Kim Connor
@theotherkim.bsky.social
Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Careers at CDU | Charles Darwin University
Discover career opportunities and find useful information about working at CDU.
www.cdu.edu.au
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Must have been a rough day for this poor archaeologist who wrote in their field notes "Gloom Despair & Agony on me!" 🏺
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Must have been a rough day for this poor archaeologist who wrote in their field notes "Gloom Despair & Agony on me!" 🏺
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Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
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The archaeologist volunteers this semester at Skype a Scientist are honestly blowing me away with how much they all have stepped up this semester. I put a call out yesterday and 30 of them replied volunteering to do more classes. I'm not 100% sure this will cover all teams yet but I think it will.
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The archaeologist volunteers this semester at Skype a Scientist are honestly blowing me away with how much they all have stepped up this semester. I put a call out yesterday and 30 of them replied volunteering to do more classes. I'm not 100% sure this will cover all teams yet but I think it will.
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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Block this account.
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Block this account.
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‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’
Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Thankfully I avoided the hotel room interviews. But my supervisor still provides advice about how to decline invites to hotel rooms as part of her standard advising package. And now I do the same.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Thankfully I avoided the hotel room interviews. But my supervisor still provides advice about how to decline invites to hotel rooms as part of her standard advising package. And now I do the same.
I had to give up my subscription but I cannot explain how excited I am that it's Christmas Lima Bean soup time of year once again
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I had to give up my subscription but I cannot explain how excited I am that it's Christmas Lima Bean soup time of year once again
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This article outlines three main things Mississippi policymakers did to fix their schools:
1. Require the teaching of phonics.
2. Require teachers be *trained* in teaching phonics.
3. Require third-graders who cannot read at a proper level to repeat the grade.
1. Require the teaching of phonics.
2. Require teachers be *trained* in teaching phonics.
3. Require third-graders who cannot read at a proper level to repeat the grade.
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This article outlines three main things Mississippi policymakers did to fix their schools:
1. Require the teaching of phonics.
2. Require teachers be *trained* in teaching phonics.
3. Require third-graders who cannot read at a proper level to repeat the grade.
1. Require the teaching of phonics.
2. Require teachers be *trained* in teaching phonics.
3. Require third-graders who cannot read at a proper level to repeat the grade.
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If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Microsoft to refund millions of customers over 365 subscription price increase for Copilot AI add-on
Microsoft to refund millions of customers over 365 subscription price increase for Copilot AI add-on
Almost 3 million Australians will be eligible for a refund of the difference between the AI-powered Copilot and ‘classic’ versions of the 365 software
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Almost three million Australians will be offered refunds after Microsoft apologised for the way it charged customers to access its artificial intelligence tools.
Microsoft Australia emailed the offer to software subscribers on Thursday and admits the pricing structure and plans lacked clarity and fell short of its standards. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Microsoft to refund millions of customers over 365 subscription price increase for Copilot AI add-on
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The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10.
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢
I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
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I maintain that if a metal detectorist finds a historical/archaeology artefact the most reward they should get is a pat on the head and the threat of a massive fine/jail time if they don't hand it over.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I maintain that if a metal detectorist finds a historical/archaeology artefact the most reward they should get is a pat on the head and the threat of a massive fine/jail time if they don't hand it over.
Learning to process acorns today ahead of the William & Mary Indigenous Peoples' Feast
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Learning to process acorns today ahead of the William & Mary Indigenous Peoples' Feast
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I love November because it starts with such optimism. We're going to write so many words together! If you want to write, and need some friends to write with, it's not too late to AcWriMo! Read more and sign up here: epilogueediting.substack.com/p/how-to-acw...
How to AcWriMo
...or motivating yourself to write, a lot (or a little).
epilogueediting.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I love November because it starts with such optimism. We're going to write so many words together! If you want to write, and need some friends to write with, it's not too late to AcWriMo! Read more and sign up here: epilogueediting.substack.com/p/how-to-acw...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Type A cookies for a Halloween #cookieparty 🎃🖤
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Type A cookies for a Halloween #cookieparty 🎃🖤