Alex Tomlinson 🦉
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I am an archaeological anthropologist, a university administrator, and a thinking person, so I’m interested in politics and economics for multiple reasons.
Andrea ThompsonI don't know how to make you understand that you're SUPPOSED to care about people.
That's how functioning societies work.
That's how functioning societies work.
David HoI don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.
Solarbird 
Open ContextOpen Context turns 20 this year! To mark the occasion, we finally wrote up a long article that provides details about how we organize and publish data, and how we relate to the broader landscape of data repositories in #archaeology
Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance
This paper describes the rationale and strategies behind Open Context, an online data publishing service for archaeology. Launched in 2006, Open Context has published over 2 million records from 191 projects and sub-projects, representing the work of more than 1,600 scholars working across the world. As described in this paper, the current shape of Open Context’s data dissemination and curation efforts reflect our attempts to navigate a landscape filled with diverse and evolving challenges. Responses to professional, institutional, and sustainability issues, some of a global character and some of a United States specific character, have helped shape Open Context’s technological and semantic choices. Though focused on United States specific experiences, we hope that this in-depth discussion of how Open Context responded to these multifaceted concerns will help advance international community wide conversations about information architectures, governance, and social factors in archaeological informatics.
T🌸🌸: irrelevant biologicalThe best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.
Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.
Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.
It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.
David August ❌👑
The Tennessee Holler 🔥 REP. @[email protected] MITCHELL: “I just get so sick of over and over the hate… I chose to run for office to help people. I didn’t come here to say who can I poke in the eye today.”
Mitchell lights up Bully Bulso for the Pride flag ban, one of his many anti-🏳️🌈 bills.
H/T @[email protected]
Robert McNeesAstronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
Eric KansaYes things are shitty, so it's important to take note of some things that are absolutely delightful and amazing.
This is a hummingbird nest with two jellybean sized eggs. The parents built this in a bush growing next to my house's driveway.
