Ben Carter
@archaeoscape.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Open. Community/ Public. Digital. GIS. LiDAR. Landscape. Small scale + non-hierarchical. Andes, Ecuador, Maine, Pennsylvania. Studying the construction of landscapes of resistance... Maine-iac. Views are my own (not my employers).
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Repeat endlessly: A liberal arts degree requires a breadth of study across the humanities, nat sci, social sci. plus skills like writing, quant reasoning. Only half (ish) of the degree is the major. So GREAT prep for a creative, productive, adaptable life.
thedispatch.com/article/libe...
thedispatch.com/article/libe...
Why I Don’t Regret Majoring in the Humanities
Literature, it turns out, is a great teacher of humility.
thedispatch.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Repeat endlessly: A liberal arts degree requires a breadth of study across the humanities, nat sci, social sci. plus skills like writing, quant reasoning. Only half (ish) of the degree is the major. So GREAT prep for a creative, productive, adaptable life.
thedispatch.com/article/libe...
thedispatch.com/article/libe...
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👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
The disappearing art gallery in your post office
The U.S. Postal Service is home to thousands of historic works of art in post offices nationwide. Hundreds have been lost, sold or destroyed.
wapo.st
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country?
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished?
What if I told you that I found them?
A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):
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FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 PM
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
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Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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Also if you want to learn more about the pecan story, @berondam.bsky.social's new book is the one to read!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
When Trees Testify
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stor...
us.macmillan.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Also if you want to learn more about the pecan story, @berondam.bsky.social's new book is the one to read!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Donald Trump is a racist.
February 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Donald Trump is a racist.
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Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid.
Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant.
Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."
Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant.
Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."
February 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid.
Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant.
Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."
Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant.
Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."
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I don’t know a single Black Person in my life that didn’t know we would get to the day when the orange demon would post racist videos when he came down the escalator in 2016. Not. A. Single. 1.
On the flip side…l know a whole bunch of other folks that told me this was economic anxiety & capitalism
On the flip side…l know a whole bunch of other folks that told me this was economic anxiety & capitalism
February 6, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I don’t know a single Black Person in my life that didn’t know we would get to the day when the orange demon would post racist videos when he came down the escalator in 2016. Not. A. Single. 1.
On the flip side…l know a whole bunch of other folks that told me this was economic anxiety & capitalism
On the flip side…l know a whole bunch of other folks that told me this was economic anxiety & capitalism
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Human populations may have had unique adaptations to burn injuries due to long-term evolution in high-risk proximity to fire. I wonder if we also developed a degree of enhanced resistance to long-term smoke inhalation? 🏺
phys.org/news/2026-02...
phys.org/news/2026-02...
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme inj...
phys.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Human populations may have had unique adaptations to burn injuries due to long-term evolution in high-risk proximity to fire. I wonder if we also developed a degree of enhanced resistance to long-term smoke inhalation? 🏺
phys.org/news/2026-02...
phys.org/news/2026-02...
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ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
ICE is still doing checkpoints in Minneapolis like we are an occupied territory. Life remains really hard here thanks to Trump's thugs.
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"Who among us hasn't?"
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"What did I mean when I texted him that I 'loved' the jerky made of human flesh that he sent me for Christmas? An inside joke. You wouldn’t get it. You people have no sense of humor."
Just Because I Hung Out in the Cannibal King’s Murder Basement, It Does Not Make Me a Murderous Cannibal
“If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epste...
buff.ly
February 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"Who among us hasn't?"
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ruby Dee is riveting as Rachel, an enslaved passenger aboard an 1861 train on which a pre-inauguration 🔫 attempt on Lincoln’s life is foiled, in Anthony Mann’s THE TALL TARGET [1951]. #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50
February 6, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Ruby Dee is riveting as Rachel, an enslaved passenger aboard an 1861 train on which a pre-inauguration 🔫 attempt on Lincoln’s life is foiled, in Anthony Mann’s THE TALL TARGET [1951]. #FilmSky #BlackSkyOver50
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The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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In northern Fennoscandia, Scots pine trees were often incised with markings of cultural significance to the Indigenous Sámi.
