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 🚲🚴‍♀️

Job alert! 3 year post doc in my research group at University College London working on Roman Leather via biomolecular archaeology. #ZooMS #stableisotopes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ187/r...

🚨 Prospect members at London Museum vote to take industrial action over pay. Our members have worked tirelessly for the Museum as it seeks to open its new flagship site. The offer which has been imposed is poor reward for such dedication and shows how undervalued by their employer our members are.

in *2018*

Luigi’s fans in Camberwell rejoice at the news.

This is a good article although surprised by this bit at the end. Do infrastructure projects have different arrangements over deed of transfer or is this due to complex CPOs/temporary land use for work sites etc? Odd not to have sorted this from the start, which is what usually happens.

This is *such* an important find & will form significant collection w/ Leekfrith Iron Age torcs & Staffs AS hoard gold as examples of gold through time. But we really REALLY shouldn't be held ransom by finders & landowners for such pieces... #Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs www.stoke.gov.uk/news/article...

Really enjoyed listening to this on my way to work this morning 🎧🏺

The NPPF defines sustainable development as environmental, *social* and economic sustainability - people have to live, work, walk, be safe and happy in these places. This is so incredibly poor 😫

The Guardian has covered the story that there's no mention of women's safety in new planning guidance, despite it being recommended in two major government reports in the last month. But this is what the Dept of Housing, Communities and Local Gov had to say. Where's my pitchfork...

#TinyJoys, Schadenfreude edition.

Sussex has legends of Giants but I never thought one would reveal its face in such a dramatic way

Why do we design projects in Archaeology the way we do it? Who has agency in this process? Whose values and goals are driving our research questions, methods, and frameworks? join @drsadiewatson.bsky.social and myself to disscuss it at CIfA's annual meeting in Edinburgh this April!

Paul Newman and Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Happy #BicycleBirthday, Paul Newman! Born on this day, January 26 (1925-2008) (1/3)

We are not here to be disappointed by Labour anymore. At the by-election in Gorton and Denton, we are here to replace them. This election is a two-way race now - Greens Vs Reform.