Aerial archaeology began not in neutral curiosity but in the violence of colonial Syria. Benjamin Thomas White (@btwhite.bsky.social) traces its entanglement with empire.

Restoration of one of the trilithons at Stonehenge in 1958. Photo courtesy Mrs H. E. O'Neil. In G. Daniel, A Short History of Archaeology, Thames & Hudson, 1981, p209. @stoneclub.bsky.social

shifted some Ikea goods today 30km between Dundee + Arbroath with a Bullit + Carla - 90% totally fine - some speed gate issues and daft parking - Arbroath's Places For Everyone Scheme will be fantastic when completed - shame Dundee hasn't got something similar in the city centre/ Perth Road

Israeli attacks on Palestinian heritage amount to war crimes, UN report finds The independent UN investigative body released the findings last week buff.ly/voMGX1x

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

How can we visualise the agency of art and artists in past societies? Mine and @dparrott.bsky.social's session at @tag2025york.bsky.social intends to bring together exciting new research to explore this question! Interested? Why not submit an abstract!✋ 🎨🖌️🏺

Why did Palaeolithic artists decide to produce art on the same walls that someone else had decorated? Do rock art palimpsests reflect dialogues that occurred across tens-of-thousands of years? My new OA paper develops a conceptual framework to explore these dimensions! 👇🏺 doi.org/10.1007/s108...

We can allow history to repeat itself, and powerful interests to shape our streets in one way. Or we can remember that cities are places where walking, cycling and public transport should be prioritised. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important thread from Adam here. Public space - especially in towns and cities - isn't just there for the fast, efficient movement of motor vehicles and we mustn't let that motonormative thinking enable another generational landgrab as automated driving slides in

moved some sculptures with the #cargobike last week from @vadundee.bsky.social to #Arbroath - new bike infrastructure along NCN1 was fantastic @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social @anguscouncil.bsky.social @sustransscot.bsky.social

This is from CAPITAL IS DEAD, five years ago www.versobooks.com/products/887...

Anything by McKenzie Wark - her Gamer Theory, Hacker Manifesto and Raving are all definitive works in their respective fields :) diving into her work on information capitalism and the 'vectoralist' class at the moment - www.e-flux.com/journal/65/3...

#CritcalMass #Dundee Good turnout!

Next @cyclingscotland.bsky.social to be held in Sunny #Dundee this September!

Edinburgh's Transport Planning Society have a new report out on how they think motonormativity could be tackled in the city tps.org.uk/public/downl...

“A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease + the loss of $80K in grant $ promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (about 🇮🇱’s displacement of 🇵🇸) following rptd intimidation attempts by the mayor.”

I think people underestimate how quickly a city can change from a place where cycling feels too dangerous, to a place where it feels safe enough.

Middle Ground is a new, roaming artist residency series based on a cargo bike, starting in summer 2025. Its goal? To bridge divides, bring people together and counter polarisation. 🧵👇

We are now accepting students for our MA in Contemporary #Art and #Archaeology programme, which starts in September 2025. #postgraduate #ThinkUHI #Art&Archaeology archaeologyorkney.com/2025/03/13/a...

Two Key Safe Cycling Routes Show Massive Increase in Use. momentummag.com/two-key-safe...

New episode ! We talked with the delightful British journalist and author Laura Laker about her odyssey on the UK's National Cycle Network, what makes good cycling infrastructure, and her work in setting standards for how reporters & cops talk about traffic crashes. thewaroncars.org/2025/03/11/e...

My unpopular opinion is that driving a car destroys your personality.

Another online event on March 25, will focus on the UHI’s Postgraduate and Research Creative programmes, including our MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology. #ThinkUHI #Art&Archaeology #Postgraduate archaeologyorkney.com/2025/03/03/c...

Deeply concerning issues with the next round of rail consultations- we need @heidialexander.bsky.social to act NOW We simply cannot allow people to continue to be #DisabledByTheRailway - it’s PUBLIC TRANSPORT! abcommuters.com/2025/02/28/n...

The gender gap in cycling isn’t about preference - it’s about safety, infrastructure, and a country that has somehow managed to make the act of riding a bike on many roads feel as appealing as volunteering as a human traffic cone on the M25. www.eta.co.uk/news/the-gre...

Feb 24, 8pm, online: “Join AK Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics to celebrate the launch of artist and advocate Rasheedah Phillips’s expansive new book, Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time (AK Press 2025).” dismantlingmastersclocklaunch.splashthat.com

A brilliant article on how promoting road schemes (dualling, extensions, bypasses) appear as logical technical solutions but sustainable transport schemes are framed as political choices. open.substack.com/pub/omerbor/...

Episode two is now live! 🎙️ We're joined by Aaron McCarthy, Frank McElhinney, Becky Little & Tom Morton and together they discuss their work on how environments adapt and show resilience in the face of environmental, social and economic change. Listen here: va.scot/3X7ToTs

Great to be part of Dundee Radio Club listening festival this weekend. With Neil Mcguire we've put together a show called House Language about modern domesticity, housing crisis and what we value in our homes - have a listen dundeeradio.club

I have a small sound work transmitting as part of the dundeeradio.club this weekend - feat. the voices of Alison Scott, Hayley Dawson and Maria Blom - listen in for some field recordings from neolithic sites on Orkney, ios moogs, quotes, ferry sounds and buses 👁️👂🪨🚌⛴️🌀🌬️

Dundee Radio Club's 48-hour listening festival is this weekend 🎧🎶 We're so excited that the Young People's Collective podcast has been included in the line-up too! You can listen here from 7-9 Feb: dundeeradio.club

energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/energy-in-mo... Energy in Motion invites scholars, artists, writers, organisers, and the public, to come together to share innovative scholarly work, to collaborate beyond disciplinary boundaries, and to embark on new creative co-creations. June 8-10 at V and A Dundee

@dundeecycling.co.uk First Critical Mass of 2025 - chilly but at least the fog held off till we were done!

For SlashGear, I wrote about how David Lynch revealed the darkness of America's addiction to cars www.slashgear.com/1775247/davi...

Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."

In case you missed this: the discussion around delivery rider behaviour/illegal ebike use too often ignores wider economic pressures, including from the app-based delivery model. We discuss that, plus how the tech has morphed to be even worse for riders, with a fascinating guest

Curious parallel: at the same time we are encouraged to extend personhood to “AI” while personhood is being withdrawn from trans ppl, the undocumented, and so on.