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...

If you're in Ireland there is absolutely no reason to buy ebooks. Get a library card and use BorrowBox, it's free! Why am I posting this at half ten on a Saturday, when I know we're all locked? #speirgorm

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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’

Ritual reuse of space in a quintessentially English way - a motte at Clun Castle becomes a bowling green 🏺

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,985,869!

Fine, fine. I made a starter pack for #EarthSurfaceProcesses and #geomorphologhy folks. 🧪⚒️ Am still adding folx but please let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/CQzthwb

Delighted to receive Ian Stephenson's "Return from Helsinki" tunebook from his crowdfunder. Looking forward to some new tunes!

Hydrology Paper of the Day @EcoGeoNetwork on how network theory leads to a holistic understanding of habitat, flooding, ecohydrology, and spatial variability: nodes as landscape units; how metrics show connectivity and patterns; and challenges, assumptions and future research.

Our paper on inequality at Neolithic Çatalhöyük has been in the works since 2018. So relieved to finally see it in press. Now I never want to look at in again 😅🏺https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0307067

New research article on the ways in which Neolithic communities of Central Anatolia 🇹🇷 used architectural continuity to maintain social cohesion. 🏺https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352226724000564

Not included in this cartoon are people that use transition effects as I'd rather not give them any more attention than they already clearly crave

One of those amazing free resources that lots of people don't know exists: Britain from Above, with historic aerial photos of the entire country. If you get a free account and login, you can zoom close enough to see your Nan's washing on the line in 1951. www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en