Scott Van Keuren
@svankeuren.bsky.social
Archaeologist, US Southwest, medieval Peloponnese, & no longer willing to grill in subzero weather.
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
I have serious doubts about the Bundt pan turkey trend.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I have serious doubts about the Bundt pan turkey trend.
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From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From the brand new issue of Museums Journal, guest-edited by Gary Younge, my article on human remains in museums — "Return The Bones"; you can read it here >> www.danhicks.uk/essays
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🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
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But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
But you imagine where you might be, eventually, when you learn IT has HAPPENED.
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
Maybe you will wake up, anxious and scared and angry (i.e., normal).
Then, out of nowhere, the push notification from THE NEWS: “Breaking: IT Has HAPPENED.”
What will you feel like? When IT HAPPENS?
Shameful:
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Shameful:
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
www.denverpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
NEW - The Trump admin has disbanded its federal cultural property investigations team and reassigned the agents to immigration enforcement, delivering a blow to one of the world’s leaders in heritage protection, according to multiple ppl familiar with the changes.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Holy crap I want this SO bad.
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Holy crap I want this SO bad.
'Dance your PhD' is a great but why in the world add the AI component? www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again—with an all new, AI twist
For the first time, there’s a special prize for a research-themed dance generated by an artificial intelligence program
www.science.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
'Dance your PhD' is a great but why in the world add the AI component? www.science.org/content/arti...
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Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Everyone involved in this case, including the Border Patrol agent, should be dying of embarrassment being involved in such a ridiculous prosecution.
New pleasure is tormenting the pre-teen with 90s music. Yesterday it was Jane's Addiction. That was too much for him, but some day he'll come home with old vinyl and ask if I've ever heard of these bands (like he somehow discovered them).
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
New pleasure is tormenting the pre-teen with 90s music. Yesterday it was Jane's Addiction. That was too much for him, but some day he'll come home with old vinyl and ask if I've ever heard of these bands (like he somehow discovered them).
No one likes Baby Ruths anymore.
And we have now progressed from data analysis to policy recommendations.
I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.
I told her that we'd calculate the cash value of her candy haul, that I'd ask her to raid her piggy bank and donate 1/3 the candy cash value to a local food bank, and that I'd add on a 5X match.
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
No one likes Baby Ruths anymore.
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Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives
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October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Archaeologists speak up against the Vice President's blatantly disinformative use of archaeology for spreading these harmful Christian nationalist narratives
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Four days before the Louvre heist catapulted museum security to the global stage, thieves in California snatched more than 1,000 items, including Native American artifacts, from a Bay Area museum.
Thieves Rob 1,000 Collection Items From California Museum
Native American artifacts and jewelry were among the objects taken from the Oakland Museum of California’s off-site facility.
hyperallergic.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Four days before the Louvre heist catapulted museum security to the global stage, thieves in California snatched more than 1,000 items, including Native American artifacts, from a Bay Area museum.
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Billions in treasure lie on the seafloor. Finders keepers?
As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archaeologists.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archaeologists.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Billions in treasure lie on the seafloor. Finders keepers?
As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archeologists.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Billions in treasure lie on the seafloor. Finders keepers?
As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archaeologists.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As treasure hunters pursue gold and silver, they both aid and compete with archaeologists.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Destruction of cultural sites is only a small part of what is lost in severe weather events, but in a world where climate change driven catastrophic weather events are becoming more common, we need more and better methods for dealing with the impacts. 🏺
www.chron.com/news/article...
www.chron.com/news/article...
Archaeological site in Alaska that casts light on early Yup'ik life ravaged by ex-Typhoon Halong
A Yup'ik community near the Bering Sea in southwest Alaska was spared the widespread devastation other communities experienced from the remnants of Typhoon Halong earlier this month. But it suffered a...
www.chron.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Destruction of cultural sites is only a small part of what is lost in severe weather events, but in a world where climate change driven catastrophic weather events are becoming more common, we need more and better methods for dealing with the impacts. 🏺
www.chron.com/news/article...
www.chron.com/news/article...
From hearing, this senator is winging it. Do your friggin homework dude: youtu.be/2EgENl6VEFA?...
Senate Energy And Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing On National Historic Preservation Act
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
From hearing, this senator is winging it. Do your friggin homework dude: youtu.be/2EgENl6VEFA?...
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The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?