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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣 Calling all archaeologists! 📣
***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign***
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EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number)
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Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks!
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Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA

Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.

aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTC Call for Action - EAA

EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.

Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Aug 26

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · Aug 26

For the second straight day, Trump has mused about Americans preferring a dictatorship.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Ancient Protein and Isotope Laboratory at the University of Michigan is hiring a manager to start this fall.

@umich.edu @umichresearch.bsky.social

#archaeology #chemistry #michigan #annarbor

Lab Manager | U-M Careers

careers.umich.edu

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Study confirms there's no innate difference in aptitude between boys and girls in math

A new study of schoolchildren in France suggests that boys are not innately better at math. Some aspect of schooling appears to drive the "gender gap."

www.livescience.com

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · Jul 7

Certainly encouraging public engagement in historical research, yet this @theguardian.com opinion piece, again, perpetuates an outdated notion:

🏺 #Archaeology is *not* about objects. Just digging up old stuff is of little help in understanding "the past" if contextual information is abandoned.

Comic-style info graphic titled “Archaeology: Why Context Matters” showing the stylized excavation of a bronze object, soil layers with labeled ash and occupation layers, and compares careful excavation to random digging. It explains that objects without context, like that bronze object - reveal little, and uses a torn book page metaphor to show that only context gives meaning.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 23

📣 BREAKING NEWS:

Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom.

“Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · May 21

Re-advertising this post as no suitable applicants were found in the first round. If you are interested in an exciting PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney, do get in touch! Deadline 9 July. Updated information and link here:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · May 16

Happy to announce that I am now tenured at U Michigan! Celebrated last night with my family and some champagne.

Looking forward to this new phase in my career as an Associate Prof of Anthropology and the Associate Curator of Archaeological Sciences 😊

@umich.edu

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Mar 28

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Feb 25

The Huns were not the Xiongnu, they were only distant descendants.

Amazing work by an interdisciplinary team - including Guido Gnecchi Ruscone and Bryan Miller. Great comments by Ursula Brosseder!

Attila’s Huns were a motley crew of central European locals and East Asian immigrants

A genetic analysis reveals some Huns descended from pillagers in East Asia

www.science.org

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Kent M. Johnson @kentmjohnson.bsky.social · Feb 12

Great write up of the relevance of archaeology and science to address contemporary global health challenges (research by Jane Buikstra and @grschug.bsky.social) Ancient DNA could help to understand recent tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas news.asu.edu/20250210-hea...

Ancient DNA could help to understand recent tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas | ASU News

For over a year, Wyandotte and Johnson counties in Kansas City, Kansas, have been fighting an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) that has claimed two lives and infected nearly 150 residents.

news.asu.edu

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Feb 4

Are you a student at the University of Michigan? Apply to participate in our archaeological field school in Kazakhstan!

@umichresearch.bsky.social

#CentralAsia #Archaeology #Excavation #Science #BronzeAge #Kazakh #Kazakhstan

Summer Field School: U-M Training Program in Archaeology | U-M LSA Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

lsa.umich.edu

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

I will fight against racism and misogyny. I refuse to let facism win. I do this in honor of my grandmothers who were forged by volcanoes and emerged resilient and brave.

#Anti-Facist #Anti-Racist #ProImmigrant #Empathy #Education

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

Because of my grandmothers that came before me, I am resilient and brave. I am volcanic. I will not break, instead, I will transform the earth and the lives around me. In my profession, I will use my skills as an educator to promote empathy and openness to other cultures and peoples globally.

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

They lived in Buffalo, New York. As an immigrant and the child of immigrants, they were often seen as the ‘other’. Their early lives coincided with a period when American political policy was focused on protecting the interests of native-born people over those of immigrants.

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

After the war she immigrated to the US. She did not speak English, she did not have a job. She took a boat alone across the ocean to marry a man that she did not know well. My nonna was brave.

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

Renata Polverino Campanile, my nonna, was born in Caserta not far from Mount Vesuvius. She was born under fascist rule and survived her apartment being bombed during WW II.

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

Angela Pirrone Ventresca, my grandmother, was the daughter of Francesco and Vincenza who were immigrants to the United States. Her family was from Sicily, in the vicinity of Mt. Etna. She was a migrant worker who picked fruits and vegetables in fields. My grandmother was resilient.

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 24

My grandmothers were forged by volcanoes. They lived tumultuous early lives, before they became the women that I knew and respected.

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Jan 10

I just called bioarchaeology 'Barchaeology' by accident and that is how it will now be known

#archaeology #bioarchaeology #tired

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Dec 9

Before we put this on our lawn, we need to test it inside 😳

A huge inflatable bear with Santa and a bag of toys on it’s back

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Dr. Ventresca-Miller @ventrescamiller.bsky.social · Dec 5

It’s freezing today, so we skipped school to sit by the fire and work from home ❤️

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