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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

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Zooarchaeologist. 🏺 Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜 Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪 Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK. She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️‍🌈♿️ https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · Aug 22

I’ve got a bunch of new followers this week, so just a friendly reminder that I am unable to check any DMs at the moment due to the age verification nonsense.

Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!

dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

Links to find me and my current work.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 7h

Man, I love being an archaeologist, you encounter so many little Guys™️ like this.

Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 1d

As cold blustery winds herald an incoming storm to Southern California, I’m bundled up like this little bronze Silenos figurine (we share the same hairstyle, in fact). Brrr! 🥶

Bronze, 1st c. CE. #BritishMuseum #Ancientbluesky 🏺

Small bronze figurine of a somewhat dwarf-like Silenos, the bald, bearded elderly companion of the god Dionysos-Bacchus. He’s tightly wrapped up in his himation (cloak), his hands pulling the garment tight around his chest. He wears an ivy wreath around his head and is barefoot.

British Museum, London (1824,0480.4)

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 7h

Look at those horns!!! 😮

Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 8h

I know I’m not team bovid, but it would take a heart of stone not to admire this 10,600 year old Aurochs from Vig in Denmark. #archaeology 🏺

Photo of a huge cattle skeleton - it’s easily 6ft at the shoulder and is stained dark brown after being buried in sediment. It’s standing on a low black shiny plinth and has large forward-curving horncores.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 12h

Please share. We MUST be the steady hand in the dark—and the dark persists, even if fire has partially ceased. But everyone is saying that support for their survival has stopped 😓

Food, shelter, winter items URGENTLY needed for six families.

8 hours left ⚠️ 755/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 9h

This is where I recommend one of my favourite reads from last year which is a natural history companion book to Moby Dick.

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Ahab’s Rolling Sea

Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulit...

press.uchicago.edu

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 9h

Oh the girl who grew up to be a literal animal archaeologist loves a book about human nature seen in part through our relations with non-human species, how tf is that supposed to be surprising at all

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 9h

It’s life-affirming because I love Moby Dick and it affirms my will to live.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 9h

Moby Dick good

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Eze @ezetheigwe.blacksky.app · 10h

Counter point: monarchies are inherently anti democratic and therefore bad. If you still operate under the idea that there are some “good” monarchies out there, then you might not be equipped to comment on this moment.

Respectfully, though.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 14h

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10h

You can donate to Abdullah’s family here: www.gofundme.com/f/a-cry-for-...

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Guerin @blkchimera.blacksky.app · 14h

The amount of sudden amnesia that's about to happen about genocide.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 11h

just say you’re pro-genocide, it’s faster

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 11h

really cool that even after all this time, after all of the labour from numerous people to verify and vet accounts, after an article in the Guardian verifying accounts…there are still losers on this site who perpetuate the lie that all Palestinians on here are scammers

🙄

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 13h

FYI I strongly encourage any Ohio State faculty instructors who face issues like these restrictions on conference attendance, use of research funds, etc, to let @osuaaup.bsky.social know by filling out our Campus Concern Form so we can support you: www.aaup-osu.org/campus-conce...

Campus Concern
Form
Campus is under threat by new federal and state laws, including SB1, funding cuts, and ICE abductions. OSU is a large institution, and AAUP-OSU can only organize faculty support and resistance when we are aware of what is happening, so we want to hear from you.
Submit a Concern ^

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Brandon Barker @astrobarker.bsky.social · 13h

Time and time again, universities prove that their primary responsibility is not to their students but to themselves and the endowment

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 13h

We are pleased to be supporting this event, which includes a talk on Ursula Clark’s photographs for ‘Architecture of Scotland’ by George Hay. A Fellow of the Society from 1953 to 1986, George was one of the most accomplished practitioners and interpreters of the distinctive architecture of Scotland.

Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social · 17h

Shifting Perspectives: Scotland's Urban Architecture Through the Lens will explore how photography has shaped and recorded the urban architectural heritage of Scotland.

Find out more and book your space here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shifting-p...

Shifting Perspectives: Scotland's Urban Architecture Through the Lens

The conference will explore how photography has shaped and recorded the urban architectural heritage of Scotland.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15h

Now that the American media can go back to never covering the constant killing of Palestinians and Israel’s expansionist project, these people can go back to writing their screeds about imagining a better world and accepting the lesser evil, and all the other fucking nonsense they love opining about

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15h

They’ve all been waiting for all of this to be over, not because they advocated and protested for the safety and dignity of Palestinian people, but because now they can go back to not thinking of it, and not being bothered to stand for all the things they’ve always claimed they believed. Congrats.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15h

The same people — and politicians — who are now going to go back to lecturing others about free speech, liberal ideals, right and wrong, and all the other nonsense, watched as people were brutalized, disappeared, and speech was punished and repressed when anyone protested Israel.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15h

Lot of people treated a genocide of a people, sponsored by their own country, as an annoying pet issue that needed to be shelved after the killing as complete or pushed aside for other political problems. And pretended that it was just too complicated to engage with.

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 15h

Congrats to all the people who have postured as intelligent and morally righteous for years but decided that they couldn’t take a stand against genocide or decided to justify and cheer on the massacre of a people for whatever reason. Now they can go back to playing the intellectual in peace.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 15h

I think about these contextless museums in juxtaposition with the museums that have very few artifacts and rely heavily on context, storytelling, digital displays, and interactive elements, and it saddens me.
Without a story, stuff is just stuff.

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1d

📜 New blog post! I wrote about "contextless museums" and similar spaces and what they potentially mean for the future of the sector.

animalarchaeology.com/2025/10/13/i...

Is the Museum of the Future Contextless?

A photo of four paper museum labels reading (clockwise from top left): Oland. Thomson. Coll., Tetrastictus terminalis Thomson 1878 Lectotype, MZLU Type No 4922, and Loan 444 (Photo Credit: Biologic…

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15h

every so often I look at the news and think “god Tom Booth’s life must be hell sometimes” 😮‍💨

you are our strongest warrior, truly

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15h

I am immediately set upon by the book nerds and am pulled apart like a mozzerella stick

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15h

sometimes books can be bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16h

This is entirely fair critique. Where were these Columbia faculty members when Mohamed Abdou needed them?

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 23h

What an offensive statement from so-called historians. There have been others who have been chased out of the country. Mohamed Abdou was deported for his teaching about Gaza…and he was a prof AT COLUMBIA! But he was queer, Muslim, brown & untenured. Do only white straight tenured profs get sympathy?

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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