Come work with me on the William & Mary Anthropology Collections! We're looking for a postdoc in North American archaeology, preferably with experience on collections. Apply by April 2 for full consideration. 🏺🗃️ #academicsky
And pit bull/mr. Worldwide!
Ugh this feels counterintuitive
Jealous! My last final isn’t until Tuesday :(
Too far, John. Too far. Must wash my eyes with soap
In preparing proofs for a recent paper, Elsevier’s system removed all the capitalization for archaeological site names and time periods in my reference list, so I had to go through and add corrections to each instance. Insanely annoying.
This feels weird to me- but maybe it’s not as uncommon as I think for universities to bring people back from retirement (by many years?) for interim gigs?
My 8 year old niece has apparently seen it “more times than she has fingers and toes” - so it’s a thing with younger kids, too!
I chuckled and cringed at the same time
lol so many typos. I blame the early August chaos
We switched from Blackboard to Canvas. I hear Canvas is better, but I have been using Blackbord since 2009 :(
And of course those are 3 different systems, none of which seem to interface with each other
Over the summer, we have transition to 1) a new LMS, 2) a new degree audit system, 3) advising/student data system. HALP.
She really has the most adorable face.
See you tmw!!!! (Ironic that we live in the same region but we only run into each other at the meetings!)
Ooh where is this?
Enjoy your time in DC! (Waves from across town)
FYI- if your mom is in a situation where she has a catheter, UTIs are also super common and can cause dementia-like symptoms among the elderly. This happened with my dad and we had to be proactive in asking for testing for it (I think care team assumed it was hospital dementia)
Ugh just looked it up. It’s all happening too fast to keep track of :/
Oh no did this happen??
I’m so bummed that this isn’t out in the US until August!
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
So excited to see this! I have been mentioning this work in classes since I saw you present it at the Paleo meetings in 2016- now I can assign this paper!
New publication on probable facial piercings ("labrets") in the Mid Upper Paleolithic of Central Europe. Really happy to finally see this in print: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Early human collective practices and symbolism in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Southwest Asia | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Title and author list for introduction to special issue on integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology. "Towards a deeper integration of ZooMS and zooarchaeology at Palaeolithic sites: current challenges and future directions" Geoff M. Smith Karen Ruebens Virginie Sinet-Mathiot Frido Welker
🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺
A tale of a climate tipping point, and climate refugees, from southern African pre-history
www.biogrip.ac.za/isotopes-con...
Yes! I also had my first vertigo inducing migraine recently, and it was NOT FUN. :/
Our paper on the Early Upper Paleolithic faunal assemblage from Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan, 45-39 ka cal BP) is finally out!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1ioRMAlZXXri9
I have learned that those games are infinitely easier when someone who has played before is in the room. But it’s also a super ambitious start lol. Have y’all tried Wingspan? Catan is also a good entry level one.
