One of my favorite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume. Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷️ Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

👏👏👏 Bravo Jersey! The most progressive of the Channel Islands. #AssistedDying

I've never been interested in British politics (with the exception of Brexit) until now. 🍿🍿🍿

A good day begins with gratitude and coffee. 👋☕🥐 #CafsterQuotes #CaffeinatedHamster

Ancient Egyptian hedgehog shaped pottery vessel 🦔❤️ Dated c. 1539-1292 BC. Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

See where the cheating got you, Donny lad! Your actions undermined both your team and your nation. Natural order is resumed. ✊ #InfantinoMustGo

El baile de #tango es una #danza de pareja enlazada estrechamente surgida a partir de la fusión de danzas y ritmos afro-rioplatenses, #gauchos y europeos. Se caracteriza por el #abrazo estrecho de la pareja, la caminata tanguera, el corte, la #quebrada, y la cabalgata.

Scary but true.

On the researchers' view, the finds prove that the Vikings had a highly developed economy. Historian Kasper H. Andersen from the Moesgaard Museum stressed: 'It shows us that the Viking Age was not just an uncivilised, barbaric and backward era, as is often assumed.' #Demmark #Archaeology

What collective term would you use to describe a corrupt unethical family that hearers would immediately understand what you mean? Serious question.

Good morning.

Early morning dew on delicate spider webs on my succulents this morning. #Nature 💫

'People who speak more than one language seem to have younger brains and the more languages you speak and the earlier you speak them, the better, according to findings from a study being presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona.' 1/2

Interview with @drclaireh.bsky.social on the Human or AI test (see post below) many of you have taken. #ForensicLingustics #AI

Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

So much pseudoscience perverting the course of justice. Along with bite mark forensics, let's call out other approaches such as the polygraph, voice stress analysis, and SCAN, and label them what they truly are - junk science.

A billion years ago I was in a university labour club with Starmer. Whilst, IIRC, husting he said he wanted to make judges accountable to the public for their decisions. I asked him what that meant in practice. My impression was that he didn’t really know. He didn’t think past the idea. /1

Sharing health tips for researchers and report writers (like me) tied to hot computers for hours on end. Get up and walk to get another coffee every half an hour. 👇

10/15 for me.

Drinking coffee may lower the risk of liver disease and death, study says. Good morning Saturday 👋☕🥐

#ForensicLinguistics in the United Kingdom. Free to download until 15th July.

Forensic phonetician Professor Peter French will be featured in the upcoming BBC one's Expert Witness. Prof French will share insights into the critical role of forensic voice evidence on solving high profile cases. Here is the broadcast schedule so you can tune in. #ForensicLinguistics

Writing Wrongs from @aifl.bsky.social explores historic and contemporary forensic linguistic cases. Join @timgrant123.bsky.social and @drniccimacleod.bsky.social as they discus the case of Don Juan de Marin with Spanish forensic linguist Dr Sheila Queralt. - 3rd July www.aston.ac.uk/research/for...

Fernand Leger's Adam and Eve. 🎨 Just because. *my photo, Dusseldorf Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen 2024

In the history of English textbooks 50 years on, we will be talking about 2 events: The great standardization of the printing press And the great de-standardization when everyone started trying to make weird mistakes on purpose so as not be be accused of LLM writing 🙃 #linguistics

France's National Assembly approves assisted dying bill after Senate rejection. Now that the text has been once again approved, it will return to the Senate again, and if the two chambers still fail to reach an agreement, the National Assembly can have the final word. #AssistedDying #France

Archaeologists uncover 2,500-year-old bronze chariot, shedding light on Tartessos. The only documented parallels belong to the Etruscan civilisation, which reached its peak in central Italy between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. #Archaeology #Spain

Europe, the last few days: 🇫🇷 France: Hottest day ever — 43.8°C 🇪🇸 Spain: Hottest June day — 42.7°C 🇩🇪 Germany: Hottest day ever — 41.5°C 🇨🇿 Czechia: Hottest day ever — 40.9°C 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Hottest June day — 38.8°C 🇩🇰 Denmark: Hottest day ever — 37°C 🇬🇧 UK: Hottest June day — 36.7°C #climatecrisis

Disinformation is often a preparatory act for corruption. We need to teach people to ask why someone is intentionally sharing misleading or false information and prosecute the associated corrupt acts. youtube.com/shorts/DXixP...

Buenos dias amigos 👋☕🥐 Sunday #CoffeeRules: Coffee first before human interaction. #CaffeinatedHamster

People under 50 are ‘ageing faster’ than previous generations, study finds. Somehow, I'm not surprised.

The report found that Israel targeted Palestinian children in Gaza in 2 distinct ways: 1. directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons; 2. through high-impact weapons in systematic attacks on residential buildings, schools, and displacement camps crowded with children.

My brother was yesterday diagnosed with Stage 4 #coloncancer. He hadn't felt well for 9 months; his doctor attributed it to his medication. He'd not been able to eat or poo for 2 weeks. A colonoscopy found a total blockage. It's too late now for him but not for you - Get Yourself Checked! 🙏

The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...

Israel has now killed 73,039 Palestinians, an understatement as thousands are still missing under the rubble. Peer-reviewed studies reveal official counts represent a ‘floor’ as peer reviewed studies find that over 75,000 were killed over a year ago. #IsarelWarCrimes #GazaGenocide

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: an amazing #Roman glass jug with a smaller glass jug inside – a so-called joke-jar that shows the skill of the glassmaker. Presumably made in workshop in Cologne, found in a grave in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland, 4th c. AD. 🧵1/2

We are that small dot beyond the end of the Cherbourg peninsula, just on the edge of the extreme weather system in France. Yesterday, we were just inside it 🥵; today we may be just outside it 🌬️ *Image from Severe Weather Updates Facebook

More than 150 shipwrecks discovered beneath Gibraltar waters.

GM 🌄 ☕️ 🪷 🎨 Lucy Culliton

🚨🚨Excellent debunking of 13 famous #brexit promises by @guardianheather.bsky.social on the 10 years anniversary of the momentous #referendum . 🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Join us on #Alderney for a writing retreat - Sunday 20th and Monday, 21st September. #WritingCourse

"Israel is not only carrying out a genocide in Gaza using German-supplied weapons, attacking Iran and Lebanon with German arms, enforcing the blockade of Gaza with German naval vessels and raiding Gaza Solidarity flotillas with the same equipment, but is also reportedly using chemical..." 1/2

Spain's Supreme Court jails former socialist minister for 24 years in COVID corruption case. It seems the UK doesn't have the cojones to prosecute its own Covid frauds.

Rare medieval notebook found in latrine in Paderborn. #Archaeology

New discovery: Excavations in Oderzo (Treviso, Italy) have uncovered an exceptional late Roman complex including mosaics, massive walls, and burials. Archaeologists believe it could be the city’s earliest known Christian church, an important glimpse into a time of major cultural and ...🧵 1/2

Throughout history there have been non-religious people who have believed that this life is the only life we have, that the universe is a natural phenomenon with no supernatural side, and that we can live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity. Happy #WorldHumanistDay

Happy Fathers Day, Daddy. ♥️

As of 18 June: 73,018 Palestinians killed; 20,179 children killed; 12,500 women killed; 1,701 medical personnel killed; 262 press killed; 173,273 people injured since 10 July 2023. #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes