Just had a look at the #EAA sessions for Athens next year and there are some really juicy ones... Now I only have to finish my inner debate whether or not I stil want to participate after last year's troubles... 🤔 Guess I'll have some thinking to do over Christmas... 🎄✨️

After 3.5 years it is now time to say goodbye to @clusterroots.bsky.social!! As of the new year I officially won't be a part of the Cluster of Excellence any longer but what a fantastic time have I had (and not just because of the merchandise) 😉 Hope to see you again soon!!

Thanks to the @tag2025york.bsky.social team ans session organisers at the Power session this afternoon for making it possible for me to deliver my talk despite not reaching York no thanks to the Deutsche Bahn (though the staff were fantastic!)

Sitting in an ICE in Cologne that will be delayed an hour - making me miss my connecting train in Brussels...I realise that this is not their fault but travelling by train just means that you'll never reach your destination as planned...at least in Germany!

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Last conference for this year as a part of @clusterroots.bsky.social!! Off I go to @tag2025york.bsky.social and though it is very scenic - leaving my 8yr old behind breaks my heart every time!

And I want to go to @tag2025york.bsky.social in 2 days!! 🙈 Packing masks and hand sanitizer!!

There's lots of ongoing work as we're preparing for the new Museum of the Viking Age to open in Oslo. Our museum, @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social is now hiring an Associate Professor in Nordic archaeology, with expertise in the Viking Age. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still... #Vikingtidsmuseet

In November, @sarahbockmeyer.bsky.social successfully defended her dissertation. Once again, congratulations! 👏 You can learn more about her work and why it is relevant beyond archaeology in our new series on "Newly graduated PhD students“: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...

I forgot that in 2019 I started a whole website about Ludovic Mann, #TheManntheMyth. I had plans to do a podcast & update this regularly. If this gets to 100 followers (from current total of 23!) I’ll revive it and start adding content! #LudovicMann themannthemyth.home.blog

Ooh, our podcast chat about Neolithic society in Ireland is out! Perfect for fireside listen as we approach winter solstice.

Guess where I was today??

Currently it's the German Christmas poem "Die Weihnachtsmaus" (The Crhistmas Mouse) by James Krüss Die Weihnachtsmaus ist sonderbar sogar für die Gelehrten Denn einmal nur im ganzen Jahr entdeckt man ihre Fährten... 🎄🐭🐁

Saint Nicholas was here!! 🤩😊🎄🤶

✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨ Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿 Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to [email protected] ☺️

Can't comment- you forgot the oxen and sheep, though that's an insult to the poor animals!!

I can't wait - perhaps that's why I have hung Christmas lights everywhere!! 😊🎄

Germany is one of the most popular destinations for students and scholars worldwide, but those pursuing academic careers face significant hurdles to success www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sooo very excited to be able to go to @tag2025york.bsky.social in person to delve into power and stones and transformations!! Plus I need to stack up on British tea, Christmas chocolates and pop tarts!! 😁🎄🎄🎄 I also always wanted to see the Shambles!!

Spent the morning looking for the nr. 11 for my sons advent calendar. I know it fell out the box during our recent move and I know I put it somewhere and I finally found it - last place I checked - because he'd never find it there 😅🙈 Thankfully I did! Christmas may now approach! 🎄

📣 Call for Papers! International Research Network on Quarries and Rock-cut Sites, third conference. The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh. The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺

Today I am with the #NorddeutscheSteinzeitrunde (similar to the Neolithic Studies Group)! And we have a long list of highly interesting talks! 😊

@clusterroots.bsky.social @bserbe.bsky.social It's out!! 🥳 Congrats!! 😊

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. ____________ Killed by my Christmas Tree!! 🎄 Or was it the sneaky avocado?? 🥑

Maybe it will be a #ChristmasMystery to solve...like an advent calendar!! 😁😱🤩

I will be heading to Münster today - to give a talk about my #PhD at a small conference in German 😬 Don't think I have done that in 2 years, I wrote and talked about it in English only so hopefully I will be able to remember the words 😅🙈

How can Neolithic waste help us understand how Europe's first farmers adapted to a more sedentary lifestyle? Our new joint project with the University of York, "RENEW: From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and Bone Wastescapes in the Early Neolithic of Europe" hopes to shed light on this. bit.ly/3Xgcnez

Im Juni stellte Cynthia Bruhn, #KlassischeAltertumskunde @uni-kiel.de, das Thema ihrer Dissertation bei #kielerunilive vor. Jetzt hat sie ihre Promotion erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 👏 Mehr zu ihrem Projekt im Blog des @antike-kolleg.bsky.social bab.hypotheses.org/14923

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

As far as I understand is tomorrow the deadline of my 3rd examiner to let me know my final grade of my #PhD!! I am super giddy!! Plus - I will be talking about my PhD at a small conference on Friday where I will return to my alma mater @uni-muenster.de

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Look at the pretty ice flowers!! ❄️❄️❄️

Having to look at the conference programme to remember what I agreed to talking about next week seems a little like ai've been doing this too long but I'm kinda just getting started...or is this the end of the year stress??

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

One more post #PhD post and then I will shut up - I promise 😅🙈 The day before I got accepted to Kiel University I was at a conference in Borger, the Netherlands and I bought this nice bottle of wine. I kept it (and moved with it) 3 times to drink once I finished so here I am!! Cheers to all!! ✨️🍷

After the conference is before submission deadline of an article I promised to have done in mid-October 🤭 Also I am one of the editors so shame on me!! But I hope I will finish it before @tag2025york.bsky.social so I can just enjoy my time back after an almost 10 year absence!

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

Ich war so dumm zu denken, dass er sie günstiger machen will!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ Was Streek da tut ist brandgefährlich!!

Had a "small" celebration with my family yesterday!! Needless to say: I went alp out!! 👩‍🎓🎓✨️🍾

I did it!! Don't have the final grade yet but I passed 😊🎓🥳 I will get my #PhD !!

1️⃣‼️ day left until I will defend my #PhD @clusterroots.bsky.social. Nerves are definitely tingling with both excitement and dread! See you on the other side 😅🙈🎓

5️⃣ days left to go until I defend!! PowerPoint is ready, room booked, zoom meeting set up and Halloween 🎃 on our doorstep!! Plus the day I defend will be the closest full moon we will encounter this year... (You may notice I like to procrastinate...) I also know a lot about Guy Fawkes now 😅😱

A haunted house but for archaeologists 👻⛏️

Join us in Mainz for Landscapes of #Conflict: Archaeological Perspectives from #Prehistory to the #MiddleAges — an international #conference exploring how conflict and peace shaped human–environment interactions through time. 📅 26–28 Nov 2025 | 🏛️ LEIZA, Mainz www.leiza.de/kalender/det...

Sometimes I am really homesick to Britain and it's lovely rolling hills. Especially in the autumn when the trees are all colourfull and things getting cozy!! 🍂

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy

Without having read the book myself I would like to know how he got to the conclusion that the symbols show dualistic genders. If someone has actually read it maybe they can enlighten me?? Also the ego of claiming that it is valid for "any culture in the world" (see added picture 3).

Whelp!! Just realised that my #PhD defense/viva will already be in 1️⃣8️⃣‼️ days!!

SIX postdoc jobs (!) going at the new Leverhulme Centre for Space and Humanity at the University of Leicester, directed by @andrewfutter.bsky.social If you're in the social sciences/humanities and working on outer space, have a look!

Bit niche, but does anyone know of good publications or sources of information on historic aerial photography in India, for archaeological purposes? Presumably Archaeology Survey of India did a lot? cc @martynjb.bsky.social