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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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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 7h
Guess I'm in the NHL

(Yes i am reading the books that show is based on... I'm about ready to DNF and just watch the show though, romance without conflict isn't really my genre)
cmdrsue.bsky.social Sue London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 1d
Well, now I'm an English professor...

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8h
What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 9h
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cellpress.bsky.social Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 20h
With the hopes of expanding the culinary options of astronauts, researchers successfully made miso on the International @Space_Station. www.cell.com/news-do/pr-s...

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Title: Miso fermented in space tastes nuttier Image: Space miso samples after fermentation. Image credit: Maggie Coblentz

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 12h
Dear American academics,

UBC is part of Canada’s poaching plan for strategic research areas (including enviro, climate, water, Arctic): research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

Applications due JAN 15, so hustle.
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program
The University of British Columbia is inviting expressions of interest from top-tier, internationally based researchers as
research.ubc.ca

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
Thanks!!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 16h
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 16h
“The tribes now own the massacre site that for generations was in the hands of the Czywczynki family, which had previously operated a trading post and museum on the property. The tribes purchased the land in 2022 and now have had it placed permanently in their hands through the federal legislation.”
After 135 years, Wounded Knee Massacre site securely in Native hands - ICT
Monday ceremony doubled as anniversary ceremony and as a celebration of new preservation law for site of 1890 atrocity
ictnews.org

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 17h
My partner gets bad SAD and moving to Australia helped but it's def not a perma fix

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Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social · 17h
Sharing some personal reflections on Jewish safety after Bondi:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah after Bondi? | Glen Berman
Jewish safety after Bondi will only be found by tackling radicalisation across Australia head on
www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 17h
Here's another use - this is a NY state example, but zoos all over solicit Christmas trees
Zoo New York accepting used Christmas tree donations to benefit animals
For the next day or two, Zoo New York’s Elk will be in heaven. Why? They got a Christmas tree to play with.
www.13abc.com

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Matthew Noe (Winter Break) @noethematt.bsky.social · 18h
New @ursulakleguin.com print from @skeuomorphpress.org arrived
letterpress-printed, custom-illustrated 18"x24" poster with a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'": "Technology is the active, human interface with the material world."

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 20h
With the hopes of expanding the culinary options of astronauts, researchers successfully made miso on the International @Space_Station. www.cell.com/news-do/pr-s...

@cp-iscience.bsky.social
Title: Miso fermented in space tastes nuttier Image: Space miso samples after fermentation. Image credit: Maggie Coblentz

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20h
“In the online version of the program, the same strategies are taught to the first-year students, but the AI-avatars are pre-recorded, meaning they function more like recorded lectures rather than live, interactive instructors.”
AI avatars have arrived at the University as teaching assistants
By utilizing the AI avatars to teach new sections of the class, the program expanded this past Fall semester.
www.cavalierdaily.com

Reposted by David R. Miller, Catherine J. Frieman, Susan D. Amussen

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Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 20h
working at a university

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Sue London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 1d
Well, now I'm an English professor...
A green square with white text reading: You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

Reposted by Trevon D. Logan, Catherine J. Frieman

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Wyatt Sinclair @wyattswickedgoods.com · 1d
Every year around this time I do the same thread and it has been a lot of fun.

Tell me something you did in 2025 that you're proud of that you want everyone to know about. Did you write a book? Did you get a promotion? Did you survive the year?

I want to spend the end of the year celebrating you.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

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Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 1d
The largest medieval kogge merchant ship yet discovered, found in the Øresund off Copenhagen and professionally excavated - dating from c 1410 and built in the Netherlands.
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
Arkæologer afslører middelalderligt superskib: "Det er verdens største kogge"
I 600 år har havet ud for København gemt på en kæmpe hemmelighed. Nu kan Vikingeskibsmuseets marinarkæologer sammen med DR-dokumentaren Gåden i dybet afsløre fundet af verdens største kogge, et middel...
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
I'm so grumpy i have to space it out over 2 more weeks!!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
It's also a total banger of a book. First of yours i read but definitely not the last!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
especially in France, there's a long history of activism for nature entangling with activism against non white folks
uncpressblog.com/2018/03/22/v...
Venus Bivar: The Racist Origins of Organic Farming - UNC Press Blog
Venus Bivar, author of Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France, on the racist origins of organic farming.
uncpressblog.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
I feel like there is a not insignificant number of heritage and museums folks who might find this exciting....
jumpgategames.itch.io Jumpgate Games @jumpgategames.itch.io · 5d
Just in time for Jewish Christmas, we have a new TTRPG 🎲: The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back!

TVSTMAWGTSIB is a dreidel-powered heist TTRPG about reclaiming the Temple menorah from the Vatican. Itchfunding a print run till Jan 1! 📆

🔗: jumpgategames.itch.io/tvstmawgtsib
The Vatican Stole the Menorah and We're Going to Steal it Back, with a hand-drawn menorah. A silly, Dreidel-Powered rotating-DM trifold heist TTRPG by Jess Levine about reclaiming the Temple Menorah from the Vatican.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
appearance that shape how folks hear an accent. I'm pale with frckles and some red in my hair, so. Also danes (but never swedes or norwegians) tend to speak to me in their language first before realising i'm foreign

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
I got Northern Irish a lot when i lived in the uk. I describe my accent as "mid Atlantic, you know south of Greenland", but n Irish seems to be one that english (never scots or Irish) would hear in that

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 2d
"Preservation campaigners say they face unscrupulous developers who knock down listed buildings, corrupt officials and a governing class indifferent or hostile to the city’s rich architectural history."

Not only the War. The Guardian on familiar issues also facing campaigners for Kyiv's heritage.
Saving Kyiv’s heritage: a city rebuilding itself in the shadow of war
Volunteers and neighbours are restoring the century-old homes as an act of defiance against Russia’s assault
www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d
This one feels like something from a Culture novel
improbablemaps.bsky.social Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 2d
The map's form: music
It shows: where things are from
Its purpose: to track