Napalm Death have made history with an appearance on NPR Music's Tiny Desk concert series. Details: metalinsider.net/video/napalm... #NapalmDeath #TinyDesk #NPRMusic

News | Sainsbury Centre receives £91.2m donation Money will be used to revitalise the Norman Foster-designed building at the University of East Anglia, Norwich

Why a 1,500‑year‑old monastic rulebook still challenges what it means to live a meaningful life

Living by the Rule: Contemporary Meets Medieval - now on at the Sainsbury Centre 🐈

SAVA Conference on Solidarity with Nature 21-22 May 2026 Sainsbury Centre UEA Join us for the presentation Ethereal Ecologies: Socialist Anthropocene of the Sky by Maja & Reuben Fowkes considering the extent to which the atmosphere was subject to anthropogenic change. Full programme on sava.earth

Sainsbury Centre receives one of largest ever UK museum donations

Fantastic talk on Great Zimbabwe and decolonisation this afternoon by @chirikure.bsky.social for the Centre for African Art and Archaeology at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social

waking up and reading about the results of the locals and feeling very

Not being able to log on to the system to teach a class is my favourite 🫠 Students kindly huddled round my laptop while I waxed lyrical about good data - let’s see if the system is working for my seminar later 🤞

For once, this chaos wasn’t my idea

A reminder about this! Please do share with any students and ECRs working on Christian Missions, 1500-2000 with your networks.

#LastFourWatched 🎥

I spent my 45th birthday on the coast yesterday with @pumaparded.bsky.social, and a meal in the evening with my wonderful friends - I feel very lucky to have had such a nice birthday 💖

Updated Centre for African Art and Archaeology (UEA) events for the spring semester:

PUT A CORGI ON THE MONEY YOU COWARDS

#LastFourWatched 🎥 boxd.it/5EY4t

Week 6 of teaching, and today my class of 2nd years had a brilliant session in the UEA Archives - lots of great examples of ‘tricky’ objects in the collection - for the students to think through the challenges of archiving film, floppy discs, audio etc.

Bite Anglia Square Norwich

Would anyone out there (preferably fairly senior in academia) be able to cast their eyes over a certain short but ‘Very Important Confidential Document’ for me towards the end of this week? (I’m looking to give it my full attention on Friday, so reading it on Thursday would be quite helpful)

Had a coffee with friends on Friday, have spent three days recovering from the activity. Honestly this whole ‘body being a bit shit’ thing is… a bit shit.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Do you have any favourite zines? If so, could you reply with a link? Ta!

The second 2026 Centre for African Art and Archaeology seminar takes place on Wednesday 25 February 2026. Dr Eva Namusoke (University of Cambridge) will deliver a talk titled: "Uganda, Cambridge, and the Afterlives of Return." In person or register online: tinyurl.com/5b8z8mrr All are welcome!

Five (!) weeks it took to get over that nasty virus going around - I have *so* much to catch up on as I’ve been barely functioning for the past month 😣

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Heated blanket, paracetamol, stuffy nose and a cough… and yet I’m attempting to stay up for #BenitoBowl

Still got it, ludicrous.

Back up plan: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This morning’s view 🌍 #MonaHatoum

Turns out I’ve got that wretched bug going around 🤧

Metal Music Studies 11.3 is out now! Including ‘The heaviness of metal music: The sublime and religious experience’ by Marek Vodička. Access the issue via discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/mms/11/3

Have spent my life a fan of cold weather, I fear I'm turning into someone who would like to escape to sunnier climes in the winter months... if only for the sake of my aching joints. Alternating between heatpads and hobbling around the flat making groaning noises like some kind of Victorian spectre

Morning

Here are the UEA Centre for African Art and Archaeology lectures this semester:

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research? Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections. collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

If you need me, I’ll be gazing lovingly at my MoMA collab coffee machine #artnerd

Today is my last day temping for the PAL/Library and Learning Enhancement Team at UEA 😢

Fantastic Centre for African Art and Archaeology lecture this evening by Prof. Raymond Silverman: ‘Reflections on Visual Piety in 21st Century Ethiopia’ at @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #sainsburyresearchunit

We actually have some AHRC PhD funding! www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Incredibly grateful to have studied for, and achieved, a PhD… but the ‘career’ job hunt really is demoralising 😥

Early Career Researchers wanted! Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton. Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:

We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...

Always coordinate your water bottle to your shoes 🧡

Back working with PAL in the gloriously brutalist Main Library

After 2 years… I’ve finally got the news I’ve been waiting for, my ankle is no longer broken and the tendons, although heavily scarred, are healed!! I need more physio and OT, but it’s amazing news, especially as I’m finally starting to feeling like myself again ☺️

Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa's Dialogues with Memory and Flesh - At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. artafricamagazine.org/refracting-r...