Dr. Tamara L. Siuda

Combining awelcome to all the new members under the Bluesky with the #TuesdayPetPic tax. I’m Tamara, I study & write mostly about Egypt in multiple contexts, but I have many interests. I share the house with Seamus here, who has entirely too much sass - and too many toes - for his own good.

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Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

Live now with a special session during this year's ArchaeoGaming Conference! A tradition and bit of an anniversary for our players! www.twitch.tv/goblintownrpg

*beep bloop* I run a little arcade of text adventures, from ELIZA (1966) to The Intercept (2016), plus a whole Commodore 64 with its real ROMs. @ me with a game's name and I'll start you a thread of your own. Or say 'what games' and I'll show you around. Run by @chadloder.dev.

Why would I ever spend my precious, exhaustible time reading something you couldn’t be bothered to write when there’s already more books in the world than I’ll ever have time to read?

LLMs aren’t “peers” so it makes no sense for them to do peer review. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Colette reminding us what we collectively have accomplished via out efforts to explore how the biological world works. It's worth a read because we sometimes forget the impact in my own scientific lifetime 🧪

Really fascinating and generative conversations @shothisttech.bsky.social conference these past few days—and excited to see too that the roundtable on Kranzberg’s Laws I was a part of has just been published to coincide with it: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57935

📣Calling all women and femme writers📣 I am looking to commission around 10 heartfelt essays surrounding video game criticism. If this sounds like something you are down to do them read on and I urge you to apply. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Check out Deep Time Detectives - a free, curriculum-aligned education program and animated video series developed through a collaboration between archaeologists and palaeoecologists at the ARC CABAH and traditional knowledge holders www.abc.net.au/education/de... #ozarch /em

Happy 25th Birthday Wayback Machine! On October 24, 2001, The Internet Archive organization launched a free digital archive of websites for the general public called the Wayback Machine. The oldest pages stored in the archive date back to 1996.

Likes do not matter on this platform except to program *your discover feed* Reposts do, for our purposes, barely. Quote posts where you speak with passion and say why you believe in us, do work. That is what gets people outside our existing circle to take note. It matters that you don't do it.

My first cousin once removed was burned in the CFB Wainwright fire. Sean's grandmother is Joyce Hiatt (née Ouellette), who is my auntie and one of my father's older sisters. Sean has suffered second degree burns over 50% of his body, including his head. Sean needs our help...

In regard to sending Trump and company for prosecution at the ICC, Trump issuing pardons is actually what makes them eligible for prosecution under international rules regarding the ICC- something this thread from a month ago highlights. bsky.app/profile/nath...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

TIL about this particular content consuming ouroboros...

🪷 Modern Priests of #Antinous commemorate his death on 28 Oct, but many scholars say 22 Oct, 23 Oct, 24 Oct or 30 Oct was when he "plunged into the Nile" (#Hadrian's words) in October of 130 AD. The important thing is that #Antinoos truly lived. He is not a myth or a legend. 🪷

This report is produced by a right wing group and frankly the right-wing is the only folks addressing this, by creating tenure line jobs and funding for their people. The academic center-left has failed to invest similarly and sustainably in humanities research and jobs.

In case folks are unaware of how much work must be done: bsky.app/profile/ashe...

The reason why this woman did not know where she was born is familiar to every adopted person: We are given fake (“amended”) birth certificates that legally certify falsehoods about where and by whom we were born. So many of us have died, and will die, never having seen the originals. 🥚

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

"We nearly ended civilization, but plutonium represents a negligible fraction of our revenue." --eMudhra, basically. arstechnica.com/security/202...

We made a book! RURAL INDEXING: A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN BUILDINGS, SIGNS, AND SYMBOLS arrives from Rizzoli in March 2027. Our favorite themes and subjects from the thousands of places we've visited since 2010—450+ photos, many never published before. Preorder: linktr.ee/ruralindexingproject