Conference alert! It's free and it's hybrid, so you have no excuses no to be there.

The BAJR 2025 Poverty Impact Report is now published. The statistics that have been collected, analysed and collated by Lu Stanton-Greenwood, without whom this would not have been possible. Again – thank you all. It will make a difference www.bajr.org/archaeologis...

DAY FIVE! The last day of #Glass-tonbury, our project to make Roman window glass. Yesterday ended badly, with a failure to gather molten glass from our crucible. Today started with Kim delighted at the solidified glass from yesterday, while #CuratorRob sharpened his axes. Which is normal. 😬

Come and share your Palaeolithic research in London this June! Unravelling the Palaeolithic is coming to the @uclarchaeology.bsky.social and we're looking forward to seeing you there. 🦣🏺

Osteoarchaeologists / Forensic Anthropologists IAC Archaeology Salary: 35,000 - 40,000 Euro (DOE) Closing Date: April 13, 2026 Location: West of Ireland www.bajr.org/job-ad/osteo...

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

In episode 7 of our podcast, 'Edges of Exinction' @jdroberts.bsky.social talks to @sicilyfiennes.bsky.social about the complex and ambiguous 'wicked problem' of bird trade in Indonesia, and how to create just outcomes for humans and birds alike extinctionstudiesleeds.podbean.com/e/edges-of-e...

📢 Project Newsletter Alert 📢 We're going to be circulating our Spring 2026 Project Newsletter next week! 📰✉️ If you'd like to receive a copy, you can sign up to our mailing list by following this link: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u #skystorians #history #earlymodern #citizenscience

🎉Great news for South West writers 🎉 Applications are now open for our 2026 Ronald Duncan Stipends. If exploring archives sparks ideas for your writing, this might be the opportunity for you 📖 ✍️ Info & Apply: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives/Dun... #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Are you - or is someone you know - a PhD student or ECR working on Late Bronze Age/ Early Iron Age/Archaic Greece? And within striking distance of London to tell us about your research in May (we have some money to help with travel costs)? Please share! forms.gle/PijTVxb7a8Nh...

Oh hey. Look at that! So many fabulous ancient doggies! We love our dogs and so did our palaeolithic ancestors. Huge congrats to the amazing people who contributed to the sister studies revealing the deep time of fuzzy tummies. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're hugely pleased that the archaeology side of our department has been ranked 34th in the QS World University Rankings! These prestigious annual rankings assess global university performance based on research, teaching, employability, and internationalisation.

TAG 2026 is go! Excited to be hosting in Exeter this year, 14-16 December. Get those session proposal thinking caps on!

saw a recent claim that eggs and bunnies were 'culturally appropriated' from pagan Eostre worship and felt my eye begin to twitch

This new summer school course will introduce students to handwriting in England from 700-1700, explaining how to read a range of scripts as the language evolved. 8-12 June in London 📚 (bursary applications due 7 April) #Skystorians #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social 👇 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Rummaging through files looking for data from my PhD and found this excellent guide to writing by @osteoconnor.bsky.social So good!

Just three days remain before the deadline of Astyanax Journal's Undergraduate Composition Competition and our Year 10-13 Essay Competition! Entries must be submitted before 23:59 on Friday 27th February. For more information, visit astyanaxjournal.com/competitions/

Archaeology and Heritage Consultant/Senior Consultant The Environmental Dimension Partnership Ltd Salary: £36,000 - £40,000/£44,000 - £48,000 Date: April 22, 2026 Location: Cardiff, Cheltenham or Cirencester www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

Don't forget that the Annual Percy Ure Lecture with Prof. Naomi Sykes (Exeter) entitled "Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Ancient History and Modern Challenges" is this Friday at 5 PM!

UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.

