Kim Connor
Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorThe Royal Ontario Museum added thousands of objects to their only museum catalogue last year—which now totals almost 90,000 objects. My favorite remains this late antique child’s sock from Roman Egypt. 🧦 collections.rom.on.ca/objects/3736... The ancient world was full of kids and color.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorScience: U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office By Jeffrey Mervis, Monica Hersher @science.org @policyhound.bsky.social @mghersher.bsky.social bit.ly/3M8yf9B
- I had to look up what freezing rain was this morning, but I certainly didn't realize this
- Today I learnt: 'Sleet' in American English means something quite different to what it means to everyone else. (Everyone else uses it to mean a mixture of rain and snow, and they use it to mean 'ice pellets', which is...sort of hail only a bit softer? or smaller?) @lynneguist.bsky.social
- TFW you decipher the writing on the back of the button and ID the manufacturer and a narrow date range
- Reposted by Kim ConnorSome, however, were converted into new institutions. Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney became a female immigration depot and destitute asylum, housing unmarried immigrants and children, and women unable to support themselves. Learn about life there in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorHalf the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
- Articles of Interest just had an excellent series on the crossover between military gear and athleisure and the way every force now looks the same
- Reposted by Kim ConnorI have some more bad news. If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you. Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorFor @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
- The enormous weight lifting off your shoulders when you submit a big grant application🏺#academicsky
- Reposted by Kim ConnorJob alert! 🔊 Lecturer in Western European Prehistory @ucc.ie Closing date: 30 March Salary scale [new entrants]:€34,912 – €56,713
- Reposted by Kim ConnorIf there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
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- Adding to the archaeology and history feeds 🏺🗃️!
- Archaeologists, artists, and community historians are on the trail of Chinese American cowboys in Eastern Oregon! www.instagram.com/reel/DTNyPwF...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorArchaeologists, artists, and community historians are on the trail of Chinese American cowboys in Eastern Oregon! www.instagram.com/reel/DTNyPwF...
- Reposted by Kim Connor🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
- Excited to learn about historical button identification today at #sha2026 with @lindsaybloch.bsky.social 🏺
- Off to Detroit for #sha2026 and can't wait to hear all about the latest in historical archaeology 🏺🏺
- Reposted by Kim ConnorJOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
- Reposted by Kim Connor“We recently conducted three separate searches for Data Scientist positions. Each received more than 500 applications… But the problem was not just the number. It was how alike they all felt.” #higheredjobs
- End of the year means a #storygraph wrap up. Murder mysteries dominate numerically but aside from Hilary Mantel, the top 3 books I read this year were Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional and Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. #booksky 📚
- Reposted by Kim ConnorGreat advice. Mine is this: all good abstracts do the following 1. Background (who what when where) 2. Problem — what's the hole your research addresses? 3. Argument/Hypothesis 4. Evidence — on what basis are you making the argument? 5. Answer the "so what" question — why does this matter? to whom?
- Reposted by Kim ConnorTAX. THESE. OUT. OF. EXISTENCE! These monstrosities should be illegal! Large vehicles are markedly deadlier for pedestrians. Being struck by a large SUV raises the risk of death by around 40 per cent compared with a smaller car; for children, the risk is up to eight times higher..."
