Upcoming conference: More Stories about Things in Motion @ École française d'Athènes On ancient objects travelling in the Mediterranean & beyond... More info: www.efa.gr/events/more-... Circulated for reference only. The views expressed are not necessarily my own. #MMARe #MSCA #HistoryOfArchaeology

My revised and expanded entry on the Ethics of Cultural Heritage is now live in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy! Appropriation, repatriation, monuments, and more, as well as a new section on the nascent aesthetic injustice literature. #philsky plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethi...

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

🏛️ Exciting Opportunity! Are you passionate about #Heritage and skilled in project administration? Join our team at The Heritage Alliance as Project Administrator! Part-time role (21hrs/week) starting November - learn more details on this role here 👉 bit.ly/THAProjectAd...

🏺🗃️ In the penultimate article for my series I look at the connection between the US meatpacking industry and #archaeology Find out more about Helen Swift Neilson in article 1️⃣1️⃣ and order your copy or subscribe here: www.herder.de/wbg-magazine...

🆕 The House of Commons library has published a briefing on cladding remediation on blocks of flats under 11 metres. It includes information on what leaseholders can do if they have concerns. 🔗 commonslibrary.parliament.uk/remediating-...

😳 will do ASAP!

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

The Labour government: We're different to the Tories Also the Labour government: Hires Thames Water’s reputation manager and a member of the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters.

🔴 RESHUFFLE Our statement 👇 #BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal

Our new open access paper: how do we understand plastics as a contemporary archaeological record, and what does this mean for how we mitigate their environmental impacts? 🧪 🏺

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

We are calling out for any donations of clothing, books, games etc from all ages for our upcoming #ClothesSwap! These can be dropped off before the event opens at 3 pm, or picked up via the drop point link below: 🔗https://v2.droppoint.org/ch/mosaic-lgbt-youth-centre #ClothesSwap #Lgbt+

Just $110 is all we need to get this fundraiser for a refugee PhD student to the halfway point! Who will be that wonderful person? ❤️

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books. p.s. I have a new book of cartoons out soon: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

This time of year often sees new colleagues entering the world of #historyteacher #TeacherEducation. If this is you, please get in touch. @htenuk.bsky.social represents all who have responsibility for the professional education, development & training of #ITT #ECT & serving history teachers. 1/

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a gendered space since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know (and let us know if you'd like putting in touch with someone who can provide legal advice) at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

hey archaeosky 🏺 are you going to SAA in SF next year? are you working on archaeology or heritage projects that questions empire or explores growth after empire? do i have a session for you!

🏆 Nominations are open for the @ArchaeologyUK #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards! Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

What you need – and you probably didn’t even realise it – is grebes running on water vimeo.com/43951114

📚 🐈 I wish WorldCat was actually a database of cat pictures and search functions were returned to the pre-2022 'update'

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

🏺🗃️ there's a lot of archaeology in those archives, adding your signature will hopefully enable everyone to continue using this material!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Do you work on cultural heritage and security? Friend and colleague Simon Maghakyan is co-editing what promises to be a great Oxford handbook on this topic, please share widely!

🗃️🏺tagging all historians of archaeology 🖊️

Tagber: In (E)Motion. Emotionen als Motor der antiken Welt https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-156527 Osnabrück, 16.01.2025-18.01.2025, Nicole Diersen, Historisches Seminar, Universität Osnabrück

go.bsky.app/TyZAyQ8 Archaeology of Children and Childhood Starter Pack

"This isn't just about money - it's about dignity, justice, and ensuring survivors get the compensation they legally deserve." 🖊️Fund Free Legal Representation for Windrush Compensation Claims chng.it/ZMYYQJ4G9X

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025. • African History • Migration & Mobility History • Planetary History Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve. ruffnotes.org/british-libr... #medievalsky

📰 Wake up babe, a new Sumerian myth just dropped 🏺 Archaeologists have deciphered a cuneiform tablet detailing a previously unknown tale, although its fragmented nature leaves the story unfinished #ArchaeologyNews via @archaeologymag.bsky.social archaeology.org/news/2025/07...

Hi everyone, We are looking to stage our next demonstration. This time to show how impossible it is for public service providers to police the subprime court ruling. It will involve trans women swimming topless this time. A brief 🧵 1/

Happy International Friendship Day! The history of friendship is a growing field of historical scholarship. Search ‘friendship’ in the subject tree on the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to find some fascinating histories buff.ly/3L7a33B

The Royal Historical Society welcomes Fellowship applications from historians working in higher education and many other sectors, as well as independent researchers. Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding via research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Don’t forget there are only a few days left to submit your abstracts for our first conference ‘Beyond Methodological Nationalism’.🏺 All welcome (you don’t need to be a historian!) especially those doing history in solidarity with the occupied and oppressed. 🍉 Info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#CfA Joint Fellowship 📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism Deadline: 26 September 2025 🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

1/ THREAD: It’s with deep regret we share the news that SAPIENS will halt publication of new content by the end of this year. We are so proud of everything SAPIENS has achieved and for our role in furthering public anthropology. Wenner-Gren’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...

#SkyStorians Question for you: Anyone recently/currently researching the British General Strike of 1926? It's not my field, but thinking of organising a small event in May 2026 to mark the centenary. If you'd be interested or know people who would be, then get in touch on here or by email. Thanks!

WeTransfer recently announced a change to its terms of services, which could be interpreted as allowing the right to use customer files for training AI models. Swift criticism from customers and industry, led them to revise the wording to make the language easier to understand. 🧵

#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺 Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries. @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

🏺🗃️ I'm almost at the end of my 2-year series of articles for Antike Welt! In article 🔟 I look at forced labour in the history of archaeology from the 18th to 20th century at #Pompeii, #Ugarit, #Adab and #Ur Order your copy here or subscribe: www.herder.de/wbg-magazine...

Let‘s gooo www.kubiack.com/academic-pub... www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

We've heard from so many fascinating people so far and we're going to start trying to find/make matches, but gee we'd love to have a political scientist or two in the mix.