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Lindsay Bloch

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Archaeologist, v. old pottery, v. good dogs, ceramic-themed nail art, historic buttons. ig:maniarchaeology. She/her 🇵🇸 https://temperedarchaeology.com/

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · Nov 26

Treat yourself or your favorite lab, classroom, or museum to the brand new Historic Button Type Collection!

Learn to identify old and/or archaeological buttons using real antique examples. High resolution photos, dating info, and key diagnostics all in one place!

temperedarchaeology.com/buttons

fan of button cards, each listing a different button type with pictures and real buttons attached. Top card is "Shell"

Closeup of front of the "Shell" card with images and attached buttons and 3 paragraphs of information, partially obscured by a watermark.

Layout of 14 button cards in square format, text partially obsured.

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 7d

🏺DYK that the first people in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos made pottery with dust that originated in the Sahara?!

Our new article confirms this, and a whole lot more about how the Lucayans engineered pottery in this challenging environment.

doi.org/10.1080/1556...
@emikracht.bsky.social

Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands: Reverse Engineering a Novel Pottery Type

Palmetto Ware is a low-fired earthenware that was developed in the Lucayan Islands (The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands) ca. AD 700–800. Its production and use by the Lucayan...

doi.org

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 16d

4th image of mug in the Longridge Collection, UW Libraries:
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A3V7...

‎Mug - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries

search.library.wisc.edu

Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 16d

3rd image courtesy Maryland Archaeological Conservation laboratory: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/.../tin_glaz...

apps.jefpat.maryland.gov

Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · 16d

New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London.
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology

left hand holding a small sherd. Fingernails and sherd are decorated with a design of blue grid with red stars inside and green at the intersections of lines.

Artifact image of sherds decorated with blue grid and red stars with green accents on a white ground.

Decorated sherds and a black and white image of a complete tankard with the same checked design. Text reads, "Chinese or common shape cup with painted star and grid pattern in blue, red, and green (left). This vessel may have been made in Bristol in the early 18th century in a fashion known as Bristol blue-red-green. Whole mug with similar pattern from a private collection on right. Angelica Knoll, 18CV60, c. 1650-1770."

A complete mug decorated with blue grid design with red stars inside. Top area has decorative border and reads "Union".

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · Aug 27

🏺Nice work, @archfieldnotes.bsky.social!

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · Aug 27

Archaeologists are using advanced mapping technology to search for Maronberg, a hidden settlement of escaped slaves on St. Croix that has eluded discovery for centuries.

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side-by-side maps of where Maroon settlements were believed to be on St. Croix in 1750 and 1799

Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · Aug 27

🏺 Great writeup of our recent work!

Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 14

Archaeologists used X-rays to distinguish iron from different periods of America’s colonial past. Their results show that the purity of iron and its trace elements can be reliably used as a diagnostic feature. Story: www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/arch...

Study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

an old vintage map of La Florida and the southeastern united states has several iron artifacts resting on it like a horseshoe and big nails

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Eli @elihosen.bsky.social · Aug 21

Fox kit introducing themself!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jul 13

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · Jul 12

you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Jul 12

Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · Jul 4

🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast"

We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.

What assemblages should we zap next?

Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology

iron horseshoe fragments and iron shaped into rectangular chisel/celt forms. Figure 4 of article.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 10

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?"

Yes: 68%
No: 18

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Jun 9

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · May 19

You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 14

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️

NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.

It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.

❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.

The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated?

Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 8

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

scim.ag

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 9

🧪 Another round of NSF grant terminations is expected today.

But here’s a silver lining: there’s already a webinar for you today at 2 pm ET if you’re in that boat!

(Tries to find the dark humor in moments like these…)

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 5

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar.

Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET

Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Webinar on Responding to NSF Grant Terminations

Join the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) on Friday, May 9th, at 2:00 PM ET for an informative webinar on responding to NSF grant terminations. We will discuss the rules, procedures and available options for grantees who have had their grant terminated.

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · Apr 26

🤞 for a good recovery.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

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Lindsay Bloch @lindsaybloch.bsky.social · Apr 23

🏺 New #maniarchaeology inspired by 2 of my favorite things: porcelain and buttons! Prosser-molded porcelain buttons were made post-1840 and are very common archaeologically. However, the original transfer-printed designs on some of them, known as "calicos" are often worn away.

my hand laying over a pile of small white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted black, each with a decorated button painted on.

my left hand palm up to show a handful of white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted with buttons to match, one per finger, on a black background.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Apr 16

Remember, these forms are NOT toys. They are not jokes. If these forms are to be effective, they should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES be flooded with incorrect information, which would render them useless. So definitely do not do that. Do not do it one time, or a dozen times, or even hundreds of times.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Apr 15

2. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), run by famed vaccine skeptic and legacy hire Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has launched an online portal for “whistleblowers” reporting medical providers if they offer gender affirming treatment to trans people.

Find it here:

www.hhs.gov

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · Apr 15

NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees.

These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone.
www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

www.nsf.gov

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · Apr 15

If you are National Guard or active duty military & you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, call the Gl Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487
There is support, you don't have to go through with it.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Apr 14

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 15

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

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