Sighting the sun - and moon? at Stonehenge. Online lecture by Prof Clive Ruggles, tomorrow night. Hosted by @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social and @cornwallarch.bsky.social www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2026-...

In 6 weeks, Minister O'Brien has fast-tracked LNG infrastructure, lifted the moratorium on data centres and the Dublin Airport passenger cap. All under the banner of 'strategic infrastructure'. Irresponsible moves that lock us into climate havoc and US dependency. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

What constantly shocks me about ChatGPT is how many people who I think of as intelligent are prepared to use it 'for fun' I know someone who works on climate change who has gone for the 'caricature' which uses your image & 'everything it knows about you'. Do people turn their minds off?

Every child deserves climate education. Empower future generations with knowledge about ecosystems, sustainability & solutions. Education is the root of change. 📚🌍 #ClimateEducation #SDGs

Rossnakilla stones, Rossnakilla, Cork, Eire. February 2026 with @drclairenolan.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

Moody skies at Rossnakilla stone row, Co. Cork with @mikemenhirmclean.bsky.social #StandingStoneSunday

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Faced with triple crises of climate breakdown, biodiversity loss & pollution, we need to ensure environmental laws remain strong When nature loses, we all lose Please add your voice - let EU decision-makers understand need to respect scientific evidence and to keep environmental safeguards intact

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#StandingStoneSunday Robin Hood's Stone, also known as The Archer Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone and scheduled monument in #Liverpool, UK.

For #StandingStoneSunday on St Bride's/Brigid's day, here is the wonderfully twisted (and named) Poit Na H-i stone on Mull, emerging from the ground like a giant granite claw. Happy Imbolc all, spring starts here though it may not yet look like it!

Are you a heritage consultant? Do you carry out impact assessments? Have you come across rock art sites in your studies? And if you do, how do you incorporate these sites into your assessments and what mitigation to you consider? Do you feel that you know enough about it to mitigate risks? Thanks!

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stop Europe’s new plan for mass deportations. fyeg.org/stop-mass-de...

#StandingStoneSunday #Stunday... Corkey North Standing Stone - incorporated into a field fence. (Antrim, Ireland) Image: 2025 #IrishArchaeology #Archaeology #Neolithic #Megalithic #Photography #Infrared #Monochrome #ClassicMono #BlueSky #EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky #Antrim

Timely news as it's St Manchan's Day tomorrow! Lemanaghan was founded by Manchan in the 7th century. It's a highly significant early monastery. Well worth a visit if you're in the midlands.

Please SIGN: Half of Chiapas’ forests are gone, and 70% of its traded timber is illegal. It’s time for Mexico to enforce its own laws. #RainforestRescue #ActForRainforest ✍️ rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...

Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

One of the best pieces I've read in The Irish Times in years! Spot on @jenniecstephens.bsky.social!

Aughnacliffe Dolmen • Longford Aughnacliffe is one of the most remarkable and distinctive of all of Ireland’s portal tombs. Despite looking somewhat precarious, it has stood here for more than 5,000 years. #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

Irish Bluesky, please take the time to read this information and make a submission to this consultation (Deadline Jan 15, 2026) which has serious implications for our ability to hold public authorities to account and our right to justice

"All of the reductions in carbon emissions we’ve achieved through sustainable sources and electric vehicles will be reversed by the inexorable rise and insatiable appetite of AI."

⚠️ All Hands on Deck Needed to Respond to the Latest Attack on Access to Justice ⚖️ "This is one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced" - @antaisce.bsky.social 🔗 Details and call for public submissions: www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

The Empire State Building honors Bob Weir.

RIP Bob Weir - another legend lost m.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNh...

The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, on a day of blustery winds and rapidly changing weather last November. #StandingStoneSunday

One of the Geants de Kerzeho on the Erdeven megalithic trail, a six metre plus monster. #StandingStoneSunday

Canada has too few professional archeologists, and that has economic consequences. NEW in the Conversation by Amundsen-Meyer, Holyoke, and Munro-- grounded in their newly published work from Advances! theconversation.com/canada-has-t...

Happy new year to everyone, but especially to asylum seekers, trans folk and all those made to feel vulnerable during the past year

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄🌟 We all love a good reindeer at Christmas! These ones were painted in Font-de-Gaume cave in France 18,000 years ago! Rudolph the Red-backed Cave deer? 🎶🦌 #RockArtThursday #archaeology 🏺

The EU is preparing a gift for pesticide giants: toxic pesticides could stay on the market forever, with no safety tests at all. Yes, forever approvals. Sign now to stop it. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

Wishing you a wonderful #wintersolstice A time of rest, reflection and renewal, today was spent playing with images of standing stones and cycles of time. #StandingStoneSunday #Art #ArtArchaeology #Archaeology #prehistory

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

A beautiful Christmas reflection about the importance and generosity of trees🌳✨

New beer mats to give public a taste of Ireland’s peatland heritage 🙌 www.ucd.ie/earth/news-o...

insideclimatenews.org/news/1712202... #farming

Peatland archaeology and ecology beer mats! Another fab output from our amazing Irish Peatland Archaeology Across Time Project, in collaboration with the UCD Earth Institute and Peatland Finance Ireland! www.ucd.ie/earth/news-o... @ucdearth.bsky.social @ucc.ie

If you are pissed off about the defeated foxhunting bill, spend 5 mins telling the government just how pissed off you are, about this and other cruel 'sports' Deadline: 2nd Jan 26, by email or post! @banfoxhunting.bsky.social @ruthcoppingersp.bsky.social @banbloodsports.bsky.social #SpeirGhorm

Just some horses hanging out at a Neolithic tomb Spinsters Rock dolmen, Dartmoor #TombTuesday #Dartmoor

And for those really curious about bog bodies here is Henry's inaugural lecture on 'Bog bodies, wetland archaeology and peatland heritage' 👇

Randolphfield Stones under the gaze of Scotland’s finest. At Randolphfield Police Station. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social

Delighted to have a paper on wetlands archaeology in this global review of wetlands, with Ben Gearey and Rosie Everett

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

Wow, “French marine archaeologists have discovered a massive undersea wall off the coast of Brittany, dating from around 5,000 BC”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann themannthemyth.home.blog

Ooh, our podcast chat about Neolithic society in Ireland is out! Perfect for fireside listen as we approach winter solstice.

First new #UrbanPrehistory blog post for a while. Here, I reflect on two fake 'megaliths' I recently saw at a prog thrash metal gig in Glasgow, Blood Incantation. 'Because allusions to prehistory, however wrong or baffling, seem to be everywhere' theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/b...