Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Come along to our next IAS lecture on 5 Feb, 6pm in the Saltwell Building. Ben Raffield (Uppsala) rethinks Viking Age warfare, revealing complex warrior identities and a more human, realistic picture of conflict in the early medieval North @arcdurham.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social

I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

Mongooses or Mongeese?

@paulcornell.bsky.social @nicholaspegg.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social @williampurkis.bsky.social @quiteamess.bsky.social Hi all! I know there's a LOT of Doctor Who podcasts out there, but what's one more eh? 😉 Please do listen, like, follow and share if you fancy 🙂

Here comes the video analysis: - Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun - He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent - They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down - He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

UK users of Ancestry - how easy is to search census data by settlement/street rather than individual? Seems all set up for family history- but I need the data for a place study. Don't want to pay for access if I can't get the info I need

Talking about map projections with the students today - what's the betting that Trump is looking at Greenland on the Mercator projection....

I find myself in Reading tonight... anywhere good [and cheapish] to eat? Been years since I was here....

The Northern Picts: the citadel project, rescue and research-led investigations at a Viking age power centre | Thu 21 May, Cardiff www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work: 1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid. 2. Win or lose you go back to work.

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Whittlesey Straw Bear :-)

⚡️In Iran, protesters have already taken control of the city Abdana The police laid down their weapons and sided with them. Protesters are setting fire to cars, and there are fierce clashes in other cities. ZSU Insider Tg

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He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Greene Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun

Still one of my favourite memes from last Christmas...😉 #StarWars #Snowman

Update from @digventures.bsky.social on their dig diary for 2026 featuring a call for crowdfunding work at Wrexham’s Rossett Roman Villa. More details to follow, but it's on their events listing at digventures.com/calendar/

See, that’s the good shit right there

OK- I'm doing a practical session with MA [humanities] students about academic writing (soft skills) - what are people's best bits of advice about academic writing - anything from how to knuckle down to writing to style to structure?

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler. This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne. Lots of lovely early medieval goodness. #northumberland #archaeology 1/2 🏺

Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q

Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

My problems with "King and Conqueror" are not born out of pedantry, but the fact that the whole thing is a total fucking car crash - and so so so lazy... Would far rather watch Asterix and the Normans

This is going to get a lot worse if media & politicians don’t start portraying it as vandalism & intimidation rather than patriotism

"More than two thirds of the people arrested for disorder when an anti-immigration demonstration in Bristol turned violent last summer had previous contact with police over reports of domestic abuse." #FarageRiots #ReformUK www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂 But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thames barges - Ipswich - my grandpa remembered going up to London from Essex on these as a boy as his uncles were Thames bargemen running bricks up from the brickfields of Essex

Just pondering the bell-ends in Southwold last week making loud comments about 'refugee taxi services' whilst I was in the RNLI shop.... 😕

For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent

For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent

I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk

Despite OP's valid point, credit to the reporters of the news article for explicitly making the point about the burial practices signalling community inclusion, an important retort of people's efforts to impose modern assumptions onto past behaviours.

Nurse! She's got out of bed again!

Essential training in what should be on every heritage organisations To Do list.🏺

On holiday in Suffolk - currently distinguishing myself by being the only male holidaymaker not wearing a salmon-pink Joules polo shirt with the collar turned up and beige deck shoes

I am once again contemplating this banger.

The Lincolnshire Fens are like The Archers scripted by JG Ballard...