Ben Carter

Trump, miller and Republicans are working on the last four.

New records and ecological insights of Spondylus limbatus (Bivalvia, Spondylidae) from the Panamic Province Although Spondylus limbatus is a fishery resource in several Latin American countries and has been widely reported throughout the Panamic Province, gaps remain in the knowledge of its distribution and...

Excellent review of Spondylus (limbatus... a.k.a calcifer) along the Pacific Coasts of the Americas.

Research completed by a team of archaeologists and biologists. Incredibly detailed and much needed work that will inform archaeology.

#Archaeology #Ecology

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"Nnedi Okorafor credits Le Guin with proving fantasy heroes didn't have to be white."

WRONG.

AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.

Btw, a well-executed interview is always revealing.

Here’s the quintessential FIRE feint in one train of thought. Removing DEI offices is censorship every bit as much as prohibiting students from discussing specific topics. In fact, the two are part of the same censorious program . . . 1/2

Where is this from?

American die earlier than the English across the income distribution

If capitalism is the ultimate route to economic efficiency, then why is the US health care system so much worse and more expensive than the UK health care system?

"On behalf of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), I am very pleased to inform you that you have been selected as the 2026 recipient of the SAA's Book Award—Popular category for “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” published by Princeton University Press."

Wow! No words.

Biggest protest in the world right now

#OtD 13 Feb 1991 during the Gulf war the US air force bombed the Al-Amariyah civilian bomb shelter, killing 408 people, many of whom were boiled alive. US officials falsely claimed the shelter was a military command post. More info, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7742...

Trump calls climate change threat to public health 'a scam' but scientific findings show otherwise The decision from the administration on Thursday reverses a 2009 finding that says warming endangers Americans' lives and health.

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea the president called "a scam."

Repeated scientific studies say it's a documented and quantifiable harm. https://to.pbs.org/4ctVHJ7

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wanna hear about 19th century rural Black communities in eastern Pennsylvania and the ways they deployed the charcoal landscape to support people fleeing enslavement?

Berks History Center, Reading PA
Tomorrow 10am (there is a Zoom option, 😧)

berkshistory.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Wow!

Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.

This is a *big* legal win.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Philly suburbs seek to assist lawsuit over slavery exhibit removal “Our history is imperfect,” said Delco Council Chair Richard Womack, “but it is ours, and the federal government can’t rewrite it or ignore it the moment they find it inconvenient.”

When you've even got Bucks County and Delco joining an amicus brief to oppose your efforts to erase the history of slavery, you know you've fucked up. whyy.org/articles/phi...

The mathematician lifting the lid on Trump’s ‘attacks’ Scientist behind Trump Action Tracker uses skills in data collection to look for patterns in president’s seemingly scattergun approach

Delighted to see the TrumpActionTracker feature in this @timeshighered.bsky.social profile by @patrickjack.bsky.social today :-)

was great to chat to him about it!

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mathema...

Ammori: This is a monumental victory for fundamental freedoms and for Palestine Ammori has released a statement describing the high court’s ruling as a “monumental victory” and that the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terror group “in a Trumpian abuse of power”. She said: “This is a monumental victory both for our fundamental freedoms here in Britain and in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people, striking down a decision that will forever be remembered as one of the most extreme attacks on free speech in recent British history. “Palestine Action is the first civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence to be proscribed by the British Government as a ‘terrorist’ group, in a Trumpian abuse of power which would have seen this Labour Government proscribe the Suffragettes. This ban was unlawful, resulting in the unlawful arrest of nearly 3,000 people - among them priests, vicars, former magistrates and retired doctors – under terrorism laws for simply sitting in silence while holding signs reading: ‘I oppose genocide – I support Palestine Action’. Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, stood outside with a police van seen in the background. View image in fullscreen Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action. Photograph: Abdullah Bailey/Alamy Share

A UK court has just ruled that the ban on the Palestine Action Group is blatantly unlawful - EXCELLENT news

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)

It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees. The government suggests — with minimal explanation and even less evidence — that doing so would result in "chaos." The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights. 14 At this preliminary stage, Plaintiffs have made a clear showing of likelihood of success on their Fifth Amendment claim.

BREAKING: Judge Nancy Brasel, a Trump appointee, has issued a TRO in the Minnesota access-to-counsel case about treatment at Whipple.

"It appears that in planning for Operation Metro Surge, the government failed to plan for the constitutional rights of its civil detainees."

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Membership voting results showing that a clear majority disagree with the actions of the executive board.

Reminder too that these are the views of members who hadn’t already resigned. The European Association of Archaeologists must represent its membership. The #EAA Board must now reverse its decision, or resign.

Europe knows, we don’t platform fascism, we don’t stay quiet on genocide.

A slide that says "Module Structure" then: Week 1: What is Digital Archaeology? Week 2: Theory and Digital Archaeology Week 3: Archaeology and GIS Week 4: Fieldwork and Recording in Digital Archaeology Week 5: After the excavation: Data Wrangling in Archaeology Week 6: Archives - Digging the Digital Dark Ages Week 7: Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, and BIMs Week 8: Formative Feedback Week 9: Worldbuilding, illustration, and art Week 10: Games and Play, Robots, Futurism, Luddites, Digital Profusion

Good morning!

Today I'm teaching the first session of my 3rd year undergraduate "special topic" module: Digital Archaeology. It's intended as an almost postgraduate level survey of theory and practice in Digital Archaeology. Here's the structure--the titles of the sessions are slightly shortened.

Results from the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social special meeting per rollam voting came up, and they are crystal clear. The majority of its membership does not approve of recent actions by our president, Eszter Bánffy and her supporters at the Exec. Board. They all should immediately resign. #SaveTheEAA

MAGA absolutely cannot let Bad Bunny go Denying his Super Bowl success is a way to try to assert Trump's cultural control.

Denying Bad Bunny's Super Bowl success is a way to try to assert Trump’s cultural control.

A lawyers perspective on what's happening in Minnesota and the horrors of the concentration camps...

Abolish ICE! Abolish DHS!

99 red balloons 🎶🎶🎈🎈

Opinion | We Have to Look Right in the Face of What We Have Become

Great piece by @jamellebouie.net on the need for ICE hearings. Get it all out there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles