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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 1d

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

www.lse.ac.uk

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 1d

Collar taíno de piedra con un "cemí" de colgante (Quisqueya [Rep. Dom.], ss. XIII-XV) @metsky.bsky.social
Los cemíes eran fuerzas espirituales relacionadas con los dioses/ancestros que continuaron siendo venerados a pesar del colonialismo español.

#JuevesAmericaIndigena #arqueología #ArchaeoSky

Collar taíno con un colgante de Cemí, de la colección del Metropolitan Museum (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314313)

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LaSegundo @lasegunda.bsky.social · 6d

Un día día como hoy hace 108 años nació la gran Violeta Parra
Por eso cada 4 de octubre se celebra el día de la música chilena

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 12d

A Mahogany dugout canoe with iron-tool marks found in Florida, but probably made in the Caribbean, 14C-dated (inconclusively) before the 16th century... 👀

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12d

‘It’s incredibly exciting’: ancient canoe unearthed after Hurricane Ian stormed through Florida

The latest find is likely from the 16th century and could have originated as far away as the Caribbean Florida already claims to be the world capital of golf, shark bites and lightning strikes. Now a remarkable discovery following a devastating hurricane has enhanced its position as a global leader in another distinctive field: ancient canoes – some even prehistoric. State archeologists have just completed a painstaking preservation of an ancient wooden canoe discovered by a resident of Fort Myers during the cleanup from Hurricane Ian in 2022. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 12d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12d

NEW Archaeologists find the earliest evidence for blue pigment use in Europe, dating back ~13,000 years and questioning the long-held belief that Palaeolithic artists only used red or black.

Strap in for a colourful #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵

🏺 #Archaeology

Close-up image of a stone with traces of blue pigment on its surface.

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Manuel Rivas @manuelrivas.bsky.social · 12d

O que falta: máis igualdade, máis dereitis laborais, máis vivenda social, empatía coa inmigración, novo avance en sanidade e educación públicas, máis espazo natural protexido, máis abundancia cultural e poñer a emerxencia climática no centro da acción pública.
elpais.com/economia/202...

España se ha convertido en la economía más destacada de Europa, según ‘Financial Times’

El diario británico avisa de que se debe combinar el crecimiento impulsado por la inmigración con mejoras de productividad

elpais.com

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 13d

I bet 🥶

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 14d

Published in June but very useful now that term begins: "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels", which "raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and ...into AI's role in learning."

www.media.mit.edu/publications...

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 16d

On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

‘Tunnel vision’: how Israel is using archaeology for political ends

Scientists say Netanyahu government and its US backers are trying to construct a history shorn of all complexity

www.theguardian.com

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17d

The racists were marching and committing violence against people of colour when there were tiny numbers here. You simply cannot deport your way out of this so why not commit to anti-racism instead

David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17d

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable.

This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 17d

This is first time I’ve heard the govt making the Labour argument for controlling immigration.

Mahmood argues that controlling our borders is good for race relations, because uncontrolled immigration is feeding far right rhetoric and tensions.

Expect to hear a lot more of that.

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Ana Ruiz Echauri @anaruize.bsky.social · 17d

Estamos en 2025 y hay que explicar que las vacunas protegen de las enfermedades, el paracetamol no provoca autismo, la tierra no es plana y que hay que IR A VOTAR EN MASA para que los idiotas no nos gobiernen.

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 18d

Yet, the lie has travelled already around the world fuelling (yet more) racist and xenophobic narratives, whilst the truth (immigrants are *beneficial* to the economy) is putting on its shoes.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19d

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants
Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system

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Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social · 21d

When Indigenous peoples build our own #Tribal #data repositories, we self-direct #health #research & create #education resources to train next-gen of #Indigenous science

From PhD student, Karina Hernandez-Hernandez (P’urhépecha) it is “hope-giving” news.asu.edu/20250917-sci...
@d4itdr.bsky.social

Professor creates 'a safe harbor' for Indigenous data | ASU News

Among Indigenous populations in the U.S., there is a history of personal data being used without consent. Now, a new digital repository hopes to change both who benefits from biomedical data and who g...

news.asu.edu

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Jaime Almansa @jaimealmansa.bsky.social · 22d

This piece of news about the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social mess of the last weeks is very very very serious.

If you did not sign the campaign we are moving to try change things at the EAA yet, maybe this helps to decide… here is the link: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ

The news ⬇️

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE

thePipeLine can reveal allegations that the President of the beleaguered European Association of Archaeologists [EAA], Professor Eszter Bánffy, was instrumental in organising a covert campaign to p…

thepipeline.info

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 22d

Our Welcome Week activities yesterday were a total success! It was so much fun for our students & for us to get involved and meet each other!
@livancworlds.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 24d

'It is so cataclysmically bad' for #ECR now. So painfully true.
It's abt historians, but has been like this in #archaeology since yrs. I'm one of the privileged ones, and has taken me 10 ys post-PhD to land a permanent position after changing countries eight times.
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 24d

Me too!! 🤣🤣

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 24d

They're my favourite too! I miss them so much... In England you barely see them 😪

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 26d

Are you an #earlycareer historian looking for a postdoctoral opportunity?

📣 You still have 1 month to apply for the EUI Max Weber Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27

🔤 All information and link to the application form 👉 loom.ly/6IQLilY

🗓️ Apply by 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST

🚨 #postdoc

Max Weber Fellowships

The Max Weber Programme MWP at the European University Institute EUI is a unique postdoctoral programme in the historical, humanities and social sciences It i

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 27d

Our workshop on how Native American food had a (huge) impact on European diets is sold out!!!
There’s also yummy LatAm food
outside the lecture theatre!

#BritishScienceFestival
#NationalMuseumsLiverpool
#indigenous #NativeAmerican
#BSF25
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 27d

"A nuestro cuerpo no se le ha permitido ser normal ni tener funciones corporales normales, en el sexo o en los hábitos intestinales", dice Elizabeth Comen, autora de ‘No seas exagerada', una historia de cómo la medicina olvidó a las mujeres

Elizabeth Comen: “Es fácil encontrar mujeres a las que les han llamado histéricas o ansiosas por un problema real de salud”

La oncóloga es autora de ‘No seas exagerada. Historia de cómo la medicina olvidó a las mujeres y por qué es importante arreglarlo’

social.elpais.com

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 28d

Parecido entonces al proceso para comprar entradas para Oasis. Un caos absoluto.

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 28d

Absolutely disgraceful.
“UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move”

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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