These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
A stone axe with a light-colored, roughly shaped stone blade mounted horizontally on a wooden handle made of several jointed segments, displayed upright against a dark background.
This ca. 5,000-year-old Neolithic polished flint axe with its original ash wood handle is remarkable well preserved.
During the Neolithic period in Denmark, as agriculture began to expand, farmers had to clear the forests, which involved felling trees and burning away brushwood in...🧵1/2
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A #FridayFold of kinked, crenulated phyllite that I saw yesterday while poking around at the Virginia state geologic survey. ⚒️
me when the students have done the reading
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The study analyzed complete human genomes from individuals who lived across a region that encompasses modern-day Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, between 8500 and 1700 BCE.
"This instructional design reflects our commitment to inclusive pedagogy: All learning pathways are valid, whether students engage as manual human learners or outsource their consciousness to a chatbot."
Meanwhile, still no word on the SBE GRFP programs (eg, archaeology) that disappeared without warning, as I reported back in November. 🫠🏺
Motion A: 468 members agreed to exclude Israeli institutional affiliations = 67% 237 did not agree; 77 abstained Motion B: 470 members did not approve of the actions of the Exexcutive Board = 79% 124 did approve; 205 abstained Motion C: 564 members supported a firm statement condemning the ongoing genocide in Palestine = 78% 160 did not support; 76 abstained Motion D: 410 supported change in statutes to ptovide mechanism to remove President and Executive Board = 58% 294 did not support; 95 abstained Motion E: 451 supported a vote on the viability of the current Officers (excl. Treasurer) = 67% 223 did not support; 125 abstained
🚨EAA per rollam vote results🚨
For anyone who doesn't want to trawl through a long document to find the results, I've compiled them here. Well done to everyone who voted for demonstrating strongly and clearly that change is needed 👏🏼👏🏼
Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation
New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
"This career has it all: creativity, customer-facing dynamics, a pointy hat."
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I don't mean to seem alarmed, but it appears Google's book search function is, just...gone.
In a sane country it would be a huge deal, front page news, that a privately owned utility that millions researches, from journalists to scholars, rely on every day to advance knowledge can just disappear.
“The right to complain — to be visible, to put your name to something — is one of the basic building blocks of worker power.” @alexnpress.bsky.social
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Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).
We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬
A stunning Bronze age axe heard made of an orangey stone with greenish flecks
A slice of blue cheese. It's orangey in colour with flecks of blue-green mould.
Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?
Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
An upland landscape with boulders and slabs
Extraordinary natural slabs, upright blocks & perched erratic boulders in glaciated rockscape of the northern Rhinogydd last week 😮
These puzzling phenomena must have been marvelled over by communities in prehistory
🎓 FCT PhD Fellowships 2026
ICArEHB invites inquisitive and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology or Primatology through the national FCT Program.
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Galaxies and stories tucked away inside a rock. Geology feels like a tiny peep hole into secret land. It makes me think about snorkeling and feeling like you're spying on another world. What a privilege it is to be alive and to see the world on so many beautiful scales.
If you find any gen A.I. images in academic journals that are not in my collection yet, you can report them at this form:
bit.ly/JournalSlop
None of these anti-AI assessment strategies y’all are promoting are at all reasonable for adjuncts or folks who teach asynchronous online classes or who have large large classes. Imagine adjuncting an asynchronous online class of 50 students and doing oral exams.
This semester marked my first time teaching my Monuments class. Focused on anthropology/archaeology work on the subject
Final projects were student proposals for their own monuments (including 3D mockups) and absolutely blew me away! Looking forward to being able to teach this again soon. 🏺
Geologists, too! Not too long ago someone commented to me that there’s little value in rock sample and core libraries because everything important had surely been digitized. Relatively little has (and, even if it has, it’s hard to run a chemical or physical test on an image or PDF file).
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
A diamond shaped formation in a rock face with a blue sky beyond
How did prehistoric communities interpret natural rock phenomena?
This smooth-faced igneous rock formation inside St David's Head coastal promontory fort displays an extraordinary natural chevron design, long celebrated in the #Neolithic rock art of northwest Europe 🤔
📷 My own, Tuesday
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
Look, I just don't give a fuck. I'd rather support people who want to game the system than risk harming those who are vulnerable. I just don't care. The wealthy can afford to pay taxes to pay for it. The math works out. We can support everyone. It's just the will to do it.
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
The author is a GREAT example of someone who should have taken (and learned from) anthropology classes rather than reading Jared Diamond. Happily, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social learn from anthropologists and historians and then rip this bullshit to shreds.
