Labour have secured a record breaking 8.4GW of additional offshore wind capacity. The auction is the biggest in European history, with long term prices secured at about 20% lower than the maximum. The sites, off England, Scotland and Wales, are enough to power 12 million homes! 1/2

In my opinion this is the way that *all* self-driving vehicles will go: owned by a service provider (public or private) and called on demand. Nice to see that this organisation has side-stepoed the awkward 'passengers not closing the door' issue encountered by Waymo.

While coastal erosion can be a big problem, it is currently offering a fascinating cross-sectional view of a (thankfully unused) cold-war nuclear monitoring post. (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...)

Read more in the new article by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @pablorosado.com: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

... and from Historic England. #Archaeology 🏺 historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in...

Sharing for #aDNA 🏺folk

This year on Bluesky I wrote 33 posts and 225 replies. I received 415 likes, whereas 14 was from my most popular post, and apparently I love saying "archaeology" and 🏺! I retired in June 2025, and you can see I had more time (and freedom) to speak my mind... www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

We shouldn’t have to vote tactically to stop someone else. We shouldn’t have to choose the least bad option. Democracy should give us the freedom to vote for what we actually support – and the confidence that our vote will count wherever we live. buff.ly/SRgOk8K

A thorough report of a complex case, by Grigor Atenesian BBC News - Should a top Russian archaeologist face trial for digging in occupied Crimea? #heritagecrime #archaeology #conflict www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So… I just got an email today saying that the project I’ve been working on, my main source of income, has been shelved til at least February. Merry Christmas! If anyone has any editorial needs, please get in touch! Thanks #Editing #Proofreading #AcademicEditing

On January 20, 16:00 GMT/8:00 PST, join a webinar presented by Historic England exploring their new Arches-powered Marine Heritage Environment Record application & explaining their journey to develop a new digital solution for managing England’s marine heritage data.

Looking to kick off 2026 with a #NewJob in heritage? We have an amazing part-time opportunity to work at the heart of collaboration in the heritage sector: 💼Task Group Manager (0.5FTE) 🪙£37k (pro-rata) 📍London (flexible) 📆Apply by 6 Jan 2026 historicenvironmentforum.org.uk/vacancy-for-...

Excellent - thank you for what you are doing. PR for Westminster elections is essential to future political stability IMHO.

Temeraire: The Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026! I've been working closely with Magpie Games to bring the world of Temeraire to life in this exciting new RPG. Follow along & be among the first to take to the skies when the project launches! www.kickstarter.com/...

📣 Competition Launch Alert! Deep Past Challenge: Translate Akkadian to English hosted by Deep Past AI 🎯 Build an AI model that translates 4,000-year-old Old Assyrian business records into English 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: March 23, 2026 www.kaggle.com/competitions...

This might feel a bit niche, but the arrival of Arches Lingo is a major moment for cultural heritage information managers, and hugely welcome. 🎁 Early Christmas present from @archesproject.bsky.social . Kudos to @digitalman.bsky.social and other involved.

"Earliest evidence of making fire" - full-text view-only version of the Nature paper, using the link below. rdcu.be/eT4WI

Assistant Archaeology & Heritage Consultant CSA Environmental Salary: £27,500 - £29,500 Closing Date: January 29, 2026 Location: Tewkesbury www.bajr.org/job-ad/assis...

Might be of interest to the #ff2025 crowd who viewed @kmcdono.bsky.social and @latest.allmaps.org session. Placename text + historic GIS.

Pancake day, cheese rolling and highland dancing could be officially recognised as part of the UK's Living Heritage. The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was signed in 2003 but took until January 2024 for the UK to ratify it - over 20 years! 1/2

Clarification on what our "VLM pipeline" is (thx @miaout.bsky.social): code and utilities that chain together workflows across AI models – incl. the newer vision-capable language models (VLMs). Goal is to extract structured metadata from images. Have material you'd like me to test? Ping me!

@electoralreform.bsky.social is the only solution that makes sense #PR

Know how to make online communities feel like home (and stay organised doing it)? Bellingcat needs a Community Operations and Project Manager to support our growing global Volunteer Community and to help run Bellingcat’s Investigative Toolkit project. Apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-j...

