Dr. Akshay Sarathi அக்ஷய் சாரதி

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

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“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

Scientists as political advocates – Agustín Fuentes

"Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act."

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A book cover that is designed to resemble a vintage orange Penguin Pocket Book. The title is "The Desire to be an Archaeologist: And OtherDiseasesof the Brian" by Antique Christie.

This one never gets old

🏺 #archaeology

1.5 million-year-old footprints reveal our Homo erectus ancestors lived with a 2nd proto-human species A set of footprints found at the site of Koobi Fora in Kenya reveals that our ancestor Homo erectus coexisted with a now-extinct bipedal hominin, Paranthropus boisei, 1.5 million years ago.

Wake up, babe! New fossil footprints just dropped! 🏺🧪

Trackway found in Kenya shows that H. erectus and P. boisei basically lived side-by-side, which is bonkerballs cool!

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Body cam footage: Neo-Nazis who marched in Short North claimed to be victims of violence The neo-Nazis told police they had never received such a violent response as the one they received in Columbus, and claimed people threw cans and veggies.

heartwarming story for the holidays ❤️‍🔥

“…the neo-Nazis told police they had never experienced a response like the one they received in Columbus. They said people pulled guns on them and threw cans and vegetables as they marched... One of the officers noted the men were ‘covered in’ pepper spray.”

Whut?

And I wrap my fears around like a blanket. I sailed my ship of safety til I sank it.

@morganvl.bsky.social Yay!

There’s Drama in the Queer Penguin Community A conspiring gay couple has stolen an entire nest of eggs from a lesbian couple at the same zoo.

I confused about how this crime took place

Why the Whiteness of Archaeology Is a Problem It's a profession with an overwhelmingly white workforce. Two archaeologists ask why diversity matters and what can be done about it.

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Science is always political. Anyone who thinks it’s not comes from the perspectives of not recognizing how their culture and worldview—and yes, political outlook—shapes their practice of science.

I just got back from a conference, and let me tell you what I learned about moving forward in these United States:

We can't let them take our joy, and they will not take away science.

The first priority is caring for one another.

Building and growing equitable communities is winning.

Apparently we made a bit of a kerfluffle on reddit when someone posted this to www.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/ Apparently some folks are surprised that archaeology 🏺 is political.

And to the person who commented that @iwriteok.bsky.social wrote the post--no, he would have made it funnier, sorry.

"They acted like Republicans": Jon Stewart on why the Democrats were "shellacked" by the election "It turns out the election was stolen . . . by more people voting for Donald Trump"

Where’s the lie?

Well shite

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Hey folks, just a note to introduce myself - I’m a zooarchaeologist who works in Zanzibar (Tanzania) and the Indian Ocean World!

Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …

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A screen against a black backdrop with starry lights that reads ‘Museums Association: The Joy of Museums. Conference 2024 12-14 November. Royal Armouries Museums Leeds. #Museums2024.’

A large open air sculpture depicting a flower with various colours and patterns.

A mural depicting people in different settings set on a brick wall near a canal.

A display of various armours, guns, and swords.

Anyway, final thoughts about #Museums2024 - while I come away from my first ever MA conference disappointed in the Association once again, I am very much heartened and inspired by so many of my colleagues who are doing good work and speaking out despite everything. So it was worth it in that sense!

Archaeology as Violence: Confronting the Dynamics of a Violent Practice and Theory Note: This is part of a book chapter I wrote a few years ago for a now-defunct project. After a few attempts to submit it to several journals, I gave up on it. I recently brought it out to aid in t…

🏺 Reposting this old blog post as someone recently got in touch about it and I wonder if I should revisit this at some point…

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Open Archaeology, Open Source? Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers This article investigates modes of collaboration in the emerging community of practice using 'open-archaeo', a curated list of archaeological software, and data on the activity of associated GitHub re...

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Open #Archaeology, Open Source ? Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers by @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy and @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy doi.org/10.11141/ia....

So many white men at this conference seem to struggle with the notion of providing a physical description of themselves as part of their introductions and I wonder if it’s bc it’s the first time they’ve had to think about their physical description as part of identity…? 🤔