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Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology

Sabina Cveček - Archaeological Institute of America

AIA National Lecture Program Lecturer Sabina Cveček

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Kent M. Johnson @kentmjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Come work with us! SUNY Cortland is hiring a tenure-track bioanthropologist with experience in #bioarchaeology and #Forensic Anthropology jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10331 #academia #jobs #anthropology

Assistant Professor - Bioarchaeology

SUNY Cortland is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting a diversity of thought and experience. We believe that an equitable, inclusive and diverse campus and curriculum are criti...

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Kent M. Johnson @kentmjohnson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Come work with us! SUNY Cortland is hiring a tenure-track bioanthropologist with experience in #bioarchaeology and #Forensic Anthropology jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10331 #academia #jobs #anthropology

Assistant Professor - Bioarchaeology

SUNY Cortland is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting a diversity of thought and experience. We believe that an equitable, inclusive and diverse campus and curriculum are criti...

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 9

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.

Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025

For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD

Reposts appreciated 😁

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Kévin Salesse @kevinsalesse.bsky.social · May 18

🚨 I am hiring!

Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities.

⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025
📍Brno, CZ
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250

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Kent M. Johnson @kentmjohnson.bsky.social · May 9

#NEH finally released its list of Spring awardees. Congrats to all the recipients, but the fact that only 18 #SummerStipends were awarded is beyond disappointing. #FundNEH #FundNEA #FundNSF www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...

NEH Announces $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · May 9

One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · May 1

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

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COUPON CODE: RECESSION50 @birdrespecter.bsky.social · Apr 30

So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Apr 28

Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Reality Check

I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...

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Dr. David Miano @davidmiano.bsky.social · Apr 28

Alternative history isn’t a jumble of fringe theories—it’s a deliberate ideology designed to sow distrust in history and archaeology in order to replace them with its own "hidden truths." To do this, it preys on people's credulity, spinning myths of lost civilizations and advanced ancient tech.

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Stephen T Casper @neurotimes.bsky.social · Apr 23

For those of you who applied for Summer Stipend Grants via #NEH last fall, I have heard from them via email that the program will announce in the next few weeks. #Grants #SummerStipend

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Apr 22

One reason these “pronatalist” proposals won’t work is that they’re organised around a family model that is highly unusual & involves relatively novel gender roles.

Petition to have “traditional” family values renamed: Conservative? Novel? Unnatural…?

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Much of the movement is built around promoting a very specific idea of what constitutes a family — one that includes marriage between a man and a woman, and leaves out many families that don’t conform to traditional gender roles or family structures.

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Kent M. Johnson @kentmjohnson.bsky.social · Apr 22

Proud that my institution's president signed this

anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · Apr 22

"... a commitment to serve as centers of open inquiry where, in their pursuit of truth, faculty, students, and staff are free to exchange ideas and opinions across a full range of viewpoints without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation." www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Jonathan Paige @jnpaige.bsky.social · Apr 15

Through the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis we are leading a workshop focused on the future of machine learning approaches to archaeological synthesis, and cultural heritage. Have a look at the call that was just circulated.

Call for Applications: Design Workshop on Bridging Archaeological Synthesis and Machine Learning - CfAS

Apply now to participate in a Fall 2025 workshop that brings archaeologists, heritage managers, and data scientists together to explore how machine learning can contribute to archaeological data synth...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Apr 11

AI industry giants owe their existence to taxpayer-funded, open research, but many have abandoned this collaborative model. I spoke to The Atlantic about how US science and tech leadership was built on shared knowledge. When companies hoard research, innovation suffers and accountability declines.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Apr 11

Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:

A Disaster for American Innovation

The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Apr 7

[1] One of the strange things about BlueSky is realising that American users, in general, don’t realise that Europeans have an in-depth knowledge of the US. Many of them assume we know as little, as they do about us.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Mar 27

The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 26

Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*."

Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.

Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Mar 26

Here's the internal e-mail that outlines all this.

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WHO @who.int · Mar 26

New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.

It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.

Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk

Illustration of a child holding an umbrella over a cat. The text reads "Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind.
housing
jobs
inequality
education"

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Mar 25

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · Mar 25

READ

bit.ly/DemocracyAnd...

AND SIGN

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Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education

Speaking Out for Democracy and US Higher Education To add your name to this statement, go to https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign We publicly affirm our commitment to the enterprise of higher educ...

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · Mar 24

Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.

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23andMe files for bankruptcy protection

The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Mar 24

Hang together or hang separately

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · Mar 23

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley Law says he is trying to get a letter signed by other law school deans to call on law firms not to buckle under threats from the Trump administration.

He says it has been very hard to get many to sign.

(From a conference at UCLA happening now)

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Val Delane @valdelane.net · Mar 23

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...

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Kent M. Johnson @kentmjohnson.bsky.social · Mar 17

I support the right to peaceful protest by @valeriecosta.bsky.social

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