Betsy Bevis
@vulpicula.bsky.social
Archaeology & Art History. She/her. Late Antiquity. Gaul, Hispania, etc. Mosaics of questionable quality. Villas no one has heard of (yet). Premodern textiles. Cats, cooking, knitting. First-gen, Neurospicy. Impossible love child of Ms. Frizzle & Mae West.
I leave very soon and for my annual stint at the excavation of a Roman villa in Portugal (the Santa Susana Archaeological Project.)
Watson will not be tagging along, so while I pack he is making sure that I have an adequate supply of cat hair on my stuff for the next several weeks.
Watson will not be tagging along, so while I pack he is making sure that I have an adequate supply of cat hair on my stuff for the next several weeks.
May 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I leave very soon and for my annual stint at the excavation of a Roman villa in Portugal (the Santa Susana Archaeological Project.)
Watson will not be tagging along, so while I pack he is making sure that I have an adequate supply of cat hair on my stuff for the next several weeks.
Watson will not be tagging along, so while I pack he is making sure that I have an adequate supply of cat hair on my stuff for the next several weeks.
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"Majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperformed STEM fields when it comes to employment prospects, according to a recent analysis of labor market outcomes of college graduates by major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...
College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance
In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.
www.cnbc.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperformed STEM fields when it comes to employment prospects, according to a recent analysis of labor market outcomes of college graduates by major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."
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On cheating 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/dishonor-cod...
Dishonor Code
Tressie McMillan Cottom recently offered a neat little summary of how universities have responded to generative AI: "Academics initially lost our minds over the obvious threats to academic integrity. ...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
On cheating 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/dishonor-cod...
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The scope of issues confronting research and scholarship is 😱🤯 among them for publications the profusion of AI slop.
But the direct political intervention in funding and publishing research as well as in libraries and universities shows this to be a 360 crisis.
But the direct political intervention in funding and publishing research as well as in libraries and universities shows this to be a 360 crisis.
Since this was published yesterday, NPR reports JAMA joins NEJM on the list of journals that confirms they’ve been sent threatening letters by Trump’s DOJ, ominously referencing their tax-exempt status in a bid to compel regime-friendly editorial choices.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals
A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should not comply
www.scientificamerican.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The scope of issues confronting research and scholarship is 😱🤯 among them for publications the profusion of AI slop.
But the direct political intervention in funding and publishing research as well as in libraries and universities shows this to be a 360 crisis.
But the direct political intervention in funding and publishing research as well as in libraries and universities shows this to be a 360 crisis.
Watson takes his TA duties seriously. 😉🐈
April 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Watson takes his TA duties seriously. 😉🐈
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This is why universities are “the enemy”, why the arts need to be defunded, why humanities degrees are a “waste of time”.
You cannot have authoritarianism without manipulating history first.
You cannot have authoritarianism without manipulating history first.
Joshua Clemans is a partner of New Founding—backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen. “Martial” means warlike. 1/
March 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
This is why universities are “the enemy”, why the arts need to be defunded, why humanities degrees are a “waste of time”.
You cannot have authoritarianism without manipulating history first.
You cannot have authoritarianism without manipulating history first.
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beaver's return
![Comic by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows:
Scene is a British WOODLAND by a RIVER. A NATURALIST is stood next to a cage, and TV NEWS REPORTERS are filming him and the cage.
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NATURALIST:
And now It is my great honour
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NATURALIST:
to reintroduce the first wild beaver
back into Britain
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[Cut to the BEAVER’S CAGE. Its door is open and the Beaver is leaned nonchalantly up against the opening, smoking a cigarette.]
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BEAVER:
Well, well, well.
5
BEAVER:
Look who's come crawling back.
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BEAVER:
Got a rubbish ecosystem have ya?
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BEAVER:
Not happy with the *critical anti-flood infrastructure* engineered by the flippin *badgers*?
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BEAVER:
I almost didn't recognise you without one of my ancestors on your head…
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BEAVER:
First you wipe us out… now you ask us to come back and build dams for free…
You actually expect me to be *pleased* don’t ya?
NATURALIST:
I'm so sorry I…I…
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BEAVER:
“Ooh la la, the Brits have come crawling back…”
Do I look like *Michel flippin’ Barnier*?
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NATURALIST:
I-if there’s some kind of… *remuneration* we could offer I-I’m sure…
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BEAVER [throwing cigarette to the ground]:
Unlimited pond weed, two tickets to Abba Voyage.
NATURALIST:
Done.
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreihs2p5lw7psgwmqpzruuvd42k54oippf6wwx5glghmewzjj4w7tne@jpeg)
March 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
beaver's return
Midterm season — grading is piling up, and I’m presenting a conference paper in a couple of weeks, various things I’ve promised to organize are heating up. I have downtime scheduled for 4:15 pm on the 14th and for about 20 hours on the 22nd. 🤪
March 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Midterm season — grading is piling up, and I’m presenting a conference paper in a couple of weeks, various things I’ve promised to organize are heating up. I have downtime scheduled for 4:15 pm on the 14th and for about 20 hours on the 22nd. 🤪
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Sesame Street really tells the story of America:
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
Sesame Workshop will 'downsize significantly' with layoffs, CEO says
The layoffs come after 200 Sesame Workshop employees announced they want to form a union.
www.npr.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sesame Street really tells the story of America:
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs
What a country!
