Update: "Raccoons" was moved to agenda item #1. There have been sightings. A colleague saw a little raccoon claw poke down through the ceiling while they were in the bathroom. Stuff of nightmares.
Never a good sign when you get an email from the department staff telling you that facilities is working on "the raccoon problem," and a few hours later see that "raccoons" is the final item on the agenda for tomorrow's faculty meeting.
@TatePaulette1’s book on beer in Mesopotamia comes out August 28. Preorders available now! https://t.co/BgP4UrKOwf. And just FYI - preorders might help it debut on bestseller lists 😉
Campus Tech Support emailed to say they are removing wireless slide advancers from classrooms bc they are "untenable from a support perspective" and told us to buy our own. It's a minor inconvenience, and will be a minor cost, but it kind of enrages me.
The Garbage Project is my fav Intro Archaeology class project. Students record all garbage they throw away for 10 days. I anonymize & redistribute the responses. Then students quantify/classify the data they got & use it to write a paper. These papers are always great/hilarious
Get those applications in for the NC State bioanthropology teaching post doc! Application review begins Feb. 15. Please share widely.
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