As we hurtle towards Christmas, tis once again the season for exceptionally poor pubmanship. It's not that difficult ... • Know what you want before you get served • Order the Guinness first • Bring your empties back to the bar A pub is for life, not just for Christmas ... 🎄🎄🎄

#StormBran dumping seaweed on our drive, more than half a kilometre inland at Costa. Must have been breezy last night in Orkney!

Birsay not-quite-Super moon

Great project! Any recent archaeology masters graduates wanting to study further should take a long look at this one.

Predator Badlands left me a bit cold, but check out Pappa Njohrr's hat! SC13 99528!

Nudging this up your feeds again, as the deadline begins to rise on the horizon. December 3rd...

Hippos?! In Devon?! Check out this fully-funded PhD opportunity @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social focused on the isotope ecology of the non-analogue faunal communities of MIS5e Britain @ukri.org NERC/BBSRC funded via QUARTILES - open to U.K. & international applicants! 🦛 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Alex Ross + Heart of Neolithic Orkney + Blomuir + Tom Muir + Ness Squad + WSC...all seemingly filtered through the lens of MR James for the benefit of The New Yorker. What's not to love? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Graduation day! Congratulations to all those crossing the stage in St Magnus' Cathedral today. Well done all.

Also - come and get my job! Which I’m still partially doing, but someone needs to take up the slack/ allow me to send them to far flung locations to retrieve mysterious ancient samples. See the World*! *mainly Britain. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

The deadline for applying for a part-funded MRes investigating intertidal peat at the Bay of Skaill, #Orkney, is December 3, 2026. #archaeology #postgraduate #research #studyarchaeology #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch #UHIOrkney

A bump for this, in advance of our UWA Deep Time Heritage Seminar tomorrow morning. Sadly, I won't be physically in Perth, but I am looking forward to presenting some of our (very) early work to wider world via Zoom. This project is FUN!

Prehistoric Policies seeks to understand how ideas about the deep time human past, or claims about our evolved human nature, are used to support the development of policies engaging with the climate and environment emergency. Put simply, some of the claims are a bit iffy...

Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

#UAD is up and running! Behold the grandeur of @uniarchday.bsky.social at @britishacademy.bsky.social!

And with possibly the most picturesque excavation pictures you'll ever see, @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social will also be at #UAD25 to chat to!

archaeologyorkney.com/2025/10/20/u... I'll be at the British Academy on Monday, representing @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social alongside colleagues from universities from across the UK and speaking on the "What use is Archaeology anyway? Archaeology and global 21st century challenges" panel.

I knew her before the medals!

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HOY! On a choppy Hamnavoe crossing last week. Old Man in the distant haze.

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you? You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa... @royalarchinst.bsky.social

Huge turnout last night to celebrate Orkney poaching Jimmy Perez from Shetland. Sadly Ann Cleaves didn't do any keepy uppies on stage, so we just had to make do with her being witty, kind and insightful instead.

The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual #archaeology project.

Go Rose!!!

Fun at the Highland Archaeology Festival this weekend in sunny, leafy Inverness. @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social staff, students and alumni all well represented! Lovely to see some of the Tarradale Through Time team and feedback on our latest post ex results. Managed to dodge the marathon runners.

140 hours of paid work for anyone on an Arts and Humanities doctoral programme at a Scottish HEI, co-ordinating the incredible @sgsah.bsky.social Earth Scholarship programmes 2026 Symposium. Closes 16/10/25. Go go go! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea...

The #archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

To celebrate #HeritageOpenDays and Archaeology Scotland's #ScottishArchaeologyMonth, we’ve made two of our This is Archaeology lectures open access for one week only! Uist Unearthed: 👉 youtu.be/DYuHN3wUsSc Dead Isle: 👉 youtu.be/dVbnxMaUNWU

Mesolithic DEATH SQUAD! Great sessions and papers on mesolithic mortuary practices at Ferrara 2025. Lots of beers and pasta and silliness afterwards.

Test audience for these wonderful colouring sheets our new PhD student Tayla has prepared for our event on Sunday 14th at UoA. Tayla is joining PALaEoScot to work on fragmentary bones from late glacial-early Holocene sites in Scotland using molecular approaches - she’s quite the artist too!

Big turnout at WSC on Sunday for our Orkney International Science Festival event. Cultural Geologies of Neolithic Orkney with Mark, followed by ruined Guatemala beach resorts with Diego Contreras' LAMENTO, topped off by fast and slow stone architectures with Viktor Kossakovsky's Architecton.

Great opportunity for anyone with project management experience who fancies a slice of island life... We would love to develop cool new projects that bring some Islands Deal benefits to Orkney! www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2026-27 will open on 1 September. This innovative public engagement programme requires UK researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

How excited should archaeologists be allowed to get about interim reports?

Picked the right day to head to Spurness. UHI Archaeology students playing a key role in demonstrating that what was once thought to be a Bronze Age double house is in fact Early Neolithic. Orcadian Chalcolithic settlement slips through our fingers once again... archaeologyorkney.com/2025/08/13/s...

Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!

I was there on Saturday and this was so exciting. Of course it turned up on the Open Day! An amazing find from Skaill Farm, and one very proud UHI student. Great work Katie!

The shipwreck uncovered in Sanday, #Orkney last year has been identified as HMS Hind, later the Earl of Chatham which was wrecked in the Bay of Lopness in 1788. More than 230 years buried in the seabed, before being released by a storm in 2024. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A first for Scotland! I love these degrees, and the graduates they have produced elsewhere in the UK. Very excited to be able to support this option for our students at UHI moving forward. If you're interested in hosting a placement student, get in touch!

Our PhD students Kath Page and Adam Markham led a session for the 2025 SGSAH summer school in Glasgow last week. #archaeology #postgraduate #research #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch

That's @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social s very own Kath Page!

Come and work with us! We are looking for an Operations Manager for our sparkly new AEONS environmental arch facilities and labs. Operations Manager – Facilities (Institute of Archaeology) - ORK09488 | Orkney Islands Council | myjobscotland myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

Solstice Sundown 2025 on Costa Hill.

Reminder of the call for applications for a new PaM Community co-chair - due by July 1st. Thanks!

A fun afternoon down at The Cairns in South Ronaldsay, catching up with @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social students and colleagues. The Orcadian Iron Age was looking resplendent in the sunshine!

From the vault! SC 2015. All ageing badly.

I know this guy! Great work Gary, flying the flag for material culture studies and @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social amongst all the fab landscape research at NEBARRS this year.

REFUGIUM reunion! And a stunning Orkney sunset to mark the occasion.