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Catherine Frieman
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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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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 21h
Research Fellow – University of Southampton, UK
MarEA Project | Maritime Archaeology
Eligibility: PhD in Archaeology or related field
Deadline: 27 Nov 2025
Details: higherjobz.com/research-fel...
#ResearchFellow #Archaeology #Humanities #UKJobs #AcademicJobs #PostdocJobs @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Arts & Humanities, Southampton | HigherJobz
Join the University of Southampton as a Research Fellow in Arts and Humanities for the MarEA Project. Apply by 27 November 2025.
higherjobz.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 22h
oooh interesting!!
A queer uprising 60 years before Stonewall: the 1905 Les Douaires riot
In the 1900s, a growing number of boys aged over 16 were sent to Les Douaires in Normandy. Rumours spread of frequent sexual interactions between detained boys.
theconversation.com

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Ankou @ankou.bsky.social · 1d
Posing with my veggies like men pose with fish
Moi dans ma cuisine tenant une feuille de blette. J'ai un t-shirt rose sombre, une chemise à carreaux blanc-beige, un leggins gris, des chaussettes noire et blanche motif Noël et un bonnet orange (je reviens du potager, il fait -1°) La feuille de blette mesure 62cm, 96 si on compte la tige, ça fait un beau poisson.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
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too recent for me! all the coolest things are older than the Romans!

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d
The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people in Victoria have filed a native title claim with the Federal Court, seeking recognition over country that spans much of Melbourne.
Victoria's Wurundjeri people file native title claim for Melbourne
The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people in Victoria have filed a native title claim with the Federal Court, seeking recognition over country that spans much of Melbourne.
www.abc.net.au

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.
michelkasprzyk.bsky.social Michel Kasprzyk @michelkasprzyk.bsky.social · 1d
Comparaison entre ce qui est connu (en rouge) et les tracés du dataset (en vert) pour l'est de la Bourgogne. Les données mises a disposition sont sans doute meilleures dans les zones où des spécialiste ont été sollicité.e.s (Egypte, etc). Bonne base de départ donc, mais a utiliser avec prudence 3/3

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 2d
Avoid jumping to conclusions about mechanisms behind large-scale genetic shifts in the past! This paper doesn’t prove that small scale migrations of Homo sapiens led to the gradual replacement of Neanderthal DNA but suggests this explanation is as good as any other.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A simple analytical model for Neanderthal disappearance due to genetic dilution by recurrent small-scale immigrations of modern humans - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A simple analytical model for Neanderthal disappearance due to genetic dilution by recurrent small-scale immigrations of modern humans
www.nature.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
great work @dnatimetravel.bsky.social and team!

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 2d
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Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses
Souilmi et al. propose essential guidelines to improve the reproducibility of paleogenomic data analysis. As ancient DNA research often relies on the destructive sampling of finite resources, these re...
www.cell.com

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 2d
In yet another addition of willful ignorance by the British tabloid press, the cyclical poppy furore. It is incredible it has to be explained to adults that there is nothing apolitical about remembering war and especially how it is used in the contemporary. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...
Katie McCabe takes clear poppy stance as she follows in McClean's footsteps
Katie McCabe follows in the footsteps of James McClean by not wearing the poppy while in action for Arsenal.
www.irishmirror.ie

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · 2d
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d
I'm travelling at the moment and dreamed a cat came into my hotel room and slept on my bed. devastated to wake up to no cat

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 3d
A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.

www.livescience.com/health/genet...
Rosalind Franklin knew DNA was a helix before Watson and Crick, unpublished material reveals
A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.
www.livescience.com

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 3d
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.

Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊

#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure

bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…
bigbookoftorcs.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d
you have to be bold enough to actually do it fwiw

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d
2005: do we really have to pack every life lesson into a children's book/movie that traumatizes a generation. hey grownups what if we just talked to our kids

2025: nobody talks to their kids apparently, bring Old Yeller back

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3d
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.

Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

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Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · 3d
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.

www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d
yesssss! my go to move is to explain that if you go over i will stand up directly in front of you and make eye contact until you finish. in 15 years I've only had to do it once... the fear of it means basically everyone ends in time

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d
i want to send him a copy of my book on the deep history of innovation... maybe i will...
patrickmccray.bsky.social Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d
I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org

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Graham Digby @d1gger5.bsky.social · 3d
There’s a work exercise where to inform what we want to do next we have 3 stickers to put on the suggestions. By going first and adding two stickers to one of the suggestions almost always guarantees people will follow the heat maps to avoid “wasting” their votes.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d
Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
www.nytimes.com

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 3d
I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d
or, well, there is but not figurative. cup marks and some abstract or geometrical designs

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 3d
there are horned pipe players in the bronze Age Scandinavian rock art - there's not really a Baltic Neolithic rock at tradition

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 3d
I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation
State-issued documents aren't just tools to allow identification; they're also tools to enforce hierarchies. In his book "The Passport in America," the historian Craig Robertson argues that the document has served both to affirm and to assign such attributes of identity as class, race and gender. That last category didn't show up on the U.S. passport until 1976, after a panel of experts convened by the State Department noted that the rise of "unisex attire and hairstyles" had made it harder to determine a person's sex. "Gender markers thus were born out of the fear that gender was becoming ungovernable," wrote the immigration attorney Lauren Des Rosiers.