Does anyone else take great pleasure in printing out vintage line-hachure drawings of prehistoric monuments? Sometimes I mount them on card, sometimes I create handouts for field trips from them. I just love the detail and tangibility of these beautiful, evocative, technical works. 🏺

Hilarious and heartbreaking, and not just because I would absolutely try to make this sandwich (see: me raiding the dining area at a certain morally bankrupt surveillance tech company when my employee friend invites me over)

‘Curriculum Effectiveness Enhancement and Quality Magnification and Intensification’ 🎯 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

I love so much about this fascinating research … but it can make its point perfectly well without referencing entombment etc, which simply aren’t the analogies they’re made out to be here

Shout out to the extreme passive aggression of my daughter’s pre-school, who sent her home with a sealed envelope full of loose glitter

🏺guys, I’ve found the book for all of us in #HigherEd teaching admin. Magic school, with Ofsted and risk assessments for demonic possession, and just generally great fun uk.bookshop.org/p/books/unti...

Hiba's seminar will be first in Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies series, on "Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts". All welcome, in-person only, book via this link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...

Shout out to everyone who thinks about this scene in Mad Men at least once a week

This is *such* a good description of this trend. I’ve said ‘whiplash’ in I don’t know how many meetings at this point

Applications due 30 December for the Malmberg Fellowship at the University of #Pittsburgh (USA) to study for a fully-funded #masters degree. Open ONLY to #Lesotho nationals! www.global.pitt.edu/cas/students...

Closing date Dec 3rd. 1 year post as Researcher on our Prehistoric Policies project. 👇👇👇

Instead of a dozen AI tools I never asked for why can’t I have a device that lets me cook with fresh thyme and not have 100s of little twiglets in my food

New report on how people engage with archaeology is out - Trowel and Error: A Public User Needs Survey. Lots to digest but key conclusions are: 1) archaeologists risk undervaluing and hiding ourselves, our practices and the role we play in society... www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

It’s historical archaeology! Its heritage! It came out 24 hours before my first child! Not my most recent book but maybe my most obscure (and beloved) for the above reasons Unformatted open access version on my UCL Profiles page

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR LET’S GOOOOOO

Our first speaker for the series will be Hiba Alkhalaf (Voices of Heritage/Aswat Alturath). She'll be speaking about "From Destruction to Recovery: Syrian Heritage, Fourteen Years on". Link to book below. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

There is nothing better than Robert Lloyd Parry reading a ghost story in a chapel in December. It is as much a part of Christmas as carols, presents and watching It's A Wonderful Life for the forty-first time.

In the immortal words of Sir Mix-a-Lot: "And ugh, double-up, ugh, ugh". 2 doggy papers are so much better than 1. Both studies a testament to slow science & international collaboration between brilliant people. What it's all about. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 Job Klaxon! 🚨 @ucl.ac.uk Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology (Ref.: B03-02751) The post is available from 1 Jan 2026 & is funded until 31 Dec 2028 in the first instance, providing cover for Corisande Fenwick bit.ly/4oxQgfp

Super excited to use this fabulous ‘Behind the Paper’ article by @petravaiglova.bsky.social and @kjkillackey.bsky.social to teach my undergrad theory students about how good visualisations are well-theorised ones. Such a wonderful piece of sci comm! 🏺🧪 communities.springernature.com/posts/making...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings! Look on my UNESCO World Heritage list works and advance neoliberal governmentality!

The latest output from my milk research with Johanna Zetterström-Sharp @uclarchaeology.bsky.social published in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-politics...

Just over a week out from publication day for my book, In the Shadow of El Tajín: The Political Economy of Archaeology in Modern Mexico (@univnebpress.bsky.social). Read more below or at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978.... 🗃️📚🇲🇽🏺 #skystorians #Mexico #archaeology #heritage

Look at the cool things my colleagues are doing! ✨

So very excited to be a panellist at #UAD25 @uclarchaeology.bsky.social! Come ask me anything (and entertain my kids who will be on their own half term adventure) 🏺

Book cultures in archaeology YESPLEASE!🏺

Reviewer 2 says I need to ‘engage with Rachel King’s work more’ in this paper and 1) right on, but also 2) do I not have a distinctive writing voice?! Is this a hidden superpower?

NEW Sudan is a diverse country with a rich cultural heritage that is under threat from conflict. In a guest editorial, Habab Idriss Ahmed & Geoff Emberling discuss the brave efforts of the Sudanese antiquities department (NCAM) to protect Sudan's #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you? You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa... @royalarchinst.bsky.social

Teaching the 2019 Big Gods paper (retractionwatch.com/2021/07/07/c...) as a cautionary tale in archaeological theory, and also in how not to use excel

Super excited for this! And what excellent timing now that we’re putting together a module on (among other things) gaming 🤗

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The British university mess is so clearly what happens when the incentives of the people administering and consulting on the system bear no relation to those of anyone actually working in it

🏺Putting together an exercise using field diaries for my archaeological theory class and wondering whether anyone knows of any digitised/archived *laboratory* diaries that would be good to teach with? 🙏🏻 (Before anyone asks the Catalhoyuk research portal search isn’t working 🙃)

Today is August 1. Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

2/ On that direction of travel, I wrote this earlier this year: apollo-magazine.com/usaid-abolit...

My children have complementary approaches to birthday cake

Me, photographing archives in 2023: I really should get these catalogued and onto a hard drive now so I’m not scrambling to do this when I need to write a talk Me, scrambling to write a conference talk in 2025: curse these totally foreseeable consequences!

Amazing funding scheme for postgraduates, working on amazing projects with the best people. Yes, I really am that excited.

So pleased that we have MA funding available this year for our MA Archaeology & Heritage Programme. Please spread the word (or get in touch if you have questions)! www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

5yo is doing a unit on African countries so naturally I’ve primed her to pedantically correct anyone who mispronounces Lesotho. I’m sure this will not affect her popularity in any way.

🏺 So pleased to have this out for ACHS #Currents about my adventures in economic history, how markets have valued the past, and how #heritage buys into growth (but doesn’t have to!). 🙏🏻 @heritagethings.bsky.social for being the most patient editor! www.criticalheritagestudies.org/currents-cri...

Check out the freshly launched TSOSI (Transparency to Sustain Open Infrastructure) website and take a peek at the list of PCI supporters! tsosi.org/entities/ba7...

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social. Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.

Students for my ‘Critical Heritage Research Skills’ module write a grant application as their final assessment and these are always a DELIGHT. Cats as stewards of heritage sites! Carceral heritage! Someone fund these ASAP!