Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

All I wanted to do this weekend was play with dirt and instead I spent literally every waking hour prepping course material so now I am burnt out and grumpy and have no time to decompress by playing with dirt 😭

Archaeologists! Don't buy Uline! 🏺

there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

It is September 16th and I just wrapped the first christmas presents of the year, get on my level 😎

Heads up for parents in the Eugene area! There will be a letter-writing event for kids to write letters/draw pictures to send to children in the occupied West Bank on October 4th at the public library!

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

Ever since the last time I taught my "last day of school and i forgot about a class I enrolled in until the last day" anxiety dreams have been replaced by "forgot you were teaching an online class until the last day" so you can imagine I am STRESSED about the quarter starting next week 😂

Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.

Just had roasted potatoes that I grew in my own garden!!

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

California has relied on incarcerated slave labor as long as it has been a state, with roots in the official state policy of Native genocide. It is a poison baked into the state economy at its very foundation.

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The beauty of dam removal will never stop being awe inspiring

Everyone I interact with needs to go on vacation while I am in the field because I simply cannot handle running a field project at the same time as any other task

Misbehavin' is a certified banger in any universe

The myth of scientific objectivity hides the truth that every experiment is influenced by cultural values, assumptions and beliefs – and that actually hurts the search for truth Analysis: buff.ly/KcLU0bE 🧪 🩺

Time is a flat circle

#SciArtSeptember 6 - Prairie The greatest beasts are gone, but maybe the land still remembers. Another version of the idea of ghosts of lost beasts, this time the spirit of a mammoth walking with a bison somewhere in the fragments of the American prairie that still exist.

Angelenos: There's something you can do to help fire victims that doesn't require money (or flogging other people for money). There's a program to relocate historical houses that are going to be demolished to Altadena. But we need to know where those houses are!

"These seeds … were living libraries of Palestinian agricultural knowledge, carrying genetic traits for drought resistance, soil adaptation, and nutritional density. .. The destruction of seed banks eliminates not just current agricultural capacity, but future possibilities for food sovereignty ..."

“Ecocide operates through the creation of permanent dependency and vulnerability. By destroying the biological foundation of Palestinian food sovereignty, occupying forces ensure that resistance cannot take root — literally — in future generations.” - Ilā Ravichandran truthout.org/articles/isr...

This sounds like it’s worth a watch “Featuring contributions from leading Irish historians and prominent First Nations voices, the documentary sheds light on how Irish emigrants were both the oppressed and the oppressors.” 🗃️ donegalnews.com/irish-settle...

Land Back includes a Free Palestine

hella freeways

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza. Archaeologists: Cancel membership | Speak up | Share Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b... #EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza

View from the backyard at our new office 😍

"I'm talking about eating clams on the beach, getting the water from the Inlet and boiling it right on the beach — to not being able to touch it at all." #bcpoli #LandBack www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once again I have gone from "not presenting at SAAs" to "scrambling to get an abstract together days before the deadline" 🏺😂

1000% agree with Morgan. There are mannnny things I dislike about this OpenAI contest. It makes me think of antiquarian imperial and colonial archaeology - the complete disregard of ethics and communities in a race to be the first to "discover" sites. Pith helmets replaced by computer keyboards. 🏺

Think—as the article basically states—that this is the next-step in the already extremely problematic use of satellites in archaeology. People really need to take a look at themselves. ‘Archaeology isn’t colonial’, they said…

Happy Labor Day, the holiday designed to erase May Day in America undercut ties with the radical globally united labor movement and promote a domesticated and patriotic vision of labor which is why there’s no general strike while fascism marches on, for those who celebrate!

Good morning! Happy Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day! Posting this again to remind you that organizing a union in your workplace is possible and doable buttondown.com/ninocipri/ar...

There is nothing more frustrating than working with someone who is just incapable of understanding you when it seems like everyone else is following you. Like you say something and they disagree and just repeat what you said even though everyone else understood you when you said it

US federalization of Labor Day was intentionally designed to disconnect the day from international Labor Day (May 1st). To weaken international solidarity and US worker consciousness about transnational labor power.

"passion tax" is a great way to describe why CRM companies feel they can get away with treating their field techs like crap...no one gets into archaeology professionally unless they absolutely love it

My 🏺 research area is at the intersection of two classic "culture areas" (the NWC+California) which means that the literature is split between two different academic traditions and really drives home how much theory influences data interpretation...same data, two wildly different narratives

Holy shit we have the active voice in the headline gang this is not a drill we have the active voice in the headline

Can't wait to teach again this fall! 🫠

Check out this new mutual aid network for people working in historic preservation and cultural resources! 🏺 We're all stronger together!

ESRI is sponsoring a National Homeland Security conference session tomorrow on helping the Trump regime "secure elections".

You know, I really preferred it when the examples I had for the continued existence of settler colonialism were more subtle and required digging into policy and structure...now we have handy visual aids straight from the US government 🤮😵‍💫

The heat wave continues and so does this boy's unquenchable need for the sun's piercing rays

Hello people who live in or pass through the Bay Area! On September 21st, I will be reading at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building in SF for the book launch for "Please Fear Me" by Jennifer Love!! www.bookpassage.com/event/jennif...

This is a perfect distillation of my essence

People keep asking me what Land Back looks like. Imma hold this up as a great example.