Julien Riel-Salvatore

YouTube video by Jo Marchant Secrets of Göbekli Tepe

Recently had the pleasure talking about changing mindsets in the #Neolithic with the wonderful @jomarchant.bsky.social for her "Where the Wild Thoughts Are" #podcast.

Catch a glimpse of our conversation in the highlights video she put together here: youtu.be/OeA6xfJDMFI

Chat, is it a good sign when the Atlantic's Thanksgiving take is "cabbage is affordable"?

Professor – History of Canada/Québec, 1840-1929. Deadline: January 16, 2026. #cdnhist #UQAM #quebec cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

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The drawing illustrates the call for papers for the upcoming IPAA meeting on resource use in aquatic ecosystems in pre/protohistory to be held in Genoa in March 2026. Abtsracts due by Jan. 15, 2026. www.iipp.it/wp-content/u...

Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)

The phantom of Montreal archaeology @julienrs.bsky.social (why yes, I did open the film back thinking it was empty, why do you ask?) 📷Mamiya 6 #believeinfilm

Hippos!!!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash | Anil Dash | 91 comments Here's something remarkable: You almost *never* hear the most popular view of AI that the majority of people who work in tech have about technologies like LLMs. By popular request, I've tried to sum u...

I don't ever ask this, but if you have a LinkedIn account, I am actually finding some success with the "please try to be normal about AI! Don't listen to the tycoons who are lying to you!" message, so if you're up for amplifying a link, I'd appreciate it: www.linkedin.com/posts/anilda...

Call for papers for the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit.

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Notre département recrute ! Nous cherchons un.e professeur.e spécialisé dans l'étude des transformations socio-écologiques, l’écologie politique, les changements climatiques, la justice environnementale et/ou la géographie des risques et infrastructures/réseaux.

Date limite le 10 novembre !

My first faculty position was on an H-1B visa. Just wanna highlight that I got my MA and PhD from @arizonastateuni.bsky.social, so it wasn't even just a question of "hiring the best talent worldwide" but really for a US university to hire someone who was funded and trained 8 years in the US.

Hahhahaha, oh wow!

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

Hippo!

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

In Ferrara (Italy) this week for the Meso2025 conference to talk and learn about all things Mesolithic. Presented Monday about my team's work on identifying the Mesolithic in W Liguria, which was unknown until 2021. 🏺🦣
meso2025.sciencesconf.org

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Hearing news that primatologist Prof Jeff Meldrum - probably best known as lone extant academically qualified advocate of the supposed biological reality of #bigfoot - died Tuesday after sudden downturn in health. Thanks Brandon Peecock of Idaho State University for info.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records - Volume 3

Our new open access paper: how do we understand plastics as a contemporary archaeological record, and what does this mean for how we mitigate their environmental impacts? 🧪 🏺

Today, I found out that I'm old enough that some of the very first undergrads who took classes from me are enjoying their first sabbatical leave. #midcareer

Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him "[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.

Holy fucking shit

The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.

[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Slightly diminish a band:

Godspeed You Black Baronet

*screams in paleoanthropologist*

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.