Hey, #archaeology folks! Do you - or anyone you know - need a PAID 💰 internship for 2021? I'm looking for a grad student to help me as Registrar. My project involves archiving old RPA docs, so I could really use someone with expertise in digital archiving and/or curation. (1/5)
The applicant should be self-directed; available to work approximately 10 hours per week; have access to the internet; and able to work remotely from their home. Familiarity with Google Drive, membership databases, version control, and tDAR is preferred, but not required. (2/5)
The intern will assist in: updating and maintaining the membership database; extracting, scanning, concatenating various public & confidential files; sorting and culling documentation; employing best practices in document and data archiving; and writing white papers. (3/5)
Dates: Jan-Dec 2021.
Pay: $15/hour (10 hours per week, for 45 weeks)
Pay period: Fortnightly
(I will consider applicants who can commit to at least one semester, but applicants who can commit to the entire year are preferred.) (4/5)
Submit as a single PDF: 1) A one-page cover letter on your interest in the position and the skills you would bring. 2) A CV. 3) The name and institution of your major professor or faculty advisor.
Send to me at registrar@rpanet.org by Dec 1! 📨 (5/5)
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Since all the cool kids are doing it, here are my suggestions for faculty finding themselves required to pivot to online biological anthropology courses this week. (Thread!)
Tricks to putting (particularly introductory) courses online = 1) split your lectures into short videos using Camtasia/Zoom/etc., 2) link to others' video resources (e.g., @SciShow), and 3) ask your students to do their own research/homework/lab projects.
I'd recommend making sure everything you do is *asynchronous*. You don't know when/how/if students have broadband access. You don't know their home responsibilities (caregiving duties, etc.). Best not to assume everyone can call in/zoom/skype for a synchronous meeting.
I've seen loads of people discussing the #Alabama#AbortionRights issue this morning, shocked that this could happen. As an anthropologist and (former) six-year resident of "lower Alabama" (FL panhandle), let me give you a bit of history.
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I lived in Pensacola, FL, for six years, as a tenure-track (and then tenured) professor at the University of West Florida. I got a job offer there in summer of 2012.
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As I started looking into the place that would be the new home for me, my husband, and our then-3-year-old daughter, this was the top news item:
Good morning, folks still following the #SAA2019 debacle. Some new info has just come in, so here's another mini-thread... (1/n)
Two of the #MeToo survivors who left #SAA2019 due to @SAAorg's failure to kick out David Yesner (who had been banned from UAA campus and the Alaska Anthro Assoc) have confirmed that they've had their registration fee refunded by SAA. (2/n)
And I also got second-hand information from an anonymous Board member that they are muzzled due to the SAA's lawyer. The lawyer has insisted that if the Board talks, they could compromise their Board insurance and open themselves up to personal liability. (3/n)
Today is both #Easter and the 2772nd birthday of the founding of Rome (#NatalediRoma), and the second day of #Passover. So here's a short thread on how these three things are MUCH more closely related than you thought! (1/n)
First, Passover. This is the English word for the translation of "pasha" (Aramaic) and "pesah" (Hebrew) for "he passes over." It's a reference to God passing over the Israelites when killing first-born Egyptians. (2/n)
In Late Latin, the word "pasc(h)a" was used to mean both Passover and Easter. This seems to be related to the fact that both holidays were reckoned based on the vernal equinox. (3/n)
OMFG. I just... honestly have no words right now. First, the SAA doesn't "credential" journalists. I know because I headed the Media Relations Committee. (1/7)
Second, the SAA sends invites to the conference to HUNDREDS of journalists and science communicators, which includes people like me who write for science news outlets. (2/7)
Again, I have a list of more than 300 people that Amy Rutledge compiled as the PR person for @SAAorg to invite/send a press release about #SAA2019 to. I added some to her list as chair of the MRC.
But I can confirm that @mbalter wasn't on that list. (3/7)
Academics, scholars, and researchers! Give me 3 emojis that summarize your latest research, and I’ll write you a click-bait headline based solely on them. 😏