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😭 so cute 💖

Jeff Bezos’s wedding cost $50 million which is $20 million more than the U.S. government has spent on math research this year.

We’re gutting science funding to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

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Yessssssssss

ArchaeOS by ill omens, Florence Smith Nicholls Mercurius Semper Vincit

Announcing ArchaeOS, a speculative keepsake game made for the @archive.org DiscMaster jam by @mtrc.bsky.social and me!

The game asks you to interpret digital artefacts using a deck of cards, and is made exclusively with assets from DiscMaster.

💾 🏺 illomens.itch.io/archaeos

Auctioning Hudson's Bay artifacts with First Nations significance would be 'morally irresponsible': chief | CBC News As Hudson's Bay heads to court seeking permission to auction off 1,700 pieces of art and more than 2,700 artifacts, the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is requesting a halt to the sale of items that may b...

What is happening? How can any of these documents/artifacts be sold at auction? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

So handsome #siberianforestcat #HeroSilverwood

Cruelty is the deliberate point of the current administration. Don’t stoop to their level.

Please don’t let BlueSky become polluted with bullshit #pseudoarchaeology the way Twitter has.

We don’t need no Ancient Aliens.

We don’t need no Graham Hancock.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoa...

Thank you to all that joined us for our first Speaker Series of the year!

On that note, our second Speaker Series event is coming March 20! Interested in Stories of the Small? Check out our great lineup of speakers, and find the online registration link below 🏺

www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Alien fever dreams fuel Peruvian grave robbings Nazca is known for salt flats that dehydrate and preserve human and animal remains, making it the site of important finds that have deepened modern understanding of ancient cultures – and attracted grave robbers.

This morning I saw a large JAQ account "JAQing" about these, so a reminder that pseudoarch ancient mummified aliens claims in Peru (which have been around for a long while but resurged recently), are fueling burial desecration to create these manufactured aliens.

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Digital/data literacy is a core need for practicing archaeologists, and something that has been the subject of many of our articles.

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Congrats!

Just to put it out there again that I collect archaeology context sheets and if you give me yours I'll share you into my collection. 🏺

Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications

“These people are not errors, aberrations or problems; they are a part of the range of variation in our species. They are all real people.”

By @anthrofuentes.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Katrine Haydock

PLAY THIS (archaeology) GAME!

Katrine Haydock, one of our brilliant undergraduates has developed a video game for her dissertation to understand the impact of archaeological methods on gameplay. Please play it and take the survey. 🏺

katrinehaydock.itch.io

MacEwan University is advertising for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, Sexual and Gender Diversity. Part of the role includes the Directorship of the MacEwan Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Come work with me!

www.macewan.ca/about-macewa...

Hello Bluesky! The Canadian Archaeological Association / Association canadienne d'archéologie has made the move from the other place! We're looking forward to connecting with the archaeological community over here, so please tag folks we should be following! #canarch #heritage 🏺

Agreed!

I've been thinking about 1980s/1990s mall culture a lot lately. I have so many good memories tied to malls - most relating to family and community, few to consumption/consumerism.

Sometimes I am reminded of Heritage Mall. Every time I think about such a rad place that I legitimately miss, I also get angry. Because it makes me think about how much this city, that I love, sucks at preserving its contemporaty past. #yeg

ドキドキ (Doki Doki) is the sound of a beating heart in Japanese. 土器(Doki)🏺 means earthenware in Japanese & this play on words between the two is used a lot in regards to Jomon pottery. This art exhibit features some cute kitties holding Jomon flameware and suienmon pots ❤️❤️ #Japan #Jomon #archaeology

Oh that's a lovely photo of her! 💖

Honoured to have collaborated with Dona and Paul, along with my archaeogaming partner in crime @herrprofdr.bsky.social and colleague Carl Therrien, on this article.

Call for contributions to edited book: Unearthing Ancient Horrors Representations and Receptions of Uncanny Archaeology Editor: Gabriel Moshenska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London Archaeology is a powerful and pervasive theme in horror. Meddlesome antiquarians, cursed artefacts, empty tombs and ambulant mummies have been mainstays of fiction and popular culture for centuries, shaping public perceptions of archaeology and the ancient world. The aim of the proposed book is to bring together critical reflections on uncanny archaeologies, to highlight the quality and variety of contemporary studies, and to encourage future developments and new directions in scholarship. Send c.200 word abstracts to g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk by Friday 14 March.

Call for abstracts: I’m putting together an edited book on archaeology and horror. Details below. Contact me for full CFP or to discuss potential submissions. 🏺👻🧟🏛️

They are 😊 He has some neat stripes in his haunches that don't show up well in photos, the tabby "M" on his forehead (from his mom), and some neat grey/black tufts in his cheeks and tail (from his dad).

The beard on this boy is so glorious #siberianforestcat #HeroSilverwood

Congrats!

Exciting news - our first Speaker Series Event of 2025 is coming soon! Join @ldagg.bsky.social, @rdwambold.bsky.social, and @cultarchaeo.bsky.social on Feb 27, 3:30 pm MT, to hear about the different ways they examine landscapes in their research 🏺
Hybrid event, reg. required for online attendees 👇