Really important study that should catalyse some innovative integrated landscape scale approaches to developing sustainable communities in Ireland. Great to see so many references to community empowerment / wealth building agenda in Scotland too.

So delighted to see that this is finally live - it was a joy and an honour to work on this super important project with such an amazing team of researchers!

New report comissioned by the @heritagecouncil.ie - Best Practices in Community Management of Heritage-rich Landscapes: www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/file...

This is great and very much worth a read for anyone thinking about using ethnographic analogy in your public archaeology.

Delighted that @drclairenolan.bsky.social has joined @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social as Project Researcher for @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project. PP examines how deep-time past, is used in environmental policy. Claire is a fabulous addition to the team! 1/2

And how, shall we now, mark what matters ... Learable Hill, Caithness, is part of a larger monument group, including stone row and cairn. On one face, a simple cross has since been incised, over 2000 years after the stone was first erected. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland

After we played at the legendary Winterland in San Francisco April 1978, I went on a skite for a few days 😳 This snap outside City Lights Bookstore. Originally on KALX station, the show is out in a limited edition clear vinyl edition for Record Store Day. 1978? Omg😁

It's here. Exactly 100 years on, anyone can now search the 1926 Irish census for free here. Enjoy! nationalarchives.ie

RIP Moya Brennan - thanks for the magic m.youtube.com/watch?v=_B95...

So sad to learn of the passing of Moya Brennan of Clannad. For me, her singing was the bridge between the old traditions of Irish music and something new and vibrant as contemporary sounds and influences came into it. Her instrument was her voice, and it was stunning. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Outliers at the Kezerho alignments at Erdeven, Brittany, June 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

Two quartz freckled giants from the Duloe stone circle #Cornwall taken near sunset last year in summer. Will be back to see how they look under a full moon. #StandingStoneSunday

Clach Mhic Leoid has stood, sentinel over sand and sea, for over 3000 years... ... it will witness great changes in the future. #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology #Scotland

France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry. The reason? The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore. Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“In total, some 80GW of new clean renewable energy was added to the European grid last year — the peak equivalent of more than 50 nuclear plants” My take on a nuclear energy re-think is in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Are commercial archaeologists miserable? In our latest open access article from British Archaeology, Ellen Durbin explores the gap between the wellbeing benefits associated with archaeology and the realities of commercial practice. Read here 👉 bit.ly/3NYunJo Illustration by @robhedge.bsky.social

This is the man who says he represents the people of Ireland and is the leader of the 'revolution'.... Fuel protest organiser had tax judgments of €550,000 and was convicted of cruelty after 60 cattle died on farm www.independent.ie/irish-news/f...

The only way to durably protect hauliers - and the economy - against fossil fuel shocks is to support them to electrify trucks. Sales of electric trucks in China outsold diesel trucks last December. So far this year, only one electric HVG was newly registered in Ireland. #fuelprotests #speirgorm

10-20% of the emissions ceiling of Ireland's energy sector to be used by ONE data centre in Ennis. Insanity. #IrishPol

Achnacreebeag has recently been reinvestigated by @archscot.bsky.social with support from @socantscot.bsky.social Audrey Henshall Legacy To learn more about what discoveries were made at the end of the rainbow, give them a follow. #TombTuesday #HESsupported #archaeology

France is ready to hold fast fashion accountable with a new eco-label. But the EU might stop it and push a weaker system shaped by big brands. Join the action to protect people and the planet 🌏❗ action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-04...

I just sent this letter to hold the World Bank accountable for the devastation caused by their Tanzanian tourism project. Please take action now! www.oaklandinstitute.org/take-action/...

Good news indeed. Now, how about Ireland, one of the EU’s most nature-depleted countries? An exit strategy for farmers nearing retirement that would also be a boon for biodiversity - what’s not to like?

A bit of #peatland heritage reading to round off the weekend? Research from the Wetfutures project I worked on with Ben Jennings in 2020/21 has just been published in #Wetlands #openaccess 'Wetland heritage the balance...' link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Welcome to TAG 2026, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group! The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter is thrilled to be hosting the conference this year, 14-16 December. Our call for sessions is now open! tag2026.square.site

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

New data from EPA: 'Nitrogen concentrations in rivers increased by 10% in 2025 ... Nitrogen levels in south‑eastern half of country are too high to support good ecological health in water bodies ... Primary source of nitrogen in Irish rivers is agriculture' www.epa.ie/publications...

