A Mahogany dugout canoe with iron-tool marks found in Florida, but probably made in the Caribbean, 14C-dated (inconclusively) before the 16th century... 👀

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

NEW Archaeologists find the earliest evidence for blue pigment use in Europe, dating back ~13,000 years and questioning the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black. Strap in for a colourful #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology

O que falta: máis igualdade, máis dereitis laborais, máis vivenda social, empatía coa inmigración, novo avance en sanidade e educación públicas, máis espazo natural protexido, máis abundancia cultural e poñer a emerxencia climática no centro da acción pública. elpais.com/economia/202...

Published in June but very useful now that term begins: "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels", which "raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and ...into AI's role in learning." www.media.mit.edu/publications...

On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”

The racists were marching and committing violence against people of colour when there were tiny numbers here. You simply cannot deport your way out of this so why not commit to anti-racism instead

Estamos en 2025 y hay que explicar que las vacunas protegen de las enfermedades, el paracetamol no provoca autismo, la tierra no es plana y que hay que IR A VOTAR EN MASA para que los idiotas no nos gobiernen.

Yet, the lie has travelled already around the world fuelling (yet more) racist and xenophobic narratives, whilst the truth (immigrants are *beneficial* to the economy) is putting on its shoes.

When Indigenous peoples build our own #Tribal #data repositories, we self-direct #health #research & create #education resources to train next-gen of #Indigenous science From PhD student, Karina Hernandez-Hernandez (P’urhépecha) it is “hope-giving” news.asu.edu/20250917-sci... @d4itdr.bsky.social

This piece of news about the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social mess of the last weeks is very very very serious. If you did not sign the campaign we are moving to try change things at the EAA yet, maybe this helps to decide… here is the link: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ The news ⬇️

Our Welcome Week activities yesterday were a total success! It was so much fun for our students & for us to get involved and meet each other! @livancworlds.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

'It is so cataclysmically bad' for #ECR now. So painfully true. It's abt historians, but has been like this in #archaeology since yrs. I'm one of the privileged ones, and has taken me 10 ys post-PhD to land a permanent position after changing countries eight times. frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

Are you an #earlycareer historian looking for a postdoctoral opportunity? 📣 You still have 1 month to apply for the EUI Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 🔤 All information and link to the application form 👉 loom.ly/6IQLilY 🗓️ Apply by 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST 🚨 #postdoc

Our workshop on how Native American food had a (huge) impact on European diets is sold out!!! There’s also yummy LatAm food outside the lecture theatre! #BritishScienceFestival #NationalMuseumsLiverpool #indigenous #NativeAmerican #BSF25 @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

"A nuestro cuerpo no se le ha permitido ser normal ni tener funciones corporales normales, en el sexo o en los hábitos intestinales", dice Elizabeth Comen, autora de ‘No seas exagerada', una historia de cómo la medicina olvidó a las mujeres

Absolutely disgraceful. “UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move”

There are ~43 million people in the U.S. speaking Spanish, over 10 million of them are in California. Let that sink in. The legalisation of racial profiling in LA will, however, not stop at Latinos. This racial horror will haunt every non-white person in the US. This is just the beginning.

"Policymakers should redistribute the money they spend on APCs to non-commercial presses [...]. Universities should support these presses via in-house services where possible" 📣 Exactly the Spanish, Portuguese & most Latin American countries' model **since decades**! But hey, what do we know...

On todays schedule for the British Science Festival, we’ve got three events taking place right on campus in our very own @victoriagallery.bsky.social 🙌 See the full event schedule: britishsciencefestival.org/events @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BSF25

The initiative for an EAA special meeting was shut down. They want us to believe their authoritative derive is unstoppable, but European archaeologists can and do better! Previous signatures are saved, and here is the new document. Please, sign and share widely! saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s... #EAA

CFP: Fractured Connections in the Caribbean https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157256 Bonn, 18.06.2026-19.06.2026, Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros, Department of Anthropology of the Americas / Micely Díaz Espaillat, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn; Norah El Gammal, …

Okay, I think the first teaching of later prehistory in Britain is by P.G.H. Boswell at Liverpool from 1917. From Pamela Smith, early prehistory is first taught by Alison Quiggin in Homerton College, Cambridge by 1912.

No surprise that household complaints about privatised water have soared Water is a natural monopoly and they just increased our bills by 35%! PUBLIC OWNERSHIP would save £3-5 billion a year - that money could reduce bills and/or clean up our rivers www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Mira, lo siento... otra vez el tema de los chavales se hacen fachas por arte de magia y no porque se ha invertido un montón de dinero para ello no, por favor. Y encima metiendo mierda a la izquierda y al feminismo, que ha ido demasiado lejos y no ha sabido gustar, menos.

