This hit me like a brick! I am crying on a public transport and I don't care. One of the greatest writer-artists of her age, gone too soon. May he memory be a blessing. Read Persepolis. Marjane Satrapi, French-Iranian artist, dies aged 56 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Yesterday is still playing in my head, my bones, my soul #LinkinPark

My first book used this relief of a painting ceramicist and his wife for the cover. Workshops were often run by a husband and wife (she holds bread 🍞 and a fan 🪭) with children—so I strongly suspect membership in artisan collegia was under the husband’s name but included the familia (image: VMFA).

This article is just excellent. And spot on in a bunch of ways. I've been working in Silicon Valley for just shy of 30y and this place is unrecognizable. Nothing gets made here anymore except money for the oligarchs at the top of VC firms. Thanks @anildash.com for your honesty.

I want to thank Gail and Jin and the nameless boy and dad for restoring my faith in humanity and making me cry like a complete wreck. ❤️😭

John Schofield of York University on the value of archaeology - it’s not just about the past. theconversation.com/six-reasons-...

This is a detail from the Mykonos Vase. It shows what is believed to be the earliest depiction of the Trojan Horse. While Trojan troops suspiciously buzz around the horse and one strides across its back, we see nervous Greek faces at the little windows. 🕰️c675 BC 🏛️📷 Mykonos Archaeological Museum

It’s staggering how un-user-friendly Google Search is now. From the hearsay AI summary, to the assumption that I want to watch a 30 min video with ads (or a TikTok) to answer my question, to its utter inability to just give me the *latest* information on the subject (it’s literally not an option)…

‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry began at least 59,000 years ago

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

Sometimes my job is really cool! Especially when we get to collaborate with museums and universities, as we do in #Swedigarch. Amazing #IronAge helmets in free 3D models to analyse in detail, and reuse. #FAIRdata #TwinIt #DigitalHeritage swedigarch.se/index.php/20...

Bless #OpenAccess 🫶 👀 👀 Spying for the Early Vasas The intelligence networks in Sweden during the reigns of Gustav Vasa, Erik XIV and Johan III. The study compares the Swedish case with recent studies of similar organizations in other states. #History doi.org/10.1007/978-...

#OpenAccess Short report Gustafsson, N. B. (2026). Some notes on an atypical scabbard chape from Paviken, Gotland. doi.org/10.66449/for... Author on parallels in #Slavic parts of the Baltic for an unusual #VikingAge scabbard ornament found on Gotland.

#Vikingtidsmuseet: www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news...

An appeals court in Switzerland has overturned a 2025 defamation conviction against @solalpirelli.bsky.social, a sleuth who had identified dozens of conference proceedings with signs of citation manipulation. The ruling orders the plaintiff to pay Pirelli's legal expenses.

This beautiful woodcut print is by master Japanese printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige I. It comes from a series called View of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces and features Mount Kyōdai and the rice fields of Sarashina in the Shinano Province.

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Happy centenary Sir David! Are there one hundred things named after David Attenborough? Surely we should be able to compile a list… I will start: 1. Attenborosaurus a plesiosaur from the Jurassic Coast en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenbo... Let’s see if we can get to 100! /🧵

#AI tools designed to execute end-to-end projects are increasingly popular with researchers—and increasingly skilled. But a new study shows these tools can stealthily violate norms of research integrity. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4dgqMit

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ladies, what’s stopping you from being a wild woman covered in hair wearing a headdress of animal jawbones and riding into battle against a fierce lion on a camel-faced unicorn?

AI platforms reference Nigel Farage more than other leaders when prompted on UK politics, study shows

The latest issue of pre-Tinder studies

Perfect timing for @princesmweekes.bsky.social’s new video that is this exact topic. (Watched it on Nebula, she remains one of the best video essayists on YouTube) youtu.be/jgOSjTwSVfU?...