Welcoming the Equinox light in at La Hougue Bie. A deliberate and powerful Neolithic alignment that illuminates the burial chamber just twice a year. Very lucky to be invited to witness this prehistoric spectacle. 🏺

Ireland's 'interests' should not be conflated with the interests of US tech, with promises to expand data centres and buy US LNG to power them. There are costs to this dependency, no clearer than spiking energy costs precipitated by US illegal wars. www.thejournal.ie/lng-data-cen...

Exciting news from @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social on the forthcoming publication 'Arty-ology: Public Archaeology and Art in Contemporary Society' with @archaeopress.bsky.social howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/a... I'm very much looking forward to seeing how it comes together. And. . .

A bit of green for St. Patrick's Day... here's Ballyrenan Portal Tomb in colour Ballyrenan Portal Tomb, Tyrone, Ireland #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #megalithic #Neolithic #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #Art #BlueSky #BlueSkyArt #EastCoastKin #Tyrone

Amazing effort by the custodians of Lough Neagh to mark Patrick’s Day. Other Irish lakes, waterways also green today - and every day- to honour our national holiday.

A stormbeach stone stuffed with Goniatite fossils. Remnants of a distant time when their shells littered the sea floor. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

​Who wants a last-minute trip to Gibraltar? ✈️☀️ ​We have a rare, paid opening for an Irish History expert to join the Spirit of Adventure this Sunday. If you have your passport ready and the gift of the gab, we want to hear from you! 🇮🇪 ​Details in the graphic below. 👇 📧 [email protected]

Jason Koebler of 404 Media pulls back the curtain on the Oz of #AI discovering, not an insignificant old man but a host of poor African workers, many holding down several jobs while trying to train sometimes gross, personally damaging, content for the "colonial powers" of today, like Apple and Meta.

Loved this conversation - Dr Keon West is a joy to listen & learn from. This is the science of racism: youtu.be/F1MA19DsbQs?...

📰 Epipalaeolithic (12-10,000 BC) settlement discovered in south-eastern Anatolia, outside the Tigris valley, has big implications for the origins of sedentary life 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/03/a...

I have a chapter coming out in a new book being released in April. Alterity Is a Violent Western Construct: In Indigenous Worldviews, We Are All Related, Paulette Steeves

#TombTuesday Little is left of the cairn at Pierowall, Westray #Orkney, due to quarrying, but this ornately carved lintel stone did survive. Discovered in 1981 by a digger driver, it has similar carvings to those in the Boyne valley tombs, #Ireland. It is on display at the Westray museum 📸 mine.

Stone at Shehy Beg, Kealkill, Co. Cork, Ireland. March 2026. With @drclairenolan.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

Shehy Beg stone pair, Co. Cork with @mikemenhirmclean.bsky.social

“A worrying narrative was developing in Government and business circles in which environmental defenders were “stigmatised”. UN special rapporteur slams Ireland’s eco backsliding on airport expansion, nitrates derogation & demonising of environmental defenders. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.🧵1/3 🏺

On topic of #biodiversity in Ireland, have wanted to visit native Bee Sanctuary for years 🐝 Sad to see their existence is threatened by flooding - a microcosm reflection of the impact of #climatechange on native wildlife 🙁 Support them if you can #Spéirgorm worldbeesanctuary.org/donations/fu...

UK folks, Reform are setting out their stall, they are openly threatening people & policies that matter. Every Reform win is a tragedy, a Reform government would be a disaster. So what are you doing? Don't repeat the mistake of Brexit & leave campaigning to others, thinking no one is that stupid

Ireland No. 1 in Europe - yet again. GHGs rose faster (+3.2%) in Ireland in Q3 2025 than ANYWHERE else in Europe. #Climate action, my eye.

Biodiversity loss is emerging as systemic risk to global economy & financial stability. Report points to "inadequate or perverse" incentives, weak institutional support & enforcement. Despite need for "transformative change", $7.3 trillion in public & private funds goes to nature-harming activities

"It is the first time anywhere in the world that an insect species receives this kind of legal status." www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f.... #bees