My #UrbanPrehistory book, The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World: Deep Time in Global Urban Spaces, is now available for pre-order in the UK, and I expect it to come out towards the end of 2026. I'm currently working on the proofs. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archaeolo...

The Overseer Class is now available wherever books are sold. To every soul who helped me write it, to every soul who pre-ordered, to every soul who *will* read and share it, to every soul who stands together in solidarity in these times, “all of us, hand in hand,” THANK YOU 🙏🏾❤️

Decision-making study needs Gaelic speakers https://www.welovestornoway.com/index.php/articles/42488-decision-making-study-need-gaelic-speakers #scothinews

I had the pleasure of joining Clare Jackson and Teresa Bejan to talk about the Levellers on In Our Time. The episode will be out this Thursday. Profs Bejan and Jackson offered expert insight. I, at least, was wearing an appropriate t-shirt: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"Autistic workers in our study experienced persistent pressure to survive, particularly under conditions of stigma that positions them as “outsiders within” and neuronormativity that shapes the social, cognitive, and sensory environments of contemporary workplaces" academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

A disused Black Isle church has been transformed into Kirk & Co, a studio, shop and café in just a few months. Knockbain Parish, in Munlochy, has inspired a few newspaper mentions with its design We posted that plans were approved, in July last year. www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/... 🧵1/2

A friend is asking for a friend: Does anyone know about the process of self-publishing a poetry book?

3d printed Horse Foot model is available on my Etsy! Can be disassembled to show the inner structure of a horse's hoof. Some parts are rigid and some are flexible, and it's held together via magnets and friction. blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com/listing/4506... #SciArt #BSNM #Horse #SciComm #ArtShop

I'm going to have to start talking about this more after the last pieces of our website changeover are finalized, but leaving Squarespace ultimately proved impossible to do without cancelling active memberships.

Scotland’s EHRC Committee went from warning that redefining “sex” could harm trans people and undermine trust, to fully backing it within a year, and has continued to pivot further. We can reveal the reason behind this sudden shift, which doesn’t look accidental at all. Ideology shapes institutions

There are moments at work, few and far between, where being autistic helps. I wrote about finding those moments on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/victor...

hello this is your semi-daily reminder that for the most part Autistics say what they mean, mean what they say, and don't generally let things "go without saying". secret agendas are unlikely, assumptions are often unnecessary, if you have questions please ask them AND expect direct answers kthnxbye

New article out on the surviving sources for the Edinburgh Baxters (#Bakers) and the grain trade in the Scottish capital! Next year it will be freely available online, but for now it is through subscription: scottishrecordsassociation.org/scottish-arc...

A study on 10,321 Finns born 1990-1999 found that earlier ADHD diagnosis improves graduation rates and reduces dropout by 14%. Discuss. PMID:41949840, JAMA Psychiatry 2026, @JAMAPsych https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.0181 #Medsky #Pharmsky #RNA #ASHG #ESHG 🧪

Reviving the Trinity Stones is a two-year project tracking down missing stones from one of Edinburgh's finest medieval buildings - Trinity Collegiate Church. Free exhibition, talks and walks. Museum of #Edinburgh. #skystorians #churches #Scotland www.revivingthetrinitystones.co.uk/exhibition

This is delightful, and only enhanced by the fact that Čapek is more famous for coining the word "robot"

In research, education, & policy making, autistic ppl are expected to accept a situation where non-autistic "experts" speak with authority about them. An autistic person's lived experience is seen as less valid than external observations of our behaviour. #ActuallyAutistic

Fascinating find: "Findings showed that screen time was significantly associated with anxiety and depression in neurotypical youth; conversely, screen time was not significantly associated with anxiety and depression in autistic youth." (h/t @stimpunks.org!)

Scattery Island Round Tower • Clare Scattery Island lies in the Shannon Estuary, in County Clare. It was the site of an important early monastery associated with St Senán. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Across recent evidence, GLP-1 receptor agonists look like multi-organ metabolic therapies—not just glucose drugs—with real benefits and real safety and durability trade-offs. 🧵 1/7

Completely overdosed on 8th-9th century Mercian sculpture today at Breedon Priory Church. It has an amazing array of cross, shrine panel, wall panel and frieze fragments built into the interior walls. There was a Mercian monastery here from the late 7th-10th centuries which became a 12th c. priory.

