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!