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Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

📣 New issue is out now! As Women’s History Month begins, this issue brings attention to gender bias in #archaeology. These articles examine persistent inequities in visibility, citation, and leadership, and offer concrete strategies for change.
Explore more here:
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Cover of The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo. The cover photograph depicts workers in a sugarcane field under a sky of fluffy clouds. The cut canes fill the bottom half of the image, and the sky the top half. The title appears in all-caps centered green text in the top third of the cover, and the subtitle in a black italicized font immediately below. The author's name appears on white text on top of the canes.

In "The Business of Racism," Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social draws from his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil’s agribusiness sector to show how racial capitalism is promulgated and maintained through politics and business. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/9dd4fNe

There's a fundamental attribution error here: does AI actually "do" research? It's an automated pattern-recognition, algorithm-drivem machine learning tool. It can't think, and anything it produces resembling "research" is in spite of, rather than because of, the way it's constructed.

Culture Ministry seeks to block another sale of pre-Columbian artifacts — this time, on eBay A foreign sale of artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian past is being challenged legally by the Culture Ministry.

Mexico has denounced the planned sale on eBay of 195 archaeological pieces and demanded that the auction by an eBay user in Orlando, Florida, identified as “Coins Artifacts,” return the objects to Mexico.

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My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

Cover of book "Conoce a Zelia Nuttall," by Edna Iturralde and illustrations by Israel Barrón, featuring a drawing of Nuttall with her hands on a table, with open books and artifacts in the foreground and bookcases and more artifacts in the background.

what's the best way to teach your young children about the gendered dimensions of the famous batres-nuttall conflict re: isla de sacrificos in the context of early-twentieth-century mexican archaeology? turns out that @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social has the answer!

Text on an academic article about "Moving Things: Moving Cartloads of Treasures from Venice to Ethiopia, ca. 1400" pasted into Grammarly in a Browser. It offers to invoke the digital ghosts of David Abulafia, Barry Flood and Chris Wickham to give me "expert feedback".

Using Grammarly for the first time in forever ... WHAT?

As a non-native speaker writing primarily in English, I used to use it to check prepositions, point out too long/convoluted sentences etc.

It now offers to summon colleagues both living and dead to "expert review" the piece???

What?

National day of action. Save science. protect health. defend democracy. March 7th. Washington dc and nationwide! standupforscience.net/march7

Hey @hcrichardson.bsky.social! Can you help us get the word out about our SECOND National Day of Action on March 7th??

#standupforscience

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.

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In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

(Pretty sure I got this from @rajoyce.bsky.social, and it's served me well as a writer, reviewer, and editor ever since!)

Was it just that those sources weren't in the bibliography? Sometimes. But maybe the work was framed such that a reader might expect reference to X, Y, and Z; maybe there are analytical parallels between X, Y, and Z and the work in question that weren't explored, etc.

When a reviewer says something like "should have cited X, Y, and Z," it's always tempting to stick X, Y, and Z in a footnote—but that kind of comment is symptomatic of something else: the reviewer was expecting an engagement with X, Y, and Z, and didn't get it. Why was that?

One good bit of advice I got in grad school: treat reviewers' comments as symptoms, and figure out how to best address the cause yourself.

Academic friends: I'm hosting a campus discussion today with real talk about the the scholarly publishing process/pipeline, and would love to share some "in the trenches" wisdom: what is something you know now about the process that you wish you'd known as a first-year/early-career academic?

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋

American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research

I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️

A sign in page for WorldCat (search.worldcat.org). The text reads: Are you ready to unleash a world of knowledge and discovery? Sign in to WorldCat and unlock a treasure trove of library holdings, favorite your go-to libraries, and curate lists that fuel your curiosity.

What a shame that WorldCat now requires users to log in before they can interact with records. I like to send people to WorldCat when I reference a book, so they can find it at their local library. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t require a login—but now WC does.

Can't wait to dig into this one! Sandra Rozental's work is top-notch—check out the documentary she did with Jesse Lerner here: vimeo.com/154258509

Violence erupts after Mexican security forces kill drug cartel boss ‘El Mencho’ Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was one of world’s most wanted drug traffickers

Stay safe, friends

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Historians, I have a question for you. I'm reading some older books that all suggest a shared assumption by historians that in the past (often defined very broadly, but generally from the emergence of humans up through the middle ages-ish) humans had no real conception of "the future." (1/3)

Meant to add that you can get it here from @dukepress.bsky.social for 30% off: buff.ly/BNjptWC

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Can't wait to dig into this one! Sandra Rozental's work is top-notch—check out the documentary she did with Jesse Lerner here: vimeo.com/154258509

In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (intro) Located in the Papantla municipality of the Mexican state of Veracruz, El Tajín is a UNESCO World Heritage site but a lesser-known tourist destination and national symbol. The Indigenous Totonac resid...

Given... everything, I especially appreciate folks' interest in my work. In case you're curious, I've shared the introduction to my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico, here: works.hcommons.org/records/hv9r... 🗃️📚🏺🇲🇽

We ain't stopping until we get the rights we deserve!

We hit the Fells Point area recently, putting up flyers around the neighborhood & in supportive businesses!

We need @senbillferg.bsky.social, @mddems.bsky.social, & @mdhousedems.bsky.social to help us get this bill over the line this session!

ICE detains Soldotna kindergartner and family The mom had a legal authorization to work as she sought asylum, her husband says.

ICE agents took a Soldotna family — including a kindergarten‑age child — into custody this week, drawing concern from local clergy and raising questions about how immigration enforcement is carried out.

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

I use anystyle.io to get Word bibliographies into Zotero—might be worth a look if you run into this problem again.

AAA Urges Congress to Restore NSF Dissertation Research - American Anthropological Association December 18, 2025 The Honorable Ted Cruz, Chairman The Honorable Maria Cantwell, Ranking Member Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee 254 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC, ...

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We have sent a letter urging our personal Congressional Reps, the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, & the Assistant Director of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate to restore doctoral funding for social scientists (i.e., the DDRIG) at NSF.