Quite a thread. I thought it was bad when students submitted AI generated work with fake citations... but academics doing it too??? #academicsky

Really good thread and linked article #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Just enjoyed kids' school carol service in Romsey Abbey. Starting to feel more Christmassy. And was proud of both kids' music ensembles. #ProudMum

I always love talking about this papyrus! Great for a picket line chat. 🏺

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Visiting Assistant Professor – Biological Anthropology, Grand Valley State University, USA Full-time, 18-month faculty position teaching introductory and upper-level courses. Deadline: 20 Dec 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/visiting-ass... #AcademicJobs #Anthropology #USJobs #FacultyJobs #LiberalArts

How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future! #academicsky

@sarahlteather.bsky.social Congratulations on your elevation to the Lords! I might have real problems with that place but you will be a great breath of fresh air in there! Thank you for stepping up to the plate! And good luck too!

A charming Bes jar, on display at the Petrie Museum of #Egyptian #Archaeology. Vessels with the face of the protective deity Bes were thought to impart his protection to their content. 📷 me 🏺

Archaeological Project Supervisor RSK ADAS Ltd Salary: £26,000 to £30,500 pa depending on experience Closing Date: 11/01/26 Location: Romsey, Southampton www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

Archaeological Project Supervisor/Technician RSK ADAS Ltd Salary: £27,000 to £30,500 based on relevant experience Closing Date: 11/01/26 Location: Romsey, Southampton www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.

Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄

@thatdocphoenix.com Please can you help raise awareness of this petition to reverse Girl Guiding's decision to exclude trans girls? Thanks! www.change.org/p/allow-tran...

"From today, 2 December ... trans girls and young women will no longer be able to join Girlguiding.' 😡😢 www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Make sure you sign this petition (see linked)! Trans girls should be able to be guides #TransRights

Constantly reminding people that I’ve been in tech for 30 years with my archaeology and library science degrees, most people who did CS crashed out decades ago. Researching, writing and presenting are much more important long-term than any specific coding language or framework.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Feeling sad and emotional. RIP Kendrick. RIP Simi.

Read every word of this blogpost. Read it and weep for what is being lost. And to celebrate what Katie has achieved.

Zooarchaeologist MOLA Salary: £30,048 - £33,164 (depending on location and experience)) Closing Date: December 12, 2025 Location: Northampton www.bajr.org/job-ad/zooar...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The marvelous Lucy was discovered #OnThisDay in 1974 in Ethiopia. At more than 3 million years old, she was the oldest, most complete ancestor found to date. 🏺 📸Don Johanson & Maurice Taieb piecing the fossils together

A really good thread on international student fees & planned levy in UK

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72 Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

Not content with selling out Ukraine to Russia and thereby putting the security of America’s allies at risk, the Trump regime is trashing the reputation of US science and risking the health of its children by rewriting the CDC website to suggest a link between vaccines and autism

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.” The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Test match cricket for the win! 🏏 #Ashes

Was talking about ushabti with my students earlier this week! 🏺

225 royal ushabti figurines unearthed in Nile Delta Tanis archaeological site #archaeology #Egypt #Egyptology english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...

If a sizeable number of people in Britain believe immigration harms the country the government’s job is to reeducate them not to use their prejudices as the policy making springboard. It’s a Labour government founded on the principles of socialism, compassion and solidarity not expedient cruelty

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

Fifteen years of ideological choices to strangle & gut the public realm - NHS to schools to social services to local museums - is what underlies the anger "tearing our country apart"; immigration is simply the scapegoat that the far right are pushing people toward. Why can't Labour just say this?

My department has an opening for a Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage as part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching? "Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies" Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific #academicsky 🏺♿

"This was not what they had joined the party for. What had happened to compassion?!" - MUST READ! 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.

More Labour MPs starting to express public unease at these proposals. Lots more saying so privately...

Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers. "The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."

Truly horrified. Refugees are expected to integrate but how can anyone do that when, after 19.5 years, they could be thrown out? And their born in Britain kids too. Sickening.

“The reminders that your life may be temporary are a constant drain on your mental health. The big news announcements from all the parties take their toll. It’s always there in your mind that your way of life can be taken away from you.“

Which ancient Egyptian was most modest about their views? Imho tep

"Live updates on exactly which UK universities are on strike right now over huge job cuts"

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform. Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported. A new thread documenting this.

@turiking.bsky.social well done! Great hearing you talk on R4 just now. Really well explained. Thank you! Xx

Excellent piece this

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.