I'm hiring for a funded PhD in 'global' medieval history or trans-Mediterranean entanglements at my chair in Bochum, Germany, from 1 Oct 2026 — 3 yrs, your own project, 3 hrs/week teaching in the History Department, at 65 %of TVL-13 (~€2050/month after tax). Apply by 31 May — or please share 👇

And another amazing one for #bloomscrolling 🌺🌸 Found in the wild - no idea what this is 😅

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

We are pleased to announce our second keynote speaker for this year's conference: Prof. Catherine J. Frieman! Have you submitted to our call for sessions yet? If not, there is still time! The deadline for the call for sessions is 15th May, 5pm BST.

Why is it that I always have the best ideas for a paper or something ALWAYS just before my son gets home from school and my thinking abilities are severely limited by the ??? audiobooks! 🫠🙈

Prehistoric Policies has been on tour! In last week, we've presented at Southampton, Nordic TAG and Cork (the pyschedelic effect on the screen is an artefact of the photo, not the presentation). Next week is Dublin for @pintofscienceie.bsky.social Tx @britishacademy.bsky.social for funding!

Continuing with our theme of persistence and loss in Exeter, let’s take a look at the Iron Bridge in Exeter and the changing nature of an important routeway into the city. Deadline to submit your session proposals is this Friday, 15th May, 5pm BST. We look forward to receiving your proposals!

For today's #bloomscrolling I chose forgetmenots! Beautiful blue colours which is very rare in our natural surroundings or so I've been told 💙

Today's #bloomscrolling is a rhubarb in full blossom 😍🌺

observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot the 6 creatures hidden in the picture? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Seit Jahr und Tag tingele ich durch die Gegend und versuche, Menschen klarzumachen: Perception is reality, sprecht bitte Personen ihre Diskriminierungserfahrung nicht ab, indem ihr sagt, ihr habt das aber ganz anders empfunden. Das mag ja sein, aber um euch geht es halt nicht! 1/2

This suggests we're dying like flies over here - which is absolutely 💯% NOT the case! There is an outbreak on a cruise ship and the people infected have been flown to hospitals and are under quarantine.

Today's #bloomscrolling has this magnificent chestnut or rather conker tree in full bloom!! Absolutely stunning in the morning sun against the clear blue sky!! 🤩🌰 And though it is only spring - I foresee many, many conkers in the autumn! 😁

Today's #bloomscrolling shows some brilliant opened and closed lilac blossoms which also smell fantastic (but sadly I can't send that through the interwebs)

We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for this year's conference: Prof. Sara Rich! More keynote speakers to be revealed soon so stay tuned! Have you submitted to our call for sessions yet? If not, there is still time! The deadline for the call for sessions is 15th May, 5pm BST.

Today's #bloomscrolling includes wild garlic and woodruff in unison! 😍

Fully funded PhD studentship with English Heritage and University of York on medieval monastic window glass: www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

For today's #bloomscrolling I present some beautiful bluebells from my parent's garden 😍

Very sorry to see that the last undergrad archaeology class at Uni #Sheffield was taught yesterday. The wanton destruction happening now in academia on both sides of the Atlantic will be widely seen as the violence it is one day. #SaveSheffield #SaveSheffieldArchaeology

We are delighted to announce that every research article accepted for publication in Antiquity after 1 June 2026 will be published completely #OpenAccess at no cost to the author or reader! More information here: www.cambridge.org/core/service... @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org 🏺 #Archaeology

In der Schweiz will der #Nationalrat #FDP und #SVP mit Hilfe der #dieMitte das #AKWVerbot kippen und das

Sometimes my wanderlust gets so so strong that I ache to move anywhere but here: Denmark, Sweden, back to Britain. And then I remember I have an 8yr old who doesn't speak English and all his friends and relatives are here 😅🥲 But one day I shall pack my bags and go where ever the road will lead me!

The fact that an “intellectual” uploaded his entire manuscript to a chatbot and then, having anthropomorphized it into a flattering woman, found himself completely dazzled by it is one of the most hilarious things I’ve ever read.

„Doch stattdessen musste dieser #Wal mit Gewalt gerettet werden. Damit wir nicht länger sehen müssen, was wir als Gemeinschaft in den Meeren angerichtet haben.“

#bloomscrolling today involved 2 sorts of lilac (dark purple and white) and additionally apple blossoms 🌸 😍🌺

#HannahArendt bubble: Kann mir jemand helfen die Rede des Kultursenators von Hamburg zu finden, der 1959 #Arendt den Lessingpreis übergeben hat? Ihre Rede habe ich. Can you help me find the speech given by Hamburg’s Cultural Senator, who presented Arendt with the Lessing Prize in 1959? DANKE !!!

