ewan coopey
@euuanxcvi.bsky.social
Aus phd. archaeology. epigraphy 🪦 posthumanism. community. Romans. (DH) humanities. football ⚽️ caps 🧢 he/him 🍉 Opinions own
‘A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window’ Massumi
‘A concept is a brick. It can be used to build the courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window’ Massumi
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Joining Bluesky one month into my PhD in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University.
I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground.
Let's roll!
I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground.
Let's roll!
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Joining Bluesky one month into my PhD in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University.
I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground.
Let's roll!
I will be sharing bits and pieces as I go. Here's a cryptic sneak peak of what will be the project's conceptual foreground.
Let's roll!
I still refer to this site a blue-skee, and no one can stop me 🇦🇺
October 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I still refer to this site a blue-skee, and no one can stop me 🇦🇺
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me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects
me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
me trying to formulate robust postdoc projects
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Hey Australian Archaeology - do you like arch theory? do you want to hang out with other folks who do?? Please put 22-23 May in your calendar - we're hosting an AusTAG conference at Adelaide University!
more details and call for submissions soon!
more details and call for submissions soon!
October 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Hey Australian Archaeology - do you like arch theory? do you want to hang out with other folks who do?? Please put 22-23 May in your calendar - we're hosting an AusTAG conference at Adelaide University!
more details and call for submissions soon!
more details and call for submissions soon!
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Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
September 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Shot, chaser
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
September 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?
Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
bsky.app/profile/nsou...
September 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Totally agree with this sentiment. *But* I would get many academics (not OP) to ask themselves: Does their assessment structure facilitate this process? Or does it simply assess the end product and thus render mistakes and struggles too risky (from the perspective of increasingly time poor cohorts)?
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📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
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Given the EAA has gone back on excluding Israeli institutions from the conference - and is also trying to prevent @archagainstaparth.bsky.social from protesting in their sessions - it’s time to walk away until they can find their moral compass. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
BTC Call for Action – EAA
URGENT ARCHAEOLOGISTS: YOUR EAA PARTICIPATION Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoing genocide of the population of Ga…
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Given the EAA has gone back on excluding Israeli institutions from the conference - and is also trying to prevent @archagainstaparth.bsky.social from protesting in their sessions - it’s time to walk away until they can find their moral compass. blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
Whose idea was it for me to present a paper at an international conference just under a fortnight after my submitting thesis? Oh yea... #🏺
September 1, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Whose idea was it for me to present a paper at an international conference just under a fortnight after my submitting thesis? Oh yea... #🏺
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Wonder if these are connected?
August 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Wonder if these are connected?
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If you haven't already, we urge authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website below and provide the requested information.
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August 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If you haven't already, we urge authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website below and provide the requested information.
www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
August 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
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There is something strangely appealing about du Choul's drawings of figures on Trajan's Column ...
August 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
There is something strangely appealing about du Choul's drawings of figures on Trajan's Column ...
Now, why would Macquarie University Faculty of Arts want to cut its major in this field...
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Now, why would Macquarie University Faculty of Arts want to cut its major in this field...
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Dr Anna Revedin, former Director of the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory, has endorsed the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. #archaeology #🏺 #archaeology🏺 #eaa #archeologia
August 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Dr Anna Revedin, former Director of the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory, has endorsed the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. #archaeology #🏺 #archaeology🏺 #eaa #archeologia
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Read this, from over a year ago: aje.io/6eu9x6
And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n...
#archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025
And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n...
#archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025
Why archaeologists must speak up for Gaza
Archaeology is often a mechanism of power. As such, its scholars have an obligation to speak up against oppression.
aje.io
August 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Read this, from over a year ago: aje.io/6eu9x6
And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n...
#archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025
And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n...
#archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025
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73. I love peer reviewing the work of colleagues. It is a wonderful way of being in community with others.
August 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
73. I love peer reviewing the work of colleagues. It is a wonderful way of being in community with others.
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Yes! For instance, I am tentatively excited about Google Aeneas, which uses existing human-coded databases of 250K ancient Roman inscriptions to help predict missing fragments in other inscriptions. This uses computers' superior quantitative capabilities to supplement epigraphers' expert knowledge.
Any proposal for using AI needs to answer 2 fundamental questions:
1. What is the problem we're trying to solve?
2. Is AI the right tool for solving it?
I have yet to see a single proposal that starts with these. Instead they start with "stusents are using them anyway" or "inevitable"
1. What is the problem we're trying to solve?
2. Is AI the right tool for solving it?
I have yet to see a single proposal that starts with these. Instead they start with "stusents are using them anyway" or "inevitable"
August 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Yes! For instance, I am tentatively excited about Google Aeneas, which uses existing human-coded databases of 250K ancient Roman inscriptions to help predict missing fragments in other inscriptions. This uses computers' superior quantitative capabilities to supplement epigraphers' expert knowledge.
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Modelling I commissioned from the PBO shows JRG has hiked up student debt by more than $10bn 🤯
The xbench has been pushing for reform, good to see Labor backbenchers joining this call.
This reform is urgent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The xbench has been pushing for reform, good to see Labor backbenchers joining this call.
This reform is urgent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor MPs urge government to prioritise reform of ‘failed’ job-ready university graduates scheme
Morrison-era graduate scheme increased costs for subjects such as arts and law, while lowering course fees for degrees in Stem
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Modelling I commissioned from the PBO shows JRG has hiked up student debt by more than $10bn 🤯
The xbench has been pushing for reform, good to see Labor backbenchers joining this call.
This reform is urgent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The xbench has been pushing for reform, good to see Labor backbenchers joining this call.
This reform is urgent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...
Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel
Please fill out the form below to add your name to this open letter calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal to cultural heritage organisations to ...
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August 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...