Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼

“Who would have believed that 80 years after the greatest tragedy in Jewish history, the mass murder of half of the Jews in the world, a Jewish state would choose antisemites as its allies?” www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

postdoctoral research fellow for Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p... #AcademicJobs

On #InternationalWomensDay here are four fantastic books written by four fearless, intelligent, brilliant women that I have the privilege of knowing. Read women's words! 💪🏻📚

This 1.5-myo bone tool is part of a newly discovered set of 27, made from large mammal bones like hippos and elephants. Found in Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania, this pushes back systematic bone-tool use by a million years. www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of... #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Aberlemno 3, a C9th #Pictish cross-slab of huge historical and artistic importance, has been blown over. The images give an indication of the damage, currently being assessed by HES. Canmore 34863 See aberlemno.org/pictish-room... and Aberlemno Village Hall FB for updates 📷 Aberlemno Village Hall

This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...

Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

In collaboration with the University of Leicester, we are delighted to announce the return of the Midlands Viking Symposium! Saturday 17 May 2025, 10am - 5pm Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University of Nottingham Registration: £30 Find out more: nott.ac/midlandsvikingsymposium

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Job alert!! Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Our next lecture in the series is on 12th March at 15.00 CET by Sara Elin Roberts on the compilation of the law in medieval Wales. For more information and to register for the Zoom link, click here: www.uib.no/en/rg/lawand...

A murder of crows and a gaggle of geese seem to be in the midst of some sort of avian version of Westside Story set in Guardbridge. #villageproblems

I'm thrilled to announce I'll be working on a 3rd book with my great publisher, Hachette: 'Rewilding Ireland'. I hope the result will help continue the growth in interest and support for what is by FAR the best cure for nature collapse in one of the world's most ecologically ruined countries. 🌍

📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

The Department of Celtic Studies (IAAK, Uni Bonn) will host the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 27th to 30th August 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 28th February. Any questions can be addressed to [email protected]. We look forward to receiving your contributions!

1. "Hound's X" (Old Irish Con...) and 2. "Hound of X" (OIr. Cú X) are two very different types of names and formations. Both are extremely common; however, only the former type is found very commonly on ogam inscriptions (CUNA...). The second type, which I call binomial names or phrasal names,... /1

I don't think I can ever overstate just how much of a fantastic resources @dias-isos.bsky.social is.

Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.

🐋 Animal #563 🐿️ I figured it out in 2 guesses! 🟩🟩 🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9 metazooa.com #metazooa

Hard to describe my sheer excitement at the news that my first book in French will appear in the autumn! It's a revised translation of my introduction to contemporary French history for Polity, which came out in 2020. Tell your French friends! Link: www.markushaller.com/d/Chabal-dos...

With all the new archive accounts on Bluesky our list of UK & Republic of Ireland archives has now hit a round 130! Welcome too to the excellent Clarks Archive at @shoemakersmuseum.bsky.social & *the first official UK National Archives account* @natarchivestrust.bsky.social go.bsky.app/6Qz8qG3

If you’re not a member of your local library then you’re a silly billy. You get free access to online newspapers and a movie streaming service called Kanopy which is a bit like Mubi www.librariesireland.ie

Admittedly a large find for #FindsFriday The Carpow Logboat recovered from the River Tay near Perth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in 2001 is Late Bronze Age in date (c 1000BC, radiocarbon date). Made from a huge oak, it was quite sophisticated with a transom. You can see it in the Perth Museum along with the Stone of Destiny

Let's get this circulated!! 😤

Economic History, Climate & the Environment is a Joint Center for Hist & Econ initiative to encourage new histories of economic life & the environment. Our starting point is the need to "understand & reduce the loss & damage" caused by climate change (UNFCCC, 3/CP.18.) histecon.fas.harvard.edu/ehc/

I am once again asking for someone with an institutional subscription to the Huguenot Society Journal to download two articles and send them to me.

We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here! Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺 #ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky

Hello BlueSky! This is the official page for the upcoming conference on James VI & I that will be held in July to mark the quatercentenary of his death👑 Please follow us here for updates & news ...

From the Wright-Molyneux Map of 1599 to be found in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and in high res on Digital.Bodleian

Censorship is terrifying... www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/faus...

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Antler comb with early attestation of the bridge from Pokerface, probably dating to c.800–1000 CE, found in a grave at Vibble, Västerhejde Socken, Gotland, Sweden, now in the Historiska Museet in Stockholm. #medievalsky #saturdayshitposting

For the day that's in it: St Brigit of Kildare, appropriately depicted with an animal companion 😊; she is often linked with husbandry, milking & churning. An early Life describes her churning, identified as women's work MS Ludwig IX 3 (The Ruskin Hours), f. 106 (J Paul Getty Museum, Public Domain)

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

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Very proud of our first peer-reviewed paper from the lab: a review on the multifaceted role of RNA-binding proteins in the metabolic control of stem cells. Check it out! This is a truly amazing effort by my PhD student Ellie Koletsou @mpiage.bsky.social #proudPI doi.org/10.1038/s443...

When I walk along the Manchester Ship Canal to MediaCity I always visit my fellow gnomes on Gnome Island. They live on an abandoned concrete structure in the middle of the water.

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Horrific news out of Assen, Netherlands. Thieves used explosives to access the Drents Museum and made off with several antiquities from ‘Dacia – Empire of Gold and Silver’, including the masterpiece the golden Helmet of Coțofenești, c. 450 BCE, a loan from the National History Museum of Romania. 🏺 😡

This is an amazing guide to Chinese etymography and the study of early Chinese writing, by Maxim Persikov (@gyankotsu on the app that must not be named)! blog333610347.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/h...

"I was just sick and tired of how the internet is evolving into a money extraction panopticon ... and it's gotten bad enough we can't boycott or vote our way out, we have to start causing real pain to those above for any change to occur." We need more of this. www.404media.co/developer-cr...

Ich freue mich, dass meine Arbeit über China in der deutschen Literatur (erschienen bei @degruyter.bsky.social 2023) gestern mit dem Ruprecht-Karls-Preis der Stiftung Universität Heidelberg ausgezeichnet wurde: www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...

Some good news: a new issue of Early Medieval Europe is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...