Kind if old news (as they are now actually doing it) but the German(!) news reported that Trump is having an argument with March (März) instead of Merz (our chancellor) 😂 In his demented state it might also be true though 🤔 Thought I'd share for laughs 😅

Archaeology students at York founding a Restore Britain society is disappointing, but not surprising. There’s no shortage of nationalists looking to co-opt the past, and few narratives that misinterpret the past quite so egregiously as Restore’s racist and spiteful politics.

Stolen from Facebook but still accurate...

Today's #bloomscrolling is a hornet in a blossoming barberry bush 😍

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Please send us your session proposals on theoretical archaeology, especially topics that align with our conference theme of persistence and loss by 15th May, 5 pm BST.

🎶You're so vain, you probably think this manifesto is referencing you...🎶

Went to Enschede, NL yesterday to participate in the final workshop of the #Interreg Project for the Funnel Beaker Groups in the Netherlands and Westfalia, DE. It was a very informative afternoon and I am looking forward to future collaborations!!

Tis the season! The sun is shining, birds are singing and our guided tours of the Peak District start again next Tuesday! Come join me, you know you want to. #Archaeology #Derbyshire #Heritage #Tours www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archaeolog...

Would any good soul happen to have a copy of Peritia 2 (1983)? Looking for Kenneth Nicholls' article 'Late medieval Irish annals: two fragments' (pp. 87–102). The main thing I'd like to know is if there are any images of the Annals of Duiske in the article.

Today's #bloomscrolling are some very pretty tulips 🌷 😍

#bloomscrolling !! After a short break due to a family tragedy - here's today's beauty 🌸

Hier, liebe Männer, ein Beispiel für jemanden, der nicht in das ,but not all men‘-Gejammer einsteigt und dem trotzdem nicht der Penis abfällt: Dirk Peglow (Vorsitzender Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter) empfiehlt Frauen, besser keine Beziehung mit einem Mann einzugehen, um sich vor Gewalt zu schützen.

This would be such a good investment!! I tried to go from Bremen to Rome once - absolutely impossible!! It is already difficult to get to Paris or Amsterdam 🙈 And Greece or thr Balkans are impossible to get to!!

The medieval Exe bridge, first constructed in the late 12th-early 13th century CE, showcases how a monument continues to survive, transform and adapt in a context of loss and change. Our call for sessions is now open! Send us your proposals by 5 pm BST, 15th of May! tag2026.square.site/sessions

Und? Verzichtet ihr auch alle so gerne auf Kassenleistungen, Bildungsangebote, Rente und arbeitet noch ein paar Jährchen mehr, damit die reichsten 1% mit ihrem Vermögen weiter dafür sorgen, dass wir alle ein gutes Leben haben?

It's official now - I have won the philosophical faculty price for best dissertation for my #PhD!! 🥳🥳🥳 I am absolutely thrilled!! 😊

#bloomscrolling today is a picture I caught on my morning walk!! Don't know the exact plant species or anything but loooove the colours 🤩

1/ Good morning, Europe! Now that you're awake, I'll make a little thread about what we are doing in this paper! This is part of a special issue on kinship in archaeology ed by @pennyend.bsky.social, Sabina Cvecek and Manaasa Raghavan. All the articles and the three commentaries are very worthwhile

And just as I thought the day couldn't get any better - here's another stonker!! Super interesting read (from what I grasped skimming it ). Will have to deep dive later!! Also noteworthy: had to manually change the spelling to make sure it spells "stonker" and not replace the "o" with an "i" 🤭

Very interesting read and I cannot stress how sad it makes me that the acidic soils in my area of interest have destroyed every bone inside the megalithic tombs and earthen burials alike 🙃😞 Here's thr #antiquity article by Vicky Cummings, Chris Fowler and others: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

So - keeping up with #bloomscrolling, today I have to get yet another one from my (albeit vast) archive as my son has Bronchitis coupled with asthma (yaay 😞). Beautiful meadow in the park at the back of my house!!

Me, every time my partner asks me where something is: IDK babe, I’m at the moon.

Nothing tells you that you're old more than an invitation reminding you that it's been 25 years since you were 14 (when I was confirmed in church 🙈😂😂 I am not even part of the church anymore and I don't plan on going but man did I feel old last night when I opened this 😅