Under threat from forestry, their documentation and protection is vital to the preservation of Sámi heritage #SamiNationalDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Under threat from forestry, their documentation and protection is vital to the preservation of Sámi heritage #SamiNationalDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
February 6, 2026 at 8:13 AM
In northern Fennoscandia, Scots pine trees were often incised with markings of cultural significance to the Indigenous Sámi.
Under threat from forestry, their documentation and protection is vital to the preservation of Sámi heritage #SamiNationalDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Under threat from forestry, their documentation and protection is vital to the preservation of Sámi heritage #SamiNationalDay
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
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predators redacted, the Mona Lisa redacted, but nude women and girls performing sexual acts? nah
The DOJ redacted a photo of Mona Lisa in the Epstein files.
Meanwhile, as we reported, there were several unredacted, sexually explicit photos of nude women or girls were present in the latest Epstein dump and the DOJ left those photos online until we reported specific links through their tipline.
Meanwhile, as we reported, there were several unredacted, sexually explicit photos of nude women or girls were present in the latest Epstein dump and the DOJ left those photos online until we reported specific links through their tipline.
The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files
While Epstein’s victims endure the fallout of their photos and names being exposed in the Department of Justice’s latest tranche of files, investigators redacted the identity of the most famous portra...
www.404media.co
February 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
predators redacted, the Mona Lisa redacted, but nude women and girls performing sexual acts? nah
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NEW on The Handbasket — An excerpt of Christopher Mathias' (@letsgomathias.bsky.social) new book 'To Catch A Fascist,' including a special intro from the author himself.
It’s an excellent read and you should buy it and I’m not just saying that because there’s a blurb from me on the back.
Read now:
It’s an excellent read and you should buy it and I’m not just saying that because there’s a blurb from me on the back.
Read now:
'To Catch A Fascist'
Read a sneak peek of the new book by veteran journalist and far-right extremism expert Christopher Mathias.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
NEW on The Handbasket — An excerpt of Christopher Mathias' (@letsgomathias.bsky.social) new book 'To Catch A Fascist,' including a special intro from the author himself.
It’s an excellent read and you should buy it and I’m not just saying that because there’s a blurb from me on the back.
Read now:
It’s an excellent read and you should buy it and I’m not just saying that because there’s a blurb from me on the back.
Read now:
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Check out our new #Academe issue, “What Is Academic Labor Now?,” edited by @uupinfo.bsky.social Vice President Alissa Karl: www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
February 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Check out our new #Academe issue, “What Is Academic Labor Now?,” edited by @uupinfo.bsky.social Vice President Alissa Karl: www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
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“.. I’m sad for our country,” she said. “I don’t think that the escalation that we’ve seen, particularly in Minnesota, I don’t think it is. … ”
She paused for another eight seconds ..
“.. productive.”
@nytimes.com #ALsen
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
She paused for another eight seconds ..
“.. productive.”
@nytimes.com #ALsen
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
February 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM
“.. I’m sad for our country,” she said. “I don’t think that the escalation that we’ve seen, particularly in Minnesota, I don’t think it is. … ”
She paused for another eight seconds ..
“.. productive.”
@nytimes.com #ALsen
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
She paused for another eight seconds ..
“.. productive.”
@nytimes.com #ALsen
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
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First a cruise line and now the College Board. What’s next?
The College Board Is Banning Students From Using Smart Glasses During the SATs
Smart glasses are the ultimate cheating tool, and colleges know it.
gizmodo.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
First a cruise line and now the College Board. What’s next?
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My family was imprisoned behind barbed wire and armed guards by our own government.
Not for what they did. But because of who they were. I was born in that internment camp.
My family history lives with me every day. It drives me to fight for my neighbors—for their rights and for their dignity.
Not for what they did. But because of who they were. I was born in that internment camp.
My family history lives with me every day. It drives me to fight for my neighbors—for their rights and for their dignity.
February 5, 2026 at 12:13 AM
My family was imprisoned behind barbed wire and armed guards by our own government.
Not for what they did. But because of who they were. I was born in that internment camp.
My family history lives with me every day. It drives me to fight for my neighbors—for their rights and for their dignity.
Not for what they did. But because of who they were. I was born in that internment camp.
My family history lives with me every day. It drives me to fight for my neighbors—for their rights and for their dignity.