Catching up on email and now listening to the fab @chloeduckworth.bsky.social‬ on BBC Radio 4 talking about our rubbish!

I’m also rather delighted to find this book: “Does it fart? The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence.”

Here’s one … a scholarly paper on penis rings authored by … S. Wang?!

Bored? Let’s play a game… 1. Go to Google Scholar 2. Search for the rudest or silliest topic you can think of 3. Giggle like a 13 year old at all the serious papers and attempted humorous titles pertaining to said topic 4. Quote post this with your best discovery

I’ve just remembered the time my darling offspring conflated my disability with my doctorate, and told our friends that I have a bad case of “PDHD”…

This is a brilliant listen. Jacqueline McKinley of Wessex Archaeology on today’s episode of The Life Scientific. She explains things beautifully, in an all-too a rare piece of public exposure for the importance of work in the commercial archaeology sector ☺️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It just me or this dog look like Keir Starmer?

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Archaeologist: Okay, we have half a cup

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

If you haven't read this important document for UK #archaeology then do, and read the heartbreaking appendix of comments. We shouldn't be here. Share, discuss, engage with CIFA, join a Union. Ask why we can't have sustainable, prodessional wages within a sector worth £382 billion pounds. 🏺

I recently tried my hand at replicating an Ancient Egyptian core-formed glass perfume bottle. I did this in a tiny handmade bead furnace (something like a pizza oven but even smaller), showing that such processes can be done in structure which leave relatively little archaeological evidence.

She arrived last night … my new motorbike 😍

The Bin Trilogy, Part 1

Called it! Radio 4 and Observer are both doing this today 😅

Waiting for Guardian and Radio 4 to run hand-wringing features about recent popularity of Bluesky and whether it’s “just an echo chamber“.

Haiku #001 I wrote a haiku About Trump. It’s just the word ‘Fuck’, seventeen times

Starting out on this new platform feels like when you buy a nice new notebook and you are almost scared to start writing in it, in case you ruin it.