Timothy Scarlett

Employers? 12 pre-registered so far. Schools? 22 colleges and universities as of lunch today! Amplify this post to keep the momentum. We’ve been adding odds for just a week so far. Job seekers can start pre-registering March 1st. #jobs #culturalresources #nepa #nhpa #careerfair #trades #preservation

And please boost this message if you are part of #Restoration, #AdaptiveReuse, #Environmental Services, #Preservation #Engineering, the skilled preservation #Trades, #DesignThinking, #Placemaking or any related themes!!

Want to network or hire someone? Need help registering your company or org onto the platform? DM me and I’ll help!

Want your school or org to join so you have access? Contact your Career Services office and ask them to request addition! (Or DM me for help!)

app.joinhandshake.com/stu/career_f...

Chicago viewed from the air. The cityscape is clouded with winter mist, buildings emerging from the freezing fog.

A family walks through a door into a brightly-lit room. Through the glass door, the view shows an enormous room with a hulking steam locomotive engine. This is an exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

So this event allows all those little programs to unite and pool their talent, students and alumni, while employers, agencies, and orgs can recruit from anywhere in the country or world!

A view through the historic community library building in Muskegon, Michigan. A long open room with an arched ceiling spans a long way to the end which features arched windows. Murals adorn the long walls amid shelves of books. The room is warm, bright, and snug.

This pool of talent and all they do—for creative and smart growth, wise planning, and placemaking—are invisible to universities’ admin because there isn’t a spreadsheet bubble that captures the value of hundreds of small professional programs, from skilled trades to doctoral-level academic experts.

These fields support $1B in permitting, planning, development, and compliance work in #EnvironmentalServices; also within a $1T contribution of the #ArtsAndCulture sector just in the US economy alone.

But most hiring is local/regional and by word-of-mouth. That’s crazy.

A white, middle-aged man sips coffee from a to-go cup outside an historic building at Wayne State University. The light brown brick and dark stone elements contrast the pale blue of the clear winter sky.

This career event brings together the diverse professionals that support #HistoricPreservation and #ResourcesMangement: #archaeologists, #planners, #historians, #designers, #trades, #engineers, #business, #tourism, #development, #artists, #geospatial, #architects.

A promotional flier for the career fair event. Wednesday, March 18th, from 12-5pm est.

Cultural Resources Career Fair- free, virtual, and open. Now pre-registering employers, agencies, and organizations seeking new hires, interns, seasonal and full time help, entry-level or supervisory in #CulturalResources, #Preservation, #Heritage, #EnvironmentalServices, #CulturalIndustries…

Colleagues, I’m an archaeologist again teaching my #BiologicalAnthropology intro class- what are some recent beloved and admired studies I can use to introduce applied bioanth to undergrads? In #MedicalAnthropology, #MolecularAnthro, #biomechanics, #HumanDiversity? @bioanth.bsky.social colleagues?

I’d like to edit now that I’ve found the creator of the image I shared: Samuel Miller McDonald. He posted that image on Twitter/X in 2020, but I won’t link to that network. He’s an author and you can find him there or on Facebook @sjmmcd.

Because Sharkey had corrupted their role and turned them into a support force for his gangs of Ruffians. It was the last part of the Scouring of the Shire, and Peter Jackson cut that part from the movie.

A screen shop of the text from Lord Of The Rings, with other parts of the narrative erased, leaving only this sentence about the Sherriffs.

As a reminder, the only thing that Frodo Baggins did as deputy mayor of the Shire was to “reduce the Shirriffs to their proper functions and numbers.”

By gathering all the small programs nationwide, we create a pool of candidates that attract lots of employers- large and small. Connecting them with students and grads otherwise excluded from the book room of national conferences.

We all need a more publicly-visible and robust school-to-career #pipeline that shows the true value and measure of this economic sector! Replace word-of-mouth networking with a free, virtual, open event!

This fair started for #archaeology and #gis #geospatial, as well as #ArchtecturalHistory, and is growing to include #planning, #ethnography, #survey, and all #preservation and #heritage allied fields!

Come talk to me this week at the Michigan Tech Department of Social Sciences table at the exhibit hall and book room at #SHA2026 in Detroit!

Employers and Organizations can start registering here: app.joinhandshake.com/career_fairs...
Last year was the first version and we had 50+ Universities and colleges and more that 35 employers and organizations. More updates soon!

Save The Date for the 2026 #CulturalResources #CareerFair. For #Heritage and #Preservation #Archaeology and allied fields!

The tradition that the university does not assert copyright over your work is not the same thing as them not having legal claim to the copyright.

There are some areas where there is no clear legal decision to provide guidance. So falling back to the broader decisions is needed. Does your contract say you have a responsibility to do research, then your employer gives you tools to do that research, like a web-connected computer, library access?

Intellectual Property and Copyright This AAUP IP web section has been assembled to help you with the intellectual property information you need.

I’m not a lawyer. But my group read extensively in our good faith effort. www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

And they’d hold liabilities on that as well as rights. Plus they knew it would make faculty mad. So they returned the rights.

Excepting specific items, such as software code, where the university retained copyright. There are specific legal requirements for the question of work-for-hire or independent agent work. But our university realized they would have to track every bit of IP out there. Every blog and essay.

I’m pretty sure that US copyright law is clear that university faculty are employees and all employees work is the IP of the company. That means research and classroom work. We worked through that and our university senate got the admin to agree to a policy that returned most IP, including syllabi.

"There's very good evidence of railroad operations here on the old railroad bed. No evidence of an impact." A coauthor of the first YDIH paper (Firestone et al , 2007) reveals that his senior coauthors knew all along that their prime "evidence" was railroad slag. www.facebook.com/reel/1162558...

Nobody Listens to Andrew I mostly discuss pseudoarchaeology and pseudoscience, trying to both shine some light and bring some heat to all the misinformation about the human past that flows so freely across the internet. I als...

Andrew White has interviewed two Michigan Technological University alumni about #pseudoscience narratives and #Michigan Keweenaw #CopperCountry. Just published a conversation with Donovan Murphy and previously Joe Wilson. Both are worth an hour of time for a listen… www.youtube.com/@AndrewWhite33

Really, almost 10%- depending on how you slice it.

Looking at crowds of people walking over a lift bridge, many carrying United States national flags.

A cardboard sign, painted red, with the phrase “More Perfect Union.” The sign leans against a bookshelf.

#NoKings in Houghton and Hancock #Michigan Upper Peninsula. Abt 850 people marched, more than 5% of the population of this rural, small town in the ruby red north.

a man singing into a microphone while holding a guitar Alt: A clip of Tom Petty singing into a microphone while holding a guitar.

Don’t back down.

I see what you did there #FTC and #RTX…. Good job with the #Decode competition about #robotics and #archaeology- you avoided #treasure, #tombs, and grave-robbing tropes. The competition requires the teams to pay attention to the relationships between artifacts, not just collecting things. Well done!