My latest fixation - peacock ore inspired trees! This is the last one of three left and just about to pack up the other two ready to send to their new homes tomorrow. 💜 #Art #Sculpture

To Noroway, to Noroway, To Noroway o’er the faem; The king’s daughter o’ Noroway, ’Tis thou maun bring her hame… The ballad “Sir Patrick Spens” is probably based on the 1290 mission to Norway to fetch the 7-year-old princess Margaret, heir to the Scottish crown #Norway #Nasjonaldagen #poetry 🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Just finished giving a Trinity talk at the Museum of Edinburgh as part of the free exhibition outreach. The next one- Scents, Sights and Sounds: Experiencing the Trinity( with appropriate props, some edible!) will be on 30th May- you can book on www.revivingthetrinitystones.co.uk/exhibition

Mothman love lamp.

I witnessed this from the public gallery. The weight and pain in the Assembly Hall were palpable. Moving responses from Jamaican, Nigerian and Ghanaian churches.

6 September 1643, Agnes Hutchen complained to the Kirkcaldy presbytery that she heard Cristian Crystie "bann Elspet Hutchen tuyse and say the devill mak hir als daft as ever quhissill quhigg was both befoir and after hir marige".

This is a HUGE deal and very exciting -

A new study argues that Vikings may have supplied rare Arctic falcons to the rulers of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate. The research traces how dozens of prized white falcons appeared at the court of the caliphs in Baghdad during the late 800s and early 900s.

Spotted pardalote in the side gum tree this afternoon. #Australia #Canberra #autumn #birds #photography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers #nature #naturephotography #Birding #Ornithology #bird #pardalote #may

For anyone interested in Tudor government or Elizabeth I in general, newly arrived in the library today are the Proceedings of the Privy Council, 1582-1583. It's now on the shelves in the first floor reading room - search.libraries.london.ac.uk/permalink/44...

Need to say it again; You cannot join a trade union with a problem. You need to be a member for a few months (depends on the particular union how long)

15 May 1583: In Edinburgh, there's been a riot overnight. The king and Privy Council today issue a proclamation stating that 'a greit nowmer of wickit and seditious personis, craftismen ... under silence of nicht, convenit thameselffis togidder in armes, and, in maist treasonable... 1/ #earlymodern

Giving a talk this afternoon at the Quarries and Rock cut sites Conference in Edinburgh Uni. IRAAR26

Just got an ad for this exhibition at GCHT, in case anyone else is interested in the stuff you find when you clear out a very old well: www.glasgowheritage.org.uk/exhibition-f...

A grants programme from the Business Archives Council of Scotland.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Society is constantly manufacturing euphemisms for "women should stop talking" and attempting to make us self-conscious about the sounds of our voices—too loud, too much, too rude, too high, "lol vocal fry," etc.—is the oldest play in the book. So, no surprise here.

Amazing how predictive anti-autistic stuff is of anti trans stuff and vice versa.

Does anyone know about #EarlyModern whiteout?

This looks like it’s happening and I’m excited

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Sky takeover of ITV said to be "weeks away" from being confirmed. The deal would see ITV's TV channels and ITV X being sold to Sky, with ITV shareholders retaining control of ITV's studio business. >> Via ITV News: www.itv.com/news/2026-05...

31 years ago I was sent on a computer programming course in Norway. The SSNE database went live online & open access 30 years ago this month. It records over 8000 British migrants (mostly #Scots) in northern Europe. Enjoy www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/ssne... #EarlyModern #WhatsHistory #History

Can anyone help?

The superb little chapel of St Fillan's at the head of Strathearn, where Dál Riata and Pictland meet. The post-medieval chapel and burial ground likely have much earlier predecessors, then as now in the shadow of the mighty Pictish hillfort of Dundurn www.trove.scot/place/24872?...

Really can't wait to read this: Imprisonment in Early Modern England Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society by @richardbell.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... (But am going to have to til October.) h/t @onslies.bsky.social #History #DebtHistory #CarceralHistory

When I attended the ILGA conference last year there was a closed session with the Human Rights Commissioner for the problem cases: Hungary, Albania and the UK. I think this map flatters the UK and we are worse than it shows.

If anyone is interested in holy wells in Westmeath, we're just starting an exciting new project with Westmeath County Council. Tara will be giving a talk on the project and what's involved in Moate Library on the 28th, all welcome! @westmeathlibraries.bsky.social #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

'An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine': www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...