I’m told this is fabulous so I booked tickets (it’s free!). Anyone else up for a bit of medieval Nubia and robes? If so, see you there :-) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dress-to-i...

So Malta beat Finland at football and the Finns are losing their minds. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ps dear Finns if it helps we are equally surprised.

He fell asleep while being Big Mad at me. (I sneezed and that disturbed his humours). #cats 😺

You may be tired but are you as tired as an orange #cat who just can’t hold his head up? 😺

Oh this is interesting. The Nature paper on her was interesting tho didn’t quite get into the old boys’ club thing. But this is really interesting - good to learn more about her and her record. Thank you!

Just finished watching this. It’s excellent and I hope there’s another series.

We must keep talking about this.

So I’m watching Empire by @davidolusoga.bsky.social and I made the mistake of checking it out on Twitter. Noped out of there so fast. Anyways cracking first episode so far. Definitely worth a watch.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

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Watching the world burn from fires you’ve started is at the heart of British policy. Colonialism - it never goes away. Ever. #Sudan www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Never ever have I felt so seen. #archaeology #cats

Here’s the bones, l-għadam tal-mejtin, the bones of the dead. On All Souls’ Day we remember our departed. Some people like a thick coat of icing on these but I hate icing. And anyway this looks more like buried bones 🙂

#Sudan. Don’t look away. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Spent a lovely Sunday afternoon making a terrarium :-)

Hold up hold up hold up. Tell me we are getting season 2 of Riot Women??? I need it NOW.

I’ve often said that editors need to do better and be better (and got flack for it). But you do. It’s your job. This is a masterclass of a reply btw.

The hell is in those files? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Did anyone else watch and fall in love with Riot Women on BBC?

Folks. Can you point me towards published work on women in archaeology/ academia being trolled/ harassed online for their research? I appreciate it’s mega hard 2 write abt & most of us stay silent. I know we all have war stories. I wonder about published research on this.

I have one question about the #Traitors. Why is @bobmort.bsky.social not in it? Think of the delicious chaos!!

Already loving the Celebrity Traitors 😂

Another busy day @uclarchaeology.bsky.social with #JebelMoya material and processing #pXRF results from figurines curated by @maacambridge.bsky.social I have a lot of love for London but my heart is always in #Sudan 🏺

Timeline cleanse :-) we all need a frog on a Sunday.

And here’s my view for the day. This is what is behind the figurines from @maacambridge.bsky.social #Sudan #archaeology #JebelMoya 🏺

Don’t be too jealous but I’m spending Sunday in the company of Excel and my research assistant.

Anyone else watching Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue? I’m convinced it’s comedy. Husband disagrees.

No:( news.sky.com/story/jane-g...

#Uncanny is back @ladyliminal.bsky.social @mattpope.bsky.social :-)

Finally deleted my academia.edu account. Hadn't used it in a long time cos it's nothing but them spamming & and trying to extract money. Its latest AI shenanigans make it even more untenable. Find me on ResearchGate (but who knows what fresh hell awaits us all?).

A much needed paper. Makes for grim reading. Thank you for this.

There are many of us with precarious indefinite leave. I’m an EU citizen. Many are not. We have to stand together - I hope that much is obvious. It’s not about one of us. It has to be about all of us. No ifs or buts.

New book alert folks :-)

@weirdinthewade.bsky.social I finally visited Houghton House. Claims it’s haunted but I can’t find much other than a vague “knight”. Any info? Gorgeous place btw :-)

So very sad at the news of Nikolaas van der Merwe’s passing. A giant in the field and a thoroughly lovely man.

Finally found my old number and I was able to sign. Please do so if you can. This is important. The more the underhand they play, the more crucial it is to speak up.

Essential things you need when you’re trying to write a lecture. He also added crucial text to mine and under union rules that means he gets paid.

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

New blog post - #photographs, glass slides, #Sudan, Jebel Moya and Sudanese labour. And #colonialism - it never leaves, despite never having been invited. thejebelmoyaproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/t... #archaeology #Africa #Africanarchaeology

Dear @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social please note that @archagainstaparth.bsky.social are not an anonymous group. Now can you please clarify whether standing against apartheid goes against your “ethos”?

This is beyond unacceptable and an altogether very very wrong decision by the EAA.

@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social I venture into Cambridge and there you are :-)

Yes please.

I’ll tell you what’s a fun day (for me). It’s listening to the Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings while examining ancient objects @maacambridge.bsky.social 😁 Though I hasten to add the Antiquarium and Museum aren’t related 😂😂😂

How do we team up and do this?

Today it was back to this. My love for figurines is longstanding. The Jebel Moya corpus is fascinating, complex, infuriating - cos that’s what figurines are like 😂 So there’s always something new to explore. #Sudan #archaeology

I have no idea why I decided to watch King and Conqueror. It’s so so bad. Can’t even make it through one episode.

Also let’s raise a glass to mama Schopenhauer.

What’s the most homesick thing you’ve done? Today I travelled for over two hours to go to Tooting for pastizzi and Kinnie. Zero regrets. 😂

Today’s essential read (and the irony of communicating all this in English). www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...