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Ross Jamieson
@rossjami.bsky.social
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An archaeologist at Simon Fraser University. I study Spanish colonialism in Ecuador, as well as material culture and the modern world.
https://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/about/people/faculty/rjamieson.html
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killgrove.bsky.social
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
👀ICYMI: "if the drain has a particular history and geography, it means that it is not inevitable. It can be resisted."

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #ScholComm
Money, Time, Trust, Control – How commercial publishers drain science - Impact of Social Sciences
Have the interests of commercial publishers now become antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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taradeschamps.bsky.social
The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block with two of Canada's richest families —the Westons and Thomsons — starting the bidding at $18 million.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cou...
Court approves Hudson's Bay plan to auction its royal charter; $18M bid expected
TORONTO - The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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archaeotext.bsky.social
🔊 JOBS ALERT! Two vacancies at the #InternationalSlaveryMuseum in #Liverpool! Join the wonderful team of curators reimagining this unique museum!

Curatorial fellow: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Project facilitator: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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iansellers.bsky.social
UBC LOA Archaeology and Repository Collections Manager Position
LOA Archaeology Repository and Collections Manager
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Museum, Level C Job Title LOA Archaeology Repository and Collections Manager Department Administrative Support | Department of...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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jeffmanuel.bsky.social
Looked at Google Scholar Labs this afternoon. No matter what you think about AI (who am I kidding, this is Bluesky!), classroom teachers should know about it. My department has a key "lit review" assignment for undergrads, but I'm not sure for how much longer...
blog.google/outreach-ini...
We’re introducing Google Scholar Labs to answer your research questions.
Today, we are introducing Google Scholar Labs, a new feature that explores how generative AI can transform the process of answering detailed scholarly research questions…
blog.google
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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activehist.bsky.social
In today’s post, Andrew Nurse explores the repatriation of Indigenous culture, through artifacts, by the Vatican
“An Historic Day”: Concern and Celebration of the Vatican’s Repatriation of Indigenous Culture
By Andrew Nurse On November 15, a media release announced that Pope Leo XIV, following an audience with members of the Canadian Roman Catholic hierarchy, “gifted sixty-two artefacts belonging to th…
activehistory.ca
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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donalh.bsky.social
Did @rpanchasi.bsky.social's Xtreme Endnoting exercise with a group of postgrads this afternoon and it was so good. They got really engaged and enjoyed it. @siobhraaiken.bsky.social Spiritual Wounds was one of our mystery texts. Strongly recommend giving it a go:
www.historians.org/perspectives...
Cite Specific – AHA
It all started with a desire to have a different kind of conversation with my students about citation, one that wouldn’t be consumed by the details of formatting or the penalties for plagiarism. These...
www.historians.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
rossjami.bsky.social
A 19th-century shipwreck near Toronto emerges almost untouched by time | CBC News
An exploration dive team seeking the century-old wreck of the Rapid City has instead found a much rarer prize: a virtually undisturbed vessel, potentially dating back to the first half of the 19th cen...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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seancarleton.bsky.social
Today, in Montreal, I was honoured to be inducted into to the Royal Society of Canada as a member of the RSC College. I’m looking forward to using the platform to fight residential school denialism and further truth and reconciliation.
November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
rossjami.bsky.social
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
rossjami.bsky.social
Trump Cuts and Orders Have Broad Impact on American Museums, Report Finds
Trump Cuts and Orders Have Broad Impact on American Museums, Report Finds
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social!
Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30%
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Globalizing Wildlife
Humans have always incorporated wildlife into processes of work, capture, and exchange. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, globalization became t...
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November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Cornell reaches deal with DOJ, will pay $30 milion to end investigations and restore federal funding - The Ithaca Voice
This is a developing story. It will be updated as more information becomes available. ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University has reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice […]
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November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
rossjami.bsky.social
Archaeologists Present Findings on Enslaved People Buried in Old Burying Ground | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard archaeology professor Jason Ur and Johns Hopkins professor Aja M. Lans presented their findings on the enslaved individuals buried in the Old Burying Ground cemetery across from Harvard Yard l...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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“The logic of enslavement was dehumanisation, so the fight has always been to regain that humanity,”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historic town founded by Black Colombians fleeing slavery eyes second ‘independence’
San Basilio de Palenque calls itself ‘the first free Black territory in the Americas’ – a referendum next month could win its own local government
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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samtabachnik.bsky.social
NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes.

www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
www.denverpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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jdunkin.bsky.social
In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School
At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.
niche-canada.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Federal agencies' overwhelming focus on immigration has suspended work on the repatriation of stolen cultural property - investigations that once won us friends around the world.

From @samtabachnik.bsky.social in the @denverpost.com: www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
screenshot reading "Homeland Security Investigations, the department's investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases. A select number of additional agents around the country also worked these cases, including a nationwide investigation into looted Thai objects. The Denver Art Museum has previously acknowledged that two relics from Thailand in its collection are part of that federal investigation. Since 2007, HSI says it has repatriated over 20,000 items to more than 40 countries. But the Trump administration, as part of its unprecedented mass-deportation agenda, earlier this year dissolved the cultural property program and moved the agents to immigration enforcement, multiple people with knowledge of the change told The Denver Post." Copied from https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/us-disbands-cultural-property-investigations-immigration/ screenshot reading "With the federal government mostly out of the game, cultural heritage investigations will be largely left to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York City, which has an Antiquities Trafficking Unit. But the DA's office relies heavily on its partnership with HSI, which has federal jurisdiction and can serve warrants and issue summonses across the country. The Manhattan DA's office only has authority over New York. "The future for the DA’s office and the (antiquities trafficking) unit is in jeopardy," said an individual familiar with the Manhattan unit's dealings, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. "It's unclear who's going to be swearing out warrants going forward."" from https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/us-disbands-cultural-property-investigations-immigration/
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Would like to know if @caut.bsky.social @u15ca.bsky.social anything to say about this.
michaelhendricks.bsky.social Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 29d
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM