The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people in Victoria have filed a native title claim with the Federal Court, seeking recognition over country that spans much of Melbourne.

The inevitable splash of cold water…

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Avoid jumping to conclusions about mechanisms behind large-scale genetic shifts in the past! This paper doesn’t prove that small scale migrations of Homo sapiens led to the gradual replacement of Neanderthal DNA but suggests this explanation is as good as any other. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

great work @dnatimetravel.bsky.social and team!

In yet another addition of willful ignorance by the British tabloid press, the cyclical poppy furore. It is incredible it has to be explained to adults that there is nothing apolitical about remembering war and especially how it is used in the contemporary. www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer...

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear..... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

someone call georg

I have used this mental glitch to rig "stakeholder sessions" with senior managers and academics.

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

I'm travelling at the moment and dreamed a cat came into my hotel room and slept on my bed. devastated to wake up to no cat

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales. Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊 #Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...

A new paper [2023] based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix. www.livescience.com/health/genet...

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

2005: do we really have to pack every life lesson into a children's book/movie that traumatizes a generation. hey grownups what if we just talked to our kids 2025: nobody talks to their kids apparently, bring Old Yeller back

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

i want to send him a copy of my book on the deep history of innovation... maybe i will...

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...

Quite a good illustration of why the problems of knowledge production are not about "misplaced incentives" but the degradation of the material conditions that allow us to do our work.

I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know. go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

I dove for @crikey.com.au into everything that's wrong for trans advocacy rn, and what we need to do to ensure we don't go the same path as US and UK We need to be building community strength right now before it's too late, we can't wait for others to do it for us www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/07/q...

'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'

Thrilled to have this piece by Omar Muhammed & @fancynahyan.bsky.social out now. I'll be using it tomorrow in a talk at UC-Merced on "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Or the question we really need to ask: when are pandemics? A quick 🧵.

Gonna be honest... i'll take any bullet train over no bullet train

neat work by a brilliant anu colleague - read up the thread for her new publication

Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...

📰 Did #Neanderthals create ochre 'crayons' for drawing with? 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologymag.bsky.social

'But the NSW institution understood to be the chief offender, Sydney University, has revealed it has no record of any such incidents.' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sydney-...

Project Curator: Iron Age and Roman Coin Finds ( PAS ) The British Museum Salary: £30,775 per annum Closing Date: 17/11/25 Location: London www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...

Hidden in one of my favourite ever papers is a nugget about the UK almost refusing to sign #Valetta due to the (illegal) #antiquity trade & (unlicensed) #metaldetecting. It’s all baked in to UK Govt policy and Willem Willems recorded it, the absolute legend. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

Oh this is fun! The researchers of this paper 3D scanned the ruined columns on top of the El Castillo pyramid, in Chichen Itza, along with the remaining fragments scattered around, to create a virtual reconstruction of how they actually portrayed the feathered serpent K’uk’ulkan!

4-year postdoc position in INASIA ERC project for a lithic specialist who would like to join our Central Asian research group at @UniWarszawski with her/his expertise in lithic technology studies. Application deadline 30.11.2025. Find out more here: inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin...

À Valence (Drôme), une cinquantaine d’archéologues se sont rassemblés le 4/11/2025 devant le chantier du parvis de la cathédrale Saint-Apollinaire pour dénoncer l’absence de fouilles préventives. Ils demandent la suspension des travaux. www.francebleu.fr/infos/societ...

it's leading the abc news website as well

DC Conventional Wisdom Goes Down to Defeat in State after State talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dc-co...

spoilers for Jemison's The City We Became

I am of two minds right now. 1) I have no belief nor do I have any faith in the two party system, and 2) GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SEE THE REPUBLICANS GET DOG WALKED AT THE POLLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TONIGHT.

To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.

I will say Bluesky still doesn’t quite have the juice for election nights. It would probably help if jokes were allowed on here

While #ANU was sacking staff due to a "financial crisis", they were also investing in weapons manufacturers. The rest of the world lamented the breakdown of a ceasefire in Gaza, but ANU saw an opportunity to make a quick buck. Unconscionable. @nteunion.bsky.social

There were a whole bunch of really cool women who led various aspects of the project all of whom were mysteriously absent from the story. 😉😉

Contra the film, science is not a closed network of self-interested scroungers scared of being challenged, who try to block others. That is a Trumpian conspiracy that encourages the likes of anti-vaxxing & climate change denial. The Lost King is an anti-science myth 11/15

If you’re wondering why archaeologists were upset about the Lost King film, you should read this and ask yourself how you would feel if someone misrepresented your profession and professionalism in this way. I also recommend @pittsmike.bsky.social book Digging for Richard III.

Chasing the money trail on legally processed treasure cases in England & Wales reveals the eye watering public expense of owning / buying heritage that belongs to the nation from the people who found it. As always @tessmachling.bsky.social is asking the hard but right questions