Will Meyer

Gosh, now you're making him sound like an ideal Supreme Court nominee! Lol

75 years ago, Maria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself and find a place for a Native American prima ballerina Despite assumptions to the contrary, Tallchief showed that Indigenous people could not just exceed the standards of Western arts but also set new ones, writes a scholar of Indigenous cultures.

#OTD 75 years ago, NYC Ballet prima ballerina Maria Tallchief demonstrated that Indigenous artists could not only excel in Western art forms but also redefine their standards during her iconic performance in Firebird:
https://buff.ly/40VJBCI
#nativeamerican #ballet @univofdayton

A lawn, squares of which have been dug out until a depth of 30 cm. There are bicolor length indicators (red and white) and, on the flat uneathed bottom: a wooden floor : planks on joists. The wood is black and corroded.

Too good not to share: a wooden floor of a #Neolithic house. Unearthed in Alleshausen-Grundwiesen, a wetland settlement at the western rim of the Federsee marshlands, 3020-2700 BC.

📷H. Schlichterle/Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden Württemberg

🏺 #archaeology

all she did was exist

Biodiversity is not a luxury: Unpacking wealth and power to accommodate the complexity of urban biodiversity A positive correlation between wealth and biodiversity within cities is a commonly documented phenomenon in urban ecology that has come to be labeled as the “luxury effect.” We contend that both this...

13. Full citation for the paper: Poulton Kamakura, Renata, Jin Bai, Vallari Sheel, and Madhusudan Katti. 2024. “ Biodiversity is Not a Luxury: Unpacking Wealth and Power to Accommodate the Complexity of Urban Biodiversity.” Ecosphere 15(11): e70049. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

A Letter to Prisons on the Censorship of “Tip of the Spear” Your censorship of my book must be understood within a broader context.

"you so readily confuse advocacy of unorthodox forms of thought with the promotion of violence, for it lays bare the totalitarian impulse at the core of your enterprise” Orisanmi Burton pens an open letter to prisons that have banned his book, Tip of the Spear
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Ten Things about Human Silence around Animals - Anthropology News 1. Our day-to-day lives are profoundly entangled with those of other-than-human animals (hereafter, “animals”). Indigenous peoples the world over have

As word comes from the Edinburgh Zoo that a red panda baby named Roxie has died from stress after city fireworks, I'm sharing here a piece I wrote earlier this year for Anthropology News called Ten Things About Human Silence Around Animals. 🧪🌿 #anthropology #animals #naturewriting

Penn Museum finds more human remains from MOVE bombing The bones match records for 12-year-old Delisha Africa, who was among 11 people who died when police dropped explosives on a West Philly rowhome in 1985.

In 2021, Penn Museum promised they had returned all of Delisha's remains. This month, more have been found in the museum. www.phillyvoice.com/penn-museum-...

Mercyhurst University Honors First Gen College Students - www.youtube.com/embed/n4QLyV... #firstgen #Mercyhurst

I fit the bill!

For those who are interested, the RPA is providing 1.5 CPE credit hours for this event.

Accessing Archaeology: Empowering Queer Voices in the Discipline [Career Pathways]

I'm so excited to see this Accessing Archaeology panel!
This 90-minute panel discussion will highlight the work of, and challenges faced by, LGBT2SQIA+ archaeologists.

Register for this FREE event using the link below. 🧪🏺

Woven hoop of rose canes and grapevine

Woven hoop of rose canes and grapevine

Woven hoop of rose canes and grapevine

This represents 50 minutes of hard work from three teams of debutant weavers (with a professor who has only slightly more experience). They're off to a good start and no one rage quit, so I will consider it a win. #anthropology #ecology #plantsandpeople

I ran out of time to post the livestream link, but I did a thing today. If you're interested to hear my public talk "Indigenous Science, Ancient Astronomers, & Eclipse Prediction in the Distant Past", you can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U98p...

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Landscape Research Journal - Landscape Research Group 1 February 2024 by Emily Shakespeare Special Issue Title – A possibility for healing: contested memorial landscapes and the project of socio-cultural change Landscape Research, the internationally...

📢Michael Ripmeester and Matthew Rofe an exciting call for papers for special issue of Landscape Research Journal entitled, "A Possibility for healing: contested memorial landscapes and the project of socio-cultural change".

Details on the theme & submission 👇

landscaperesearch.org/call-for-pap...

It worked surprisingly well, creating a lot of conversation and a number of really great ideas!

Gender Studies activity: We are launching a new media network - SGS: The Sex, Gender, & Sexuality Channel. Things move fast in this industry. You and the members of your team need to come up with a quick show idea and pitch it to the class. Go!! #FeministSky #EduSky #QueerInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

@news-feed.bsky.social @CNN: Biden announces support for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy competing under their own flag in 2028 Olympics www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/p...

"Conservative women" is an important intersectional category we should not overlook. In fact, we should consider these women even further, looking at the other parts of their intersectional identities. I suspect we might identify patterns that demonstrate and/or explain the "read".

Could you maybe talk about "science performativity"? Like, "what does your branch of science bring into being through its very practice?" Or is this too fluffy?

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, ...

"Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects." feralatlas.org

Cover of November issue of The SAA Archaeological Record showing arid environment with cliff face.

First page of Will Meyer's article, "Trans* and Queer Advocacy: Realizing the SAA's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice," published in November 2023.

Second page of Will Meyer's article, "Trans* and Queer Advocacy: Realizing the SAA's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice," published in November 2023.

Third page of Will Meyer's article, "Trans* and Queer Advocacy: Realizing the SAA's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice," published in November 2023.

Check out my contribution to this month's SAA Archaeological Record! #QueerInSTEM

'Aikane' Short Animation by Dan Sousa, Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson: Queer Indigenous Feeling A new queer animation film from the Hawaiian creators of 'Kapaemahu' is now Oscar-qualified. Learn more about 'Aikane'.

Yes! So excited to watch this!

They succeeded by voice vote --- no formal count --- in making sure that none of the money from that Dept of State appropriations bill could be used by the Office of Palestinian Affairs. 2/2

More than a little hard to believe the House will be able to handle the new Israeli-Palestinian crisis with any degree of competence when, two weeks ago, 191 of them voted in favor of an amendment to a bill that would reduce the salary of the Chief of the US Office of Palestinian Affairs to $1. 1/2

New research article!
'Color-blind racial ideology and beliefs about environmental inequality among local US government officials' by Dylan Bugden.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

A Racist Harvard Scientist Commissioned Photos of Enslaved People. One Possible Descendant Wants to ... The images are among the oldest known photographs of enslaved people in America. Tamara Lanier’s fight to gain control of them shows there is no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captiv...

www.propublica.org/article/harv...

Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More Than 20,000 Years Ago A new study suggests humans arrived in the Americas before the height of the last ice age more than 20,000 years ago

Exciting confirmation of the antiquity of the White Sands footprints out today! I spoke with Scientific American about the study. In sum of some more extensive comments, I buy it now. Go science!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...