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Catherine Frieman

@cjfrieman.bsky.social

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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

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Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the Australian National University. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation, and she is a specialist in material culture and technology. .. more

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 57m

yeah agree

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h

what's the over/ under on when we get an ai hallucination in a supreme ct opinion?

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 2h

ANU doesn’t need a swanky Perth office (for staff counted on one hand), it needs a national vision focused on building national education & research infrastructure. This means serving esp those from disadvantaged & non-traditional backgrounds. Serving not just the privileged.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2h

that's a rage bait photoshop/AI image fwiw

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 4h

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h

things i learned from speculative fiction: if it's allergic to sunlight, don't invite it into your house

The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 18h

Warnings about how to avoid a paper trail that might later be accessed by an FOI request are part of the induction kit for new political staffers. Even the acronym has its own crude nickname in the ministerial wing: “FOI. Fuck Off Idiot.” satpa.pe/zPB9QFA

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 18h

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 18h

I've been doing archaeology in cornwall for 15 years, so i know the context. I'm also an archaeologist. being accurate about the archaeological and historical record and the way we define and draw on it to create identities in the present is of supreme importance. try the article i linked above

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Gerrit Dusseldorp 🟥 @dussel.bsky.social · 18h

Was invited to provide context for Casal Lumbroso @theconversation.com

Very cool research by @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social et al. shows people made tools on elephant bones and scavenged the carcass.

theconversation.com/how-a-400-00...

How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalising puzzle of early human behaviour

Early nomadic humans living in Europe briefly halted to profit from an unexpected windfall, leaving some important clues about their behaviour.

theconversation.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 18h

i mean if you're thinking 18th c onwards when "celtic" was used in a nationalist and romantic sense to create a shared identity among people who spoke related languages, but that's an imagined ancient identity from elsewhere politically mobilised.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

these are elite bands names.

drowned kitten is 100% an all femme thrash metal band.

fat girl smoking is 90s nostalgia pop punk

Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 1d

Bones is so fatphobic it’s now verging on funny. They are debating which of these is sadder hahahaha

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 1d

Bones is so fatphobic it’s now verging on funny. They are debating which of these is sadder hahahaha

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Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman.bsky.social · 1d

"Kith and kin is empirically one of the greatest works of art in the world and it’s right there, in Brisbane for you to visit. So go and visit it."

-- My review of Archie Moore's masterpiece, Kith and Kin, in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/visu...

Archie Moore’s Golden Lion-winning kith and kin at GOMA

Archie Moore’s masterpiece kith and kin – the first Australian work to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – is now an unmissable display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

pumpernickle, toasted, with scrambled egg

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

"celts" as a historic group are fraught, but located broadly in southern central Europe not the islands

Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change - Journal of Archaeological Research

This work re-approaches the origins of “the Celts” by detailing the character of their society and the nature of social change in Europe across 700–300 BC. A new approach integrates regional burial archaeology with contemporary classical texts to further refine our social understanding of the European Iron Age. Those known to us as “Celts” were matrifocal Early Iron Age groups in central Gaul who engaged in social traditions out of the central European salt trade and became heavily involved in Mediterranean politics. The paper focuses on evidence from the Hallstatt–La Tène transition to solve a 150-year-old problem: how the Early Iron Age “Celts” became the early La Tène “Galatai,” who engaged in the Celtic migrations and the sacking of Rome at 387 BC.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

watching all the protest frog photos snd posters (great work @ryancordell.org and co!) i think probably folks would find this 2007 easy by David Graeber worth reading. to my old self there's not a lot of distance between an inflatable frog and a giant puppet

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture

What follows is an essay of interpretation. It is about direct action in North America, about the mass mobilizations organized by the so called “anti-globalization movement”, and especially, about the...

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

i have recommended this book more in the last 12 months than in the previous 12 years

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 1d

People need to read Ruth Schwarz Cowan's classic book:
hss.sas.upenn.edu/content/more...

More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave | HSS | Arts & Sciences

In this classic work of women’s history (winner of the 1984 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology), Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows how and why modern women devote as much time to hous...

hss.sas.upenn.edu

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Dave (@6502_ftw from Tweets) @cursed.monster · 1d

Roko’s Basilisk is actually an inkjet that functioned long enough to end the world, which is the true desire of all printers

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 1d

A little thing, riffing on the great Robin D.G. Kelley (and Noam Chomsky).

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/david-waldstreicher/

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review

The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
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Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Sarah K @dr-know.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate how frustrating it must be that researchers are always telling ppl what we don’t know and what we definitely can’t conclude based on the data. But I hope, given the no of confidently wrong people currently on display, that it shows how important it is to state the facts and the gaps.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 1d

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

the best part of being in the SES is that sometimes i get to end a long annoying week helping to pull a tree off someone's roof and i know I've accomplished something good that actively helps my community while also having fun

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

hell yes

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

tenochtitlan no question

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

well it is now

Bevil 🔜 MFF! @thebevil.bsky.social · 2d

Shout-out to one of my coworkers who thought "labubu" was slang for lobotomy

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Seattle Kraken (Bot) @notseattlekraken.bsky.social · 1d

THAT’S
KRAKEN
HOCKEY
BABY!!!

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