Ashley Himmelstein

Image from the Wizard of Oz with Dorthy labelled "me", the Cowardly Lion as "Anxiety meds", the Scarecrow as "ADHD meds" and the Tin Man as "Heart meds"

I am what an adjunct is supposed to be- I have a day job, and I am teaching a class based on my expertise in that day job. I am not using adjunct pay as a major part of my income.

And yet, students are always shocked by the reality of this stuff. If we talked about it more openly, they wouldn't be.

Example: Had to take a remote day because of a health flare. Wanted to go an explain what I have, what I feel, what I need to do.

In the end just said "I am having a health flare, nothing to worry about but I will need to work remotely today."

Boss responded with an ok and didn't demand details

Moving from a dysfunctional to healthy work environment is some whiplash

I keep wanting over explain myself and give too many personal details. Because that was what was expected before, I knew so much of my coworker and supervisors personal lives and health info

Luckily I have held myself back

Photo showing the cannon. It is corroded, and sitting on a carriage, though we don't know where it came from either.

Photo of the cannon/gun being measured from above.

Photo showing the back of the cannon/gun, the 'cascable', with the button, a ring for the gun's tackle.

Photo looking into the gun's/cannon's muzzle. It is 3 inches in diameter, and corroded inside.

Question for naval history/gunnery people. I've been asked if anyone can identify this. It was given to the museum by the Newhaven Port Authority. It is 36 inches long, and with a bore of around 3". There's no obvious maker's mark on it. #NavalHistory #Archaeology

Pretty cool to make buried monuments visible again... If only for a short while. More of this please 😊

Not a great look to start blocking (trans games designers included) on top of everything.

Here are links for a rough timeline of events 🔗

Pride isn't about turning straight kids into queer kids. Pride is about not turning queer kids into dead kids.

#PrideMonth2025 #LoveIsLove

🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🤎🩶🤍

Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated NOAA's program was supposed to help cities across the country better understand and respond to the problem of extreme heat.

Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated | Grist grist.org/cities/fundi...

The salt vampire from the Star Trek

When it starts getting hot out and you have POTS

No matter how far you progress in your archaeology career, there will be recruiters offering you as-needed technician positions

My photo shows an insect usually referred to as a grasshopper, engraved on a fragment of bone during the Magdalenian period of the Upper Paleolithic. It is drawn in a naturalistic style, shown in profile facing right, with two pairs of front legs and antennae. It was discovered c. 1928 in the cave habitat of the Grotte d'Enlène, in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.

Jiminy Cricket!

It’s an #IceAge grasshopper!

The so-called ‘Grasshopper of Enlène’, engraved on bone some 17,000 - 14,000 years ago, is the most detailed representation of an insect in Paleolithic art known to date. From the Enlène Cave, Ariège, France. Magdalenian period.

📷 me

#Archaeology 🏺

An orange and white cat spread out on a chair lying in the sunlight

Some people take "move your feet, lose your seat" too seriously, I was only up for a minute

Oh shot I'm already 3rd in line and need to finish my current book. Time to read

Home to over 8M artifacts, Tallahassee archaeological center to close under spending cuts National Park Service leases and over 30 offices across the country are expected to be terminated by the Trump administration, according to the NPCA.

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This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.

The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.

Trying to pace my reading to match my position in the library's queue for borrowing my next book

The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked image Last June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel …

This pride flag made out of NASA imagery was, for several weeks, the most-liked image on Bluesky. Then the Trump administration made NASA take it down.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

Wellbeing and Archaeology: Can focusing on social value have benefits for archaeologists too? At this years CifA Conference (2025) the Diggers Forum are excited to be part of a session discussing whether a focus on social value can have benefits for archaeologists as well as the public. Social...

On behalf of the Diggers' Forum Group, if you have experience working in Field Archaeology please spare a couple of moments to fill in our questionnaire- “Wellbeing and Archaeology: Can focusing on social value have benefits for archaeologists too?”
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

screenshots showing two different Bluesky accounts - one is for the correct Dr. Laura Guertin with N as the last letter in the last name, and the fake one has M as the last letter of the last name

As I haven't heard/seen anything from the 5 reports I've made to @support.bsky.team, I need everyone's help to report/block the fake account of me (it copied my profile & posts) that is gaining followers and DMing people for $$$. The real me (Dr. G) has a last name that begins with N, not M. 🧪🌊⚒️

Optimist: the cup is half full.
Pessimist: the cup is half empty.
Archaeologist: the cup is in situ

Adding a link to the Joint Resolution itself www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This proposal will negate a lot of our industry. This a Senate Joint resolution introduced earlier this week, titled A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources". The text of the resolution isn’t online yet, but you can track progress here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/11/all-info The resolution has been referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources by the Senate. Co-sponsored by Sens John Kennedy (R-LA) and Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS). It will have to be voted out of Committee for full Senate approval, then move to the House. It’s not a done deal yet, but you can guess where it’s leading.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/temporary-withdrawal-of-all-areas-on-the-outer-continental-shelf-from-offshore-wind-leasing-and-review-of-the-federal-governments-leasing-and-permitting-practices-for-wind-projects/ * https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2024/11/23-1067-2084381.pdf ** https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/3415-temporary-suspension-delegated-authority

Heads up American #archaeologists there is a joint resolution proposing to end the protections of Marine Archaelogical Resources. Time to call your elected reps!

Single-photon LiDAR imaging system used to capture Lego characters from 32 m away. Credit: Aongus McCarthy, Heriot-Watt University.

Current LiDAR units have a resolution that we could barely imagine ten years ago but this is just ridiculous. 🧪 www.optica.org/about/newsro...

Now more than ever archaeologists should take notice about what they wrote vs what their employer/client submitted. Famous recent case in Louisiana where a hired archaeologist recommended more work & an area avoided because of a slave cemetery. The client changed it to read "no adverse effects". 1/

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Email text: [EXT] Grants.gov Opportunities Update External Email The following grant opportunities were created, updated, or deleted on Grants.gov: NSF National Science Foundation 25-504 - Organismal Response to Climate Change Deletion Comments: Opportunity deleted

The dismantling of American Science continues. The Organismal Response to Climate Change grant call has been cancelled. The NSF Director is a disgrace