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Donna Yates
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I'm an archaeologist, a criminologist, and a non-practicing TV dinosaur lawyer. I study artefact and fossil smuggling, art crime, heritage, and culture from the comfort of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Arty stuff and related curiosities
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That's exactly what I've been missing.

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If I'm reading it right, automatic stipend of 2500 euros per month, another 500 for travel in the Netherlands, 1750 accommodation top up (in their accommodation), and scholars residing in low income countries are likely to qualify for an additional top up. It's a pretty fantastic deal really.

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Seems like Aymara too. I think that is what I am naturally doing when I read something out loud but I have never actually thought about it and when I think about it get confused :)

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However I'm having a weird time with pronunciation of ll in Andean words. I have an instinct for it and I think I get it right when I'm not thinking. But if I consider for more than one second, I'm lost in indecision: is it an l-ish sound or a y-ish sound his time? Is there a rule I don't know?

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Apparently we were "better than [she] expected". That is all I can hope for really 👍

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One media reference to, say, letter from a Burr-Ming-Ham jail and what one thought one knew was gone (and vice versa)

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To be fair, Birmingham, Alabama gets a lot of medua airplay and it probably undermines how she thinks Birmingham, England should sound like. If no one has ever said "say those differently" it could be a muddle.

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Again, again, not quite what is being alleged here, but it's the wider context.

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But academics who criticises this gets accused of not wanting to stop antiquities trafficking or whatever. No...they want to pay their rent. Decades of well funded initiatives that rest on free academic work all fail. Over and over. It's a cycle. It's on my anti trafficking initiative bingo card.

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I do some of this uncompensated work, but I'm one if the very few people out there who can fold it into my real paid job description. I can't image the policy markers who suggest academics work for free would suggest, say, lawyers or their own staff members work for free. It's so odd.

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Donna Yates
@drdonnayates.bsky.social
I'm an archaeologist, a criminologist, and a non-practicing TV dinosaur lawyer. I study artefact and fossil smuggling, art crime, heritage, and culture from the comfort of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Arty stuff and related curiosities
296 followers100 following33 posts