It always tickles me when @alieward.bsky.social says something like "enjoy washing dishes or whatever you're doing while listening to @ologies.bsky.social" and I'm doing silly nerd nonsense like measuring mullet bones in a Belgian ichthyoarchaeology lab 😅 Fueled by podcasts, this work is 🐟

Locking in to finally finish this abstract for the @oceanspast.bsky.social 🐟

Following yesterday's EAA Special Meeting, I have submitted a complaint to the EAA Appeal and Anti-Harassment Committee. I post it here, with names redacted, for any members who were not present. Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out with messages of solidarity and support 🙏💓🙏

It's your birthday, Duane.

Im genuinely so befuddled by this; I DON'T LACK IDEAS. I have so MANY ideas and plans--its time, money, and energy I lack. I don't need genAI to make up stuff for me, my brain does that perfectly well, and I actually love that my brain does that for me.

I've got a stress twitch developing in my left eye and there's a persistent flicker in all of the overhead lighting of the room I'm working from right now. If anyone sees me lying face first on the cobbles in the middle of the Exeter Christmas Market today just leave me, I'm doing fine.

Also, to be clear, when a trans instructor at OU is being punished and targeted for quite fairly grading a terrible essay, it’s bizarre to see academics online debating the rubrics. That’s…not the problem.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

bisig, adj: busy, occupied. (BIH-zih / ˈbɪ-zɪj) Image: Calendar page for December in the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg; France (Paris), before 1349; @metcloisters.bsky.social object 69.86. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Lucy's been inspiring me ever since I met her-- read more about her work improving Wikipedia here!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

What's the point of going on holiday if you can't be incredibly annoying about it? I'm completely incapable of switching off my brain while having fun, so I recorded all the fish species my friend and I saw on our snorkelling trips in the Red Sea. Check out the infographic here: shorturl.at/hh7bB

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Friday feels, finding out the North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest whales on the planet, is finally showing the first signs of slow recovery. Amazing photos by Deluna Vision #NorthAtlanticRightWhale #RightWhales #WhaleConservation

Revisiting some classic ichthyoarchaeology papers on the train as I desperately try to race Storm Claudia out of the country ⛈️😅

With any luck I'll soon have indefinite leave to remain and therefore indefinite leave to be even more annoying ✨

I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT

every night I go to bed as an American immigrant abroad knowing that I’m gonna wake up to the wildest shit having just happened back in my country overnight 😮‍💨

Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.

In the spirit of sharing more research updates (and posting more in general), I realized I forgot to mention a pretty big life/research change-- I've moved Down South 🫨 #archaeology #researchupdate #lifeupdate

Very excited to share that I've been given a ECR Spotlight in Volume 34 of the @oceanspast.bsky.social Quarterly Newsletter to discuss my "Beyond Stockfish" project and research journey (so far 😊!) bsky.app/profile/ocea...

Dammit Ingold

If you wondered what using denatured trypsin in your collagen (ZooMS) samples looks like, here you go. Dark teal blue on the left (an Atlantic salmon-- Salmo salar) is a normal mass spectrum, olive green on the is the same sample, but showing an incredibly noisy spectrum. #proteomics #archaeology

not me forgetting that BlueSky doesn't support uploaded gifs 😅

Back in the ZooMS saddle...

The reality in the UK right is now the ideology of trans eradication is being given more legal protections than the reality of being trans. And if you can't see that with everything that's going on, then you are part of the problem. Do better, listen to trans people, fight back against the bigots.

Not to brag, but this is the view from my hotel room...

I returned to my conference live-posting roots today for a session here in Stellenbsoch. Really amazing presentations on the development of a supervision seminar series, fostering communities of practice, and incorporating Indigenous Knowledge modes and relationality into PhD supervision.

It's Day 1 of the Postgraduate Supervision Conference here in beautiful Stellenbosch! We're excited to check out some papers on RSVP core topics like supervisor development and practice. If you spot me (Liz, RSVP postdoc) throughout the day, feel free to come up and say hello! #PSCStellenbosch2025

RSVP is heading to Stellenbosch for the 9th Biennial Conference on Research into Postgraduate Supervision! Our Postdoctoral Research Associate @archaeoliz.bsky.social will be taking over to post on LinkedIn, as well as here on Bluesky, during next week's conference from 26 to 28 March 2025. (1/3)

Keep your eye's peeled on the RSVP account next week-- I'll be reporting in from a pretty exciting place 🐧🌺🌍

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

We have published a new Open Research in Practice case study by @archaeoliz.bsky.social which describes FAIR and open practices in archaeological research, tracking the decline of salmon in the North Sea basin 🐟

My current postdoctoral work with the Next Generation RSVP project has centred around research supervision development and I'm really excited to share a first taster of some of our findings from the 2024 UKRSS, as well as focus groups with supervisors across England. wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...

I got an email yesterday responding to an archive request I made from an Ivy League university library about several photos in their collection, as well as an an automated follow-up email asking for feedback on the service I received. I submitted the request on October 10, 2020 🫠

addicted to this now 😅 🪱 Animal #550 🐠 I figured it out in 7 guesses! 🟥🟧🟧🟧🟨🟩🟩 🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 8.5 metazooa.com #metazooa

Everyone who works in anything library or information related has been bombarded with stuff about how AI is a game changer. I work in digital accessibility and am unconvinced - here is a thing I wrote about it for work: blogs.york.ac.uk/digital-acce...

Walked across a stage with a life sized plush toy salmon yesterday-- what did you get up to?

#Science 🧪 looks all shipshape and shiny but for those - like me - who are trying to make it through the pityless meanders of #academia, it's an endless run from grant to grant, temporary jobs and relocations in the hope of a permanent position...people should see this side too! #FairAcademia

Inspired by a friend's discussion about wanting to do more on their heritage-associated hobby this year, I really want to get back into posting more archaeological content on social media in 2025. (1/9)

I recently started re-watching Lost and man, these first two seasons really are just GREAT television. It's especially fun to watch with my housemate who has never seen it before.

obligatory working on the weekend sweet treat

I'm hoping my new influx of followers isn't expecting much in the way of archaeology right now-- currently my academic work is focused on research supervision development and pedagogy, which unfortunately makes for less exciting content 😅

I don't even mind that I'm in the house working on a report on a Saturday night because I walked through York at 3:30 this afternoon and I was ready to launch myself into space. Apparently all the council and private car parks are full and they've started letting people park on the Knavesmire 🙃

Working on a primarily qualitative postdoc has made me learn many new things about myself. Like the fact that I simply cannot stand NVivo, and wish its inventors nothing but the most inconvenient life.

I know I've truly made salmon/fish knowledge my brand now because the quizmaster at my local regularly adds fish related questions just to try and trip me up.