Thanks mighty @learncardiff.bsky.social, so proud of this truly co-created podcast, critically exploring 14 years of university/community partnership working. Lots more about it on my LinkedIn account - find me there! @flintdibble.bsky.social @webstermedieval.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social

Our festschrift for @gawainsmum.bsky.social is out! Delighted to see this come to fruition for a wonderful friend and colleague. #medieval #medievalsky www.routledge.com/Military-Ord...

Thanks to awesome Russell Todd for this plug for our forthcoming podcast series on @caerheritage.bsky.social 14 year journey of community co-creation, heritage discovery & partnership working coming V soon! @flintdibble.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/QjRWMckcYLQV...

Listening to this fab podcast on Grange Pavillion Youth Forum with inspirational co-founders Nirushan & Shoruk - a brilliant example of community/university partnership with @cardiffuni.bsky.social Community Gateway. A LOT to learn for @caerheritage.bsky.social! on.soundcloud.com/wk8ztISLl8hh...

There are 3 weeks left of the Summer Holidays - @caerheritage.bsky.social has a range of activities & events for families – keep a lookout for what’s on CAER Heritage 😊🐝🐞🪴🌻🌸🌞🎤🎧 @flintdibble.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @learncardiff.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Here is my farewell talk at Cardiff University -all about the Behaviour Research Group across the years, and some very bad dad-jokes... youtu.be/Nl9EkBLQ3ss

Today I think is the end of the uni's financial year means it's been the final day for a whole host of colleagues who've taken "voluntary" redundancy. Very unsettling experience.

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

Losing all that pay was terrible for everyone. If you were early career with no savings it left a financial impact that many are still recovering from.

Universities never restored our pay despite financially benefitting from the scheme revaluation that the strikes achieved. #ucu

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Film @ special event @caerheritage.bsky.social Volunteers & students joined @cardiffunimusic.bsky.social for a drumming workshop @ Bronze Age settlement! They were the 1st people to drum on that site in c. 4,000 years! @flintdibble.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social youtu.be/YkT7hH8yrWA?...

🎉 Yn ystod #GŵylArchaeoleg eleni, beth am edrych ar archaeoleg yn eich ardal leol? Ewch i Archwilio i ddysgu mwy! buff.ly/T383GjK #BryngaerauDyddMercher #PenDinas

🎉 During this year's #FestivalOfArchaeology why not check out some archaeology in your local area? Visit Archwilio to find out more! buff.ly/T383GjK #HillfortsWednesday #PenDinas

Beautiful feature on how our @caerheritage.bsky.social community discovers new pasts, opens up life changing opportunities in the present & helps to create new futures ❤️ @webstermedieval.bsky.social @learncardiff.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social

"The One that Haunts Me" is just 3 views away from 200. The song is dream-pop with big drums, layers of guitar & uke, and ghost vocals. The video has wild horses on the Gower, graffiti in Grangetown, and hand-drawn pieces by my daughter. Fun, funky, not to be missed! youtu.be/grbDj-501hE

..just like that, @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig is over for 2025. Massive thank-yous to everyone who visited (almost 1,500 of you!), to the 430 volunteers, 220 school pupils, @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social students, staff & volunteers from ACE & amazing communities of Caerau & Ely ✊️

#NHS 77 years old Many reasons to be thankful I continue campaign for care free at the point of need, because no matter whether you are rich or poor you will receive care - something worth fighting for! A caring society is one where the vulnerable & those in need are treated well & valued

‘encounters with observable reality are being flatly denied’ 👏👏 … thank you @archiebland.bsky.social for expressing this all so well

Watch former Exploring the Past student, Anastazia Thomas, discuss her role and the community spirit involved in saving St Elvan’s church in Aberdare. I truly uplifting short documentary @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social @cujournmedcul.bsky.social @webstermedieval.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

#rachelreeves were those tears for those who suddenly find themselves disabled and unable to work? Disability can happen at any time regardless of previous good health and careful lifestyle choices. Career gone, income gone, health gone. Having to apply for PIP is like running the gauntlet.

