Catherine J. Frieman

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 · 1h

I didn't realise my ginger cat was doing bits online now

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Mar 31

Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.”
Me: “Here, have this instead.”
Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.”
Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.”
Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 9h

I was in my 20s in the early 00s and had many guy friends... even very self aware ones* rarely granted the women around them the same level of interiority they themselves experienced. Feels extremely true to character

*either they grew up or we stopped being friends

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 9h

Every update makes me go "oof" in a new and different intonation

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve , and 7 more Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve, Peter Williams, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Catherine J. Frieman, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, David Darmofal

David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 9h

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...

Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

futurism.com

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 12h

The flag of the Capital Territory is not bad, but i do think it's got a rather over inflated sense of self

The flag of the ACT is a blue yellow and white landscape rectangle. The left quarter is blue with a white southern Cross. The right three-quarters is yellow with a modified crest of the city of Canberra centred. Two swans flank a blue sheild. The left Swan is blue (ie, black) the right Swan is white. On the shield a white castle is centred. Below it is a white rose (the york rose). Above it in white is a crossed mace a sword.

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry mate, i grew up in Boston so (a) the fleet already have my loyalty and (b) my entire family would disown me if i ever barracked for a Montreal (or NY) team 😅

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 13h

For those that want to tackle Moby-Dick we're starting A Month of Dick 2026 on Thursday! 🐋

A calendar for reading Moby-Dick in the month of January.

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

John Hawks @johnhawks.net · 14h

This is a neat new study using LIDAR to document pre-colonization raised agricultural beds along the Menominee River that separates Wisconsin from Michigan, north of Green Bay.

“massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

LIDAR image of landscapes showing linear raised beds over a very large area, with inset image showing the scale of raised beds in a photograph

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

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)

Sue London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 1d

Well, now I'm an English professor...

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

@drspacejunk.bsky.social

Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 1d

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

Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 1d

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

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!!

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer , and 11 more Shannon Vallor, Jason Mittell, Colin F. Camerer, Christopher Wright, Benjamin Braun, Patrick Svensson, Stephen D. Murphy, Michael Jones‐Correa, Jennifer A. Johnson, Catherine J. Frieman, Stephen A. Meserve, Charles T. Mathewes, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

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

Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 1d

“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

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

My partner gets bad SAD and moving to Australia helped but it's def not a perma fix

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Glen Berman @glenberman.bsky.social · 1d

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

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

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

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Matthew Noe (Winter Break) @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

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

Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 1d

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

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“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

Ted McCoy 🖖 @tedmccoy.bsky.social · 1d

working at a university

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Lucy Barnes, Aileen McHarg , and 5 more Anna O. Law, Lucy Barnes, Aileen McHarg, Scott A. Imberman, James Goodwin, Diane Marie Amann, Catherine J. Frieman, Iñaki Aldasoro

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

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.

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 photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

Simon Coupland @scoupland.bsky.social · 2d

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

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so grumpy i have to space it out over 2 more weeks!!

Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

It's also a total banger of a book. First of yours i read but definitely not the last!

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