Trust in #Archives Initiative toolkit provides practical guidance on issues including authentication and provenance, licensing considerations, engagement with tech companies, development of taxonomies for describing AI-generated and AI-altered materials. www.trustarchives.org/tai-toolkit/ #AI

#OpenAcess Kort meddelande Löwenborg, D., & Löfstedt, J. (2026). AI-assisterad inventering av hällristningar i Mälardalen. Fornvännen, 121(1). doi.org/10.66449/for... Mobil applikation skapad för att identifiera potentiella lokaler för hällristningar utifrån prediktionsmodell. #Archaeology

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Glad Valborg / Happy Walpurgis

Have checked the Banksy out with my own eyes. It’s great

When federal agents came to the home of David Morens on Monday with an arrest warrant for allegedly concealing federal records related to the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, they behaved as if the 78-year-old retired scientist was a violent criminal. https://scim.ag/4cIEXhc

Just got the best scam email in work its claiming to be from the gardaí about a criminal investigation but is written like a letter from the leprechaun in Darby o gill and the little people I have printed it out

Lovely spring weather in Gothenburg as the network for Swedish National Data Service (SND) are meeting (inside) to hear what's new and dicuss the future. #OpenScience #FAIRdata

Fantastic BBC Panorama report from 1956 on Vällingby, Sweden - the most modern town of Europe at the time. I grew up there, as did my dad and mom (nearby Hässelby to be exact, but it is also shown in the video). Fascinating - and very funny. Leather jacket boys! youtu.be/tTm2GwAQhIE?...

Have a restful #Caturday

#OpenAccess #Archaeology #Mesolithic #Osteology Westermark & Arcini. "Fatally wounded: A Mesolithic skeleton from Väversunda parish, Östergötland, Sweden." doi.org/10.66449/for... An individual buried ca 9000 years ago revealed to have a quartz-slotted bone point in a vertebrae. #AncientSky

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth. Carved in wood, painted. Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC. 📷 Royal Ontario Museum 🏺

Armémuseum har fått FoU-medel från Riksantikvarieämbetet för att undersöka smutsen på militära fanor. Det är ett tvärvetenskapligt samarbete där konstvetenskap, konserveringsvetenskap, miljöhistoria och kemi kombineras. www.raa.se/nyheter/2026... #forskning #kulturarvsforskning #heritagescience

Why don't you see penis bones in #museums? I spoke to @iflscience.com about how museums have been deliberately modifying the anatomy of their specimens: they knowingly mislead visitors about what most male mammal skeletons look like, as I wrote in #NaturesMemory: www.iflscience.com/the-majority...

🏺 Another very good Bes jar that I came across during my research at work today - this time from Brooklyn Museum. 📜 www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object...

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7 doi.org/10.11141/ia....

Pleased to see @mirandabryant.bsky.social's report from the new Badin exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, curated by my friend and colleague Åsa Bharathi Larsson of Södertörn University. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

#OpenAccess #Archaeology #Pottery #Neolithic Wehlin & Stilborg: "Den neolitiska keramiken i Dalarna: Ett hantverks uppkomst och försvinnande." [Eng sum: The Neolithic Ceramics in Dalarna, Sweden: The rise and disappearance of a ceramic craftmanship] doi.org/10.66449/for... #AncientSky

Murasaki Shikibu’s 11th-century novel "The Tale of Genji" has remained popular and influential in Japan for more than a thousand years, including in visual art. Katherine Goertz considers the role of #Flowers in the novel by examining an Edo-period print woodblock print: https://bit.ly/3OeySzq

Happy Easter! Here’s a lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! 😍 Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

Reading a book about all that went wrong with the purchase, development, and implementation of a digital system for healh care in West Sweden. Publications like this should be *required* reading for politicians and managers in ALL fields. Please stop pushing One System To Rule Them All!

Hjørungdahl , T. Johanna Mestorfs handskrivna museijournal: En primärkälla till kunskap om 1800-talets kvinnliga museipersonals vardag samt treperiodsystemets reception i Kiel. [Eng sum: Johanna Mestorf’s handwritten journal] #OpenAccess #HistoryOfArchaeology doi.org/10.66449/for...

Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”