Result! Marmalade Day without tears, curses, or watching a rolling boil into the small hours while praying for a 'set' 🤣🍋

I really hate the met offices new look. I keep switching it back to the old style but it does not remember. Why do websites keep changing something that worked just fine as it was.

Can we please stop calling things a tragedy when we really mean atrocity? Yours in Classics … (FWIW, I think calling these events atrocities actually articulates that there is a crime being committed. By which I mean murder or mass murder.)

Tiny little Stonehenge @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

That's Woodhenge over there, in the rain... #lunchbreak #archaeology

Well let's pull on the pants of positivity, the corset of courage or the g-string of barely giving a fuck and face today.

Severe vitamin D deficiency linked to increased risk of bronchitis and pneumonia Researchers have found that individuals with severe vitamin D deficiency were 33% more likely to be admitted to hospital with respiratory tract infections than those with sufficient levels. 🔗 https://rdg.ac/3Nu90yR

RT if you're tired

Been trying this thing where if I can't tell a headline is real or satire, I take a quick walk, and if I still can't tell, I go take a nap, so I'm still confused about everything everywhere but at least I'm rested and have gotten some light exercise.

A predatory class, which demands not just the shirt off your back, but the skin as well. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

New year, new job? 💫 If you've ever fancied making an impact at a UNESCO World Heritage Site, now’s your chance! We have a range of exciting opportunities on the University of Manchester and Jodrell Bank websites: https://ow.ly/3aJu50XVpK4 #Hiring #JodrellBank

Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them. Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST #smallpoemsunday

Can anyone help with a copy of TVAS Monograph 19, North Bersted warrior? There's a partially version on Researchgate but not the pages I want to read. Don't really want to pay £23 and wait 5+ days to find out there's nothing relevant to my topic in there 😒 #archaeology #westsussex #northbersted

Xtreem-ly cold off-road bicycle adventure yesterday afternoon to a couple of local Bronze Age barrows. I'd planned this for New Year's Eve but wasn't well enough. It was a glorious ride but freezing and I traded actual sunset for getting back before dark and frozen tracks.

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I have some great Resolutions for the New Year:

11:44 Something strange is going on: dogs have been barking intermittently up and down the village for the last couple of hours, and now I've just heard a corvid outburst. Perhaps the Wild Hunt is abroad? I want to go to sleep!

On this last day of 2025 I have mostly been feeling poorly. It will pass. Resolutions for 2026: be appreciative of the amazing things which can happen if you are open to opportunity; be kind, including to yourself; start work on assessments sooner 🤷‍♀️🥂🎆

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Got my tickets for New Years Eve. It’s going to be a fun night!

28 January 1896. Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, became the first person in the UK to be convicted of speeding. He was doing 8 MPH, which was over the 2 MPH speed limit. He was fined 1 shilling plus costs. He had been caught by a policeman who had given chase on a bicycle.

Welsh artist Gwen John, Cat study, c.1904 #WomensArt

Every year, about this time, somewhere deep in the Perigord, it happens. Magdalenian spirit-reindeer awake from their deep, cavern-dark slumber, and take flight. 🦣🦌🎄

Melanistic solstice Mallard. Beware the Black Duck...

TOMORROW IS THE WINTER SOLSTICE AND Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. It is time for the women (defined broadly) to hunt the Year King through the woods and tear him apart with their bare hands!

TRACTORS!! 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜 🚜

Some sparkliness in York last week- just a tiny hint of glorious dawn light on the north tower #tag2025 #york

Slightly late for #FindsFriday but this fragment of a bear (Ursus arctos) longbone was brought in last week on our @rmoudheden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social Doggerland day. Found on Katwijk beach it shows cutmarks most likely by a flint tool.(C14 within our Resurfacing Doggerland project)🐻

Anxiously watching the local river gauge...

Spent a lovely pre #TAG2025 admiring this loveliness. @merchantshallyork.org @romanpalace.bsky.social

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

Sheringham Bus Shelter siege enters ninth day. Town Council to meet today in secret. County Council bailiffs conducting night raids

I've had a thing published! Me! A thing! Published! I mean, don't get too excited, but still a thing...

Is this how rumors start? 😳

Storytelling, it’s what archaeology is for. Telling stories about people, different ways of being, strangeness, the diversity of the human condition - that how we organise our world, our societies, our relationships with people, places, animals, plants, things, & time have not always been like this

In case you wondered how it is like being charged by the mighty aurochs … (Still at @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social, obviously.)

There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

Check out this fine #Pleistocene-themed wall art photographed by my buddy Paul Stewart in Kennington, Oxford

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

It was a long night...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!

#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀 On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it. #Wales #History

We're doing a conference on the Early Medieval Period and demand that you buy tickets and then share this post immediately. sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390