Great start for @sophiasgaler.bsky.social 's 'Universities Challenged' with its 'Tuition Impossible' episode. A primer for the uninitiated on university finance and economic impacts. Hoping research too gets attention in the next episode, when culture wars are under view. Well worth listening to.

Click-clack goes the railway track... Poets, join this special day of on-board creativity, writing a metropoem on the move between Liverpool and Manchester. Celebrate the world's oldest passenger railway with your own unique poem capturing the rhythm and mood of an urban train ride 🛤️ Sat 13 Sept

In other news, Isr*el Foreign Ministry calls the Spanish Gov 'overtly antisemitic' (for banning Israel-bound war ships and aircrafts & for the genoc*de of the Palestin*ans) and links such 'antisemitism' with the expulsion of the Sephardic J*ws from the Spanish Kingdoms in the 15th century.

Lo que no sale en ninguna película de Indiana Jones es que, cuando vas a consultar materiales al almacén, vuelves echa un asco, con las manos comidas de mierda y sudada. Se ve que no aportaba a la trama del film. Por lo que sea.

Gorgeous sunny & colourful day at Abercromby Square today 💛@liverpooluni.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Pero es una pena que la etapa de ayer en Bilbao acabase a 3km de la meta y todo por culpa de los «etarras». #lavuelta2025 #LaVuelta25 #VueltaRTVE4s #FreePalestine

Radiografía de la situación actual. Ser pesimista es hoy, por desgracia, tener los pies en el suelo. Tremendo. Para bajarse del mundo a la Mafalda pero ya.

The President of @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social , Professor Eszter Banffy, has lost credibility and should resign. Not only did she play an instrumental role in the reversal of the board's vote to cut institutional ties w 🇮🇱... 1/

Just one week to go until the British Science Festival opens in Liverpool! ✨ Talks, art, robots, music + more — all free to attend. More Info> news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/03/c... #BritishScienceFestival #BSF2025 #Liverpool

The EAA shameful soap opera continues. The local organising committee in Serbia was not consulted or involved in the email sent to the students who were tasked with banning any dissent from established scholars (!). The EAA Executive Board Officers need to resign NOW. www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Home...

🏺 Still reads like @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social is trying to keep their “precious places” apolitical - and very telling that “politics” and “archaeology” is being kept far apart, as though the two don’t naturally interweave! I hope comrades at #EAA2025 are able to make their voices heard about this

The moral compass of many (white) archaeologists was clearly lost already a while ago (if they even had it). The President of the EAA also signed a support letter for Isr*el in April 2024, after the killing of 34,535 Palestin*ans and injuring 77,704, destroying hospitals/universities, etc.

It’s also interesting to see the ethical divides that still exist in archaeology, like the abusive (mainly) white, male science bros who think that the discipline is apolitical. I thought we had left those ideas behind in the 1950s but but clearly not.

So disappointing that people who have worked on papers are being forced to withdraw from #EAA2025 but as Guille says there are several important reasons why. Particularly ironic for this session but as usual some in our discipline just provide more evidence of their bigotry and complacency.

The EAA excluded Russian institutions in 2022 because of the war in Ukraine (rightly so), but it's absolutely incapable of doing the same to Israel despite the gen*cide of the Palestin*ans. A decision that was even voted democratically by the vast majority of the membership. Absolutely shameful.

THIS.

Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide. This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?

Sobre la veracidad de Grok y su estatus casi incuestionable (los dioses de la IA), y la imposibilidad, para algunos, de ser de izquierdas y vivir holgadamente. Como si luchar por la justicia social y los derechos humanos implicara, necesariamente, vivir en la miseria.

Besan la medalla de finalistas en lugar de quitársela y tirarla, luchan por mejoras salariales colectivas, se ponen frente a los abusos machistas y muestran su orientación sexual sin tapujos. Me vais a perdonar, pero no son mejores que los chicos. Son muchísimo mejores.

Mexican artist Chavis Mármol dropped a nine-ton Olmec head made of quarry stone onto a blue Tesla Model in March 2024. 'It represents the fight that many Latin Americans and migrants will have to endure: resisting the feudal oligarchs who control the world' www.instagram.com/shankay_art/...

Partidazo #uefawomenseuro2025!!! Y golazo de Bonmatí! A la final!!! 🙌🇪🇸🙌

Los investigadores de Anthropic demostraron que los sistemas incurrían en comportamientos no éticos, hacían chantaje o filtraban secretos corporativos. Se trata de escenarios preparados, pero revelan la incapacidad para dotar de valores éticos a la IA

El Congreso de Estados Unidos ataca a los prestigiosos medios de comunicación públicos con una desfinanciación. Suprime unos 1.100 millones de dólares destinados a la Corporación para la Radiodifusión Pública (CBP), que financia a NPR y PBS. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Bueno, pues he visto 'Adolescence' hoy y estoy horrorizada.

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