Had a great time teaching Teffont Archaeology NLHF funded Stratigraphy workshop with our volunteers last week, and some keen souls made it two days in a row and attended our Roman Pottery workshop the following day. Really rewarding teaching and engagement, upskilling the team ahead of next summer..

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to the 400+ people who visited our @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig open day today to discover nearly 4,000 years of heritage! @flintdibble.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @learncardiff.bsky.social

And if you want to come & discover nearly 4,000 years of Cardiff's history under Trelai Park then come to our BIG community dig open day tomorrow, Saturday 28th 11am-2pm! @flintdibble.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @learncardiff.bsky.social @webstermedieval.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social

One of many remarkable discoveries this week @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig, a beautiful Bronze Age flint arrowhead found in the floor of our 'new' roundhouse by volunteer Jojo 👌 @drtobydriver.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social

BBC News online coverage, Radio 4 report on site yesterday and today full page spreads in print editions of Western Mail & SW Echo today. Our amazing @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig is in the news! A wonderful, positive story for Caerau and Ely ✊️

Such sad news. Education should be available to everyone, and gutting lifelong learning departments (similar happening elsewhere in the UK) removes so much richness in culture and development from society.

Lovely coverage of @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig on BBC New ✊️👌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For all the amazing @caerheritage.bsky.social community volunteers & @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social diggers. This is OUR story ❤️ Please SHARE.... @flintdibble.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @webstermedieval.bsky.social @learncardiff.bsky.social youtu.be/PLxbdkeElok?...

“Students threatened with jail if they protest without permission.” @CardiffUCU - “we think it raises serious worries about staff and students’ right to protest as well as potentially endangering legitimate trade union activities” 👀👇 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

Five things to remember about war:

There's a great and important book to be written about VC mobility in UKHE since 2000 and its role in the unaccountable demolition of institutions by a roving band of managerial vandals.

AI, foreign campuses when cutting at home, ethical questions... A troubled future for Cardiff? nation.cymru/opinion/lect...

Exciting news from @caerheritage.bsky.social community dig - we have discovered 2 'new' Bronze Age roundhouses. Very hot this week - but amazing support from local volunteers & schools! @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social

This is a devastating piece of writing. Highly recommend. 🔥✊👇 www.iwa.wales/agenda/2025/...

I had to delete a post from yesterday because of a very unfortunate autocorrection. It is Ancient History and Religion and Theology at Cardiff University that have lost their degrees, as have others in modern languages. We are utterly distraught.

They didn't

Same story as everywhere else. “McKechnie said he was “sceptical” about Macquarie’s claims that the cuts were being made because of falling student numbers. A change paper seen by Guardian…showed the arts generated $133m in annual profit but cost $48.6m to run.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Cardiff University formally agrees sweeping cuts that will see departments shut www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...

‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Impossible to regard this an anything other than a damning indictment of the managememt's proposals from the University's Senate. It will be interesting see if the University Council take any notice of the collective and unrivalled expertise and experience of their academic governing body 🧐

*University Executive, standing on the throats of its own staff, leans over to whisper ... * 'We have plenty of Wellbeing Seminars for you to attend, by the way ...'

Thank you @janmachielsen.bsky.social for today's "Supernatural Event" research day. Really good, thought provoking papers, and yours had the best pun for its title!

Excited for our annual supernatural event at Cardiff! It's Friday the 13th. What could possibly go wrong?!? 😅

Cardiff University’s embattled Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner has told a Senedd committee that most of the stress endured by the university’s academic staff since the announcement of a major cuts programme was personal and not work-related ✍️Martin Shipton

Cardiff UCU quoted at length in this Times Higher piece about the Cardiff VC and Chair of Council’s grilling by Senedd members today: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff...

🌟 @caerheritage.bsky.social BIG DIG open day! 🌟 🗓 Sat. 28th June 🕚 11am – 2pm 📍 Trelai Park Get ready to discover 4,000 years of Cardiff's history 🙂 ⛏️ Dig tours! 🎶 Music Workshops! 🎨 Art Workshops! 🍴 Heritage food tasting! @learncardiff.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social @ltotelin.bsky.social