This is a thing at archaeology conferences and I am a fan!

Without immediate government support, 10 of Victoria's 14 medical research institutes will be forced to close within 5 years. This would be a devastating outcome for a sector which has contributed greatly to the health and economic prosperity of this country www.theaustralian.com.au/health/ten-v...

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Continuing position for an early modern historian at a top university! 👇🏽

"Applicants working at the forefront of gender history, on periods between the 12th and 18th centuries, and on regions beyond Europe and Australia are encouraged to apply"

#AcademicSky #History 📚🎓

The og thread is completely valid and godspeed @tlecaque.bsky.social but I'm on the outside now and you guys I am trying every damn day to stick up for you and your work but we've got to find better ways of communicating that value to the public.

Green table with a book called Archaeologies of Food in Australia and a placard introducing the book.

I couldn't join the editor Maddie Shanahan and other authors in Sydney for the book launch so it was exciting to celebrate my chapter in Archaeologies of Food in Australia today at William & Mary's Celebration of the Book 🗃️🏺📚

Earliest Lithic Heat Treatment in Australia is the World’s Oldest Known Treatment of Chert - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology - We identify the oldest known example of systematic heat treatment of chert in the world. The specimens come from the base of one of Australia’s oldest...

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New paper: heated chert from Australia +45 Ka, poss. > 55 Ka.
15% of analysed #lithics were heated and later knapped.

I would have liked more on technological aspects, to refine whether pieces worked before & after heating show differences in reduction etc.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A man of property Just outside the City of London, in the secluded streets once occupied by the monastic precinct of the Black Friars, is an unassuming warehouse building

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom.

Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org

Hand Quilting in a Frame I quilt in a flat frame. It is a technique that seems to invite a curious fascination, carrying as it does, a lot of historical baggage. This blog post aims to answer some of the questions that I r…

And maybe I'll add quilting in a frame to my personal list
I found a good post about it here for any other #DHmakes people:
plainstitch.co.uk/2023/10/01/h...

And hes gonna sign it and we're gonna change the lives of thousands of contingent faculty and the education of tens of thousands of students

Data Engineer #00246 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Data Engineer #00246 State Role Title: Information Tech Spec III Hiring Range: $100,000 - $125,000 Pay Band: 6 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: Library of Virginia Building Agency Web...

The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.

Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.

Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!

It is genuinely surreal to watch both the U.S. and Britain decide to destroy their own world-renowned and extremely profitable university systems at the same time.

Photograph of a lecture room with a slide on the screen reading Mapping Meaning: Spatial Approaches to Digital Humanities

Enjoying the sessions today at Digital Bites on digital humanities and foodways at the Muscarelle Museum 🏺🗃️🍽️

A sheep pushes up against the slats of the fence to offer her face for scritches.

Made a friend today on our class field trip to James Monroe's Highland. 🐑 very much enjoyed scritches from all the students

Professor Katie Barclay re the state of Oz unis:

Higher Education Support Amendment (Reverse Job-Ready Graduates Fee Hikes and End 50k Arts Degrees) Bill 2025 Committee: Education and Employment Legislation Committee Date referred: 5 February 2026 Submissions close: 10 April 2026 Reporting date: 25 June 2026 On 5 February 2026, the Senate referred the Higher Education Support Amendment (Reverse Job-Ready Graduates Fee Hi

Recognise that the 'timeless' value of the Humanities is in fact quite timely? Got concerns about $50k for an Arts degree?

Got a spare moment over the Easter break?

Here's your chance
#JRG #BA #Humanities

oh they’re really getting into it www.educationnext.org/admissions-o...

college departments should be having serious conversations about the college board—

#historians - looking for any sources, primary or secondary, on controlling migration to Australia, during the first half of the 20th century, at port of departure (ie discouraging or preventing potential migrants from travelling to Australia), rather than at port of entry.

#OzHist 🗃️

Imagine if this were reversed. Imagine if the Provost of a Milwaukee-based private college with no previous experience in litigation were, like, “I will run your law firm now. Give me the highest salary & the maximum decision-making power. How hard can it be?!?”

"An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking."

Australians do have the Easter bilby

Cover of Taking Our Water for the City

Book talk Sunday April 12th, Hastings Public Library at 2pm as part of the annual meeting of the Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct. #archaeology #newyork

Historians: The Trump administration wants to issue oil and gas leases across the greater Chaco landscape. They've given the public ONE WEEK (till 4/7) to weigh in on the future of this immensely important place. Please tell them what you think: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency."

Disinvestment in the humanities is one way we've reached the current moment. Double the budget instead. Triple it.

CHACO CANYON UNDER THREAT! Even this article hides the true urgency of this situation deep down in the article! "What You Can Do
The scoping period ends April 7. That is not a typo. You have until Monday."

ACTION ALERT⚠️ Dept. of Interior is trying to rush through a revocation of Biden’s public law protecting lands around Chaco Canyon from new oil/gas leases. They’ve given only 7 day for public comment, during Easter/Passover. Thread 🧵 below on why you should care, but here’s a link to comment! 🏺