- Reposted by Kim ConnorThis is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship. As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorI keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]
- For the last #showmeyourknits of the year, my new colorwork Christmas sweater finished just in time. Roughly based on the Boswellia pattern but with motifs from the Winter Core Doodle Card deck #dhmakes 🧶
- Reposted by Kim Connorhey i made a starter pack of cutting edge humanists (broadly defined) doing cool stuff inside and outside academia. check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!at://did:plc:xhuarm7sq6ydc3upa7kmufmd/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l7vlamizmi2f
- Reposted by Kim ConnorNo one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorIf someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
- Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads
- Spotted over the weekend on Assateague #bird
- Reposted by Kim Connor💫New research out now!💫 Hutson and colleagues demonstrate that men get hired as faculty in archaeology PhD programs more often than women, putting strain on women PhD mentors. And they have some suggestions about what to do about it, too. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorICYMI: /r/AskHistorians AMA is up! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
- Looking forward to discussing my book tomorrow morning on @askhistorians.bsky.social! 🗃️🏺🇲🇽 I'm a long-time reader and excited to contribute—highly recommend checking out the forum if you haven't already: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorLooking forward to discussing my book tomorrow morning on @askhistorians.bsky.social! 🗃️🏺🇲🇽 I'm a long-time reader and excited to contribute—highly recommend checking out the forum if you haven't already: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
- Reposted by Kim Connor"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorInteresting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year. english.elpais.com/science-tech...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorMothers who lost sons at the Little Bighorn & on USS Maine; Widows of Antietam & Gettysburg; veterans who lost limbs and narratives of loss and murder. Some of the 720+ stories in the "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905 Interactive Map": storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorThis is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorHaven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorCharles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia. Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa Details here: www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
- Reposted by Kim ConnorCourt permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
- Must have been a rough day for this poor archaeologist who wrote in their field notes "Gloom Despair & Agony on me!" 🏺
- Reposted by Kim ConnorCongratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem. Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorThe archaeologist volunteers this semester at Skype a Scientist are honestly blowing me away with how much they all have stepped up this semester. I put a call out yesterday and 30 of them replied volunteering to do more classes. I'm not 100% sure this will cover all teams yet but I think it will.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorWe’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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- Reposted by Kim Connor‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
- Making slow progress on my first Double Wedding Ring quilt. It's gonna be huge 🪡🧵 #DHmakes
- Was that a nice Jackfield teapot? #HATM 🏺
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- Thankfully I avoided the hotel room interviews. But my supervisor still provides advice about how to decline invites to hotel rooms as part of her standard advising package. And now I do the same.
- I had to give up my subscription but I cannot explain how excited I am that it's Christmas Lima Bean soup time of year once again
- Reposted by Kim ConnorThis article outlines three main things Mississippi policymakers did to fix their schools: 1. Require the teaching of phonics. 2. Require teachers be *trained* in teaching phonics. 3. Require third-graders who cannot read at a proper level to repeat the grade.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorIf you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorMicrosoft to refund millions of customers over 365 subscription price increase for Copilot AI add-on
- Reposted by Kim ConnorThe #FindThatLizard Scholarship is accepting applications until 12/10. We fund girls, women, and gender non conforming persons pursuing herpetology🦎🐍🐸🐢 I can’t wait to read your application! earynmcgee.com/findthatliza...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorI maintain that if a metal detectorist finds a historical/archaeology artefact the most reward they should get is a pat on the head and the threat of a massive fine/jail time if they don't hand it over.
- Learning to process acorns today ahead of the William & Mary Indigenous Peoples' Feast
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- Reposted by Kim ConnorI love November because it starts with such optimism. We're going to write so many words together! If you want to write, and need some friends to write with, it's not too late to AcWriMo! Read more and sign up here: epilogueediting.substack.com/p/how-to-acw...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorChatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
- Type A cookies for a Halloween #cookieparty 🎃🖤
- Reposted by Kim ConnorHosted by the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) and the SAA Public Education Committee, watch archaeologists as they discuss challenges in research, excavation, fieldwork, and more, and answer your questions for the 2025–2026 FIRST #LEGO League #UNEARTHED Season!
- Reposted by Kim ConnorNow accepting applications! #Anthropology departments are invited to apply for ACRN’s Department Advisory Initiative (DAI), which provides up to $1,000 in facilitator support. Applications are due Dec. 1. More info: anthrocareerready.net/for-instruct... #SfAA #SocialScience #AppliedAnthropology
- Reposted by Kim ConnorFound the recipe!
- Cooking up a special treat for the kids in my Archaeology of Institutions class. Reprising the turnip pudding from last time and trying a new dish, rice porridge. Both made to Bentham's specifications although scaled down a lot because experience tells me that no one wants more than a tiny taste🏺🗃️🍽️
- Flirting in your thirties is just sending back and forth your latest bird sightings
- Reposted by Kim ConnorAnd from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
- Reposted by Kim ConnorSo, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas. Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
- Reposted by Kim ConnorIn our second guide @cliocontemporary.bsky.social editor Sarah King provides advice to students considering PhD programs: "Embarking on a PhD in history can be incredibly rewarding, but before you apply, it's best to have a clear-eyed view of academia as a whole..."
