Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.

Cook safe this holiday season! For the ham!

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Working on something about what Twitter meant to historians - what was good/not good about it for the profession, in relation to the general crisis of academic history / the profession, etc., the cratering of the university. What was #twitterhistory at its best? What were its failures? 🗃️

So proud of @trowelblazers.bsky.social! This week, the four of us received the TAG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Archaeological Theory for all TrowelBlazers has done over the past 12 years @lemoustier.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @brennawalks.bsky.social @tag2025york.bsky.social and

I don't usually reskeet myself on here but earlier I babbled a bunch about the challenges of putting together the @contingent-mag.bsky.social list of lit crit this year and the capacious, shifting status of "NTT" and here we are. Also, here's the list! contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/16/2...

Was the overturning of the Mound Builders mythology in the late 19th century a "triumph for science?" I argue, no, it wasn't, and that this narrative framing should be abandoned in my latest in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Flagging #HigherEd news that has gone under-reported: the axing of Title VI National Resource Centers. These provided instruction in rare-but-important languages (like Kreyòl!) and allowed scholars from different disciplines to collaborate on a shared area.

FAIRly Obscure (The Trilogy): An Anthropology Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, January 9, 2026 Presented by The University of Maryland Center for Archival Futures; The Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan School of Information; the University of Missouri’s iSchool; and the Council for the…

All archaeologists should be aware of how our discipline is being used in Palestine right now 🏺

NEW SHRIT dashare.zone I WILL NEVER PASTE WITH FORMATING ,DO NOT FORMAT MY PASTE!!!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

New publication from the BHA! Check out Maximilian Georg on "The ‘New Romans,’ a Prestigious Museum, and a ‘Bosnian’ Identity: Archaeology and Colonialism in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1918." Available #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10..... Abstract 👇 🗃️📚🏺

Today’s the day for this one, from Open Road. openroadmedia.com/ebook/states...

ICYMI: /r/AskHistorians AMA is up! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

ICYMI: /r/AskHistorians AMA is up! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Looking forward to discussing my book tomorrow morning on @askhistorians.bsky.social! 🗃️🏺🇲🇽 I'm a long-time reader and excited to contribute—highly recommend checking out the forum if you haven't already: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

I have been many getting requests 4 support from Sudanese refugee students for financial support to pursue their degrees. I would love to connect them to uni programs that provide scholarships for scholars at risk. If your institution does please reply below.

lol turns out the real problem wasn't the cringe, it was that they typeset the pre-peer review file

reviewing some long-delayed proofs for something i wrote back in 2022, and in a second language... if you don't see me post again, trust that i died of cringe. rip

Let’s say you had the opportunity to assign college students *1* thing (article, video, podcast) to help them understand what edtech is, how it’s funded, who benefits from it, and how it preys on their data. What hits these bases in a comprehensive, up-to-date, and powerful way?

💫Now Available💫 The reviews are in on Las Tierras del Mayathan. Exploring Maya culture in the Northern Lowlands across time - from pre-Hispanic to present - this volume brings together research on archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, calendars, astronomy, mural art, and codices. 🏺

this is the way

@univnebpress.bsky.social is having a whole-catalog holiday sale! Use discount code 6HLW25 for 50% off through the end of the year! That's $15 for paperback/ebook editions of my book. ICYMI: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺

discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either

New publication from the BHA! If you're looking for a primer on the history of archaeological research in #Ethiopia, check out Alebachew Birru's "Archaeology in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia: Research Trends and Prospects." #OpenAccess: archaeologybulletin.org/articles/10.... 🗃️📚🏺🇪🇹

Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!

Super excited to be preparing for my Archaeology 🏺 and Disability ♿ course for winter quarter! Registration starts this week, and I hope lots of awesome @stanford.edu students sign up! I'll be posting about the class here on BlueSky too, and would love to have some good pedagogy conversations!

Donations will be split between: - DC IWOC who do commissary and jail support for folks caged in jails and prisons - The Liberation Fund that does commissary and phone support for people caged in VA detention centers (where most ppl detained by ICE in the DMV area end up)

WASHINGTON DC A cold alert has been activated for today through tomorrow morning. With consent, call the shelter hotline to have folks transported to an open shelter bed or warming center — 202-399-7093 or 311. Give folks cash, hand warmers, blankets, sleeping bags, hats/scarves/gloves.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

that's right!!! for everything you ever wanted to know about vanilla... well, you should probably check out Emilio Kourí's A Pueblo Divided. but if you want to know what vanilla has to do with violence in the countryside, heritage management, or Trakgátlokg, check out my book!!!

@univnebpress.bsky.social is having a whole-catalog holiday sale! Use discount code 6HLW25 for 50% off through the end of the year! That's $15 for paperback/ebook editions of my book. ICYMI: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺

Don’t buy Starbucks coffee. Don’t buy Windmill Mushrooms. Solidarity forever! #NoContractNoCoffee No compres café de Starbucks. No compres hongos de Windmill Mushrooms. ¡Solidaridad para siempre!

Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...

UC prez Millikan has BACKED OFF murdering the PPFP program, due, I am sure, in no small part to the UCLAFA/UCFA/AAUP win in court on Friday!! When we fight, we win!

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching? "Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies" Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific #academicsky 🏺♿

thanks to Rachel for the best endorsement of my book's cost-to-endnote ratio yet!!! you heard it here first, folks!!! a bargain at twice the price!!!

bookfomerical time!!! order In the Shadow of El Tajín from @univnebpress.bsky.social NOW w/ discount code 𝟔𝐀𝐅𝟐𝟓 and get S I X BODY CHAPTERS, 20+ figures, and 700+ endnotes for JUST $18 (+ shipping and taxes)!!! now THAT’s what i call 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺!!! www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

A quick shout-out to the @univnebpress.bsky.social for #UPWeek! I had the benefit of a stellar team for my book—thanks to @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social and @emilykcasillas.bsky.social (editorial), Sara Springsteen (project management), Lindsey Welch (design), and Madison Wigley (marketing).

A quick shout-out to the @univnebpress.bsky.social for #UPWeek! I had the benefit of a stellar team for my book—thanks to @bridgetrbarry.bsky.social and @emilykcasillas.bsky.social (editorial), Sara Springsteen (project management), Lindsey Welch (design), and Madison Wigley (marketing).

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!

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-...