So close!! Can we get it across the line and into the safety of Leicester Museums Service, where it can be researched, studied... and looked after in perpetuity! #Archaeology 🏺 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

A treasure of legal medieval history -the Codex Hardenbergianus - a magnificent illustrated Norwegian law book (GKS 1154 folio) #medievalsky

spring/summer hot fashion tip: i heard that zoomorphic fibulae are expected to make a BIG comeback!

This echoes what all my day digital libraries/tech services homies have been saying. The AI bots are breaking everything good about the Internet.

#TagTuesday #AnimalArtTuesday #EastCoastKin Vila Nova de Gaia Portugal

I talk about moderating (banning) Holocaust denial on AskHistorians in all my courses to help students see why historical literacy matters in a real world context. Last semester, a student stuck around to office hours to share that he's seen denial points online

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

we dare you to find a museum more ready

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.' Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

📣We are recruiting! Postdoc position open in marine #eDNA / #sedaDNA in Copenhagen as part of the Arctic NordForsk #PHATE Research Project. See the link for details 👇 and get in touch if you want to know more. Deadline is on the 6th April 🌊 🧬 Glaciology and Climate - #GEUS #HAB #phycotoxins

To anyone interested in our medieval studies programme, we have some scholarships for international students. Various links to follow in a thread. 1/6 www.lincoln.ac.uk/course/medstdma

A baby warty frogfish at the Shedd Aquarium is the first of its kind ever raised from egg to juvenile in an aquarium setting. It is roughly 1 centimeter, or less than half an inch, in size. https://to.wttw.com/3PuW2lh

Had a marvelous time today giving a fully seated lunch lecture at the museum about the Early Viking Age trading site of Köpingen, which has been completely unknown in scholarship abroad — I am to change that, with renewed fieldwork hopefully coming in autumn, pending funding! ⚱️

My find of the day: I’ve been researching how bishops used croziers in Ottonian Germany (don’t ask). This prayer is for the consecration of a church & instructs bishops to write the alphabet on the church floor with their crozier during the blessing. But just in case you didn’t know your alphabet…

A purrfectly fangtastic new exhibition opens @bodleian.ox.ac.uk this week w/. expert input from Prof Greger Larson (@gregerlarson.bsky.social): PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/pets-a... It explores the relationship between humans & their pets – or pets & their humans. 🐾🐕‍🦺🐈‍⬛

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

Julian of Norwich is the one who wrote "All shall be well, and all shall be well..." It's often misquoted, and I prefer the misquotation because to me it sounds less prescriptive than promissory. Some thoughts.

Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

I put this figure of Needham's model of a Bell Beaker/Corded Ware fusion into PowerPoint, and I kid you not the auto-generated caption was 'Map of the Battle of Brexit'. @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/service...

My extra radical far loony left position is that no one should ever be allowed to make a profit from academic publishing. It is a public good. See also: education, healthcare (on a good day, public transport…)

It recently came to my attention that a friend who escaped an abuser wasn’t familiar with DARVO, an acronym for understanding how abusers operate. So we’re all going to have a little education tonight:

It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits. It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!

they look so soft (and yet they'll be the most hardcore rats when they grow up, helping humans to more safely identify and then diffuse bombs/landmines)

Today on AskHistorians (@askhistorians.bsky.social), "The Invention of Rum" author Jordan Smith answers all your pressing questions on where rum comes from! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

The latest "Early Medieval Europe" podcast is out now! Catch @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social talking to Holly Miller and Christina Lee about their new article on animals and early medieval medicine: rss.com/podcasts/ear...

Copper alloy Roman zoomorphic brooch in the form of a seated greyhound. 1st/2nd century AD, found in Lincolnshire. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ro...

The Viking Age burial site Lindholm Høje on a grey March morning. #StandingStoneSunday

Happy International Women’s Day to Þora, who owned this spindle-whorl sometime in the 14th century in Iceland. The inscription reads þo^ra:amig, ‘Þora owns me’. #runology #runes

It’s second Sunday of the month, and this afternoon just off of Trafalgar Square, I’ll be running Captain Dan’s laundry for homeless, vulnerable, and/or destitute asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This #Roman flask in the form of a fish was found in Cologne, 3rd c. AD. 🐠🐟 We don't know what is was used for, maybe the shape relates to the content (fish sauce), maybe it was used to hold oil. 📷 🏺

The Guardian has posted a piece on human remains, and as an osteologist I want to add some thoughts. First off I agree that the legacy of colonialism is a problem, and that there are issues surrounding certain collections. But The numbers in that piece are massively inflated for two reasons

How did prehistoric people respond to natural disasters? Some of 2025's most-read research suggested a volcanic eruption that blocked out the sun caused people in Neolithic Denmark to ritually sacrifice 'sun stones' to ensure a good harvest. Read it 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

there’s something interesting about how our current desires to get back to a way of life that’s cozier or slower or more friction-full butt up against a misunderstanding of the labor of the past and the ways it was made lighter by many hands. modern individualism can’t recreate the right context

Info on the new BLM plan to clear cut Oregon old growth forests so regime buddies can rake in cash without any consideration of ecosystems, watershed, salmon habitat, recreation, etc etc. Comment period open until March 23. You can write in! morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

💡 Tips needed! Trip coming up, based nr Whitby & edge of North York Moors NP - tell me your fav prehistoric /historic sites round there to visit!

🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data. 💰 £37k - £39k ⏳ 34 months 📍 York, UK 📅 Apply by 24 March 2026 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

We all need a timeline cleanse right now, so let's start the day with this lovely jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. A lovely weekend to all of you! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

#FindsFriday & today its some fantastic Roman & Iron Age finds from a museum-where-you-would-not-expect-a-museum its going to need a 🧵👇

i am not generally a "go through the hoops to write a comment I don't think will really be read" kind of guy, but for a plan THIS bad, by a guy I hate THIS much... I'll make the exception

The display takes a fresh look at a range of fantastic and intriguing finds from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, revealing new insights into the connectivity and identity of the people buried there. 🏺🐘⭐️💀 Free exhibition open Thurs-Sun, 12-4pm. More details here: www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t...

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

On behalf of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group we would like to share the March Bone Tool of the Month - a cassowary bone dagger from New Guinea. See the link to find out more! #ICAZ #zooarch #workedbone www.wbrg.net/bonetool-of-...

You lovely BlueSky lot, eldest has spent the day HUGELY enjoying taking pictures at the British Museum and wants to start editing them on a computer/trying out a proper camera. Any advice for getting started? He’s 12, but very good at computers and etc & has immense focus when interested in things.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

15th century poem by Oswald von Wolkenstein listing the 12 types of drunkard

The finder kept one coin, the landowner kept another. At auction, two coins went to an anonymous buyer in the USA, one to Switzerland and the destinations of the rest are unknown. #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