Chris Darwent

Made it to #LeBoreal! This is the view from my deck. I just had the most delicious French apple turnover I have ever eaten . . . delicate, flaky, not too sweet.

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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...

I'm an archaeology"naturalist" on a cruise sailing the west coast. I've only ever worked in the far north, so I'm excited to see other parts of Greenland that I have only read (or written) about.

On my way to Greenland . . . I hope. Day 2 of waiting at the Copenhagen Airport. At least I was able to escape briefly to the National Museum before the called me back for a reschedule or a previously canceled flight.

Compares size of Steller sea lions to a Fiat 500

This is apros po of nothing, except I was closing a tab. Instructive graphic

Sent over Gothic kitty soap I saw at the store and had to buy.

She had to purchase a ticket to Vancouver via Air Canada. Meanwhile her Canadian citizen husband was allowed to fly back to the US. Now she must travel with both passports. As dual citizens, my husband and I travel with both. I was nearly refused entry to Canada because I pulled out the wrong one.

Unfortunately, this is not new. My MIL is a dual citizen of the US and Canada, but lives in Canada. She flew to San Fran and then to London on her Canadian passport, but when she tried to return to San Fran via Virgin, the airline (not US customs) refused to let her board.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

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Can't wait! We have tickets for Aug 22 in Mountainview, CA. It will be my 4th time seeing him.

Revealing an Ice Age Route for Indigenous Peoples Archaeologists have identified a corridor through Vancouver Island where Indigenous peoples may have sojourned 18,500 years ago.

From the archive. Hiking through swamps, cutting across thick bush, and canoeing across open waters, archaeologists have identified a corridor through Vancouver Island where Indigenous peoples may have sojourned 18,500 years ago. Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

Cave bear bones from Salitrena

⭐New Open Access publication alert! ⭐

Are you interested in Cave Bears? If so then this might be the article for you!

This is the first study of the diet of a cave bear population from Serbia using stable isotope analysis. See thread below for our findings!
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Fantastic concert tonight in Prague #Bohemia #Baroque

You are braver than I am! Congrats on entering the cave.

How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime A celebrated civil rights law is being used to target those opposing crimes against humanity—and ruining lives in the process.

NEW unpaywalled: My months-long investigation into the use of hate crime charges against Palestine supporters since October 7th. I found 17 individuals who have faced hate crime charges for pro-Palestine activity or speech, and focused on a few cases here: jewishcurrents.org/how-support-...

Yes!!! Thank you

Very pretty 😊

I need one of these!

PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.

THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Most people are unaware of this basic fact, known to everyone who does instructional design work. I love designing and delivering distance education, but it is absolutely NOT more efficient than F2F instruction.

Trump administration attacks the preservation of archaeological resources Funding and staff cuts will gut the protection of archaeological sites under the National Historic Preservation Act.

Good article laying out how the administration is stripping cultural resource protections 🧪🏺

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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Tell me your pet’s name with a gif.

Brilliant!

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Clearly it has to be cheesecake tasting

In the U.S., Archaeology Stares Down an Uncertain Future

"American archaeologists face a diminished, uncertain future. Government support for research, preservation and museums has been largely scaled back. Archaeology and cultural heritage staff have been fired, federal agencies have been gutted..." #archaeology #anthropology 🏺

NARCH grants are being discontinued. For decades these grants have supported research into health outcomes for Natives in the US and supporting Native research. I am pissed

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Pope Sushi X

Congratulations, and please enjoy this moment! 💖

Coast Guard proposes removing navigation buoys from Maine waters The measure aims to cut costs based on the assumption that boaters already have electronic navigation systems, or could.

Maine is small but this is some real serious Trvmp vendetta bulls*** that you should all know about. People are going to die. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/04/25/s...