A HUGE congrats to Grinnell College's @cocalola.bsky.social on this grant, awarded to support important archaeological work & research at the Rock Springs, WY, Chinatown | 🏺https://thesandb.com/55311/news/anthropology-professor-laura-ng-receives-10000-grant-for-wyoming-chinatowns-research-project/

Anthropology Professor Laura Ng receives $10,000 grant for Wyoming Chinatowns research project

The Far Western Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Anthropology Professor Laura Ng’s research project, titled “Wyoming Chinatowns and Emigrant Home Villages: Archaeologies of Labor, Racial...

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try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter@realbachscore.bsky.social · 7mo ago

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

In a conference forum last year I said that grad programs need to rethink their expectations re: grad student grant proposals and find ways to divest from big federal grants which was shrugged off to focus on how to adjust the language we use in proposals to avoid censorship...anyways, here we are

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

In 1953 archaeologist Robert Braidwood initiated a debate: what began the domestication of cereals in the Ancient Near East? Was it for bread or beer? Malt & malting was discussed briefly by some of the Braidwood Symposium participants but the "Bread or Beer" debate continues unresolved today. 🏺

merryn@merryn02.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The malting industry is big business today. It provides #malt and #maltsugars for brewing, distilling and food production. But how was malt discovered? We wrote about the importance of malt in #prehistory for PAST magazine. @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

54% of male Republicans under the age of 50 believe "the Holocaust was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe." manhattan.institute/article/the-...

The New GOP: Survey Analysis of Americans Overall, Today’s Republican Coalition, and the Minorities of MAGA

A new national survey conducted by the Manhattan Institute examines today’s Republican Party and the coalition assembled by Donald Trump in 2024. It is one of the most exhaustive studies to date of th...

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Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. expertoptout@superhuman.com

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Junior faculty- Consider coming to Princeton Psych -all expenses paid- for a few weeks to hang out with my great colleagues! (I can’t host this year, but we have so many great labs to choose from!). Application details below.

Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈@eriknook.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Fun fact about us for #InternationalWomensDay - our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class🥇in #Archaeology MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🏺

My god this story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

NYU is only “liberal” when convenient. “NYU canceled 13 culture, identity & faith-based graduation ceremonies due to the “current political climate,” according to student groups that are urging admin to rescind the order or better explain their reasoning.” @thecity.nyc nyunews.com/news/2026/02...

NYU cancels affinity graduations - Washington Square News

NYU canceled 13 culture, identity and faith-based graduation ceremonies due to the “current political climate,” according to student groups that are urging administrators to either rescind the order o...

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Don't look away from the continued cruelty and horrors. Please keep calling your representatives, please keep showing up to protest these horrific actions, please keep caring.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE

According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.

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"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press." Wow! No words.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

No crypto in Canton: Town blocks data centers and crypto mining operations

Canton’s makeshift town hall in a tiny trailer was bursting at the seams Wednesday night with citizens united against data centers and cryptocurrency mining.

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Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos

Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...

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Stanford is doing this because it wants to

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

I have been of the opinion for about five years now that we are all mostly clinging to the *idea* of social media. But that it has not existed, as we mean it, since Jack sold Twitter. The minute capital lined up to fold social media into its technocratic political consolidation, it stopped existing.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Of course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months. He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

Leavitt: "Nobody in the White House, including President Trump, wants to see people getting hurt or killed in America's streets. This includes Renee Good, Alex Pretti, the brave men and women of law enforcement, and the many Americans who have been victimized by illegal alien criminals"

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Send a Love Note — Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

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I don’t have voting members in Congress but I’m still calling Schumer to tell him to shut the government down over ICE occupying cities and executing people in the streets

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

5calls.org

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

This video is itself a historical document that shows the Trump administration's efforts to erase history. There are few more telling symbols of the intentional attempt to silence the past than the raw, empty spaces left behind after this removal of displays about the history of American slavery.

Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 9mo ago

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

Philadelphia Inquirer@inquirer.com · 9mo ago

ICE has been busting down doors and seizing people from their homes without signed judicial warrants. But it wasn’t some decision on the fly. It turns out, it was actual agency policy. A shocking memo, and what it means for this practice, in today’s write-up. Link in the replies.

Conference that may be of interest for @oeai.bsky.social

@chatarchaeology@chatarchaeology.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Join us at next year's CHAT in Innsbruck! Our Call for Paper is open: hopechat.chat-arch.org

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‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities

Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities

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