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Turns out ChatGPT may have a sense of humour... This is what I got after agreeing to download a list it prepared for me

Exactly…

I remember using these…

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I really dislike the epithet "Sacred" for a prehistoric context. I very often see people referring to "Sacred Mountains" and I think this narrows the way we think about these places, and may be completely wrong... or right! But definitely limiting...

Where are you all staying for @tag2025york.bsky.social ? Any suggestions?

I’ve had this before! Just another day in a woman’s life…

Some days everything goes wrong, regardless of which way you look at it. You just have to go with it… today is one of those days 🥴

The first scientific evidence corroborating the medieval presence of the "Black Death" in Edinburgh has been identified in DNA present in the plaque on the teeth of a skeleton unearthed during archaeological excavations under St Giles Cathedral in 1981. Story here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help. Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology survey.app.do/archaeologis...

Ok… finally had a bug catching up with me! 🤕🤧

Bold, beautiful, emotional! 💜

A great post from @tessmachling.bsky.social setting out the scale of the UK metal detecting mess. Having no effective regulatory framework is incredible for a signatory of the Valletta Convention. There is no escaping the negligent leadership on the issue. License metal detecting now. 🏺🦣

How is it that one day one feels great and as if achieving something, and the next day feel like a failure?

When at the end of your class a student tells you how much they enjoyed it, it makes waking up at 4:45 worth it!

Just binge watched Riot Women on BBC iPlayer

The travesty of dementia, when a mother doesn’t recognise their children, her hearts that have beating outside of her all her life

I think the Green Party is calling…

Life in the UK Test should include questions like "Who is Sooty and Sweep" and "What is Art Attack?"

It's the 4th e-mail I receive in the last 2 weeks about a service that I use/used being hacked and data compromised... What on earth is happening??

Brain fog is real #MyHormonesAreTryingToKillMe

Go outside and look at the moon! 🌒

A few years ago I was invited to take part in the History Hit documentary "Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland". I thought you'd need a subscription to watch the whole episode, but it just randomly appeared as a suggestion for me to watch on YouTube. But you can watch the whole thing here...

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

If I had to resume my PhD experience to one photo...

People advocate for digital literacy which in our current world is fundamental. But what I’m finding is that kids don’t know how to operate a computer bc their digital literacy is tablet/smartphone based. Is this the end of computers or how useful is this kind of digital literacy for their future?

Not sure people realize how INSANELY DRAINING data centers will be on our planet. If you imagine data centers as their own country, they'll rank fourth in global electricity use by 2035 — outranked only by China, India, and the U.S. Read this in @bloomberg.com👇 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

So much random hate I am receiving just now on LinkedIn for being a foreigner working in the UK. 🙄 From a peer, this is a new one for me…

Can I humbly recommend our newly published edited volume? link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

**DONATIONS FOR BURSARIES** TAG over the last few years has been trying to increase the accessibility of the conference by offering bursaries. We are now welcoming donations support these via our website. tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/

Looking for an acronym for a new project, and the website I'm using keeps suggesting EROTICA. It would definitely call attention, but possibly for the wrong reasons? 🤔

I had a shitty day yesterday, but when I looked for music to listen to, this was the first one to pop up... If I didn't know better, I'd say it's probably a sign... "When it seems, hope is lost Fight them at all cost When it seems, all hope is gone I will find a way Or I will make one"

I hate job interviews and I interview really badly. How good are they really to assess someone’s potential? Feels like tests at school…

Are you doing photogrammetry with your phone? Which apps are you more likely to use/recommend? Thanks!

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”

I’m glad they said “man-made” in this case. I think the expression is correctly used in this case

Who am I supposed to call next time there is a find like Dunchraigaig Cairn? Rest in Power, my dearest Lara 🤍

About last weekend….Grateful for being invited to speak at a great conference, being so cared for and for everyone’s enthusiasm for what I had to say! And all the rock art ❤️ #CampoLameiro

Early bird registration and bursary applications are now open for Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference 2025 in lovely York: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

What do I miss about living in Iberia? The night sky…

This weekend I will be here, for a conference dedicated to Atlantic Rock Art - isn't it appropriate? 🤩 My dear friend and mentor told me a while back "Now you are the guardian of this knowledge". Thank you for everything you taught me, and I wish you were still here 🤍

One of the things I hate most about anxiety, is not being able to breathe properly...

Got there eventually.... £580 for 2 tickets.... 🙄 nothing cheaper than that...

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I love live music, I really do but I’m not sure I can justify buying gig tickets anymore at the prices they are these days… I guess I’m lucky I saw many of my favourite bands back in the day…

My latest #urbanprehistory blog post (no. 182!) concerns a mysterious tiled mural of passage grave art to be found in #Belfast city centre. If anyone has any more information about the tiles, or the motifs depicted, I would love to hear from you. theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/p...

Definitely feels like the season has changed… Hello Autumn! 🍂

Stuff is happening in my life that is taking me right back to the Brexit days… that feeling of having to/wanting to stay somewhere where you’re not wanting but not having many alternatives…