For the entire month of December, the History Australia special collection on history and AI is free to read! Grab a cup of tea, settle in, and happy reading! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...

Seems like the world is getting posthumanist Roman archaeology in Dalmatia whether it likes it or not Awarded with corrections! What a Monday #archaeology

A horrendous report on ABC radio from a Brisbane doctor doing a second tour in Gaza with Medecins sans Frontières. She says the ceasefire is in name only, the genocide continues and the deprivation of basic food, shelter and resources means even the injured haven’t what the need to heal.

Joining Bluesky one month into my PhD in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground. Let's roll!

I still refer to this site a blue-skee, and no one can stop me 🇦🇺

me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects

me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects

Hey Australian Archaeology - do you like arch theory? do you want to hang out with other folks who do?? Please put 22-23 May in your calendar - we're hosting an AusTAG conference at Adelaide University! more details and call for submissions soon!

If only retractionwatch.com/2025/10/21/l...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?

Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?

📢 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

Given the EAA has gone back on excluding Israeli institutions from the conference - and is also trying to prevent @archagainstaparth.bsky.social from protesting in their sessions - it’s time to walk away until they can find their moral compass. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Whose idea was it for me to present a paper at an international conference just under a fortnight after my submitting thesis? Oh yea... #🏺

If you haven't already, we urge authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website below and provide the requested information. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology

There is something strangely appealing about du Choul's drawings of figures on Trajan's Column ...

Now, why would Macquarie University Faculty of Arts want to cut its major in this field...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Dr Anna Revedin, former Director of the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory, has endorsed the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. #archaeology #🏺 #archaeology🏺 #eaa #archeologia

Read this, from over a year ago: aje.io/6eu9x6 And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n... #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025

73. I love peer reviewing the work of colleagues. It is a wonderful way of being in community with others.

Yes! For instance, I am tentatively excited about Google Aeneas, which uses existing human-coded databases of 250K ancient Roman inscriptions to help predict missing fragments in other inscriptions. This uses computers' superior quantitative capabilities to supplement epigraphers' expert knowledge.

Modelling I commissioned from the PBO shows JRG has hiked up student debt by more than $10bn 🤯 The xbench has been pushing for reform, good to see Labor backbenchers joining this call. This reform is urgent. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...

Please sign! Glad to see this, esp after writing an op-ed last year that got me a lot of threats www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

#archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025

Another teaching prompt for historians: What are the guiding principles of your survey courses? Not "outcomes." What ideas, approaches, orientations to the material do you want them to keep in mind during the term?

palpable irony

Thanks to an incredibly generous former student, we have some wonderful news for archaeology at Birkbeck: a new institute. The Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies will enable research projects, support global collaborations, and fund studentships as well. www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

Coming (finally) with Oxford University Press this fall!

👃🤢 Enjoyed writing this for @theconversation.com

If you're getting notifications from Academia(.)edu about AI versions of your papers now being podcasts, that's because the (predatory) platform has opted you into AI-enhanced outputs, which you can turn off in your Account Settings here.

Read the demands of @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for the @worldarch.bsky.social below, and be sure to do so before Friday’s plenary session where they will be voted on. We must strive for a #wacwithoutapartheid #WAC10 #archaeology #🏺

Read the demands of @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for the @worldarch.bsky.social below, and be sure to do so before Friday’s plenary session where they will be voted on. We must strive for a #wacwithoutapartheid #WAC10 #archaeology #🏺

We welcomed @worldarch.bsky.social 's recent decision to exclude from the Darwin congress an archaeologist at a university based in an illegal Israeli settlement on Palestinian land. But we were also alarmed by the oversight which almost led to #wac10 attendees sharing the space with a war criminal.

“You’ve got people who’ve worked their entire lives in these disciplines, and then that knowledge is lost, which is why I think these decisions are so incredibly damaging and shortsighted.” -NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social Read more: nteu.info/guardianmq

THE ILIAD HARD ❌ Sing, goddess, the wrath of the son of Peleus Akhilleus, ruinous, which set up myriad woes for the Akhaians, sent many strong souls of heroes to Hades, and made them into carrion for dogs and all birds, and Zeus’s will was being accomplished. EASY ✅ Dude was mad. It was bad.

🚨 #wac10 #worldarchaeologicalcongress #wacwithoutapartheid #wacwelcomeswarcriminals #archaeology #🏺 #Archaeology🏺

Engaging application of Deleuze (and some Guattari), in a way we can all digest, to highlight subtle ways we are controlled and, potentially, how we can leap (or fly) beyond these theconversation.com/computers-tr...

'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'

Engaging application of Deleuze (and some Guattari), in a way we can all digest, to highlight subtle ways we are controlled and, potentially, how we can leap (or fly) beyond these theconversation.com/computers-tr...

Writing before the advent of the smartphone, a French philosopher foresaw a world where computers would shape our behaviour, controlling much of our lives.

Shame! No real consultation w/ staff or students (PG and UG) and comes just months after Fac. of Arts announced they would have no casuals in 2025, making all of use look for new jobs and worry about our employment, only to backflip weeks out from Session 1... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australian universities did as they were told, became big businesses and balanced their books with foreign students who subsidised world class education for Australians. Now the govt has pulled the rug from under that model and local students will lose out. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our universities are on the line. Join NTEU members today fighting for a better future for higher education: nteu.au/join Read the full media release here: nteu.info/mr-mqcuts