Matt🏺⛏

Quaternary and Climate Studies🏺⛏ UMaine

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

Coincidentally I’m also an archaeologist and badgers are my favorite animal. I had just finished needle felting a badger when this story came out! Here he is with some little felted coins in a sweater sett 🪙🦡

[Secrets Of The Ice @brearkeologi]

Holy smoke! 😮 A baby mammoth has just been discovered by a Yukon gold miner😍 It is more than 30000 years old! Preserved by permafrost ice❄️
Press release here: https://t.co/1tcIk5LEom

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

@jonippolito's Re-collection chapter on biological computation and storage is a great read! Apparently a single gram of DNA can store around 700 terabytes of data 🧬 #DigitalCuration

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

"Preservation of the Scientific Memory" (2015) reminds me of the context can be lost during publication, forcing readers to hunt down supplemental materials and referenced works. Frustrating for those who don't have access to multiple journals @DigitCurator #DigitalPreservation

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

(It also prompted me to change my Twitter username to archaeobadger because why not!)

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

When their findings are published, I’d love to see the 🦡 listed as a coauthor (or at least put in the acknowledgements!) https://t.co/o9jcwjlbBs

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

Coincidentally I’m also an archaeologist and badgers are my favorite animal. I had just finished needle felting a badger when this story came out! Here he is with some little felted coins in a sweater sett 🪙🦡

[Marc Kissel (marckissel.bsky.social) @MarcKissel]

my student made a "which early hominid are you?" quiz as part of her final project and it is freaking amazing:

https://t.co/QZYIl1uQwC

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

Learning about the history and future of museum spaces; digitization is helping many to move beyond their history as "socially enclosed spaces to which access was remarkably restricted" (Tony Bennett) @DigitCurator #DIG500

[Matt🏺⛏ @archaeobadger]

@colethesecret Literally the same thing happened to me the other day and now I am left with just a sad mustache 🤠👨🏻

[Archaeologists Against Racism #BLM @Archs4BLM]

White archaeologists we need to do better. Decolonisation is not a prop for us to pull out when we want brownie points. We don’t get to use marginalised communities to build our own careers then stay silent when it comes to actually fighting for them.

[Dr. Earyn McGee, Lizard lassoer 🦎 @Afro_Herper]

It’s day one of #BlackBirdersWeek and we’re amplifying #BlackInNature . But don’t let a rt be all you do today.

A thread.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

My statement on the death of George Floyd:

[Lee R Berger @LeeRberger]

https://t.co/A66vC3C2DP

[AIA @archaeology_aia]

Researchers believe they have identified a wreck found on Short Sands Beach in Maine. The researchers believe evidence indicates the remains are those of the cargo ship "Defiance," which was built in 1754 and wrecked in 1769. https://t.co/nSVaJjwlkV via @seacoastonline

[Dr. Holly Walters @Manigarm]

https://t.co/W6VKnyCgaf

[Jens Notroff @jens2go]

The dangerous side of the #Solutrean hypothesis?

Claiming that the American continent was settled by Europeans first, is not only robbing #indigenous #Native Americans of their history, but also perfidious denying them any claims to their ancestral territories.

[ahtzib @ahtzib]

Hollywood doesn't depict the past as paranormal because they don't hear archaeologists. They use our research all the time .... to write stories intelligible to people ... who understand the past to be mythic. Yelling "SCIENCE" or "NOT-ALIENS" louder doesn't change that

[Baby's names @Babysnames]

Tomb Mold