Flyover linking two banks of the Nile and a billboard planted on an island, itself only accessible by boat

Door with hands, Cairo

Mural in the City of the Dead, Cairo

So lucky today to visit Qursayah Island on the Nile with @landscaperesearch.bsky.social - farming and fishing communities just a stone's throw from the modern city - and to support verynile.org up-cycling programme of plastic waste from the river plus their delicious community cafe

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please tell BBC News we’re sick of 4 MP Party Reform being rammed down our throats daily with drivel like this👇🏼report The @libdems.org.uk have 72 MPs, Greens 4, SNP 9 but they don’t get a look in 🤷🏼‍♂️ Soon BBC News will report what Farage has for breakfast 🙄

As it happens I met this fella a couple of weeks ago. He was doing voluntary work to make habitat for bees and butterflies.

Yup

You can now read all of Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage for free via Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Oh yes, hello #TidesOutTuesday! Definitely a hashtag I can embrace. Concrete plinths, all that remains of Newlyn WW1 seaplane base, forming a stone circle, with the ruins of Penlee quarry behind

*Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe* is out today! Using data from the JPICH Re:voice project, it explores the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural heritage www.routledge.com/Revoicing-In...

it seems like AI has got really good at making up footnotes, including a jstor stable reference (that links to something else) and a journal title/volume number/page range (for a different article) -- so on first glance they all look totally legit

This is my PhD thesis I did not ask for this I did not consent to this I did not approve of this I was not compensated for this I would not have advised this I do not like this And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

Last week to apply for this funded heritage PhD with Historic England - application window closes 25 May.

Not the worst day at work

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

*Fully funded PhD in heritage klaxon* Excited to invite applications for an AHRC-funded CDP with Historic England and the Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University. Deadline 25 May. www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/centre-heritage-culture-society/participatory-practice-and-heritage

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

*Fully funded PhD in heritage klaxon* Excited to invite applications for an AHRC-funded CDP with Historic England and the Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University. Deadline 25 May. www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/centre-heritage-culture-society/participatory-practice-and-heritage

It's all fun and games until … "Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries." www.bbc.com/news/article...

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

I’d really like to get some answers to these questions: Do you hug standing stones? If so, why? Please share for a wide range of responses! @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Post a warning ⚠️

We've been working with Cornwall National Landscape to think about when and how (as well as where) different people feel tranquil at different times. Please fill in/share our lil survey! letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk/cornwall-nat...

Good to revisit Poulnabroune dolmen last week #TombTuesday

Amazing day visiting Loughcrew, Knowth, and Newgrange for the first time

From Valencia Island, Iveragh peninsula

Wonderfully rainy drive around Connemara Gaeltacht today, made better with interesting info and context at the Ionad Cultúrtha an Phiarsaigh in Ros Muc

CfP for our working group at the European Society for Rural Sociology Congress in Latvia, 7–11 July 2025: 'Studying islands on their own terms: developing research for liveable island futures' esrs2025.rsu.lv/deep-dive

Morning sun run 😎

Sunday vitamin D at Gwithian beach

Getting serious @tag45.bsky.social envy! Must organise myself for the next one…

We also need grant writers, HR/contracts peeps (remote possible, as is the Treasurer role!), and a range of other hands-on roles at the farm...

I'm on the board of directors at Bosavern Community Farm near St Just, and we're looking for a Treasurer! Please share if you think contacts might be interested. Bosavern gives people access to land, produces seasonal veg & more - come and join us! www.bosaverncommunityfarm.org.uk/were-recruiting

Catching the last bit of sun on Penzance prom this morning before a weekend of hunkering inside with a vat of mince pies

Dartmoor visitor centre to close as National Park Authority cannot afford to renew lease from Duchy National Parks are facing 12% budget cuts - not a great way for Labour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their creation & why is Duchy charging at all? www.tavistock-today.co.uk/news/nationa...

400+ years after the "First Thanksgiving" most Americans have no idea that the Wampanoag people are still here. My tribe, the Aquinnah Wampanoag, is on Martha's Vineyard and we're still fighting for our land and rights. We’re also doing some cool stuff. 🧵👇 if you’d like to learn more & support us

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Isles of Scilly Community Research Network, with IoS Wildlife Trust, Five Islands Acad and @uniofexeter.bsky.social, is looking for a lead of a unique project aimed at enabling people on Scilly to undertake research that matters to them and their community www.ioscv.co.uk/jobs

Good couple of days at the Royal Anthropological Institute at the Folklore without Borders network meeting

Hello new followers! Great to see more folks here. We'd love to connect with more people with an interest in landscapes and how we research them across disciplines! A bit about who we are here: landscaperesearch.org Share this post to help us connect with wonderful landscape folks in this space 🍃.

Always a wondrous sight

Deadline for Expressions of Interest to get feedback on a draft proposal and connect with a potential supervisor closes 29 November

Haven’t done a #standingstonesunday for a while - here’s Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren in Ireland (📷 May 2022)

Crikey

Farewell, office of the week. I think it'll take some beating - what a great time on Scilly and thank you to everyone we've talked to for being so super welcoming. Check out the Old Town Inn if you're visiting!

*Calling residents of the Isles of Scilly!* The research project "INTANGIBLE" is looking at population change & cultural life on islands including IoS, Mull, Prince Edward Island in Canada, and the Seto Inland Sea in Japan. Please help! We're visiting 28 Sep-3 Oct: for more info lnkd.in/eeM6yVbd