A shot in the dark, but is anyone out there working on early medieval Brittany?

For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia

started reading this and was like, 'why are the left against this! it sounds great!' and then I continued and was like, ah yes ok, never mind as you were www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Les sanglots longs Des violons De l'automne Blessent mon cœur D'une langueur Monotone 6/6/44

There's strong competition, but Jenkins is a very strong front-runner for the award "Biggest C*nt at the Grauniad". Obviously, he's VERY posh, so listen up, peasants, Sir Simon is talking and he knows more about everything than you.

New rare discoveries at Kirkby Thore are transforming our understanding of early medieval Cumbria Read Our Latest Blog: 👉🔗 tr.ee/EyFFnP These discoveries represent some of the first evidence of post-Roman life — the so called 'Dark-Ages' in Cumbrian history.

I've been really impressed by the team dismantling the organ at our local church - they've really pulled out all the stops.

Can someone explain to Trump how caps-lock works?!

I thought a blockade meant that you *stopped* ships going through the Straits. They should set up a web-cam so people can watch Trump be humiliated in real time

Does anyone really think that Trump has a scooby who Neville Chamberlain was?

Just sent my paper on early medieval sculpture in Brittany off to the editors. Curious - is anyone else working on early medieval archaeology in Brittany - particularly ecclesiastical stuff?

Working with my colleague Alexander Jansen to record the eroding gravestones at the abandoned Jewish cemetery at Ayres Quay, Sunderland

The opinion I have held since I first heard anything about Bob Dylan, which is that Bob Dylan is a wanker, remains unchallenged

We have a PhD studentship available in History or Archaeology at CCCU www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... - deadline 22 May. #skystorians 1/

Great to see @davidpetts1.bsky.social will be giving the next Deerhurst Lecture.

OTD in 2020, the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown began. In this article from the archives, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn and caitjan.bsky.social explore how familiar debates about the use of face masks shaped responses to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

Has anyone done any research on ADHD and the ability to engage/read Ebooks?

I know enough lawyers to understand that this ruling is lawyer-speak for “you absolute bunch of fucking clowns”

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Come along to our next IAS lecture on 5 Feb, 6pm in the Saltwell Building. Ben Raffield (Uppsala) rethinks Viking Age warfare, revealing complex warrior identities and a more human, realistic picture of conflict in the early medieval North @arcdurham.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social

I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

Mongooses or Mongeese?

@paulcornell.bsky.social @nicholaspegg.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social @williampurkis.bsky.social @quiteamess.bsky.social Hi all! I know there's a LOT of Doctor Who podcasts out there, but what's one more eh? 😉 Please do listen, like, follow and share if you fancy 🙂

Here comes the video analysis: - Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun - He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent - They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down - He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)

UK users of Ancestry - how easy is to search census data by settlement/street rather than individual? Seems all set up for family history- but I need the data for a place study. Don't want to pay for access if I can't get the info I need

Talking about map projections with the students today - what's the betting that Trump is looking at Greenland on the Mercator projection....

I find myself in Reading tonight... anywhere good [and cheapish] to eat? Been years since I was here....

The Northern Picts: the citadel project, rescue and research-led investigations at a Viking age power centre | Thu 21 May, Cardiff www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work: 1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid. 2. Win or lose you go back to work.

Whittlesey Straw Bear :-)

⚡️In Iran, protesters have already taken control of the city Abdana The police laid down their weapons and sided with them. Protesters are setting fire to cars, and there are fierce clashes in other cities. ZSU Insider Tg

@archeodgarcia.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social

He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Greene Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun

Still one of my favourite memes from last Christmas...😉 #StarWars #Snowman

Update from @digventures.bsky.social on their dig diary for 2026 featuring a call for crowdfunding work at Wrexham’s Rossett Roman Villa. More details to follow, but it's on their events listing at digventures.com/calendar/

See, that’s the good shit right there

OK- I'm doing a practical session with MA [humanities] students about academic writing (soft skills) - what are people's best bits of advice about academic writing - anything from how to knuckle down to writing to style to structure?

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler. This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne. Lots of lovely early medieval goodness. #northumberland #archaeology 1/2 🏺

Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!

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Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1