Some days I am just really so done with archaeology and everything about it

About today ☀️ 🌥️ ☁️ 🌧️ ❄️ 🌬️ 🥶 ⛅️ Four seasons in a day, typical Scotland

What do you make of this?

Primavera! Que venha ela em todas as formas!

“Inside the Manosphere”… is it worth watching? Sounds a bit scary… 🙄

Do you work in shared documents with your colleagues? What do you use?

This video is about the last "wild" river in Portugal, before a dam was built and changed its landscape. In 2010 I surveyed this river, both the higher slopes and the river banks. Access is restricted so we had to use a rubber boat, hop along the boulders and swim - it was quite an adventure!

Are you interested in Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art? Join us at Kilmartin Museum on the 16th of May for a free, hybrid event led by the wonderful Tertia Barnett and @joanavaldez.bsky.social. In-person places are limited, so book soon if you're interested! More information: bit.ly/4s85XMi

That feeling of being immensely proud of your students 🥹🤩

This aged well #NotSarcasm

Throw back to this amazing Minecraft video on Atlantic Rock Art by Heather Christie of @archaeoplays.bsky.social who will today deliver a talk at the University of York. I am so happy this video exists!! Always makes me feel like doing some Minecraft(ing) myself!

"Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into something like a mixture of dirty rags and cat’s meat you would realize this fact as intensely as I do." - J.B.S. Haldane, 1938.

We're doing it again!! ☺️ As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework. 1/

Trade Union Unite is seeking a Sectoral Employment Order (SEO) to raise pay for Archaeologists working in development in Ireland to €45k pa, a level broadly equivalent to building workers in skilled trades.

Something happened today and now when I open a PDF this is what I get, and I can't find an option to maximize the window. Please SEND HELP!!!! I've tried all options I could find when searching for solutions. 😭 😭 Do you have a fix??

Between 2017-22 I was a Post-doc researcher with Scotland's Rock Art Project. The project was funded by the AHRC and recently the @ukri.org invited us to feature their new Future Makers series. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsR... 1/

Scrap equality laws?? Could they be more idiotic??

Until the 2010s, new tech seemed to be about enabling humans: ideas to celebrate. Now, with AI, synthetic biology etc, many techno-optimists are describing a dehumanised future that makes most of us pawns in someone else’s game. I think the first option is still there, but we have to make it so.

Today Democracy and Freedom won! 25 de ABRIL SEMPRE FASCISMO NUNCA MAIS!!

We did it!! 💪💪

Done! 💪 Fascismo NUNCA MAIS!!!

Today I’m travelling to Manchester - where our closest consulate is - to vote for the second round of the presidential elections in Portugal. 3h30 journey each way + £100 train tickets but this election is in person only. I’ll be voting against fascism #NaoPassarao

Have you registered? Open to all, free and easy🙂 check out all the events happening at the 6th VCWAP and share it with tu colleagues and students 🙂

Images in this video don’t even begin to translate the degree of destruction that the recent storms brought to Portugal. 200 km/h winds, massive floods… my hearts broken 💔 #Portugal

#Portugal was struck by a massive storm last Wed and some areas are massively destroyed. There’s still no water, electricity or comms. The government inactivity is infuriating.Have you heard of it? My guess is not. If you can, here’s a link to help out and where you can know more gofund.me/c09c59e7c

🏺 Just like modern goths, ancient goths came in all different kinds of shapes and sizes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sunday today but I completed all my marking, reviewed a paper for a volume I’m co-editing, a paper for publication, wrote 3 case studies for the rock art research framework I’m doing with ScARF, planned for my son’s birthday party and planned my trip to Manchester to vote next week…

Snowdrop season makes me happy!

O Povo Unido Jamais será Vencido!!

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!

I’m leaving Spotify. What streaming apps have you been using and recommend?

If they start asking us for paperwork on the streets, we have nothing to show them…

To confirm what Alex says, UK Immigration swoop on construction sites - we have seen them round up men into vans in London. Argue against giving NI numbers and other ID during inductions, if we refuse others will also be able to. And #JoinAUnion for legal support.

Please share. 💔

That’s a wrap for now. More news about this in late February. Stay tuned! #ScotlandsRockArtProject

Good morning from beautiful Dumfries and Galloway ☀️

It was windy and cold and eventually wet, but there were stones 🥰 and cows 🐮 and some people

And it’s not even over. This is definitely the longest month in the year…

Please please please please PLEASE do not spray yourself with perfume on the train. If you need to, can you just do it in the toilet? 🤢🥴

I mentioned this story a few days ago, now on the BBC. All power to these girls!!

There will be a second round.... the fascist is one of two candidates. People have very short memories, considering we got rid of our last fascist regime just 50 years ago. I can't even vote... would have to go to Manchester to do it in person. Some democracy...

Presidential elections day in #Portugal today. Probably the most important ones in the last 50 years, with the rise of the far right. Incredibly, the ballot paper features 3 candidacies which were not approved. I wonder how many people will vote for them without realizing #presidenciais2026

Reading the head teacher update from my son's secondary school, I learned that the P7 female football team of my his old primary school won an inter-school summer tournament. It turns out the girls were disappointed because their trophy was SMALLER than the boy's one!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1/

What a great research topic!

I’m pretty sure a lot of people agree with you Mark

When I finished my undergrad I did an internship in archaeology but based at a contemporary art museum in the town of Amarante, the birth place of the amazing Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. I spent a bit of time looking at his work. He accomplished so much and was only 30 when he died of influenza.

A great and important read, even if the numbers are truly shocking! 😳

Glasgow School artist Margaret MacDonald, Embroidered Panels, 1902, silk appliqué and bead decoration on linen, in her pioneering Art Nouveau style #WomensArt

More University of Glasgow archaeology!

First day back at the gym for 🥊 and 🧘 Hopefully I’ll still be able to move tomorrow…