you’d like to think the clarity that comes from knowing it’s all ultimately just about power would be something other or more useful than simply exhausting

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Deleting the contents of my twitter today - after it took me weeks to get the archive - and it's making me emotional. I was one of many that found & honed my voice there. Devastated that the space has been hijacked & disfigured beyond recognition becoming unusable for our communities & movements.

As the BBC’s Lyse Doucet said today, ‘we are now living in very dangerous times’.

Last night over Reykjavík's skyline. Simply magical to live with this in your skies. #northernlights #aurora #fullmoon

Not to brag, but I now hold the coveted academic title of Ex-Interim Chair.

Used as a duster

A winter scene, Stromness, with St. Peter’s House Eventide Home on the right, c.1957. ❄️ 📷: Hourston Photographic Collection © Stromness Museum

Happy New Year! At midnight on Hogmanay, the Watch Stone will move from its position guarding the approach to the Ness of Brodgar to take a drink from Stenness loch. (Or so it is said!) Wishing you all a wonderful 2026, filled with folklore, fun and many a hike to an ancient site 💚🪨🎉

Health Longevity Joy Peace Contentment Hope Halicarnassus, 4th BCE

I’m undergoing an unsettling but not unpleasant experience of watching my daughter try on wedding dresses.

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

5 out of 10. That’s 50% hallucinations. We are so not ready for 2026, guys.

A Woman Holding a Lily-of-the-Valley and a Pansy attributed to Marx Reichlich, 1464–1538. (The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London) You can never go wrong with lilies.

NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122... This huge ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The high quality of Hellenistic metalwork was applied to many everyday objects, including box mirrors, an example of which is below. This beautiful repoussé relief of a woman with a silver earring and necklace once covered a polished, reflective bronze surface within. 🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky 📸 me

Fifteen of those twenty years were spent writing unsuccessful grant applications.

For Christmas Day an early medieval gold foil cross found in Andelfingen, dating 7th c. AD. Gold foil crosses were purpose-made for burials, they were sewn on the veil that covered the deceased. They are regarded as one of the earliest Christian symbols in southwestern Germany. MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄🎅

This gold solidus is the earliest coin to depict Jesus. It was minted in Constantinople in 450 to celebrate Emperor Marcian's marriage to Pulcheria. Jesus is shown between the imperial couple. This specimen from the Hunterian collection is the only known example in existence.

Opon (Container) (Nigeria, Yoruba, 20th century) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Fur trapper, Québec 1866

“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” - George Bernard Shaw

This floor!

Child Drawing or Writing, Harmen ter Borch, 1649 Harmen made this drawing ‘naet leve’ (from life) on 23 Dec 1649 – at just 11 years old. The sitter is probably his younger brother Moses, who rests his feet on a foot stove while writing or drawing. (Rijksmuseum)

Archaeology Scotland's Student Awards 2025: Submission deadline for UG & PGT Dissertations - 9 January 2026. The awards ceremony will take place during the Scottish Student Archaeology Conference in spring 2026. Full details and submission link: tinyurl.com/53rh7tek @archscot.bsky.social

I honestly cannot think of a cesspit I’ve excavated, anywhere, any period, that hasn’t been found to be teeming with bad news.

“”LLMs allow me to find research for the first time!” My brother in Christ, have you ever heard of a library?

A SOLSTICE ANALEMMA: Italian photographer Paolo Bardelli stitched together 48 pictures spanning 12 months to reveal the analemma over Lake Varese. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

Solstice at Callanish this morning #StandingStoneSunday

The Twisted Chimney (Welsh: Simnai Ddirdro) is a public art sculpture located in Bute Town, near Rhymney, in the north of the Rhymney Valley in South Wales Artist: It was designed by New York artist Brian Tolle and unveiled in 2011

There is growing evidence that the famous Riace Bronzes, discovered by a diver off the coast of Calabria in 1972, had been submerged near Riace by traffickers just a few months earlier in order to hide them. They had been secretly recovered from the seabed near Brucoli in Sicily in the late 1960s.

Craft Guilds and Traditional Skills Keepers – Hands That Remember. "Traditional skills keepers teach more than technique. They teach patience. They teach attention. They teach humility before materials. They teach pride in work done properly." tinyurl.com/John-Kirkby

A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...

Give it two more years, and being able to exclude false references from your research will be about as important a skill as including real references is today.

New York City, NY USA 📸©️Phil Penman #liminalphotography, #urbanwinterscape

Hosford-Abernethy, Portland, OR #pdx #houses #homes #murals #streetart

❄️… frosty twilight …❄️

This is where getting a finger tattoo with a centimetre scale would be handy @palaeokatie.bsky.social

Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple. The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations. Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance) #FrescoFriday

Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.

It would be amusing it it wasn’t mostly true

You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians

Stunning new discovery in Italy: Thousands of dinosaur footprints were discovered more than 2,000 meters above sea level, providing new insights into life 200 million years ago. www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/itali...

Delft ware, circa 1750. Rijksmuseum. Hallucinatory!

Detail of a log fence in central Ohio https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/156134

Peak Geminids Meteor shower this past Saturday night captured over Stonehenge. Photo credit: Sandra.Davies6869

On the Third Sunday of Advent, we light three candles - perfect occasion to share the oldest preserved candles found north of the Alps. The candles were made from beeswax around 1,400 years ago. They were found in the early #medieval burial site in Oberflacht. The damp...🧵1/2 📷 me

The menhirs in the stone circles do more than pin our sense of the Long Neolithic to the moor. They pin legends to the land. Anchor generations of storytelling. Lithic libraries that endure in both physical place and the imagination. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

Something a bit more « classic » from the desert… Harmony of desert shapes & sand textures ☺️. Empty Quarter, UAE #photography #art #nature #landscape #desert #harmony