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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BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
January 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down.
They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.
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In her latest column, @bakerdphd.bsky.social looks at the history of AAU regarding campus free speech. If they took a stance on many key issues today, some status-obsessed public universities would face very difficult membership decisions.
How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
www.insidehighered.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:05 AM
In her latest column, @bakerdphd.bsky.social looks at the history of AAU regarding campus free speech. If they took a stance on many key issues today, some status-obsessed public universities would face very difficult membership decisions.
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They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument
The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News
gaycitynews.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 AM
They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
Erasure. Just like the Nazis.
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
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That is truly an extreme amount of rain.
For context, which year is the year marked in red here, which had similar extreme rainfall in a short amount of time, but in late December (but arguably far less)?
For context, which year is the year marked in red here, which had similar extreme rainfall in a short amount of time, but in late December (but arguably far less)?
February 9, 2026 at 5:13 PM
That is truly an extreme amount of rain.
For context, which year is the year marked in red here, which had similar extreme rainfall in a short amount of time, but in late December (but arguably far less)?
For context, which year is the year marked in red here, which had similar extreme rainfall in a short amount of time, but in late December (but arguably far less)?
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I put on my bio anth hat to co-write this piece with @nicolanese.bsky.social, our excellent health editor at Live Science. 🧪🏳️⚧️
'There's no reason to ban us from playing': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports
A meta-analysis of 52 studies that included over 5,000 transgender people suggests that transgender women's physical fitness after hormone therapy is comparable to that of cisgender women.
www.livescience.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I put on my bio anth hat to co-write this piece with @nicolanese.bsky.social, our excellent health editor at Live Science. 🧪🏳️⚧️
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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
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Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.
February 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.
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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.