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slate.com/news-and-pol... “This particular faux-medieval aesthetic depicts wealth and power while criticizing a certain other—more tech-y, maybe more tacky, definitely more male—version of wealth and power.” @lollardfish.bsky.social @profgabriele.com #medievalsky
Every Era Has Its Own Way of Thinking About the Middle Ages. Here’s 2025’s.
Tapestries, stone walls, chain mail, crossbows. This era’s medieval mashup has it all.
slate.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
slate.com/news-and-pol... “This particular faux-medieval aesthetic depicts wealth and power while criticizing a certain other—more tech-y, maybe more tacky, definitely more male—version of wealth and power.” @lollardfish.bsky.social @profgabriele.com #medievalsky
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Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist.
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist.
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that!
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...
Valentine’s Day might be a Hallmark holiday, but this love story from StoryCorps is too delightful not to share.
storycorps.org/animation/wi...
storycorps.org/animation/wi...
Wild in Love
When Jackie and taxidermist Bud went on their first date in 1954, Jackie knew she was in for an adventure. “Wild in Love,” takes you for a ride on their 68 years of love.
storycorps.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Valentine’s Day might be a Hallmark holiday, but this love story from StoryCorps is too delightful not to share.
storycorps.org/animation/wi...
storycorps.org/animation/wi...
Just an adorable cat photo.
February 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just an adorable cat photo.
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Thank you to Rafi Greenberg for his open letter to his colleagues participating in next week's grotesque occupation archaeology conference taking place in Jerusalem
His letter was shared via @EmekShaveh's newsletter. It is quoted in full here (# 72): everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/c...
His letter was shared via @EmekShaveh's newsletter. It is quoted in full here (# 72): everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/c...
February 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Thank you to Rafi Greenberg for his open letter to his colleagues participating in next week's grotesque occupation archaeology conference taking place in Jerusalem
His letter was shared via @EmekShaveh's newsletter. It is quoted in full here (# 72): everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/c...
His letter was shared via @EmekShaveh's newsletter. It is quoted in full here (# 72): everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2024/03/21/c...
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A young researcher who made headlines last year for using AI to decipher a Greco-Roman scroll is reportedly part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), established by President Trump.
Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?
Luke Farritor, who used AI to decode a Greco-Roman scroll from Pompeii, is reportedly part of the team leading Musk’s chaotic takeover of government systems.
hyperallergic.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A young researcher who made headlines last year for using AI to decipher a Greco-Roman scroll is reportedly part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), established by President Trump.
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We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.
February 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.
This whole thread is important and worth reading. The “anti-DEI” push is just racism in action.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This whole thread is important and worth reading. The “anti-DEI” push is just racism in action.
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Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times
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Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times - The Research Companion
Science, healthcare and education are threatened worldwide. Here are some starter ideas for ways to work together to share and save vital information. And to care for one another.
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February 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i...
Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp
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#AcademicSky An important statement from the American Association of University Professors @aaup.bsky.social on "Against Anticipatory Obedience." Please read. www.aaup.org/report/again...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
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February 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
#AcademicSky An important statement from the American Association of University Professors @aaup.bsky.social on "Against Anticipatory Obedience." Please read. www.aaup.org/report/again...
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The following men are taking part in Musk's coup.
- Akash Bobba
- Edward Coristine
- Luke Farritor
- Gautier Cole Killian
- Gavin Kliger
- Ethan Shaotran
Do not forget their names.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
- Akash Bobba
- Edward Coristine
- Luke Farritor
- Gautier Cole Killian
- Gavin Kliger
- Ethan Shaotran
Do not forget their names.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The following men are taking part in Musk's coup.
- Akash Bobba
- Edward Coristine
- Luke Farritor
- Gautier Cole Killian
- Gavin Kliger
- Ethan Shaotran
Do not forget their names.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
- Akash Bobba
- Edward Coristine
- Luke Farritor
- Gautier Cole Killian
- Gavin Kliger
- Ethan Shaotran
Do not forget their names.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Today was the official start of the spinning project in my class Textiles, Gender, and Labor in the Ancient Mediterranean. I got to bring the _fun_ supplies to class. 😊🐑☁️🧶
February 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Today was the official start of the spinning project in my class Textiles, Gender, and Labor in the Ancient Mediterranean. I got to bring the _fun_ supplies to class. 😊🐑☁️🧶
One of my students brought me a tiny replica of a Mycenaean psi figurine from their semester in Greece. I’m feeling very appreciated today. 🥰
January 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
One of my students brought me a tiny replica of a Mycenaean psi figurine from their semester in Greece. I’m feeling very appreciated today. 🥰
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Great news from Onlaah project! Our collaborative MOOC on African Archaeology and Heritage has reached nearly 2,000 students worldwide! 🌍🎉 Together, we’re making African heritage more accessible and inspiring the next generation of archaeologists. 📚✨ #ONLAAH #HeritageEducation
January 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Great news from Onlaah project! Our collaborative MOOC on African Archaeology and Heritage has reached nearly 2,000 students worldwide! 🌍🎉 Together, we’re making African heritage more accessible and inspiring the next generation of archaeologists. 📚✨ #ONLAAH #HeritageEducation