“In a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.” Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer! bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Very clear from Greek archaeology here. International archaeologists - cancel your summer jolly and step up to a basic ethical stance in your behaviours and practice on this. Do better - do something!

This is fantastic, and it clearly shows that certain members of the ExB have been representing their own interests and values, not those of the membership. Let's see what happens now...🍉

Just a few hours left to vote!

Now open access: Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... #archaeology #openaccess

🚨2025 and 2026 EAA members🚨 Have you voted yet? You have until January 31st to submit your vote. Not received a link to vote? If so, please contact: [email protected]

Why do we design projects in Archaeology the way we do it? Who has agency in this process? Whose values and goals are driving our research questions, methods, and frameworks? join @drsadiewatson.bsky.social and myself to disscuss it at CIfA's annual meeting in Edinburgh this April!

The article grew out of a sense of unease we had while reading debates over decolonisation in archaeology, especially about where the conversation is being shaped. I’m really glad to finally see it out in the world. 🧵 I highlight in this thread some of our core arguments.

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...

I have added the following to my original complaint. I'm posting this because it feels important that EAA members understand the extent of what is happening as so much of it is behind closed doors. Names redacted (the irony!) because I feel forced to do so while the evidence is being withheld.

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.

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

The US has, consistently, been the biggest source of pain and suffering in the World since WW2.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

Superb keynote from @drsadiewatson.bsky.social at TAG this afternoon, wonderfully expressed insights from fieldwork and practice

Hiba's seminar will be first in Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies series, on "Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts". All welcome, in-person only, book via this link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...

Join us in York @tag2025york.bsky.social on 16 December for Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera's 8pm lecture, 'An Archaeology of Radical Tenderness'. The @postmedarch.bsky.social's Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is followed by a drinks reception and seasonal snacks. Then go on to the TAG party!

I can't fucking believe they dare to reference Foucault while they dig and have projects next to an actual, contemporary Israeli torture camp. What a disgusting bunch.

So happy to see this article out! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3... In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..

Starmer understands that the role of PM historically is to advance colonial interests and suppress working classes at home. Unleasing racist hooligans from a settler colony on a British working class community with a large Muslim population is entirely in line with that.

The fact Starmer has spoken up more for some foreign football hooligans than British citizens captured in international waters a few weeks ago speaks volumes

Oops, gave the peace prize to another fascist freak who just so happens to be pro genocide. Im sure that was accidental.

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating. We're just getting started. This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow. Join.greenparty.org.uk

While in 2022-2023, with the new job at MOLA, I struggled to publish -I had to learn a lot of new things!- these recent months have been more productive, and a few things have recently came out. I am particularly happy that this article about personhood in the Argar, in the Bronze Age...

"Policymakers should redistribute the money they spend on APCs to non-commercial presses [...]. Universities should support these presses via in-house services where possible" 📣 Exactly the Spanish, Portuguese & most Latin American countries' model **since decades**! But hey, what do we know...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks! forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks! forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!

Considering the events in the last couple of days, I have decided to not participate with my talk at EAA today. I am deeply sorry as the session was fascinating, and I was excited. I just don't feel able to discuss the impact of Capitalism in Archaeology's disciplinary culture, which was the topic

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

This makes me uncomfortable. Not only is this a question of ethics & respect, but perhaps these two archaeologists should ask themselves WHY a tech titan from Meta would want to locate heritage sites in resource-rich, Indigenous regions like the Amazon. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Excited for #FestivalOfArchaeology #YouthDay? Catch Grace Heller’s quernstone quarry talk now! 🪨👇 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhW... More talks coming on the day! Sign up 👉 shorturl.at/qS9dN #StudentAndEarlyCareersConference

🛡️ Think Vikings skipped Wales? Think again! Jessica Nutt’s poster dives into overlooked Viking conflicts in early medieval Wales, uncovering battlefields, movement, and surprising alliances through a predictive model. A must-read for anyone interested in conflict archaeology! 👉 shorturl.at/DExym

Why the American School of Overseas Research might be legally liable for complicity w genocide as per Francesca Albanese's new report Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵

CFP: "Between Ivory Towers and Portacabins: Dialogues between professional archaeology and academia on practice, theory and cross-sector research" Co-organised by @leilaar.bsky.social, York PhD student working with MOLA to understand digital recording for @tag2025york.bsky.social

This might have passed English colleagues by, but academic and development-led (preventative) archaeologists are united in protests across France today against changed heritage legislation in the government. Solidarity with their struggles and I hope to join them later this afternoon. 🖤

Call for papers is OPEN!! For further information check out our website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Hi Bluesky! First post, and I am happy to use it to promote a really cool session at #EAABelgrade "Moving away from forwards: Analysing the metaphorical structuring of archaeological thought" Join us to discuss metaphors in archaeological thought! 📆 deadline 6 Feb Submit via www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025/

GREAT to have this land when @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social and I are in the middle of an ethnographic paper on developer-funding & interaction with practice. Communicating the ‘unproof’ to people wanting facts/clean endings/structural&functional definitions is in direct, daily opposition!