *enfin* en français!!! Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹 www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

accidentally used an em-dash for a year range and almost threw up. disgusting.

Que fuerte ver las fotos y los videos de las inundaciones en el norte del estado de Veracruz, casi en el aniversario de las inundaciones de 1999. 🇲🇽 imagendeveracruz.mx/estado/amane...

Also the $20 billion Argentina received from the IMF in APRIL and seems to have already squandered propping up the peso gets only passing mention in paragraph 20 (!)

Comparto con ustedes este video, comparto con ustedes la transmisión de la conferencia del doctor Miguel Pastrana acerca de #Tenochtitlan, origen y destino. #mitos #peregrinacion #codex

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time! TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series. chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

I'm starting to work on designing my "Archaeology and the Public" course for next spring. Does anyone have syllabi, assignments, or lesson plans they'd be willing to share on the subjects of public arch, collaborative arch, pseudoarch, or journalistic & pop culture depictions of arch?🏺 #academicsky

"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

Aquí va el link #AccesoAbierto: lasamericasveracruz.edu.mx/wp-content/u...

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Folks in public administration AND sociology: read my dear friend @profmcdonnell.bsky.social 's latest article: Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... (I wish I had written this article, it's so good!)

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

haven't joined the academia edu exodus but i am putting my work up on Knowledge Commons—which i haven't quite figured out, but—in case anyone's interested: hcommons.org/members/shol...

📕 What is gender #archaeology? 🏺 Explore how we can research gender roles in the past and how different gender issues in the academic world affect current archaeological thought in our latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

haven't joined the academia edu exodus but i am putting my work up on Knowledge Commons—which i haven't quite figured out, but—in case anyone's interested: hcommons.org/members/shol...

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

Próximamente por divulgar en medios digitales: Una revista conmemorativa para celebrar el centenario de los primeros ejidos de Papantla, Veracruz, México. Cuenta con estudios históricos y regionales de diversa índole, incluso por ejidatarios. Mira el índice aquí: 🗃️📚🇲🇽