This is what happens when 'treasure' can't be bought by a museum - the hoard has been broken up into individual auction lots & will disappear into many different hands, some overseas. When do we start saying enough is enough?? www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/cal... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

*Academic sells history off to the highest bidder* There, BBC, we sorted that headline for you If he truly feels *a connection* to the find, as the article claims, would he not have donated it to a museum? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reminder that if you were born between 1970 and 1990, you can get MMR boosters free on the NHS. Just call your GP surgery and ask, they'll get you a nurse's appointment pretty quick www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Just seen this and am horrified. I know that @archsoton50.bsky.social will write and express views.

Jim Ratcliffe's words are horrific. And he doesn't even seem to realise or register his hypocrisy - he himself is an immigrant to Monaco! He is part of a group of the uber-rich 'colonising' Monaco!!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I couldn't agree more with the position on Musk and the Royal Society laid out in this excellent post by @scurry.bsky.social. What continues to dismay folks like Stephen and @deevybee.bsky.social & me is that the RS seems unwilling to speak to *this* case... occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2026/...

Please can everyone I know fill in the consultation on UK pathways to residency. There are reasonable guidelaines from Amnesty as some of the questions are complex with double negatives etc.

Feeling very very sad for a friend. And wishing I could do something. But how do you deal with the loss of your other half???

The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists. I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding. Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced. The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.

It's hard to concentrate and get stuff done when there is so much going on, both close to home in my family and in the wider world. Escaping to the Winter Olympics seems like the only way of coping with this level of stress.

The use of taxis for medical appointments, authorised by by HO, was because HO kept moving asylum seekers from town to town instead of dealing with their claims. Self-serving hypocritical headlines.

In all the furore over student loans, remember this. Student number growth of 25% since 2007. If you count public expenditure on HE as grants to unis + expected student loan write offs, the net public contribution to HE has fallen by almost a billion per year in today's money.

Feeling sad & disappointed for Odermatt but pleased for the medallists #ski #Olympics

Hey @thetimes.com what is ’racism’ - surely depicting the Obamas as monkeys is just old fashioned racism?

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Trying to make cricket 🏏 more appealing to women & girls... We at Sparsholt CC are trying to refurb our facilities. 🤞 it works. @hampshirecricket.bsky.social #Hampshire Read about it (& donate?!?) on thehawk.counterpress.media/features/par...

Trying to make cricket 🏏 more appealing to women & girls... We at Sparsholt CC are trying to refurb our facilities. 🤞 it works. @hampshirecricket.bsky.social #Hampshire Read about it (& donate?!?) on thehawk.counterpress.media/features/par...

Feeling utterly miserable thanks to dementia. And care homes.

Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How one year of ‘America First’ has left workers behind: as.ft.com/r/888fc154-4...

American students! For those of you horrified by what is happening with ICE and more, think about coming over to Europe to study. ##academicsky 🏺🧪🦴🦷

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This will not stop until the users doing this and Elon Musk and his X developers are prosecuted and jailed. What are we waiting for?

"So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery."

This doesn’t just diminish the sacrifice of those soldiers but of their families and loved ones, especially the ones who came home with life changing injuries and trauma - and the ones who didn’t come home at all.

In short: it's complicated. One key question is whether companies' pre-emptive moves away from graduate entry-level hiring, based on assumed future AI efficiencies, will prove prescient or need to be reversed. Unexplored is whether known non-employment graduate benefits will retain their value.

A good (albeit AI developed) explainer of ZooMS 🏺

'To speak of the “demise” of the UK university is not to suggest its disappearance, but its transformation into something increasingly unrecognisable.' Wise words, these. 1/3

quelle surprise!

This is horrific. Docking all pay for refusing to reschedule teaching due to strike action (for which pay has already been docked).

Surely #Denmark and Novo Nordisk can now simply stop supplying the USA with Ozempic and Wegovy? #Greenland

Loved this yesterday, but this is even better given the dagger of today! #TheTraitors #Traitors

after Stephen leaves the turret he climbs into Thunderbird 1 and clocks in a shift with international Rescue #TheTraitors

Why are the faithful so self-obsessed to think they are being kept in? #Traitors #TheTraitors

When you 'telling the truth' is such a novel concept you feel you have to announce it in advance

Associate Professor in Archaeological Materials Science at The Cyprus Institute www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC542/a...

Musk's X has turbo-charged the anti-science movement & amplified misinformation, racism, misogyny & hate. It permits the creation of digital child porn at one click. If these aren't grounds to eject him from the Royal Society, then what are? Shame on them. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

🙌 Cricket is a game for ALL. If you experience/witness sexism or misogyny in cricket, Her Game Too are here to support you. 🫂 To report an incident, head to 👉: www.hergametoo.co.uk/report ❌ There is no place in cricket for discrimination. #HerGameToo

There are now at least 365 UK MPs with accounts on Bluesky – more than half (56%) of all MPs 🔴 This includes nearly 70% of Labour MPs 🔶 Nearly 90% of Lib Dem MPs 🟢 All the 4 Green MPs 🔵 But only 5% of Conservative MPs ➡️ No Reform MPs

Still want a Tesla?

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Non-British ECR interested in working with me on #bioarchaeology, the @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowship scheme will shortly open. V keen on Egyptian bioarchaeology, human evo or #disAbility research 🏺https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/international-fellowships/

'A Complete Byzantine Monastery Discovered Beneath the Desert Sands of Southern Egypt' www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...

Byzantine Monastic City Unearthed in Egypt #archaeology #Egyptology www.sadanews.ps/en/news/2642...

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

uh holy SHIT?

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

You'd think the British government (and everyone else still using X for 'reach') would not want to be known to be frequenting a platform that carries and actually generates child porn. And yet they keep posting there.

Pleased to have seen lots of signs telling tourists about the impact of climate change on glaciers above Val d'Isère. Horrified by the rate of ice loss.