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Rosemary Joyce

@rajoyce.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, anthropologist, once upon a time blogger. Author “The Future of Nuclear Waste”, “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives”, “Sites, Traces and Materiality”. Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Honorary PhD, Leiden Univ .. more

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Rosemary A. Joyce is an American anthropologist and social archaeologist who has specialized in research in Honduras. She was able to archeologically confirm that chocolate was a byproduct of fermenting beer. She is also an expert in evaluating the archaeological records of society and the implications that sexuality and gender play in culture. .. more

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12d

This is who runs this account

Photo of a child with curly blonde hair seated inside a television cabinet, looking out at the viewer through the glass. The CRT tube has been removed but she is on TV.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 9h

I was a major fan once upon a time.

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Feb 13

not forgetting, of course:

happy Ollie's day too

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you!!

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 9h

Houses of Parliament, Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement, effet de soleil) - 1903
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1316300

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Jared Lipof @jaredlipof.bsky.social · 10h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmnK...

Oliver Reed , Classic 1985 funny moment

YouTube video by Simon Delaware

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. after video evidence revealed “sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/immi...

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 10h

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

This is striking: New Senate Majority PAC poll finds that GOP's advantage on immigration has been wiped out by unpopularity of Trump's agenda. Dems now at parity with Republicans.

This is a Dem poll but it dovetails with what other polls are showing (see piece/thread below)

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 11h

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills.

To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

The image features a gradient background transitioning from pink to blue. Text reads "Introducing the Trans Bill of Rights" with an icon of a paper and pen.

A colorful infographic titled "What is the Trans Bill of Rights?" outlines four points with icons: protections from employment and housing discrimination, equal access to medical treatment without discrimination, legal recognition of gender identity, and the right to use restrooms aligning with a person's gender identity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Can you confirm that CBP actually hit a party balloon it thought was a drone with a laser? And why wasn't that coordinated with the FAA?

KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication

*ends presser*

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 11h

That looks amazing. Any idea where it’s sourced? Am back on campus a couple days a week now…looking for places in a landscape that has changed so much in 18 months.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 11h

8/8 I take this personally. I’m the child of a steel plant worker and a homemaker. I was able to pursue my lifelong dream to be an archaeologist because of scholarships, fellowships, and working as a student. A public school, the University of Illinois let me earn a PhD. That’s worth support.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

7/ The subtext of class—which US society notoriously pretends doesn’t operate— was further reinforced in those years by a speech former President Clinton gave. His diagnosis for higher ed would basically leave public universities the mission of job training.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

6/ The response— from a lab science colleague— was “maybe Berkeley can’t afford this field”. Implicit is we should leave it to Stanford and its ilk. (Having been at Harvard nine years prior to coming to Berkeley, yes, they don’t turn small grants down but not because they gave me other funds.)

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

5/ About the same time I was on a faculty governance committee discussing how to close our budget gap (Dem governor Brown cut our funding). One proposal was to only accept grants that pay overhead. I noted this would eliminate the foundations that had funded my research and that of most my students.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

4/ (As the archaeologists reading this know that’s not true: the largest proportion of archaeologists in the US are employed in Federal and state agencies, or private businesses doing Cultural Resource Management, or my own original employment sector, museums— highest job satisfaction, lowest pay.)

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

3/ that “unnecessary” label wasn’t glossed (as it was explicitly by Ron Desantis, who used anthropology as the icon of failed job track). But it was clear that we— and archaeology specifically— were included. After all, who can do this for a career? Clearly rich people, not public school students.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the part of the piece @aselrod.bsky.social is referencing. Imagine if more voters understood how hard it is for people to come here legally, and understood that Trump/GOP want it this way *precisely so that* people give up on the idea that immigration can be managed. Dems can make this point!

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

2/ He said we could achieve this by removing unnecessary courses and discouraging students from taking more than the minimum. My department was and is a common second major/minor for students (who combine it with more legible fields they or parents think will yield jobs in law or medicine).

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

It was when Jerry Brown (Democrat) was governor that it was made crystal clear to me how his party viewed my academic field (archaeology). He wanted UC to enroll more California students and his method was to reduce the time students spent as undergrads— to 3 years. 1/

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 12h

This!!!

Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 15h

(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12h

Text was also generated with Chat GPT, and the results were less hideous but still contained inaccuracies. The least wrong are so generic in informational content as to be, IMO, useless for education/sci comm beyond the extremely basic (e.g. early primary years).

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12h

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

screengran of figure from paper showing four different generated images of a "day in the life of a Neanderthal". All images contain significant inaccuracies from physical characteristics (extremely primitive) to material culture (glass containers), and the lack of women and children is also obvious.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

Look maybe ten people on here will enjoy this as much as me but someone overlaid the bad bunny Americas roll call with a Roman accented guy calling out Roman neighborhoods and i love it

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12h

This is a factually inaccurate claim. Polls indeed show voters say they trust the Republicans more than Democrats to "handle the issue of immigration", but (a) the GOP lead is within the margin of error & (b) this is not "firmly behind Trump's handling of the issue" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

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David Knowles @writerknowles.bsky.social · 12h

From the brilliant @michaelemann.bsky.social and Bob Ward:

"The endangerment finding was based on robust and rigorous scientific evidence. And that evidence is now stronger than ever."

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Trump’s EPA can’t simply erase climate change — and we’ll all pay the price

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency reverse its “endangerment finding," which found that greenhouse gases are a threat to human health.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13h

“Democrats can speak with conviction about what they know to be right, wrong, and true.”

@gregsargent.bsky.social has me up on the table with this takedown of Leonhardt-style popularism. He’s absolutely right.

Be loud. Be convicted. Show the truth. Persuade people. That’s politics.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...

How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration

Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.

newrepublic.com

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13h

trying to wrap my head around how we are going to raise $15-28 million dollars for the expected rent need in Minnesota in March when the news cycle has now passed us.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 13h

My lead awareness is being enhanced by a blueberry fritter.

Instructor has learned there are more regulations that touch lead than he thought.

A blueberry fritter on a plate with several bites out of it.

Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13h

So much this. I love reading book reviews and have been horrified as papers I subscribe to dropped them.

Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 1d

"Philistines are always declaring that no one reads literary criticism, but the record shows that publishers systematically underestimate the popularity of book reviews."

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 3d

Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/zmzLbN

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