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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 · 3h

*problems

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3h

solidarity - we have our own pertinence here, but archaeologist is on the shortage visa lists for several Australian states of you know people looking for pathways out

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4h

my only encounter with a gun toting landowner was in France of all places. mayor told us we had permission to access some land, but the farmer disagreed. chased us back to the road with his tractor - shotgun across his lap

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"landowner used an excavator"

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 23h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Mixed inclusion ratio trust"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4h

terrifyingly intelligent, beautiful feathers, a gorgeous voice and a razor sharp beak and claws. what's not to love about the Australian magpie?

Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning!

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Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning!

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Michel Lacombe @michellacombe.bsky.social · 13h

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 51 BC and died in 44 BC, therefore all of Asterix's adventures took place over the course of less than seven years, probably much less since Asterix's chieftain was at the battle of Alesia, were it is probable Asterix and Obelix's fathers died. In this essay, I will

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 18h

University managers used tuition fees to justify a model where the 'product' is simple information transmission, which ultimately can be delivered via an AI app.

That the market value for such 'degrees' will soon reach zero is not management's problem.

They get paid even as the sector implodes.

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 19h

I’d love higher ed policy to be made by people who actually worked in higher ed, but apparently that’s too much to ask

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 21h

thank you! interesting!

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 22h

(not meaning to question you, just didn't realise this is an open debate - clearly deficiencies in my own education!)

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 22h

not a lit studies person but i thought this was the accepted reading?

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 23h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Mixed inclusion ratio trust"

Nathaniel J.Darkish @njdarkish.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Parent Teacher conference week"

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

yeah agree

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

that's a rage bait photoshop/AI image fwiw

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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.

satpa.pe

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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 · 2d

pumpernickle, toasted, with scrambled egg

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

"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.

link.springer.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

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...

davidgraeber.org

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

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