3.24 — Next Xander King et al. discusses ‘Refitting in dry dock: Considering archaeological naval cemetery populations through commingling and fragmented human remains’ 🪖🪦🦴 #BABAO2025

Ahmed's donations have really slowed and he's struggling. Anyone willing to match my £10? chuffed.org/project/1249...

Mahmoud’s family is starving and needs help getting food and medical treatment - donate here if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/help-mahmo...

Guest Post: ‘British archaeology following the Supreme Court ruling on Trans Rights’ by Owen Hurcum howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/g... with link to a connected 'Archaeodeath Interview' on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEn... @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social

The good news is that she won’t cause trans people will exist forevermore and she won’t let herself know peace as long as we breathe soooo

Thanks to Owen for organising and inviting me on my most fun dig yet! Echoing the thanks to my amazing volunteers who hauled dirt and drew too many contexts. When's next season?

Maisa used to be on here but unfortunately her account continues to be reported and shut down. She has a campaign for donations on PayPal - others have verified her before, so you can donate here if you can. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9hgv...

Some exciting publication news! Mine and Colleen Morgan's (@clmorgan.bsky.social) chapter on the archaeology of the National Transgender Memorial in Manchester has just been published in this exciting edited collection by Chris Fennell! www.routledge.com/Combating-Op...

Malak is a real Palestinian trying to raise funds for herself and her disabled sister, but is constantly pushed off of the website by the cruelty and racist of the mods on here. Please donate and share the link to her fundraiser widely: chuffed.org/project/help...

Direct aid saves lives! If you can't donate, engage to boost the algorithm. Support Osama here ⤵️ gofund.me/3bd90cbf

Yall... The news is so bad... the prices are so high. Getting mortifying reports from the fams. We're going to try to do quicker transfers over the weekend if needed. It's catastrophe. chuffed.org/project/hope...

It’s been devastating to watch Mohammed’s family lose weight due to starvation while trying to raise funds online Please, if you can, donate here: chuffed.org/project/1377...

WE HAVE 24 HOURS TO KEEP A FAM HOUSED. As we highlight Nya for the giving circle, she’s facing eviction. Her disabled parents CAN’T be in the street. Nya wrote on Chuffed days ago: “You left me to face my family's fate alone.” Prove her wrong. We’ll match 100. 0/1000 chuffed.org/project/help...

I know there's a LOT going on right now (waves hand inarticulately at the world) - this is just a small part but a part nonetheless www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2522297...

So the University of York has now moved all future meetings on this matter to online only, capped attendance at 12, and sent me an email asking me to cancel my place at the next one... Sure sounds like they want to listen to trans people. Fucking Spineless!

Got any leftover money at the end of the week? Match, double or half my £7?

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My open letter to the EDI Team at the University of York in response to their 28th April Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Guidance. If you also want to contact York with your concerns you can email them at [email protected]. We won't go down quietly.

So my home institution, the University of York, has just published a statement about the Supreme Court ruling. To say this statement is distressing is an understatement. It appears the Uni of York intends to segregate its trans users... 1/? york.ac.uk/students/news/2025/supreme-court-statement/

Trans. Men. Are. Not. A. Gotcha.

I think what a lot of people don't realise is how manufactured transphobia is as a policy point in the UK. Trans people get basically no mention in the 2010 and 2015 Manifesto's for any major party. Come 2017 and 2019 the work of trans activists has ensured that Labour, LibDems, and SNP, have...

Theres no one property that *is* "Biological Sex". Changing even one of the properties that make up the cluster is making concrete and real changes to your sex, and the act of transition makes profound changes to many of them. Trans men grow prostate tissue, women develop a hormonal cycle,

As bio anths, we really need to examine our role in this and challenge bio essentialism and the harm that our work is causing my/our community because fucking hell

Dont know if i can ever forgive the people that still chose to vote labour despite telling me they disagree with their transphobia thanks for letting me know i was disposable

I donated £50 to help this family - if 10 of you just commit to donating £5 each, that’s £100 in total right there. Please don’t second guess how much even a small donation and a share can have - join me in donating to and sharing this call for support!

Unpopular opinion of the day no.2: I don't think blaming people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a(nother) apologist for genocide is quite the own you think it is

Totally onboard for regular ethical self-reflection about how we handle and discuss ancient human remains in museum collections but for various reasons I would be uneasy with museums referring to human remains from Britain as 'ancestors' in this way. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

oh by the way, the other day I got into a weird headspace and did a whole long thread about how I’m feeling. no way I’m rewriting it all for alt text so here’s a link x.com/postoctobris...

Driving everyone around me a bit mad by getting unsustainably excited for every piece of animal bone

Exactly one year ago, 25 year old US Airman Aaron Bushnell took his own life by self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Rest in Power, brother. I didnt know you in life, but I will never stop thinking about the strength, resolve, and compassion you showed in death

#StandingStoneSunday against fascism… This monolith in Vigo by Francisco Pazos, entitled 'Fiestra á liberdade', stands at the place where barricades were erected in July 1936 to oppose the military uprising against the Spanish republic, in tribute to all who gave their lives in defence of freedom

Avebury, Wiltshire for #standingstonesunday! At some point, I need to try and get #1800sgravestonetuesday going to make use of my entire camera roll.

“Well but surely you can agree we could restrict trans care for imprisoned criminals” No. Transition is not a luxury its a goddamn human right and to deny it is torture

I assure you. Every time you insist on saying "ethnic cleansing" you mean genocide.

1/🧵 The Cass Review final report was quietly amended in December 2024, just before the permanent ban was announced, and it seems to have gone unnoticed. While most of the changes were minor and clerical, two of them were significant. Both changes relate to informed consent.

A beautiful photo of Roundway Hill Fort - the very one mentioned in my poem! I’m not sure how visible it will be anymore from here with the solar farm that’s being proposed. #poetry #blueskypoets #hillfortswednesday

I have no idea how to interact with this platform so here's Roundway hill fort for #hillfortswednesday

Gotta be the hottest canary in this here coalmine

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin. Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset. Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This morning, after a night of very heavy bombing, Ahmed is searching for medication for his daughters Jana and Lana, and his wife Layla. The winter flu is worse than ever this year. Any amount you can contribute helps keep these guys alive

the will has so far defeated three people. are you the person who can read it?? (auction catalogue all done, thanks!)

transwrites.world/my-doctor-em... My Doctor Emailed Me Back by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social

"... the forces of racism have regrouped on the borders of legitimate science and transformed themselves into a dynamic and creative citizen science movement capable of exploiting features of human genetics... human geneticists need to contend with the evolving practices of this ... movement"

For #standingstonesunday; a day late solstice trip to Stonehenge

Amazing time @tag45.bsky.social! Such a supportive environment for my first presentation and thanks to everyone there for being interested in my theory adjacent project. Onwards and upwards!