It's exhausting.

Three Holmie Puffins from today's Papay Tour. In flight, among the Sea pink and just out of the burrow.. #Papay #Orkney

Recently the island of Mousa became home to Shetland ponies once again again. It is a joy to see the next generation of these beautiful horses standing by the iconic Mousa broch #Shetland

Money for languages. What’s not to like? Apply while we still have languages to teach, research, speak and write.

ICYMI on Friday - our statement on the crisis in HE

Important findings and progress - Friday's update from The Cairns by site director Martin Carruthers.

For a more accurate description of this purchase, see norseandviking.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-...

At @imc-leeds.bsky.social and interested in the Norse diaspora? Join myself and @jakestattel.bsky.social on Wednesday for a full day of fantastic papers in Clarendon 1.01

Old airfield, new airport, #PapaWestray

Can confirm!

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Two archaeologists on a #stile #Papay #Orkney Dog in #seaweed

Feeling completely over excited at having seen #BookyMcBookface in the wild today on Westray #Dreamscancometrue @orkneylibrary.bsky.social

💥 The Archaeologist’s Notebook 💥 📰 WW2 StuG III Tank Destroyer Dug Up in Airbase Sand Pit 🪖 📰 Sealed Roman Sarcophagus Discovered in Croatia ☠️ 📰 Likely Prehistoric Timber Circle Monument Found in Scotland 🪵 📰 Viking Age Fabric Factory Unearthed in Denmark 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/thearcha...

Brian Smith is THE reason why so much documentation, literature & scholarship of #Shetland has survived, educated & inspired others. I sincerely hope, as @shetnews.co.uk suggests, that he may finally be working on the definitive history of Shetland. www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/07/01/s...

Most ironwork in #Kirkwall is quite modern and made in Scotland or England. But this little gem, right outside where I'm staying, looks pretty old and was made right here. #IronworkThursday

#AdoorableThursday #Kirkwall @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social

For more on the 'the meagre remains of the mysterious Old Castle of Kirkwall' see this from 2017 archaeologyorkney.com/2017/03/03/g... (Site 3) and compare my photos from today!

Some of the lesser-known delights of #Kirkwall www.kirknessandgorie.com/blog/2022/4/...

Had a good afternoon out today visiting the Cairns dig - many thanks to Martin Carruthers for showing us around and explaining it all so clearly. A fascinating site!

We’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships. We provide 3 years of funding to early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Apply by 30th September www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

22.45 #Kirkwall

Major plans to introduce a network of subsea tunnels between Shetland's islands have been approved 👀 Full story 👉 www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Great offer by @livunipress.bsky.social 50% on "Viking Connections - Proceedings of the Nineteenth Viking Congress" Use the discount code 27VIKINGS and order via www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... There's also two #OpenAccess chapters as a sample!

Good news about one of my favourite buildings www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news... 1/2

Frank Taylor Lockwood was better placed than many artists to turn WW2 restrictions to his advantage and began a series of interiors of his house in Dalston Road, Acocks Green in Birmingham. This work depicts the scullery and is from 1944.

Nice shelf in @orkneylibrary.bsky.social today.

Today is #NationalCameraDay so here is a very old and unusual item from our Photographic Archive. It's a stereoscopic card featuring St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, and it was created by C. Hubbard in the 1860s, which makes it one of the earliest known photographs of #Orkney.

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I got my own personal #runic welcome to The Georgian Hoose, #Kirkwall today.

The most recent issue of Sketches and Sagas is available on my Patreon for free download. There are lost of other things there too 😀

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity? @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Patterns in the islandscape. Downtown Papay and the evolution of silage cutting.

💥 The Archaeologist’s Notebook 📝 (Formerly AWLOH) 📰 STUNNING Iron Age Decorated Gold Foil Unearthed ⛏️ 📰 Mini Iron Age Chariot Shows Iberian-Italian Lux Trade Links 🛍 📰 Biggest-Ever Dutch Roman Bathhouse 🏛 📰 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton Skeleton Found? ⚔️ open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Magnificent thread! This is what BSky is all about.

A prediction for tonight's match from @cjadrien.bsky.social, who really likes his football: cjadrien.substack.com/p/the-viking...

Är du nyfiken på vad Gotlands unika bildstenar kan berätta om svunna tider? Nu är databasen över närmare 700 kända stenarna klar så de är mer tillgängliga för forskare & allmänhet. @raa-se.bsky.social Läs mer, se film med professor Sigmund Oehrl & sök bland bildstenarna: www.su.se/nyheter/nyhe...

Lovely red corrugated wall still stands though.

Recording of this talk available here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehlu...

Love the colour scheme!

the media and voter messaging should be this: the current government and the government in waiting do not want your children to be able to go to university, they will not support people in the UK to do original research, they do not care about job losses in one of the largest sectors in the economy

Ida Frosk, aka Ida Skivenes, a food artist from Norway, who makes and eats her own art #WomensArt #Tuesday

Dig into the story of the excavation at Viking Woodstown in today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter. The newsletter also has a link to an upcoming free webinar this Thursday to hear more about the discoveries, and how Woodstown is helping to cast new light on the Vikings in Ireland.

'In a country with almost no tradition of civic unrest, plans to build a mega-resort on Albania’s southern coast, backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, has convulsed the country in a spasm of disgust over the perceived excesses of "a rotten oligarchic class".' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Nice clouds.

New Medieval Books: The Sagas of Icelanders www.medievalists.net/2025/06/new-... #SagasOfIcelanders

Norway bans AI access in schools for kids ages 6-13, while also restricting AI for kids 14-16 to prevent academic decline | PC Magazine www.pcmag.com/news/norway-...

The poet sees the world.

Don't know what it is about black and white, geometric birds but they are super cool. bsky.app/profile/hugh...