This is such a great paper. We make endless small steps ahead in archaeology every week. I remember when I was starting out and the number of colleagues who told me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺

#FindsFriday from the historic palace of Benin City. Ranging from pre-colonial bronzework of the Benin Kingdom to late-colonial-era Nigerian police regalia, they reveal the most-comprehensive archaeological picture of Benin City’s history to date. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous: Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individuals 🏺🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Suggests wild chimpanzees use peering to learn a broad variety of skills, thereby highlighting unrecognized cultural potential in everyday skills.

Then PAY us for it.

People complaining about Socialism always use Capitalism as the example.

Just swear her in and rip of the bandage.

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago. Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.

Finally played Tim Hutching's Old Morris Cave/Thousand Year Old Campfire yesterday, which I've been meaning to for a long time, and it slaps pretty hard. This is 100% my speed right now—pretty simple, pretty rich, and lots of design things to think about... thousandyearoldvampire.com/products/tyoc

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

I think I was a little inaccurate before. Look out for this at 8am on Saturday Eastern Standard Time in Australia. carta.anthropogeny.org/events/ancie...

Get ready for this. 8am Eastern Standard Time in Australia carta.anthropogeny.org/events/ancie...

This looks like an excellent introduction.

Shout it from the rooftops (even though they might be quite a way up) Mamdani said:

The art of the teal (see ALT text)

I am disgusted by this. And this is why a complete boycott of investment in Israeli armaments is essential for any civilised people. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“In union, there is strength.” ― Aesop Please, all in the conservation movement, do not do deals that simply favour your pet areas, in exchange for publicly endorsing @australianlabor.bsky.social's pathetic environmental law reform bill. Demand the whole package is improved, back in the science!

A good review of a partisan book theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...

What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯

As an archaeologist I realise that someone should be speaking up about the story. After the ICE age, people in the Middle East and Africa invented civilisation.

This is wonderful. Skewer's a biased book www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/11...

Is there any chance we could aim for "No genocide No vember"?

I know it’s not all Americans. I know this. But still. Fuck the USA.

THIS is the point

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

The ALP is seriously letting down the people of Australia. We need more politicians like Pocock. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Lights are on but nobody is home. We have a broken Roomba for President.

A great post from @tessmachling.bsky.social setting out the scale of the UK metal detecting mess. Having no effective regulatory framework is incredible for a signatory of the Valletta Convention. There is no escaping the negligent leadership on the issue. License metal detecting now. 🏺🦣

Pleasure was all ours and thank you for letting us on site! And woweee what a first episode it’s going to be! #Archaeology 🏺 #History #Documentary @channel4tv.bsky.social

The piece where I get to say everything that's bugging me about the world of detecting & archaeology & ask - why are we not more concerned about this? (Thank you to everyone who read through drafts & offered thoughts, advice and ideas.) #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/10/27/t...

Dutch family finds some shards next to their house, glue them together at the kitchen table, such fun. Then they realise the result might be something special. They call archaeologists who find 275 Iron age pots, human bone & a dog skeleton from 185 BC! www.omroepzeeland.nl/amp/nieuws/1...

Well 'we' (individuals) don't profit as our insurance & taxes go up to deal with ever more climate disasters, and 'we' (Oz businesses) miss out on ultra-cheap renewable power as the ALP prioritises expensive gas. But yes 'we' (fossil-fuel industry) are certainly profiting ...

Of course we are not the only climate offenders, but as a disproportionately large offender and a wealthy country that could afford to lead change, Australia is setting literally the worst example. We could act, but instead we choose to profit from not acting (while pretending to).

Our contrib to climate change via fossil fuel exports dwarfs anything we do domestically by a factor of 4 to 1. Bowen’s “commitment to renewables” in domestic energy while doing literally nothing else is like bailing out a sinking ship with a soup spoon.

It’s insane to me that none of our biggest media houses and commentators or political parties will acknowledge the basic realities of climate change: we in Australia are making it much worse. We’re not immune from catastrophic disasters just because we *export* our fossil fuels …

These hurricanes will get worse, if that is conceivable, because we continue to approve and extend coal and gas ventures. Australia is among the *very worst* offenders globally, yet the Albanese govt is only interested in expanding fossil fuel exports.

This is such an important discussion. We all must reduce our carbon emissions and do so really rapidly. The consequences of rising temperatures are not just that it gets warm but that the whole climatic system is more unstable than it was. More floods, more cyclones, more droughts, more disasters.

A statement from me, on behalf of the Australian Cartoonists Association:

Let me blow your minds

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It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Rediscovered only 26 yrs ago Ballinluig is a hidden gem in the #Cairngorms. Close by are small cairns, hut circles and a km SE is a Ring cairn … an ancient community? #StandingStoneSunday More pics & location on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...