Kent M. Johnson
@kentmjohnson.bsky.social
Bioarchaeologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology in Central New York. Kinship and relatedness in the past.
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Kent M. Johnson
@kentmjohnson.bsky.social
· Jan 27
www.archsynth.org
Are you an archaeologist or geneticist interested in using biological and cultural data to investigate kinship and population dynamics in the past? This may be the workshop you've been looking for www.archsynth.org/2026-design-...
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The results are in!
79% of the ISBA membership voted for the next host of ISBA12...
And ISBA 12 will be hosted by:
The University of Burgos (Spain)!!!
79% of the ISBA membership voted for the next host of ISBA12...
And ISBA 12 will be hosted by:
The University of Burgos (Spain)!!!
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media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The results are in!
79% of the ISBA membership voted for the next host of ISBA12...
And ISBA 12 will be hosted by:
The University of Burgos (Spain)!!!
79% of the ISBA membership voted for the next host of ISBA12...
And ISBA 12 will be hosted by:
The University of Burgos (Spain)!!!
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🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology
Sabina Cveček - Archaeological Institute of America
AIA National Lecture Program Lecturer Sabina Cveček
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September 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
🌟 Excited to hit the road soon as part of the Archaeological Institute of America’s National Lecture Program — honored to be one of this year’s National Lecturers! bit.ly/4n9YrgN I'll speak and meet colleagues in #Milwaukee (WI), #Spokane (WA) & #NewOrleans (LA)! @archaeological.org #archaeology
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Come work with us! SUNY Cortland is hiring a tenure-track bioanthropologist with experience in #bioarchaeology and #Forensic Anthropology jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10331 #academia #jobs #anthropology
Assistant Professor - Bioarchaeology
SUNY Cortland is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting a diversity of thought and experience. We believe that an equitable, inclusive and diverse campus and curriculum are criti...
jobs.cortland.edu
September 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Come work with us! SUNY Cortland is hiring a tenure-track bioanthropologist with experience in #bioarchaeology and #Forensic Anthropology jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10331 #academia #jobs #anthropology
Come work with us! SUNY Cortland is hiring a tenure-track bioanthropologist with experience in #bioarchaeology and #Forensic Anthropology jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10331 #academia #jobs #anthropology
Assistant Professor - Bioarchaeology
SUNY Cortland is an engaged learning community that is committed to promoting a diversity of thought and experience. We believe that an equitable, inclusive and diverse campus and curriculum are criti...
jobs.cortland.edu
September 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Come work with us! SUNY Cortland is hiring a tenure-track bioanthropologist with experience in #bioarchaeology and #Forensic Anthropology jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10331 #academia #jobs #anthropology
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🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark.
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
Start: Feb 2026 (flexible)
Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025
For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD
Reposts appreciated 😁
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🚨 I am hiring!
Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities.
⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025
📍Brno, CZ
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250
Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities.
⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025
📍Brno, CZ
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250
May 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨 I am hiring!
Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities.
⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025
📍Brno, CZ
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250
Join me at Masaryk University as a postdoc researcher in human #bioarchaeology & #isotope analysis. Work on past mobility, diet & funerary practices using cutting-edge lab facilities.
⏳ Apply by 1 June 2025
📍Brno, CZ
🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/339250
#NEH finally released its list of Spring awardees. Congrats to all the recipients, but the fact that only 18 #SummerStipends were awarded is beyond disappointing. #FundNEH #FundNEA #FundNSF www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
NEH Announces $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects
www.neh.gov
May 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#NEH finally released its list of Spring awardees. Congrats to all the recipients, but the fact that only 18 #SummerStipends were awarded is beyond disappointing. #FundNEH #FundNEA #FundNSF www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...
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One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
One’s sex biology is important and plays a major role in how any given individual engages with gender and other cultural dynamics of their society. But it is neither simple nor uniform, nor binary. It’s biocultural. A🧵...
