Headed down to Bristol on a rainy train to keynote the Arch/Anth PGR seminar tomorrow, then run "And What Remains: the Archaeology Worldbuilding Game" at the Festival of History and Heritage in Games on Wednesday. See some of you there, I think! www.tickettailor.com/events/brist...

Does anyone have a good mudbrick material for Unity? I can repay in pints :)

Archaeologist Carole Crumley talking about heterarchies, if you are looking to cite someone in addition to Mark Fisher wrt capitalist realism. The ability to dream outside of hierarchies and the state should be taught by every archaeologist. GOOD MORNING

First lecture of the Bronze Age SE Arabia series tomorrow on landscapes and foodways. I also have a lecture/workshop in the Archaeology & AI module, where the students will play “and what remains” the world building card game before examining better ways to craft metadata. As one does.

Iain McLean currently giving our paper on proxemics and social interaction in XR :) #FUSION @glasgow.ac.uk

This is tomorrow night, in beautiful Cushendall, and youre very welcome to come along!

And at long last! This paper is finally live. It's been a labour of love, with thanks to so many @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @micireland.bsky.social @ulstermuseum.org @nmireland.bsky.social and so many more! And it's open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here's a collection of trans/queer focused papers at #CHI2026! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️📝 padlet.com/haimson/chi2...

Great paper on physics in VR presented by Christos Lougiakis #CHI2026 Key take away: more realism is not always better but consistent realism do matters :)

Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world

The EAA votes are out The great majority of our archaeological community has voted in favour of the petitions raised by #concernedEAA. We asked for a democratic process, we asked for accountability, and for the need to acknowledge the horrific genocidal policy of Israel against Gaza.

There they are! @florencesn.bsky.social presenting their paper on video game archaeology 🤩

What a cool paper #CHI2026

The only paper in archaeology and gaming at #CHI2026 I believe :) Looking forward to hearing @florencesn.bsky.social 👾

Heading to Barcelona tomorrow for #CHI2026 If any digital archaeologists or heritage people are there, drop me a message 🤓

We're very excited for Sara Perry (UCL)'s public, keynote lecture next week: Exploring Human Values through Social Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage. Thursday 16th April at 17:00 BST, free for all to attend in person or online, book at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Just in case you haven’t heard, we’re organising #CAAUK in #Glasgow this November! Hope to see familiar and new faces there! @glasgow.ac.uk @caaint.bsky.social

@clmorgan.bsky.social and @apolitopoulos.bsky.social on Worldbuilding 🗺️ in the #CAA2026 I’ve played the game #AndWhatRemains and I loved it so much! Amazing tool for teaching and public engagement :) 👾

Practice your British Sign Language at UofG this April! Join Carly Brownlie (Deaflancers) in a friendly & supportive environment. Everyone welcome! ☕ Beginners Café - 8 April ☕ Intermediates Café - 29 April More: gla.ac/4sIYhQT

If you care about democracy and the ethics of archaeology, and believe that scholars should take a stance on the on-going genocide, please sign and circulate.

Looking forward to the #CAA2026 in Vienna next week! I’ll be presenting our lab’s experiments on cultural object interaction in XR in Session 3 on Wednesday the 2nd of April at 11:10. Hope to see you there! #FUSION project @glasgow.ac.uk

All the cool kids will be there 🤩

At @ucl.ac.uk today giving a lecture on digital archaeology and cultural heritage. Such a great audience, thank you @veyselapaydin.bsky.social for the invite!

OMW to present to the Newcastle University Archaeology Society tonight! I gave them a choice of topics and they went for: OTHER EYES: Mixed reality, digital interpretation and Romano-british identity in a changing interpretive landscape Say hi if you are there! 🖤

Happy no-longer-boycotting-#IWD -actively-protesting-it-day ;) Shout out to everyone does this work anyway ❤️💪 www.instagram.com/reel/DVnkI0R...

Digital Classicist London 2026 call for papers. Papers on any aspect of the ancient or pre-colonial worlds *and* that address innovative digital approaches. Deadline Monday 16th March 2026. blog.stoa.org/archives/4370

Amazing 🤩

For the #Archaeogaming crowd: You can play as Venture, an archaeologist in Overwatch 2! overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/heroes... #archaeology 🏺

Happy 181st birthday to "The Raven", Edgar Allen Poe's mannered, gothic, archaising poem of grief, madness and anthropomorphic avians, first published in the New York Evening Mirror #onthisday in 1845.

Join us for this talk on 3D modelling and visualisation in archaeology and heritage. I’ll be mumbling about the theoretical underpinnings and Katrine will talk about super cool 3D modelling projects she’s working on :) Thank you Gabby @palaeofuturist.bsky.social for the invite!

Digital Classicist Wiki editing session: Mediterranean antiquity themed content (including ancient societies and cultures adjacent to the Greco-Roman world). Today at 15:00 GMT. Please sign up at ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... for the link.

Tired of excuses and obfuscation from the EAA Executive? Want a collegial and supportive society fit for its members? Then #boycottEAA Read our call for voting and boycotting below! If you want a detailed description of the events so far please read: drive.google.com/file/d/1jdGO...

Further to the EAA saga and the actions of its leadership...Zena is the editor of the Association's journal, and we now how much hard and unappreciated work that entails. She was attacked in the meeting of 9.1.206, and yet the people in charge seem to want to withhold the evidence. Enough is enough.

In a week’s time I’ll be on site in Al Ain, UAE, working on the Muʿtariḍ Archaeology Project. It’s a cracking team, and we are excavating a big Bronze Age Umm an Nar tomb. I’ll probably post on TikTok but in the meantime, updates on Instagram: www.instagram.com/mutaridarcha... 🏺

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

Yesterday I resigned from the EAA Appeals & Anti-Harassment Committee (AAHC) after I was targetted in what I believe was an attempt to disprupt & undermine the AAHC. Be assured, AAHC are v much committed to making EAA a safe space, despite the restrictions imposed on them by the existing statutes. 🏺

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy

Plea to stop using prehistoric monuments & peoples as a sub for present-day national identities. Past peoples are not ‘ancestors’, they had no idea of the concept of a nation-state & this archipelago has seen a lot of traffic since the last ice age

Popped over to the tremendous @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social’s session for their presentation which is whip-smart, well argued and fun. 🤩

Ok this storytelling session at #TAG2025 is getting better and better! Peter Lawson telling stories with a rebec 🎶

Lovely storytelling performance by Harold Myrtum in the storytelling session at #TAG2025 in York! Just amazing :)

Moerike Tobias is now tracing the history of archaeology in Gaza to analyse its positioning and reproduction as a crossroads. @tag2025york.bsky.social 🏺#tag2025

Great talk by Sara Perry on data activism, and also cool to see our paper up there, go have a look!

Theres my grrrl Despoina @archaeobruja.bsky.social looking awesomely glowing !

Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there: forms.gle/bcMCZNZUJPUq...

We are all storytellers, in period-inappropriate drag

Digital Classicist Wiki editing session and discussion next Monday, 16:00 GMT: Digital approaches to ancient art and iconography. ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... Please join us!

If you are planning to attend CAA in Vienna and you have an #archaeogaming paper to present consider submitting in our #archaeogaming session! Deadline has been extended to November 9 so there are a few more days left!