“Drat,” said Toad.

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

Here's a great thread where @amandatuke.bsky.social tells us about her #PlantBased journey & how she got a #FISC level 5! Find out more about Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISCs) here: bsbi.org/field-skills Dates for FISCs in 2026 will go live in March.

Today I learned something amazingly new to me. Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲 Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo

New #Skystorians job alert! The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. Details in the link below. 1/2

Back at my printing night class (in-depth etching this time) and I will repeat my advice to academics: get a hobby. Preferably get a hobby that you can fail at and it doesn't matter. In facts it only makes it better.

Online talk this Thurs 4th Sept. Link below to book tickets ⤵️

3/9/25 - nocturn

Last few hours to stick your hat in the ring for this. Applications close at midnight today (1st Sept, 23:59 BST). ⬇️ #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

Deadline extended until 1st Sep! #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

An owl made from one paper plate. No leftovers, no waste, just 'pure making'. The full length video, plus photos and instructions are on the 'news' link at www.darrellwakelam.com 🙂 #sculpture #3Dart #recycle #artideas #edusky

Deadline extended until 1st Sep! #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

Have you seen this @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social ? Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…

The latest edition of our journal, Yorkshire Buildings No 51, is now available - now in bigger A4 format! Articles on Wakefield, Doncaster, Todmorden, Calverley Old Hall, oval windows, medieval aisled houses, and much more. Only £6 plus p&p - full details at www.yvbsg.org.uk/yorkshire-bu....

Come work in our team? Just over a week until applications close! Details below ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology at Historic England: app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?! Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience. Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

Treat yourself or a friend! ⤵️ The poetry volumes from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social are beyond beautiful. I highly recommend them ✨ #BookSky #Poetry #SmallJoys

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

Save the date for York Printmakers Print Fair. 20 & 21 Sept at #York Cemetery. An exhibition by 25 local printmakers. Meet the artists & find out how our prints are made. #NorthYorkshire #printmaking #buyart #artforsale #contemporaryart #originalprint

JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities! A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?! Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience. Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

RIP and thank you, Allan Ahlberg.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @askanarchaeologist.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @trisnorton.bsky.social you think we could combine #WildFlowerHour with #AskAnArchaeologist? What is your favourite plant related archaeological find? #Archaeobotany

Calling all curious minds! Today is #AskAnArchaeologistDay, your chance to ask anything you’ve ever wanted to know about archaeology! 📱 Join the conversation on X, BlueSky, TikTok, and Instagram, just use the hashtag #AskAnArchaeologist or ask your question in the comments to get involved.

A great site! But can indeed be tricky to follow the stony ramparts through the thick vegetation. I had an enjoyable day investigating up there with colleagues who subsequently produced this nice archaeological survey report: historicengland.org.uk/research/res... #HillfortsWednesday

I used to find this picture - and the whole concept - of a flooded valley quite haunting. Actually, I still do Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making, 1966)

Submit your resource to the #FestivalOfArchaeology & get it hosted online 24/7, 365, reach new audiences, showcase your work & inspire others 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/festival/org... Need inspo? 👀 Check out this year’s resources 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/festival/fes...

Chef’s kiss for this thread 😘 👌

Write your own caption stamps should definitely be a thing! 😄🐸💌

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. Knife-sharpened pencils Artist: Harry Wingfield, Second Picture Book, 1970 (And yes, it is a painting)

Just because you all need more archaeological finds and sites in your feed. One of the most numerous and visible archaeological sites on Jæren, South-western Norway are the visible remains of late Iron Age farmsteads dottered around the area. Main source of income for these farms were wool.

This, and the first few replies underneath it. Awareness saves lives. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Happy to report that colleagues at Historic England have recently added over 300 older reports to the map of RCHME/AML/EH/HE research - the easiest way of finding archaeological surveys and other work on historic places across England: historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

Insane this isn’t a bigger global story. Climate change is causing glacier collapse in the Alps. The Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed yesterday. The few buildings that survived the 3.5 million cubic metres of landslide are now slowly drowning as the collapsed mountain damns the river. (🎥 AFP)

Beautiful #TombTuesday (PS explore books from the @longbarrowpress.bsky.social if you want gifts for others or yourself, they are things of beauty: #Poetry)

Beautiful #TombTuesday (PS explore books from the @longbarrowpress.bsky.social if you want gifts for others or yourself, they are things of beauty: #Poetry)

This is a really useful thread with valuable examples of differences in service. For those that can't feedback via the trove feedback form I will be screenshot posts and feeding them back to the Trove team. To help find them it would be useful if posts contained the word Trove. Thanks.

#PeatSky - This is cool, @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social bought a mountain and are working towards #peatland restoration & nature reserve creation at #SkiddawForest. They’re getting close to their target and could gain valuable extra £ through match-funding of any pennies sent their way this month 👇

Another post - I'm keen to hear of any archaeological finds of this one from Britain matthewlaw.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/a...

Today is the day - #NoMowMay is here! Ready to start your #NoMowMovement and help nature? 🌸🥳 & remember, this is just the start...leaving wildflowers to grow in the summer helps biodiversity & local wildlife. 🦋 Join & give #PowerToTheFlowers 👉 bit.ly/3UWii6B

Sad not to have been in attendance for #IronAgeDialogues this week. Line up, programme & feedback looked fantastic. But grateful to those sharing updates using the hash-tag, meaning the rest of us could occasionally peek in from afar. (Especially @emmatollefsen.bsky.social - sterling effort! 🙏)

#NoMowMay has begun! 🌼 The rare chance to help nature by doing nothing.

Lovely words, looking forward to following a long. and Yet more evidence of why #TheFightToSaveOurSwifts is so important and timely. (for more on the latter, a strong recommend to go follow @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social 🪶)

I love this so much, Alison! What a brilliant way to engage people, could work well at certain types of themed conferences (archaeological or otherwise) or a fab as an activity with younger audiences. It has given me itchy fingers to have a play myself…

Just the thing for letting feet & minds wander this #HollowayWednesday… ✨

Brilliant opportunity 👇

🧵 highlighting glorious Wiltshire fieldscape earthworks, via @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social 👏 Am currently looking at a rather similar landscape in Dorset with @artefactual.bsky.social & @pastparticipate.bsky.social 💚 #LandscapeArchaeology

Spot on. I don’t really ‘love’ nature, as though it was something separate or just pretty to look at - it’s more that I know and feel that I’m part of it, part of the *real* world.