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Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying
Newsletter: I am sick and god damn tired of everybody pretending that generative AI is the next big thing. The media is complicit in accepting fantastical nonsense - both in the numbers put out by OpenAI and the silly jobs created by Anthropic - and it has to stop.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
Reality Check
I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and still, to this day, people are babbling about the "AI revolution" as the sky rains blood and crevices open...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying
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Alternative history isn’t a jumble of fringe theories—it’s a deliberate ideology designed to sow distrust in history and archaeology in order to replace them with its own "hidden truths." To do this, it preys on people's credulity, spinning myths of lost civilizations and advanced ancient tech.
April 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Alternative history isn’t a jumble of fringe theories—it’s a deliberate ideology designed to sow distrust in history and archaeology in order to replace them with its own "hidden truths." To do this, it preys on people's credulity, spinning myths of lost civilizations and advanced ancient tech.
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For those of you who applied for Summer Stipend Grants via #NEH last fall, I have heard from them via email that the program will announce in the next few weeks. #Grants #SummerStipend
April 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
For those of you who applied for Summer Stipend Grants via #NEH last fall, I have heard from them via email that the program will announce in the next few weeks. #Grants #SummerStipend
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One reason these “pronatalist” proposals won’t work is that they’re organised around a family model that is highly unusual & involves relatively novel gender roles.
Petition to have “traditional” family values renamed: Conservative? Novel? Unnatural…?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Petition to have “traditional” family values renamed: Conservative? Novel? Unnatural…?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
April 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
One reason these “pronatalist” proposals won’t work is that they’re organised around a family model that is highly unusual & involves relatively novel gender roles.
Petition to have “traditional” family values renamed: Conservative? Novel? Unnatural…?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Petition to have “traditional” family values renamed: Conservative? Novel? Unnatural…?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Proud that my institution's president signed this
"... a commitment to serve as centers of open inquiry where, in their pursuit of truth, faculty, students, and staff are free to exchange ideas and opinions across a full range of viewpoints without fear of retribution, censorship, or deportation." www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Proud that my institution's president signed this
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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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Through the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis we are leading a workshop focused on the future of machine learning approaches to archaeological synthesis, and cultural heritage. Have a look at the call that was just circulated.
Call for Applications: Design Workshop on Bridging Archaeological Synthesis and Machine Learning - CfAS
Apply now to participate in a Fall 2025 workshop that brings archaeologists, heritage managers, and data scientists together to explore how machine learning can contribute to archaeological data synth...
www.archsynth.org
April 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Through the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis we are leading a workshop focused on the future of machine learning approaches to archaeological synthesis, and cultural heritage. Have a look at the call that was just circulated.
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AI industry giants owe their existence to taxpayer-funded, open research, but many have abandoned this collaborative model. I spoke to The Atlantic about how US science and tech leadership was built on shared knowledge. When companies hoard research, innovation suffers and accountability declines.
Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:
A Disaster for American Innovation
The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.
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April 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
AI industry giants owe their existence to taxpayer-funded, open research, but many have abandoned this collaborative model. I spoke to The Atlantic about how US science and tech leadership was built on shared knowledge. When companies hoard research, innovation suffers and accountability declines.
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[1] One of the strange things about BlueSky is realising that American users, in general, don’t realise that Europeans have an in-depth knowledge of the US. Many of them assume we know as little, as they do about us.
April 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
[1] One of the strange things about BlueSky is realising that American users, in general, don’t realise that Europeans have an in-depth knowledge of the US. Many of them assume we know as little, as they do about us.
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The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)
Here NIH officials target contracts that "may be related to any form of censorship at all or *directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes*."
Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.
Directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes IS public health. It's also education.
Here's the internal e-mail that outlines all this.
March 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The logical endpoint of the arguments, promoted by the "heterodox" crowd, that peer review is "censorship" & academic freedom is equivalent to freedom of speech 👇 Science dies, because science depends on evaluation of evidence (peer review) & criticism of bad ideas (not counter to academic freedom)
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New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
23andMe files for bankruptcy protection
The company said that it will now attempt to sell itself under the supervision of a court.
www.bbc.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Now might be a good time to protect your data if you’ve used this service.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Hang together or hang separately
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley Law says he is trying to get a letter signed by other law school deans to call on law firms not to buckle under threats from the Trump administration.
He says it has been very hard to get many to sign.
(From a conference at UCLA happening now)
He says it has been very hard to get many to sign.
(From a conference at UCLA happening now)
March 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hang together or hang separately