Scott Van Keuren
@svankeuren.bsky.social
Archaeologist, US Southwest, medieval Peloponnese, & no longer willing to grill in subzero weather.
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"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bastards about six weeks ago, but I pushed it, and shit got real on me."
It’s Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bas...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get these decorative gourds the fuck out of my house. The clock expired on these goofy goose-necked bastards about six weeks ago, but I pushed it, and shit got real on me."
Our local NPR station (@vermontpublic.org) had my back this morning, playing some GodSpeed You! Black Emperor on the brutal, snow-squally commute to school.
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our local NPR station (@vermontpublic.org) had my back this morning, playing some GodSpeed You! Black Emperor on the brutal, snow-squally commute to school.
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A recently published illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social . screw AI, hire an artist.
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A recently published illustration by @kjkillackey.bsky.social . screw AI, hire an artist.
My Spotify Wrapped has been compromised by my tween's bizarre musical taste so I won't be sharing it.
December 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My Spotify Wrapped has been compromised by my tween's bizarre musical taste so I won't be sharing it.
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Agreed. Best yet on the utter disaster university administrators and AI oligarchs have enacted.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Agreed. Best yet on the utter disaster university administrators and AI oligarchs have enacted.
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I've taught more than 100 sections at a criminally underfunded public university and never once has it been a problem to make an accommodation for a student who needs a little extra time or whatever so I suspect this is not really a problem at the University of Chicago with its $10 billion endowment
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I've taught more than 100 sections at a criminally underfunded public university and never once has it been a problem to make an accommodation for a student who needs a little extra time or whatever so I suspect this is not really a problem at the University of Chicago with its $10 billion endowment
I can't wait to see the final product on this one.
If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
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Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.
#AcademicChatter
Slop graphics in academic journals
Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals.
The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I can't wait to see the final product on this one.
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"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
I have serious doubts about the Bundt pan turkey trend.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I have serious doubts about the Bundt pan turkey trend.
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From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
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🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
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But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
Shameful:
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Shameful:
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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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...
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
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...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Holy crap I want this SO bad.
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Holy crap I want this SO bad.
'Dance your PhD' is a great but why in the world add the AI component? www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again—with an all new, AI twist
For the first time, there’s a special prize for a research-themed dance generated by an artificial intelligence program
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
'Dance your PhD' is a great but why in the world add the AI component? www.science.org/content/arti...
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Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.
New pleasure is tormenting the pre-teen with 90s music. Yesterday it was Jane's Addiction. That was too much for him, but some day he'll come home with old vinyl and ask if I've ever heard of these bands (like he somehow discovered them).
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New pleasure is tormenting the pre-teen with 90s music. Yesterday it was Jane's Addiction. That was too much for him, but some day he'll come home with old vinyl and ask if I've ever heard of these bands (like he somehow discovered them).