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!