Regional Manager Pre-Construct Archaeology Salary: £50,000-£60,000 Date: April 6, 2026 Location: Winchester www.bajr.org/job-ad/regio...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

@naomisykes.bsky.social’s fellowship @exeter.ac.uk will provide much-needed evidence to demonstrate the significance of archaeological archives for nature renewal, food security and planetary health. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

One of the earliest recreations of Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social 🤩 Created by the talented Michael Leonard (1933-2023) Featuring a merchant approaching with servants and a trunk of samples from the Mediterranean, the painting appeared in a 1968 edition of the Sunday Times #RomanSiteSaturday

Dave Rudling built Fishbourne Palace King Togidubnus supports Crystal Palace Or is that the other way round? 🤔

Applications welcome to be a PhD-student in my ancient DNA research programme at @crick.ac.uk: 🏰 Ancient human history in Europe and beyond. ⚕️ Statistical genetics to understand human biology with ancient genomes. 🦠 Pathogen genomics of past infections. Apply at www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

My extremely talented husband's first batch of knives to sell 🔪 ... Get in touch for details inc sheath options: cefn_digoll_crafts on Insta www.instagram.com/p/DUfpBDCDHO... #artisan #craft

This time last week we held a CBM (Ceramic Building Material) workshop, training keen students how to identify and record Roman tiles! This collection is from an important site in the centre of Exeter. They all know their imbrex from their tegula now! Huge thanks to Naomi Payne for leading the day.

Research funding news! Our very own Prof Naomi Sykes will be spending the next three years working on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, providing important context on the value of archaeological archives. More details here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

@naomisykes.bsky.social is a friend of the Palace and might well be sharing some amazing new insights into what was going on with our animals 2000 years ago. Either way - this talk is guaranteed to be a banger. Plus, it looks like it might be FREE! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-ans...

This is the grant application that I spent most of last summer working on! Yes, I know - Romans! - but a great opportunity for us to work with local partners and rescue this important site.

From the contribution of the Global South to the development of human rights to making history: writing Scotland’s post-reformation, the Trust Board awards twenty-seven fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/major-r...

Are you in Year 10-12? Interested in history? We’re offering two students the chance to spend a week away from the classroom (29 June - 3 July) helping catalogue objects, curate displays + write blogs for our popular newsletter. Apply by 20 January: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/library-and-...

Come work with us! 🧬 We're hiring a part-time Biomolecular Lab Tech @cam-archaeology.bsky.social .Join our team in the Henry Wellcome Building working on DNA & proteins. Apply by Feb 2: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole... #ScienceJobs #Cambridge #Archaeology #STEM

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research? Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections. collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

Thrilled to have been part of this Digging for Britain series, led by a great team. Met fun colleagues, chatted about their cool research, over-enthused at the cameras and did my first ever voice over work (talking slowly is hard!) Tune in tonight, and over the next few weeks, on BBC2 and iplayer!

We may regret it, but we're allowing #CuratorRob out in public. We've hosed him down and locked his cider shed, so it'll be fine, right?🙏😬 For ONE NIGHT ONLY (15 Jan, 8pm) he's giving an online talk about the recent discoveries at Palace. Huxley may feature. £5 plus booking fee. bit.ly/flaevents

Join our PGTs for their annual conference! 📢 Researching the past 📅 Thursday 11 December 9.30-4.30 📍 Talks in Streatham Court LTC and posters displayed in Marchant Syndicate Room A in Building One Do come along to support our students and socialise ❤️

Great news! Our AHRC-funded Warhorse book has been nominated as Book of the Year in the 2026 Current Archaeology Awards. Prof Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' project is also up for Project of the Year! Voting is open at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote

A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it! As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain. Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻

🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...

From artefacts and materials class, Exeter University Archaeology, sending kind regards for the weekend

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S

There was a great turnout yesterday to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. This was part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, to which all welcome!

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the walruses, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks

Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Our Masters students taking a module in Experimental Archaeology visited Stonehenge yesterday to learn about reconstructed Neolithic houses and a new project to build a large Neolithic education building, based on timber structure Durrington 68 😍 Also starring Ed's Late Neolithic decorated hard hat👷

We did a Telly! 🤩🎬 Four in a Bed.... www.channel4.com/programmes/f... (had to take a photo of our computer because stupid Channel 4 wouldn't let us screen snip)