Julien Riel-Salvatore
@julienrs.bsky.social
Archaeologist, full professor & chair / Archéologue, professeur titulaire & directeur / Université de Montréal. Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, human-environment interactions, disinformation in archaeology. ⚜️ 🇨🇦 🇮🇹
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Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Love, love, love this drawing by Giovanni Bruzzo of paleolithic children in front of the Balzi Rossi caves! (courtesy of Fabio Negrino)
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The phantom of Montreal archaeology @julienrs.bsky.social (why yes, I did open the film back thinking it was empty, why do you ask?) 📷Mamiya 6 #believeinfilm
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The phantom of Montreal archaeology @julienrs.bsky.social (why yes, I did open the film back thinking it was empty, why do you ask?) 📷Mamiya 6 #believeinfilm
Hippos!!!
Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hippos!!!
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I don't ever ask this, but if you have a LinkedIn account, I am actually finding some success with the "please try to be normal about AI! Don't listen to the tycoons who are lying to you!" message, so if you're up for amplifying a link, I'd appreciate it: www.linkedin.com/posts/anilda...
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash | Anil Dash | 91 comments
Here's something remarkable: You almost *never* hear the most popular view of AI that the majority of people who work in tech have about technologies like LLMs. By popular request, I've tried to sum u...
www.linkedin.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I don't ever ask this, but if you have a LinkedIn account, I am actually finding some success with the "please try to be normal about AI! Don't listen to the tycoons who are lying to you!" message, so if you're up for amplifying a link, I'd appreciate it: www.linkedin.com/posts/anilda...
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October 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
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Notre département recrute ! Nous cherchons un.e professeur.e spécialisé dans l'étude des transformations socio-écologiques, l’écologie politique, les changements climatiques, la justice environnementale et/ou la géographie des risques et infrastructures/réseaux.
Date limite le 10 novembre !
Date limite le 10 novembre !
October 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Notre département recrute ! Nous cherchons un.e professeur.e spécialisé dans l'étude des transformations socio-écologiques, l’écologie politique, les changements climatiques, la justice environnementale et/ou la géographie des risques et infrastructures/réseaux.
Date limite le 10 novembre !
Date limite le 10 novembre !
My first faculty position was on an H-1B visa. Just wanna highlight that I got my MA and PhD from @arizonastateuni.bsky.social, so it wasn't even just a question of "hiring the best talent worldwide" but really for a US university to hire someone who was funded and trained 8 years in the US.
Higher Ed’s H-1B Visas in 4 Charts
More than 16,700 employees at colleges and universities got H-1B visas approved in fiscal year 2025, but they are concentrated at 100 large research institutions. https://bit.ly/46Dj5Rn
More than 16,700 employees at colleges and universities got H-1B visas approved in fiscal year 2025, but they are concentrated at 100 large research institutions. https://bit.ly/46Dj5Rn
September 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My first faculty position was on an H-1B visa. Just wanna highlight that I got my MA and PhD from @arizonastateuni.bsky.social, so it wasn't even just a question of "hiring the best talent worldwide" but really for a US university to hire someone who was funded and trained 8 years in the US.
Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.
September 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.
Hippo!
Timeline cleanse!
An #Egyptian figurine of a Hippo (with bulgy eyes 👀), made 5,000 years ago from calcite.
Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth.
On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Have a wonderful Sunday 🦛🦛🦛
📷 me
🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
An #Egyptian figurine of a Hippo (with bulgy eyes 👀), made 5,000 years ago from calcite.
Hippopotami were associated with life, regeneration, and rebirth.
On display at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Have a wonderful Sunday 🦛🦛🦛
📷 me
🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky
September 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hippo!
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One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.
In Ferrara (Italy) this week for the Meso2025 conference to talk and learn about all things Mesolithic. Presented Monday about my team's work on identifying the Mesolithic in W Liguria, which was unknown until 2021. 🏺🦣
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
In Ferrara (Italy) this week for the Meso2025 conference to talk and learn about all things Mesolithic. Presented Monday about my team's work on identifying the Mesolithic in W Liguria, which was unknown until 2021. 🏺🦣
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
meso2025.sciencesconf.org
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@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Fees and Funding - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution
2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.
Please share and apply!
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Hearing news that primatologist Prof Jeff Meldrum - probably best known as lone extant academically qualified advocate of the supposed biological reality of #bigfoot - died Tuesday after sudden downturn in health. Thanks Brandon Peecock of Idaho State University for info.
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hearing news that primatologist Prof Jeff Meldrum - probably best known as lone extant academically qualified advocate of the supposed biological reality of #bigfoot - died Tuesday after sudden downturn in health. Thanks Brandon Peecock of Idaho State University for info.
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If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology."
Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"?
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
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Our new open access paper: how do we understand plastics as a contemporary archaeological record, and what does this mean for how we mitigate their environmental impacts? 🧪 🏺
Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records - Volume 3
www.cambridge.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Our new open access paper: how do we understand plastics as a contemporary archaeological record, and what does this mean for how we mitigate their environmental impacts? 🧪 🏺
Today, I found out that I'm old enough that some of the very first undergrads who took classes from me are enjoying their first sabbatical leave. #midcareer
September 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Today, I found out that I'm old enough that some of the very first undergrads who took classes from me are enjoying their first sabbatical leave. #midcareer
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Holy fucking shit
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Holy fucking shit
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There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.
[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
The Future Of Podcasting Is Here, And It Sucks | Defector
This week, Left Of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according to industry creators, writers, and scholars (Disclosure: I was invited to ...
defector.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry.
[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
[gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...
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The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.
Slightly diminish a band:
Godspeed You Black Baronet
Godspeed You Black Baronet
Slightly diminish a band
Magdalene
Magdalene
Slightly diminish a band
Leonard Levite
Leonard Levite
August 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Godspeed You Black Baronet
Godspeed You Black Baronet
*screams in paleoanthropologist*
You might appreciate this one it generated for me illustrating important Hominid fossil discoveries and their locations…
August 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
*screams in paleoanthropologist*
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Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
August 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.