A HUGE congrats to Grinnell College's @cocalola.bsky.social on this grant, awarded to support important archaeological work & research at the Rock Springs, WY, Chinatown | 🏺thesandb.com/55311/news/anthropology-...
try and imagine a bigger W as an academic
In a conference forum last year I said that grad programs need to rethink their expectations re: grad student grant proposals and find ways to divest from big federal grants which was shrugged off to focus on how to adjust the language we use in proposals to avoid censorship...anyways, here we are
In 1953 archaeologist Robert Braidwood initiated a debate: what began the domestication of cereals in the Ancient Near East? Was it for bread or beer? Malt & malting was discussed briefly by some of the Braidwood Symposium participants but the "Bread or Beer" debate continues unresolved today. 🏺
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54% of male Republicans under the age of 50 believe "the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe." manhattan.institute/article/the-...
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
Junior faculty- Consider coming to Princeton Psych -all expenses paid- for a few weeks to hang out with my great colleagues! (I can’t host this year, but we have so many great labs to choose from!). Application details below.
Black and white photo of Barbara Laidler washing a stone on West Kennet Avenue. Photo ©Alexander Keiller Museum.
Black and white photo of Margaret Stewart at the Carse Farm excavation in 1964. Photo from: https://breadalbane-heritage.org.uk/about/history/margaret-e-c-stewart-in-breadalbane-heritage-society/
Fun fact about us for #InternationalWomensDay - our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class🥇in #Archaeology MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🏺
My god this story.
NYU is only “liberal” when convenient. “NYU canceled 13 culture, identity & faith-based graduation ceremonies due to the “current political climate,” according to student groups that are urging admin to rescind the order or better explain their reasoning.” @thecity.nyc nyunews.com/news/2026/02...
Don't look away from the continued cruelty and horrors. Please keep calling your representatives, please keep showing up to protest these horrific actions, please keep caring.
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press."
Wow! No words.
Congrats!!
For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now.
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Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Stanford University discontinued. It’s enhancing diversity and graduate education. Dr. old Fellowship, a graduate program aimed at diversifying at student body. The Stanford daily report reported. The university also will no longer offer housing and dining support for students from outside the Bay Area who participate in summer undergraduate research fellowship. The Fellowship House in Sanford school of engineering offered an immersive research and graduate school preparation experience for first generation students and student students from historically underrepresented communities.”
Stanford is doing this because it wants to
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Of course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months.
He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.
I don’t have voting members in Congress but I’m still calling Schumer to tell him to shut the government down over ICE occupying cities and executing people in the streets
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
This video is itself a historical document that shows the Trump administration's efforts to erase history. There are few more telling symbols of the intentional attempt to silence the past than the raw, empty spaces left behind after this removal of displays about the history of American slavery.
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history
ICE has been busting down doors and seizing people from their homes without signed judicial warrants. But it wasn’t some decision on the fly. It turns out, it was actual agency policy. A shocking memo, and what it means for this practice, in today’s write-up. Link in the replies.
Conference that may be of interest for @oeai.bsky.social
