The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Hollow ways are shallow linear depressions that stretch across Mesopotamia: traces of ancient route systems that facilitated trade and connections between settlements. Analysis of these networks shows how societies changed and adapted over time. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Three weeks on. Still no response.

Thanks for the great thread about our newest research @antiquity.ac.uk! Very proud of this third and last paper from my PhD thesis which emphasises how much we can learn by adapting interdisciplinary methods and framework for archaeological contexts. 🏺#Archaeology #Connectivity #Resilience

NEW How did ancient cities adapt to changes and overcome crises? By applying resilience theory to Northern Mesopotamian urban centres, researchers empirically analyse how settlement networks and connectivity changed over time. A resilient #AntiquityThread 🧵 1/9 🏺 #Archaeology

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

New paper out 🥳 In "#Urban #resilience in Ancient #Mesopotamia: insights into the socioeconomic system of the Bronze and Iron Age Khabur Valley", we are mapping network metrics of urban dynamics onto #Holling's adaptive cycle. Full open-access paper here: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

I just updated my explainer for why I don't allow generative AI in my classrooms with a new section and an expanded section. New: Generative AI has a literal body count Expanded: Generative AI is dehumanizing CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results https://voteyesornoai.com

'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

@drlucyclarke.bsky.social kicking off the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop for first year PGRs with the importance of having an online presence #PhDchat #AcademicSky #BSGWindsor2025 #BSGTNG

Another paper out from the I-CONN network. Well done Deborah

New paper out! 🥳 We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways. Read the full open access paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Archaeology #NetworkScience

Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

University College London seeks candidates for a FUNDED Ph.D. in #geoarcheology and #archeobotany examining the antiquity of slash and burn agriculture in the northwest Amazon of Brazil Deadline 17 December! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music: #RileyAndCoe - A tribute to Danny Thompson Gideon Coe plays the music he loves from every era and genre. A tribute to Danny Thompson. ▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds

Tremendous tribute to Danny Thompson by Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music atm www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

RiscBal welcomed @geogdurham.bsky.social students last week with two field trips: 1. Exploring the Flash-Flood Early Warning System in the Balearic Islands at Ca n’Amer River catchment. 2. Learning about ecogeomorphic modelling in Mediterranean catchments at Sa Font de la Vila River catchment.

🌿 Excited to share FAIRTraits! A data set with 189,452 records of 180 quantitative #traits from 240 Mediterranean plant species, fully FAIR-compliant & openly available 📊🌐 🔗🔓 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... Started back in 2013 when I was a MSc student, now a huge team effort 💪 @esajournals.bsky.social

Well, it's finally *really* out: habemus full citation — Krebs, V. (2025). ‘People and Things Have Always Been Mixed Up’: Notes on the So-Called Global Middle Ages. Journal of Medieval History, 51(4), 581–585. doi.org/10.1080/0304... 50 free downloads at: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RAEXD...

Congratulations everyone- fewer than 3000 to hit 100K. So let’s get signing #parkypetition100k petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Scandals within The Post Office (TPO) scandal Alan Bates offered 49.2% of his compensation claim. Postmasters bullied to accept less. Public purse to bear cost of £1.8bn+. No contribution from TPO execs, Fujitsu, TPO lawyers, auditors. When will the scandal end? archive.ph/OP10x

Major new archive catalogue online! Explore the Yorkshire Miners' Association / National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire Area collection at mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/YMA More than 3,700 files/items charting the union's history from 19th century King Coal to late 20th c deindustrialisation

Hello folks! It's time for the Great #DodecaBakeOff Photo Parade! Huge thanks to everyone for taking part, there's been some amazing makes - breaks - & brilliant interpretations! Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'. (Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣) #Archaeology ⚱️

We’re advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social undergraduate summer research experience project on ‘Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing Climate’, with me, @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson & @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social. Please share with your undergrads! iapetus2.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Support Greenpeace act.gp/3CvUUbd

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

youtu.be/sRP4LCCcLcI A 🎶 quickfire Monday night song - parodying the @dollypartons.bsky.social classic "Here You Come Again" - but about the #Inauguration2025 speech, and the first claims made during the Return of The Donald... #TrumpInauguration #McKinleyReferences

🎧 Catch up with the Heritage Türkiye Podcast with us! Today we are revisiting Episode 5: Conservation of Historic Sites 🎙️ In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry are joined by Dr. Aylin Orbaşlı, deputy chair of the BIAA and lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

Fantastic week at the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop at Cumberland Lodge with @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social. We have an exciting bunch of #geomorphology PhD projects to watch develop over the next few years…

Some great discussions in Durham Geography today around #PolarPride

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

The global carbon budget 2024 is out

A splendid day of dolphins, seals, murmurations and Vikings on Lindisfarne.

Delighted that a paper from our Fragile Landscapes project in Central Türkiye, led by Maddy Boon and Davide Motta, has now been published in The Holocene. It looks at long-term patterns of irrigation system development in the Konya Basin and is Open Access at doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Delighted that a paper from our Fragile Landscapes project in Central Türkiye, led by Maddy Boon and Davide Motta, has now been published in The Holocene. It looks at long-term patterns of irrigation system development in the Konya Basin and is Open Access at doi.org/10.1177/0959...

I'm delighted to share my latest publication. Thanks to the Hillforts Atlas team for publishing their data as open data and making this work possible and thanks to all who have helped me on the way. journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.... #hillforts #archaeology

Delighted that Josep Fortesa and Fran Coello from Riscbal and the University of the Balearic Islands could join Durham University Geography students today to explain the Mallorcan flood early warning system in the field.

Durham University Geography students working to conceptualize landscape dynamics and connectivity at the Fonts Ufanes natural park in Mallorca

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’