Julien Riel-Salvatore

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The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

This is a super thread that really puts the whole "Neanderthal fat factory" into much broader context and highlights the multiple dimensions of hunter-gatherer diets. Very interesting to get a crop scientist's perspective on this topic! Definitely worth a read!!

This is a super thread that really puts the whole "Neanderthal fat factory" into much broader context and highlights the multiple dimensions of hunter-gatherer diets. Very interesting to get a crop scientist's perspective on this topic! Definitely worth a read!!

"Comprendre une autre humanité, c'est donc aussi apprendre à mieux habiter la nôtre."

Petit texte par Amélie Vallerand et moi-même sur l'intérêt de faire l'archéologie de Néandertal en 2025.

www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?

"Comprendre une autre humanité, c'est donc aussi apprendre à mieux habiter la nôtre."

Petit texte par Amélie Vallerand et moi-même sur l'intérêt de faire l'archéologie de Néandertal en 2025.

www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?

Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.

Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.

Misère...

Ah, ok - thanks for the précision, I posted too fast 😅

If it has ever been clearer that teachers and universities are simply an impediment to these companies seeking to make students a captive population and then making trillions off those students it’s here

Needless to say, the Peer Community In outperforms all of the major publishers on this criterion, despite a budget many orders of magnitude smaller - again illustrating that the big money we pay for publishing is not used for the good of science. (5/5)

@peercommunityin.bsky.social

In terms of their commitment to open science, Elsevier and Springer-Nature are in the same cluster as MDPI and Frontiers In... says it all!

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I've seen this pose before!

Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees

Wait, wait, wait...

I've seen this pose before!

Anna Tsing a cartographié les ravages de l’Anthropocène L'ouvrage « Notre nouvelle nature » propose un guide pour comprendre, à l'échelle microlocale, les ravages de l'Anthropocène. Ce que l'anthropologue Anna Tsing, que nous avons rencontrée, appelle les ...

« Ce sont des démarches plurielles, qui partent du terrain en engageant un travail à la fois social et culturel avec les personnes et les milieux concernés, plutôt que d’appliquer une méthode unique. »
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Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad

Petition for sociology-adjacent folks to stop using "Archaeology of" willy-nilly

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Hahaha yeah, big wtf energy for sure!

Oh sweet lord...

So. Much. This.

Petition for sociology-adjacent folks to stop using "Archaeology of" willy-nilly

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Lemurs can help save Madagascan forests, but first we need to protect them Climate change, forest fragmentation and hunting threaten lemur populations in Madagascar, and impact the health of mothers and infants.

Great media piece by my PhD student, Colombe Sehenomalala, on state of lemur research & conservation in home country of Madagascar. Did you know lemurs are important seed dispersers? @theconversation.com @anthropologieudem.bsky.social
@umontreal-en.bsky.social
theconversation.com/lemurs-can-h...

In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.

In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.

Who’s afraid of academic freedom? - University Affairs Defenders of democratic debate are rising to meet the challenges of ideological polarization, governmental interference, and underfunding of academic institutions.

Academic freedom: universityaffairs.ca/news/whos-af...

@rgwhitaker.bsky.social: "Politicians are comfortable publicly attacking academic freedom only because they think they can score points with their base.."

"...we must relentlessly explain how it works & show how it benefits society as a whole"