The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing George Orwell

Calling all archaeologists with expertise in British stone tools! These two just turned up among my father-in-law’s house contents. Unfortunately no provenance data. The narrow one is quite thick, diamond-shaped in cross-section, and the flat end appears to be broken.

I love this! The brilliant Holly Dunsworth is reviewing Sapiens, one page at a time, separating myth from fact… Let’s dive in! ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sapi...

"Bomb them back to the Stone Age" Can't even begin to unpick the horrendous mess of this statement. Focusing on the misuse/misconception of prehistory seems trivial at this point.

My station platform is full of birdsong this morning. Goldfinch also just turned up.

Hmm.. just discovered enactivism via an article in New Scientist. Seems (on first impression) to have great relevance for relational approaches in archaeology and other similar disciplines. Just wish I had more time to think and do theory!

Postdoc Alert! The archaeology department here at Exeter are looking for a Research Fellow for Biocultural HIVE, part of the AHRC RICHeS Infrastructure Portfolio. The role (0.8 FTE for 5 years) involves managing our digital, lab and collections resources: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Thinking we need a new introductory textbook to Prehistoric Europe. Everything is out of date!

Hooray I actually have some content for #HillfortsWednesday this week. At the weekend we walked the Malverns, including the spectacular contour hillfort of British Camp. Only small-scale excavations have taken place, in 1879, but 118 hut platforms have been identified by survey.

This is worth reading for the final sentence alone:

I'm looking for suggestions of museum/heritage education consultants for a small project, ideally south-west based. Any ideas or recommendations greatly received!

This is such good news, I have been worried about them! #Orkney voles are unique, arriving on the islands during the #Neolithic they have a lot to tell us about human and species migration #Zooarchaeology BBC News - Stoat cull credited with rise in Orkney vole activity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Been up a hill. Or up a series of hills. Sunny but the kind of wind that replaces all the air in your lungs whether you wanted it to or not.

Woop! Our department has gone up in the world. From 70th in 23/4, to 44th in 24/5 to 34th this year.

La Pierre Levée in Silly-en-Gouffern (Orne) is 6m tall, 4.6m wide and 0.7m thick. Natural depressions on top are imprints of the hands of the fairies who erected it. On moonless nights a hare came and sat by it but disappeared at dawn. Card by Roussel in Argentan c.1905.

Fluid and relational ftw

TAG 2026 is go! Excited to be hosting in Exeter this year, 14-16 December. Get those session proposal thinking caps on!

We play the London Adelphi Theatre tomorrow night!!! Some tickets still available (it’s a huge venue 🤣) and students can get a big discount to just £25 — DM me on here and I’ll send you the link

Have you had personal tutoring responsibilities in a UK HEI in the last five years? I'd love to hear from you! I'm running a short survey on interpersonal relationships & care within personal tutoring, which takes ~10 minutes to complete. Please do share: I'm keen to get a wide range of responses!

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Things are afoot #StonehengeEverything

Well these are excellent. Thank you @ucu.org.uk 👍

My presentation @caadk.bsky.social yesterday was slightly abbreviated by the need for many of us to get the train. In this 🧵 I'll try to summarise the main point of the talk, which is to encourage my colleagues to make more imaginative use of the amazing open lidar DTMs we have in Denmark #GIS 🏺

Am going to town to meet with two lovely friends and am feeling right smug about it cos I went for a run this morning and can now eat ALL. THE. PIZZA. 🍕🍕🍕

I'm afraid your slide is not an 'infographic', no matter how many images and logos are on it.

Bristol Temple Meads: assaulting evening commuters with fresh pasty smells for far too long.

Nice aDNA postdoc at York, working on Roman mobility: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...

My Dad has found this very lovely clay pipe bowl decorated with flowers and a stag head.

Spring alert! Saw my first lambs today 😍

Delighted to contribute to this fantastic series on AI, British Studies and the wider humanities with @thenacbs.bsky.social! www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...

This is why we recently updated our PPS peer review guidance a few months back to make it clear that uploading papers into, or using, genAI to write reviews is entirely unacceptable.

THREAD Things that didn't make the news that will likely change our lives for the better The news is not an accurate reflection of the world. Good news doesn't get reported as much. Here are the wonderful things researchers have achieved recently. 1/24

Did you know that magnolia petals taste of ginger? Tried one for the first time last year - they're delicious! Go for the white ones with a hint of pink, otherwise the flavour is quite strong!

AI 'investment' in the UK seems to be largely hyperbole and aspirational press releases: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Good news! Thrilling news! Keep a lookout... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yesterday we went to Salisbury Cathedral and a drive to Stonehenge last night. Visited a Hippy Camp close by for a laugh.

This captures a lot of my thoughts, well done @boothicus.bsky.social. This FoI campaign seems to be deliberately stirring up trouble based on poor data rather than a genuine attempt to help solve some of these well known issues.

Chuffed to finally see an IRL copy of Vol 91 of PPS, the first produced by the new editorial team of Prof Daniela Hofmann, Dr Courtney Nimura and me! New front cover, new size, new article template.

I have had c.4 hours sleep (goddamit insomnia), I have THE most full-on day ahead and America is using AI to commit war crimes. Happy Thursday everyone!

Packing tealights and matches for tomorrow's teaching. Anyone want to guess what type of artefact we'll be covering?

This was fun to organise! Thanks to my students who created the timeline and organised the display, and who have been cataloguing our teaching collections and discovering our archive in cupboards...

I feel sad about this in some ways. I hope the NT retains the local and unique feel of the place. We visited on a family holiday when I was a kid and it left distinct impressions (particularly the dentist chair at Blists Hill)

Dude. Archaeology existed before academic archaeology and probably will outlast academic archaeology. Not everything has to be REFable.

New Channel 5 documentary on Stonehenge (cos we were short of them) airs Tuesday 9pm. Let's see if my interview makes the final edit: www.televisual.com/news/5-to-ai...

Just updating Friday's lecture on 'Archaeology and heritage: who benefits?' to include the current consultation on NPPF and last year's Trowel and Error PUNS report. Don't say we don't keep our students up-to-date!

Great example to add to my ethics of the display of human remains seminar in a couple of weeks:

Here’s my take on that Suffolk coin hoard, thanks to all the commenters here on BlueSky! spectator.com/article/why-...