In love with my new laptop. No more draggable, but a proper portable!

Linked Pasts 11 is an online and asynchronous symposium for discussion and practice around linked open data for the historical world, especially place, people, time, objects and texts. Rather than coming to listen to speakers, participants are expected to build, plan, discuss and learn about LOD.

Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12) linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

This session provides a foundational understanding of AI - its history, definitions, main types, and underlying technologies. Focusing on RAI in research contexts and professional practice, it offers practical strategies and frameworks for evaluating, developing and using AI responsibly.

Koralliriutat on jo menetetty, Atlantin merivirtauksen hiipuminen on lähempänä kuin koskaan. Uutiset ovat muuttuneet huolestuttavista katastrofaalisiksi. Nyt jos koskaan meidän on taisteltava tulevaisuuden puolesta. Osta toimintaamme tukeva pääsylippu virtuaaligalleriaan: mesenaatti.me/4070

Memories of plunging my hand deep into the very cold peat to uncover Iron Age wooden planks last seen over 2,000 years ago. In 1986, I started work on my first archaeology dig at Corlea 1, dated to 148/147 BC. I didn’t know then it would be some of the most spectacular archaeology of my career.

This is the educational background of Matlis, who represents her political interference as being about whether healthcare is 'data driven' it's not a bad education, but there's nothing about data in it. And clearly very little about critical thought either. But plenty to bolster entitlement

The University of Nottingham's latest round of financial restructuring involves suspending our Theology & Religion BA course with a view to its permanent closure. Please support our staff and students by signing this petition c.org/MQVjrMwXq8

The Latial cemetery area of Osteria dell'Osa is a rarity with a full publication of its cremations and inhumations. It lies on a plateau next to a dried crater in Rome. It is dated between the 9th and first decades of the 6th century. #TombTuesday

Another dedication made on behalf of a child - this small boy also holds a ball in his left hand, and is wearing a protective bulla (amulet) round his neck. Very moving to see parents' dedications on behalf of their children.

Another statue from San Casciano, showing a woman at prayer, with beautiful details of her dress.

Lucky to catch the last weekend of the stunning San Casciano bronzes' visit to Berlin - these sculptures were ritually buried at a Tuscan healing sanctuary in the 1st century CE after a lightning strike, & were excavated in the last few years. So revelatory about ancient religious practice

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

AI has not made the jump to reasoning, but it has made the jump to business. For all of my life, researchers and philosophers have studied AI, but they are no longer the experts that governments pay attention to. Now it's the people asking for money that are deemed experts

Hadrianic inscription from the fort of Moresby along the Hadrian's Wall recording the completion of building work by the Twentieth Legion Valeria Victrix, dated to 128-138 AD. Now in the British Museum. #EpigraphyTuesday

Lots of interviewers asking Zack if he sees himself as the next PM - that's not the only way to influence politics. The Green surge made Labour aware that there are alternatives for its former base. That's how we drag the Overton window left. By providing an authentic alternative for people & planet

Jyväskylän kirjamessuilla antiikkia: Su 23.11. Klo 15.30. Jaakkojuhani Peltonen: Kleopatra – viimeisen faaraon myytti.

Helsingin yliopiston ylioppilaskunta (HYY) palkitsi Suomen Lähi-idän instituutin standaarilla vuosijuhlassaan 8.11.2025. FIMElle palkinto myönnettiin työstä Israelin-Palestiinan konfliktin avaamiseksi tuottamalla ja jakamalla tutkittua tietoa suurelle yleisölle.

I am glad to announce the 4th session of the seminar Aux portes de la garnison : le fait urbain en contexte militaire (At the gates of the garrison: urban life in a military context) will take place on Monday, Nov. 24th. from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. , in Lyon.

The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion. So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.

*** ANNOUNCEMENT*** The #EAA warmly invites its members to attend a Special Meeting, which will be held online on Friday, 9 January 2026, from 15:00 to 17:00 CET. This Special Meeting has been convened by the EAA President following a written request from ten percent of the current membership. 1/

They may have around 30% in the polls, but nearly half of voters would rank them dead last if they had the chance. They also have the lowest mean favourability score of all the parties.

It is the #ESC250 voting time! I voted and sorry Käärijä, my Number 1 is Zitti e buoni! #Eurovision songfestival.be/esc250-2025/...

TOMORROW #Accordia talk in London #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

If there is bias with the BBC, it is continious presence of Reform politicians!

'As pressure mounts globally on the humanities, Africa’s leading writers and scholars used this week’s Nobel Symposium in Literature, held in South Africa, to argue that the arts are still vital to the world’s intellectual and moral life.'

This is the mosaic that knocked the Great Pavement at Woodchester off its spot as 'largest known Roman mosaic north of the Alps', a distinction it had held since the 1600s!

Hallitus päätti perustaa propagandaosaston, jotta viestintä saadaan keskitettyä yhdenmukaiseksi ja tosiasiat eivät pääse pilaamaan hallituksen viestintää. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

I can confirm that I will give a quartz paper at Helsinki on Tuesday April 7 and an Atrium Vestae paper at Tampere on Thursday April 9 #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

Save Geography at Leicester: sign the petition! c.org/8rgnvB5RRy

That Roman database of roads that's been in the news: treat with some caution.

Colloque – Ecclesia et date. Humanités numériques et architecture religieuse médiévale rmblf.be/2025/11/10/c...

Yes.

Lovely story. Cool kid with an even cooler mother: “Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.” apnews.com/article/louv...

This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Roman mosaic depicting the muses from Vichten, Luxembourg, dated to the mid 3rd century AD. Calliope and the poet Homer sit at the center. They are surrounded by the other eight ones, identified by their names written in Latin. #MosaicMonday

We picked up a few new followers yesterday, so if you're new around here, here's a bit about us: We're a Roman site on the South coast of England. If you like Mosaics, you'll like us. You can get the rest on Wikipedia. 😄

🎮CALLING ALL EDUCATORS! Check out our FREE Archeogaming Education Module (AEM) - Introduction to Medieval Ireland Experience a general introduction to the social and #Political structures of Medieval #Ireland.

📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it Registration fee: 500 Euros. DEADLINE: 15/04/2026 (Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)

The private company Restore Trust’s attempt to take over the @nationaltrust.org.uk failed again. Will they stop now? No, because they are part of the well-funded nexus of right wing activist organisations that’s determined to control national institutions. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Day 9: Map. For my book project I’m mapping museums in the UK which have ancient Cypriot collections. There are more than you might think! #Museum30

Excellent idea! 😍

You have one week left to submit abstracts for the 2026 @postmedarch.bsky.social Congress! The conference is in May next year, hosted at Reading University, UK. Share your fascinating research with international delegates!

Tutkimussuunnitelma alkaa tosiaan olla pilkunviilausvaiheessa. Aamupäivän ratoksi lähdeviitteiden korjailua ja pusertamista mahdollisimman pieneen tilaan, työsuunnitelmakuvan korjaustarpeiden bongailua, datanhallintasuunnitelman viilausta ja muuta yhtä mielekästä. 💈4pv #Talvihaku2026-päiväkirja

No words.

This dire government is so set on the destruction of British nature that it refuses point blank to listen to any arguments in its support We are going to have to fight for every field, every wood, every bat and every newt 💪 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Callanish sunset yesterday #StandingStoneSunday

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear..... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cool: a medieval 14th c. wooden road was discovered in Antwerp. Photo: Stad Antwerpen