The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring! Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy. Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm. www.ria.ie/about/career...

The Discovery Programme's Martin Doody memorial lecture is happening next month, on Thursday 4th December "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain” will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social FREE, online, everyone welcome. Sign up via Eventbrite:

This is not as helpful as Pickle thinks it is.

The male Isabelline Shrike in Co Wexford today- an extremely rare vagrant and only the first ever adult male recorded in Ireland. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #IrishBirding

Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too! Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

www.bajr.org/deep-concern... Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has found itself embroiled in a series of controversies, shaking public confidence in Scotland’s most important cultural body Its shocking to see the impact on the staff It breaks my heart.

An important summary of the sorry state of senior leadership at HES with significant implications for archaeology and heritage.

Much to unpick... "Pezzuti’s interest is in coolness as ... economic labour or production. His hypothesis is that – just as tribal societies prize skilled hunters, who provide food for the group – today’s information economy turns on creativity and innovation." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Our MSc Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Campus based, FT/PT) is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below. Contact me to discuss. Please share! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social

Our MSc Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Campus based, FT/PT) is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below. Contact me to discuss. Please share! www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social

Our distance learning (on line) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below or contact me to discuss. Please share! @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

“Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100” 8th Annual National Monuments Service Archaeology Conference Organised by Wordwell | Archaeology Ireland. Trinity College, Dublin, 18 October 2025 youtu.be/NQLhzY3pl0Y?...

Fantastic news! Very well deserved recognition.

Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕 Find out more⬇️ https://bit.ly/43ivms8.

From a lonely place to die to views to die for. The murder of Sgt Arthur Davies. #Cairngorms cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/s...

Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.

Delighted to see that our IRC (now Research Ireland) funded research is proving so popular! @researchireland.ie Open Access summary paper below. Thanks to all of the team and to RI for funding.

Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩

Sources at Historic Environment Scotland claim, “To say it is chaos at the top is an understatement." “We have no idea why the CEO has been suspended but it appears to be personality driven." While an investigator found staff “uncomfortable and frightened to speak for the fear of retribution”.

Race science is back. Again. In the latest episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, historian Quinn Slobodian helps us make sense of the return of IQ and 'biology as destiny.' Essential listening if you're trying to understand why public education = such a Trump target soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

Join us on 23 October for Revealing the Past, a biennial conference on recent archaeological discoveries and research funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social , Historic Environment Division NI, and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social via RIA grants Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

Last week we launched the 2026 Mary Mulvihill Student Media Award. The prestigious science communication award, gives students from all across the island of Ireland the chance to win €2000. 💶🏆👏 This year's award theme is 'Time'. ⏳ Full details below: marymulvihillaward.ie/award/ #science #media

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... Love this, i look at my zip disks and panic ... and then remember that i moved data to CDs then DVDs and now the cloud. Any one else with a floppy disc drawer

This, from @catherinedevries.bsky.social, is really useful advice for young (and, tbh, old!) academics. Worth passing on if you know any, maybe? catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin

Join us Monday 13 October at 7:30pm for the first of the IAI's online lecture series: "Characteristics and legacy effects of historic raised beds in Ireland". Sign up here ▶️ buff.ly/q8bxsXN #archaeology #irisharchaeology #raisedbeds #modernarchaeology #postmedievalarchaeology

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society… ..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Widespread evidence of Middle Stone Age (MSA) presence in Equatorial Guinea (West-Central Atlantic Africa)

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

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

Want to advance use-wear analysis methodology? OPEN CALL! WE'RE HIRING: POST-DOC POSITION IN TRACEOLAB Topic: optical profilometry of use-wear traces on prehistoric stone tools, methodological development and archaeological application, integration with other methods used in TraceoLab

I'm very happy to be working with Sam Kelley @arctic-glacial.bsky.social and Clara Crowell to lead an Archaeology and Geology walk as part of the very fine Dublin Mountains Festival / Feile na Sleibhte. 1/3 www.dublinmountains.ie/news/latest_...

Come learn about the geology of Edinburgh through a comprehensive introductory course! A series of 6 guided walks and 5 online learning sessions will teach you about the geology of Edinburgh and Scotland at the beginner level. No previous geological knowledge required 📚

This only happens to you once

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology

Anyone attending #MESO2025 in Ferrara next week and doesn't have an excursion ticket, please get in touch and I'll arrange for you to use mine. Students preferred! 🏺

We just moved house. We are so delighted to have been able to do this. But, this may take some time to organise.... spot the room belonging to the child who just left for Uni! 🤣

📣 Calling all archaeologists! 📣 ***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign*** 🍉🍉🍉 EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number) ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The team is ready ✅ The venues are still standing ✅ The programme is live ✅ The tickets are on sale (and selling fast!) ✅ Then join us @ucddublin.bsky.social forthe Bronze Age Forum 2025! #BronzeAge #BAF2025 Spread the word and we'll see you in November! bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

IMPORTANT NEWS re. 14th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies... ISHGR are delighted to announce that CHAGS14 will be held in summer 2027 in Belém, Brazil. This will be a partnership between the Goeldi Museum and the Universidade Federal do Pará. More details to follow soon. Please share!!

‘Eliade’s “ecstasy”, and the many varieties of “trance” and “possession”, are less about the shaman’s mental processes and more to do with the communication they facilitate.’ @mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

popping my head in to post this on behalf of and at the request of my very dear friend and colleague matt walsh who is not very online. #eaa2025

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced "The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things." www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

Statement from the co-chairs of PaM: Due to the current developments at the annual meeting, we, as the representatives of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community, want to underline that we support the democratic right to protest and speak freely,...continued...

IMPORTANT NEWS re. 14th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies... ISHGR are delighted to announce that CHAGS14 will be held in summer 2027 in Belém, Brazil. This will be a partnership between the Goeldi Museum and the Universidade Federal do Pará. More details to follow soon. Please share!!

Dear colleagues, some concerning news has been circulating this week in relation to the 2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Annual Meeting (Belgrade Virtual). We, the IAI Board, believe it is important to acknowledge & share this info. Please see the full statement, with links, here: buff.ly/8YG0WmV

Thrilled to see this mammoth review of "Shamanism" in @lrb.co.uk from master drug historian @mikejay.bsky.social! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Interested in post-doctoral research on hunter-gatherers with me at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social? Main source of funding is from Research Ireland (see below). Deadline 23/10/25. Please contact me to discuss. www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...