30 days of #Pride. Day 20 There are no out football players playing in the Men’s World Cup. 48 teams. 1248 players. Yet it seems football doesn’t feel safe enough for any of the men to be out?

Just really hoping that there’s a World Cup left in my lifetime I can a) ethically support and b) afford to attend.

💡Helpful tip to avoid burnout!

And the fools who invited him on won’t meet his supporters, won’t have to argue the point with colleagues*, neighbours or in pub because they live in a bubble so won’t see the actual real world consequences. So incredibly irresponsible and dangerous. (*construction not archaeology usually)

"On my way home from work, I don’t pick up food my child actually likes. Why would I? We have gross food at home, and I enjoy preparing it for maximum disgust."

Great question: I am an average knitter and would swap that for average pianist skills without a second thought. Have concluded I have the stamina to neither improve one nor learn the other so remain unfulfilled (with terrible jumpers).

Lovely to see "Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives" available now via firstview in Advances in Archaeological Practice (open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Amazing to be at @thescottishcrannog.bsky.social launch on behalf of @archscot.bsky.social Destroyed by fire 5 yrs ago, the team worked tirelessly to regenerate the new site, with passion for archaeology & learning, always inclusive, creative and fun. Many congratulations #Scotland #Archaeology

Very useful info here about implications for employers/workplaces, which unions will be working on internally. Horrific that we have ended up here but #archaeology should remain a safe space for trans friends & colleagues wherever we can influence. Everyone has a part to play - resist bigotry 🏳️‍⚧️

First day on the Birkbeck/MOLA field school Thames through Time. The strandline on the sands and gravels with brick, tile, animal bone, tobacco pipe, nuts and bolts. And fragments of built up surfaces caught behind wooden revetments (made from old ship parts). @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

I'm working with my ButCH colleagues to support the update of the South West Archaeological Research Framework (UK). If you're interested in being involved, there's a form to complete here forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

His writing about the Thames as a receiver of bodies is incredible too, very moving and carefully handled. Highly recommend (am listening on Audible and frequently having to pause it).

Every polling day I remember the best letter I ever received from our legendary primary school head Mr Baffoe (and there are many I have saved, he was/is wonderful).

I used to work somewhere where the contract allowed for random drug tests and breathalysers whilst on shift, and if you failed, you’d be sent home and face disciplinary measures. It’s wild the media think politicians should be held to a lower standard than employees at a fucking waxwork museum.

Great paid opportunity for Global London #Heritage #Trainees as part of #Thames Festival, working with mudlark finds. Do note that the deadline is soon: thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

“They [bikes] turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.” The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth A classic worth repeating, via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social. #UrbanScience

No need to pay to know what’s this is about, more horrible reports. MASSIVE side eye at the rest of the Classics Department too.

We’re doing AI staff workshops at work, our fab Digital Lead has freely outed herself as cautious & anxious which is the perfect combo imo. Also most of the ideas presented are really about existing tools badly used/not known about, things we could just not do/improve, & lack of training.

Archaeologist Carole Crumley talking about heterarchies, if you are looking to cite someone in addition to Mark Fisher wrt capitalist realism. The ability to dream outside of hierarchies and the state should be taught by every archaeologist. GOOD MORNING

Biologists: Pay attention to this. This is the legal basis for NOT teaching creationism and intelligent design in science classes. If this ruling sticks, teaching evolution as science will be attacked in short order, with geology and astronomy not far behind.

Now thinking which book I would be buried with, probably something hugely sentimental from my childhood.

Finally got 1 Labour leaflet this week (Southwark), Greens probably 2 a week for last month. Nothing from anyone else 😂 complete landslide incoming.

Small breakfast sob, renewed faith. #FuckPutin

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

I’m thrilled to join the Carena Institute @bbkhistorical.bsky.social team, which will develop my teaching, build on my research, and also means @drclaireharris.bsky.social and I get to work with @lesleymcf.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social and Esther Breithoff! ✨💚

Put Fairford into your search and it’s easy to see what’s going on. I didn’t think Starmer could go lower- or poll lower - but apparently he is happy to be complicit in war crimes. When do we demonstrate?

Really really great job at the ICS, with Anna Walas on her brilliant research. Also #Roman artefacts, #HadriansWall and decolonising approaches to interpretation 🏺

A decent one from my local #Dorset Facebook scouts:

Cats love books. Here is ours preventing my daughter from the precise 15 minutes of revision she had planned for today 😹

Extremely cool and only slightly nerdy thread about traffic, and how to slow it down so pedestrians and cyclists are safe. Also while calmly breaking DfT rules which is fun!

Hanging out with Grayson Perry (and @kayth.bsky.social and @drsadiewatson.bsky.social) in London. Hilarious lecture on: ‘Why I hate Classical Civilization’. Perfect!! 😂😂😂

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

The time when a Green MP and ex-archaeologist blocked loads of us over some misinformed St*neh*nge rubbish.

Relieved that my own employer had neither resource nor inclination to bother with it.

Cannot wait for the Greens to take an inner London Council from Labour in May tbh (hopefully more than one!)

And kenmure becomes a verb 👏

#Archaeology has been marginalised in the draft #NPPF - Neil and Catherine of the CBA are giving an online webinar tomorrow to explain more, and advise on responding:

Joyous and important thread about kids #cycling in #London, can also report teens (yes, including girls!) regularly using bikes to get home at night, to/from school and generally around Southwark. Often Lime bikes, which have changed the game for that age group. We should be investing heavily 🚲

Solidarity with Prospect members at London Museum who are out on strike today in a dispute over pay ✊

Fantastic turnout and support for Prospect's industrial action on pay that started today across London Museum locations. Loved seeing the placards,badges, costumes and masks and incredible energy. Proud to have kicked off the speeches, plus chants and old dockers songs!

The Giving Circle has been incredibly crucial for so many families in Gaza and is run by a trusted and dear friend. I donate the price of a coffee each week - and it’s easy to join me! chuffed.org/project/hope...

Renaming the Elizabeth line once people realise how much her money and protection did

Give this Bedford Borough Council employee a pay rise 👏👏

While also planning a major extension 🙄 🏺

There’s a great OA review of the Silchester excavation monographs by Prof M.Millett in Antiqs Journal from @antiquaries.bsky.social Very helpful for those who need to know both salient & obscure details of the stratigraphy, and where to find them. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Solidarity with Greek colleagues who have taken a major step here.

BREAKING NEWS: We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that the Southbank Centre - the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and skaters undercroft - has finally been Grade II listed by DCMS after a 35 year long campaign. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/southba...

Such an irritating aspect of cycling to focus on. In London young women cyclists are disproportionate victims of motorised transport- they follow rules, wear helmets and die at left turns, traffic lights etc. Cycling kids die *on pavements*. And yes, I always wear a helmet 🚲🚴‍♀️