A good piece of advice. Learning how to be a good mentor requires work, reflection and advice.

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Quiet Saturday, making sure all the articles in the upcoming issue of @fornvannen.bsky.social next month are accessibility compliant. Nice mix of time periods and topics. From Mesolithic arrowheads, to Bronze Age wetland, to runes and Medieval books. ☕️📝

Some things never change! 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

Here is the first more in-depth article on the truly breathtaking discovery of a 6 kg silver hoard, containing thousands of late 1100s AD coins and ample Viking Age jewelry, found near Stockholm. Paywalled, but surely not the last you will hear of this. www.dn.se/sverige/hon-...

Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

Full day workshop for #Swedigarch, national research infrastructure for #DigitalArchaeology. Meetup to discuss how we can ensure interoperability between museum, university and agency data resources through the SOCH aggregator.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Our expressions logging on every day to Bluesky

#Caturday means not being allowed out of bed until she says so

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Nothing screams "First day back on the job", like urging colleagues everywhere to delete their Academia Dot Edu pages. Which I'm about to do myself as soon as I got coffee in me.

This is such great stuff. Thanks for sharing. This is why I'm on Bluesky. #Academicsky Everyone should check out all of the great modules at the History for the 21s Century project website: www.history21.com

Taking part in this fabulous event at Uppsala University’s Gotland Campus in Visby, Sweden on Fri 7 November. Places will be limited. @kabweprq.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social @uu.se

Conference at Bohuslän museum for Swedish museums using the Primus collection management system. Tomas Brandt at the museum welcoming attendees. A retrospective on how much has changed with digital solutions since the museum opened 1983. kulturit.org/ekultursemin...

#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary. #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: Colourful #Celtic glass bracelets found in the surroundings of Bern, Switzerland. Dating around 200 BC. To produce the seamless bracelets hot glass was gradually enlarged with a metal rod and a cone. Bernisches Historisches Museum. 🏺 #archaeology

To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement. However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read. I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here. I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social

What Abeba says! A report by academics from Memorial University, Newfoundland, on, amongst other things, the ethical use of #AI in education, contained fake references and seems likely to have been created using #LLMs ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shame on ALL universities, including those in Europe, who try to hinder their faculty and their students in practicing what they’ve been tasked to do: research, criticise, speak out, listen, educate and be educated - especially about the political and humanity! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A reminder about our new Digital Cultural Heritage series. We're working on the design for this exciting new short-form #OpenAccess series. See the details incl the full editorial advisory board: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #DigitalHumanities #Publishing #OpenResearch #DigitalCulturalHeritage

Fellow emigrants/immigrants- what minor unshakable habits do you have that make people in your new home regard you as an absolute freak? Mine is thanking bus drivers when getting off the bus. Big in Glasgow, not so much elsewhere apparently...

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

There are occasional perks with my job - and our office being in Visby.

History in motion! The iconic Oseberg Viking ship is carefully moving to its new position in the soon-to-open #VikingAge Museum in Oslo. This deserves the full #SlowTV treatment - a nationally broadcast, minute-by-minute epic! #Archaeology @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Betwixt being forever baffled and stunned It's exhausting being an archaeologist

På Gotlandsfärjan för en vecka på Visby-kontoret. Perfekt läge för att i lugn o ro läsa lite trevlig lektyr.

Live footage of historians these days

popping my head in to post this on behalf of and at the request of my very dear friend and colleague matt walsh who is not very online. #eaa2025

Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉 #HorizonEurope #ERCStG

📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out! Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025! ➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh #FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope

Finally! (Check out my starter packs on my profile with Swedish journalists and media outliets, notify me to join the lists)

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

with this statement from the local organising committee in Belgrade the question for the EAA executive must be—what made them make their U-turn? is there any truth to the suggestion that it was that some form of legal letter sent to seek to intimidate and silence freedom of speech? if so by whom?

Damn I'm getting SICK AND TIRED of software sticking unnecessary AI "helpers" into every damn feature, unasked for. Just to pretend the billions invested are to meet "needs". I am Gen X and I remember Clippy - and we took an oath: NEVER AGAIN!

As expected, Bluesky better than X for scientists www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This point 💯 If you want to know more about the Ahnenerbe (the Nazi "heritage" research institute conducting archaeological work, incl. Atlantis stuff), read Pringle's book. If you want to know more about pseudoarch in among the more contemporary far-right, I wrote a little something about it. 🏺

Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s

Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology

« ChatGPT, please, turn this book written in 1932 into data. »

The Reality of Archaeology, an occasional series

This is what happens when computer scientists read nothing about the history of science, social sciences and even Humanities. Lewis Binford's ghost will haunt him for this.

The Call for Papers for 'Talking Records: Pollution in the Archive', a symposium at The National Archives in London, 4 December 2025, is now open! Submission deadline: Friday 19 Sept See the CFP and details about bursaries for speakers here: orlo.uk/Z8StS #envhum #envhist

Assistant Curator Agrippa Njanina shares his story of rediscovering the #mbira, a traditional instrument from Zimbabwe, and how it travelled with him to Northern Ireland. Read Agrippa's blog and watch the full video → bit.ly/3V8z1UW #TraditionalMusic #AfricanMusic #MusicHeritage #CulturalHeritage

I made some short explanations of Ancient Greek Pottery shapes for my classes: ✨Part 1: common shapes✨

Any archaeologists out there able to tell me whether this pottery fragment (left) is from a Bartmann / Bellarmine Jug (example shown right)? It's salt-glazed, and looks like it's showing an eye, an eyebrow and the side of a face... or I am I being too hopeful? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartman...