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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 28d

📣 EAA Members 📣
If you haven't signed yet or have been trying to sign today, the original Google form was removed (all data saved, thankfully!)
🍉✊🏼🍉
Here is the NEW LINK: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...

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Jaime Almansa @jaimealmansa.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are starting to move an initiative from concerned EAA members, mainly from Spain… if you are/were and are interested to support it, sign and share!

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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 6

I've just sent my letter to the board. Let's hope they respond.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 6

Another aspect of the dystopian future we can look forward to.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

A.I. is changing classrooms. We spoke to the co-founder of Alpha Schools about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate personalized lesson plans and enabling teachers to spend their time motivating rather than teaching students. nyti.ms/3JHIZub

$MackKenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha Schools, in a dark blue shirt and orange pants sits on a wooden desk in front of a window, smiling slightly at the camera. Quote reads: "Our kids are crushing their academics, and they're doing it in a fraction of the time."$

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 4

Unintentional collage art on these public noticeboards in Turin.

Photograph of two public noticeboards in Turin showing the accumulated remnants of posters and other public notifications.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Are you disputing that Maya Wind is a scholar and has written extensively on this subject? Interesting.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 3

As scholar Maya Wind has documented, all Israeli universities are deeply complicit in the military occupation of Palestine, including HUJI, which hosts the Havatzalot training program for IDF officers. jewishcurrents.org/the-complici...

The Complicity of Israeli Academia

Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 3

Since 1967, the university has expanded its campus beyond the armistice line and into occupied East Jerusalem. uniavisen.dk/en/drop-the-...

Drop the collab with Hebrew University immediately

The Ministry of Higher Education says you should not to collaborate with such institutions. Researchers ask in new featured comment: What more do you need, UCPH?

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 2

And it's deeply ironic that the EAA criticizes the "collective punishment" of scholars affiliated with Israeli institutions (who were not prevented from presenting at the conference), while the Israeli military has been collectively punishing the people of Gaza without mercy for nearly two years.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 2

The board "deeply regret any harm to our affected colleagues", but (apart from a wishy-washy, both-sides statement issued in 2024) no mention of the very real and ongoing harm committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really pathetic statement on their part as well. What information could they possibly be lacking? They certainly seem to have missed yesterday's announcement by the International Association of Genocide Scholars that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide”.

Screenshot of today's statement by the EAA executive board from the conference website:

"At its Belgrade meeting on 1 September, the majority of the Executive Board decided to reverse its earlier decision to remove the affiliations of delegates from Israel. On further reflection, the Board recognised this action had been rushed and misjudged due to lack of sufficient information, and time pressure. We deeply regret any harm to our affected colleagues, with whom we will shortly be in touch.

Our prime objective is to move forward on all EAA matters in a way that better represents the spirit and ethos of the EAA as enshrined in its Statutes: to eliminate political actions, which includes collective punishment. The Board seeks to develop a long-term strategy, a plan that focuses on how to be productive within the remit of the EAA, and this process needs some time. The Membership will have the opportunity to comment and endorse it in due course."

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Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · Sep 2

Utterly disappointing decision by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social to reverse this decision, and really gross to see intimidation tactics being instructed for session monitors. Support colleagues who speak up and who refuse to enforce the EAA's instructions. 🏺

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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Jul 15

Last photo of Copenhagen before heading to the airport.

Early morning photograph of Copenhagen taken from the lakes looking towards the Dronning Louise's bridge.

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Jul 14

Last day in Copenhagen. After six years, it's time to start a new adventure in Torino.

Photo of an apartment filled with boxes and disassembled furniture.

Photo of a building exterior with a furniture lift taking our belongings down from the 5th floor balcony.

Photo of an empty apartment after the movers have completed their work.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · Jul 5

Do they look like terrorists to you?

Police have arrested an 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer among 25 others for holding these signs in Parliament Square today.

Showing support for Palestine Action now constitutes a terrorism offence under UK law. 🤡

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Jul 4

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Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July (Official Video) HD

YouTube video by Sam

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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · Jul 2

‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe. “The hospital was completely full of the wounded and the dead – because the cafe was crowded with women, children and the young. It was not a suspicious or military place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe

Witnesses describe explosion, flames and smoke plumes as airstrike transforms peaceful scene at al-Baqa into a horror

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · Jun 30

Out today! New research on how people create large-scale collectives in the past, and how elites were not a prerequisite to the process. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview of a different part of the world. #archaeology #inequality

www.routledge.com/Understandin...

Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective

This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated ...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jun 30

"First hand reports from Gaza overnight talk about some of the most intense airstrikes.. one building that was hit in eastern Gaza city, for example, was a former school where hundreds of families were sheltering.. & there said to be several fatalities there"

But Glastonbury!

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Jun 30

Congratulations Tom!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Jun 27

Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read.

Mahmoud v. Taylor "Appendix" from Alito with an image from a picture book Uncle Bobby’s Wedding showing a happy wedding announcement.

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Camilla Mazzucato @camillamazzucato.bsky.social · Jun 27

Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼

“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. Ho...

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CompEvo & HumanG Labs @compevohumang.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jun 27

BREAKING: DR Congo and Rwanda sign peace deal in ‘turning point’ after years of war aje.io/3n0wrv

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · Jun 27

We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean

West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

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