Owls owls hooty owls 🦉🦉🦉 #Devon

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Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition 🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00 📍 NMI, Kildare St Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30) Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts 🎟️ Free admission museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Start of one of the busiest teaching weeks of my career so far, by Friday I'll have taught 13hrs of lectures and practicals across 6 different modules. Doesn't sound much but in HE level that's a lot. Plus a first aid training day and numerous tutor meetings, dissertations chats etc. Wish me luck!

Come on England!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (Context is everything with this flag folks)

This is very scary. Don't think this sort of thing won't happen here.

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✅

The open day at the Castilly Henge excavation is on Saturday 11th October #Neolithic #Cornwall www.cornwallheritagetrust.org/event/castil...

Picked up a cold Ginsters pasty for my tea between teaching and a public talk this evening. Man at the Spar till - would you like a fresh hot pasty for 34p? Yes please! 🤤

Gorgeous temperate inversion this morning in the Gordano valley and parts of the Somerset Levels 😍

"The more total the aspirations of the new regime, the more imperiously will it seek to introduce an era of forced forgetting” (Connerton 1989, 12)

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”

'If you plunge into the subject tables you will find more that may surprise you. The only people that really care about individual placings are university senior managers and marketing teams.'

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out! Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1... #Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: all you need to know about today's Autumn Equinox. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social @atu-ie.bsky.social ooks at how today's equinox and next week's Michaelmas festival mark the coming of the closure of the year www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Are you an archaeologist working on quarries or rock-cut structures? Please submit a paper proposal at this upcoming conference (Edinburgh, UK, 14-15 May 2026) hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

First proper teaching day of term for me. Starting with two big intro lectures, about 120 students in total 😯

Over on 'All Old Strange Things' I've written a new free-to-read post reflecting on @peteralanross.bsky.social's thought-provoking book 'Upon A White Horse': substack.com/home/post/p-...

Kae Tempest's new song 'I stand on the line' is 👌 "I stand on a line that goes back; That goes back to the dawn of my kind before that Before that, to the dawn of all time"

Talking of conferences, who do I know planning on attending Bronze Age Forum in Dublin in November? Anyone need accom?

Archaeology on the move!

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...

Visited the Treasure: History Unearthed exhibition at Museum of Liverpool today, lovely to see the Mold Cape again!

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...

Argh - "possibly even a local chieftain". Are we still doing chiefdoms? It's 2025! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

A lovely review article (and my first dissertation citation🍾) on Scottish archaeological mollusc exploitation from @jenniferbones.bsky.social & @mlaw.bsky.social. Makes the point that culture ("taste" if you like) may be just as important as economic considerations www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/...

🚨Due to a last minute cancellation we have space left for our post-ex week (starts Monday)🚨 We focus on: 👉artefact ID & illustration 👉Zooarchaeology 👉Medieval textiles and ceramics 👉Osteoarchaeology 👉Field trip to Lindisfarne 🏺🧵1/2

Latest update on the break in at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the theft of various objects, with images of two men the police would like to talk to: news.devon-cornwall.police.uk/news-article...

A new Google datacentre in Kent is expected to emit more than half a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to about 500 flights between UK and Spain: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

And this morning the Shed is a knuckle of flint from the skeletal hand of a fallen giant…

The culture of overwork limits collaboration between academia and professional practice. Because academics are expected to overwork, their time becomes fungible. They expect to work evenings & weekends. Professional time is costed & limited. This makes project planning & even bidding difficult

Two very important graphs. Net migration reached record levels in 2023 - and has since halved. The vast majority of arrivals comprises students and workers. Arrivals in small boats and asylum seekers - less than 5%. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Framing this post for my welcome to university slide deck

All academics are already working far beyond the hours they are paid for (in teaching prep, marking, class contact hours, and for many of us, self-funded research activities). They deserve the same respect any professional is entitled to. Their research is not ‘a hobby’. It’s labour.

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Peek Bluesky archaeo-nerdery in the replies here 😍

After a morning of dramatic thunderstorms yesterday, the conker crop round here has truly arrived

Online applications are open for the Newgrange Winter Solstice Lottery. Winners will experience the rare moment when sunlight floods the chamber at dawn. Free entry | Limited spaces | Apply now: solsticelottery.ie #Newgrange #WinterSolstice #HeritageIreland

Saxon giant lies next to 21st century giant (for a weekend at least!) - you can see them in Yeovil next weekend or Corfe Castle the weekend after: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Off on a giant adventure...

Dear colleagues, some concerning news has been circulating this week in relation to the 2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Annual Meeting (Belgrade Virtual). We, the IAI Board, believe it is important to acknowledge & share this info. Please see the full statement, with links, here: buff.ly/8YG0WmV

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io

I'm not an EAA member, nor attending the conference this year (again) but solidarity with @archagainstaparth.bsky.social for leading calls to resist silencing and oppression of views. Archaeology is, and always will be, political.

Interesting new(ish) paper on Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney, with revised dating suggesting that the pre-house Grooved Ware might be very early in date: journals.socantscot.org/index.php/ps...

It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here: www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V... >>

🏰✨ Free Walk & Talk! ✨🏰 📅 Sat 13 Sept 2025 | ⏰ 2–4 pm 📍 Caergwrle Castle, Flintshire 📩 Reserve your spot: [email protected] #SwallowtailArchaeology #QueenOfLostCastles #ResearchWritingReviewReach #CaergwrleCastle #WelshHistory #CastlesOfWales #LegendLadyLandscape #medievalsky