Just Zooming in to this #ff2025 session Text on Maps: From Collection Discovery to Research Data Bert Spaan, Kaspar Beelen, Jules Schoonman, Valeria Vitale, Daniel C.S. Wilson, Rosie Wood,, Katherine McDonough. Should be good 🏺 #AI #MapsMonday (but on a Thursday...)

Oh, this is such an EXCELLENT choice! Misha Glenny is the new host of BBC Radio 4's flagship show In Our Time, replacing the retiring Melvyn Bragg www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Just hearing about Fantastic Futures now? You can sign up for the #FF2025 livestream at https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/ for all sessions on Thursday and Friday. On AI4LAM's YouTube afterwards too!

I feel seen. 🙂. Impressive reports on your Bluesky activity on this site... My most-used words in 2025 were: 1. "research" (18×) 2. "archaeology" (16×) 3. "heritage" (13×) 4. "century" (10×) 5. "historic" (10×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

In most modern democracies, the rise of new parties is seen as something natural and parliaments represent the public in all its diversity. But our weird voting system can't handle more than two options. People have moved on from the two-party era. Our voting system must follow.

Just a few hours left! ⌛

Ironsworn Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals are now live at @drivethrurpg.com! First of all, Ironsworn: Starforged, the standalone, sci-fi evolution of the Ironsworn RPG, is a Black Friday doorbuster at 75% off! Get it here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

In the UK, you could demolish a church VAT-free, but if you wanted to repair that church, you would have to pay VAT.

Are fictional prehistoric sites acceptable for #StandingStoneSunday ? One of my favourites is Ringstone Round, which featured in 1979 #SF series in the UK, Quatermas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaterm... . Also appropriate for #JodrellBank80 celebrations.

💥 For a new report, @demos-uk.bsky.social interviewed 700+ teenagers. 72.8% agreed: democracy must be defended at all costs. But many weren't happy with the way it currently works. "Change the voting system" was proposed as one of the solutions. We agree. Read more: demos.co.uk/research/ins...

For anyone who’s interested in a career swap into archaeology and in travelling distance of Gloucestershire from @cotswoldarch.bsky.social 👇

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

#ICYMI: In one of our latest blogs, Dr Susan Major shares a history of recycling, ingenuity and urban change by considering the history of scoria bricks found in York's back alleys. Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/blog-scoria-... #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

It shouldn’t take an expert to translate public opinion into seats. But the brutal truth is that in our system, votes don’t add up to representation, they get filtered, distorted and wasted along the way.

“Anyone who believes that our outdated electoral system is unfit for purpose and wants to create a country where all voters feel genuinely represented in our politics should join our call for a National Commission on Electoral Reform” @annadixonmp.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/

It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help. Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology survey.app.do/archaeologis...

AI in the Heritage Sector free seminar

Fascinating thread on the long historical perspective of the role of battery development in #EnergyTransition parallelled with the #Neolithic agricultural revolution. Good read for #archaeology and #climatechange 🏺

📢 Funding. What a great initiative! Kudos to those funding and delivering this assistance for community #archaeology 🏺

PhD-opening in our ancient genomics lab this year, apply below! We work on: 📜 Genetic history integrated with archaeology and history 📈 Natural selection and trait genetics 🐺 Evolutionary genomics of dogs and wolves 🦠 Ancient pathogen genomics 💀 Hominin evolution and ancient proteomics

An archive of Sector Resilience Interviews connected to the original Heritage Sector Resilience Plan remain available on HEF's website: historicenvironmentforum.org.uk/sector-inter...

I was intrigued to see which two of the Vatican’s ten Raphael tapestries were chosen for today’s unprecedented service in the Sistine Chapel. The tapestries are very rarely shown - was Pope Leo XIV conveying any message in the choice? 🧵

Don't miss: How to network in arts, culture and heritage from HdK.

Why is the Maghreb so important to understanding Mediterranean prehistory? Giulio Lucarini explores North Africa's role as a cultural crossroads in the Bronze Age Read the prize-winning research🆓https://buff.ly/9Yui0ok #Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

Reposting for the #MapMonday crowd. @galaxymap.bsky.social have you covered if you want to zoom out a bit further. I'm very struck by seeing a geography (astrography?) of our galactic neighbourhood.

This is great advice for postgraduate (or undergrad dissertation) topic selection. #AcademicSky. For #heritage and #archaeology , Historic England colleagues have gathered an international collection of research questions here 🏺https://researchframeworks.org/

I've got my tickets! Looking forward to this talk later this week...