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Catherine Frieman

@cjfrieman.bsky.social

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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

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Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the Australian National University. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation, and she is a specialist in material culture and technology. .. more

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 59m

hell yes

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

tenochtitlan no question

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

well it is now

Bevil 🔜 MFF! @thebevil.bsky.social · 8h

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

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Seattle Kraken (Bot) @notseattlekraken.bsky.social · 1h

THAT’S
KRAKEN
HOCKEY
BABY!!!

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Dr Emma Rehn @bluerehn.bsky.social · 3h

Illustrating water quality challenges - this is some of my recent work showing how fire, roads & tracks, and eroding gullies can impact water quality (& how a gully can be repaired!)

These were created for my work with TropWATER & their collab with the Cape York Water Quality Partnership #SciArt

A digital illustration of a wooded hilly landscape with a river running through the middle. On the left, a burn from earlier in the dry season has left trees alive and is not eroding. On the right, a hot late dry season burn has charred the landscape, killing trees and eroding charcoal and soil into the river

A digital illustration showing a creek crossing a dirt road, with rain eroding channels into the road, forming a downstream gully and releasing soil in to the river below

A two-panel illustration showing an eroded alluvial gully releasing dirty water and a remediated gully, covered in vegetation with a rock chute to channel the water flow

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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 3h

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Bevil 🔜 MFF! @thebevil.bsky.social · 8h

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 8h

fwiw i def so not see what my American colleagues see among the youths - we had longer stricter lockdowns, heavily disrupted school experiences, but fewer infections and far fewer deaths. i really think the exposure to that much sudden death plays a role i among the youth cohort

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 20h

aaahhhhhhh too much choice! i trust you

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 21h

i absolutely don't need to to know they'll be gorgeous... but lithic ornaments!!!!!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 21h

wait. oh no. uk only 😭

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 21h

hell yes

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 21h

I made these for friends last year, but seeing if anyone else would be interested for xmas? They're painted plaster of paris, modelled from real arrowheads.

£35 a set incl. gift box, gift tag & 24hr SignedFor postage (sorry, can only do UK).

(... & there's more artefacts to come!)

#Archaeology 🏺

Rainbow coloured arrowheads on rainbow coloured ribbons.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 21h

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AG TidA e.V. @agtida.bsky.social · 21h

TRAC-TidA 2025 - #Registration open!

Die #TRAC findet in Kollaboration mit der AG TidA & dem TRAC SC vom 22.–24.10.25 online statt.

Infos zum Programm & zur Anmeldung unter www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20... oder per Mail an [email protected]. Für Mitglieder TidA ist die Teilnahme kostenfrei 🤩

TRAC-TiDA 2025

Registration now open! We are pleased to announce that the The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, TRAC-TiDA 2025 will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format thro…

www.trac.org.uk

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22h

Delighted to say my new children’s audiobook is out today!

Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild is a wild, funny rampage through 34 million years of human evolution and global prehistory. Cowritten with archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, it’s out now!

youtu.be/OULXpXL6Tek?...

Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild! by Greg Jenner | Book Trailer

YouTube video by Walker Books

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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 1d

obviously it’s great that many people were outraged about Robodebt. i particularly enjoyed getting refunded. but it’s frustrating that Robodebt is often framed as something sui generis, that that outrage isn’t really transferring onto the welfare adminstration as a whole

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

A thread👇

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 1d

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

nice!!!!! 🏺
www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A MacArthur 'genius' gleans surprising lessons from ancient bones, shards and trash

Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.

www.npr.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

Good grief. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Germany ends fast-track citizenship as mood on migration shifts

Friedrich Merz’s conservatives had pledged to rescind legislation, which allowed citizenship in three years instead of five

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

ooof

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

i wish i had the time to write reviews. alas.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

it looks like a great book! I've asked my library to purchase!

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 1d

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 1d

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d

My thoughts...

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs #Robbery

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/07/s...

Solid-gold rant incoming…

by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Before I go any further, I want to state that the theft and destruction of heritage across the world is not unco…

bigbookoftorcs.com

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

it you ever want to do a slight variation, introduce them to trove: a digital tool of the nat libr of Australia that archives all Australian newspapers (and more!)

Trove

Australia’s free online research portal. Trove is a collaboration between the National Library of Australia and hundreds of Partner organisations around Australia.

trove.nla.gov.au