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The UK & EU abstained from the #UN non-binding (!) resolution on recognising the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the "gravest crime against humanity”. As if this had nothing to do w/ their #colonial and enslaving history & legacies. The US, Israel and Argentina even voted against it! #slavery

Beautiful landscape today in #Liverpool after a freezing week! #Spring #EasterBreak #Blooms

They've *always* been very good dogs... Latest evidence unearthed at @liverpooluni.bsky.social excavation sites reveals dogs were domesticated much earlier than previously thought. 15,800 years ago/10 @weratedogs.com 🐕🐶🐩

As a dog person, I am thrilled to see this stellar team-research publication demonstrating that 15,000 years ago dogs & humans were already enriching each others' life. Our very own Doug Baird @livancworlds.bsky.social is one of the authors of this fantastic study! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

#Photography by Jorge Llorca Martínez, The Gothic Quarter, #Barcelona www.instagram.com/p/CQwVTrDlyM-/ #photographer #retratos #ByN #minimalista #photooftheday #color

The "Lessons from the past, UN Sustainable Development Goals" conference org by @livancworlds.bsky.social was an absolute success last Monday and Tuesday! Case studies from across the world packed into two-days actionable discussions. lessonsfromthepast.info #UNDevelopmentGoals #Archaeology

Fabulous news, and great to see a good mix of Humanities & Social Sciences subjects included here 💃

Congratulations, Christina!! Sounds like a fantastic project!

Fantastic food for thought today coming from the very inspiring research of Dr Alyssa Grossman & a fun challenge: potential collaboration as archaeologist with her and the NY-based artist Selena Kimball to look at artistic interventions on archaeological museum materials! @sotauol.bsky.social

Join us today at 1pm for the Material Worlds Lunchtime Seminar featuring Dr Alyssa Grossman, in person at Rendall Building SM1 or online: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfcbac... #MaterialWorldsNetworkLiv #materialculture @livunihss.bsky.social

One of the really soothing things about the ruins of castles is that they are ruins. Militarism seems everlasting sometimes, but even the strongest fortresses crumble and the only thing certain is change

Súper recomendable ciclo de conferencias en la inigualable ciudad de Córdoba (España). ¡No os las perdáis!

A beautiful snapshot of Wednesday last week. What a fabulous evening celebrating all Prize winners, reuniting with colleagues, and meeting my fellow archaeology awardees! Huge thanks again to @leverhulme.ac.uk! Looking forward to beginning my leave & project in September! #LeverhulmePrizeWinners

We need more of this across the UK and worldwide!!! 🌱

📷 Louis Stettner #photooftheday #photography #blueskyphotography #photokind

Absolutely thrilled that my trip to Martinique in April is materialising! Flights booked ☑️ Accommodation booked ☑️ Looking forward to studying the archaeological materials — look at these beauties! ... et j'ai vraiment hâte de déguster la cuisine créole! #archaeology #ArchaeoSky #Caribbean

🔊 Job alert! 4 Postdocs open at the fantastic Centre for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (CAIS) at Hokkaido University (Japan). Apply here: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor... Deadline: 18 February 2026 (Japanese time) #AcademicSky #IndigenousSky #NativeSky

Next week is Sustainability Week here at the Uni, with loads of activities from building tours to Dragons' Den challenges to get involved with. Read all about it below, and follow @livunisustain.bsky.social for the latest news and events. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/16/s...

Entre las dramáticas consecuencias de tener a un vecino que es un bully profesional: Cuba: la Isla en pausa 2.0 ctxt.es/es/20260201/...

One of the most striking and grim aspects of all the colonial reports on the Great War, its impact and its legacy in French West Africa is how convinced officials were that Africans did not feel individual attachment to, love for or loss of family members or husbands who went away to war.

Exciting news! We've launched a new MSc in Wildlife Health and Conservation, offering students the opportunity to develop the specialist skills needed to protect wildlife populations and support global biodiversity in collaboration with Chester Zoo! 🦁 Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/13/n...

‼️TONIGHT‼️ The new UUP leader, Jon Burrows MLA, will be speaking @irishinstitute.bsky.social tonight. ℹ️ + FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unionism-i...

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎸 Helping the University celebrate 100 years of Catalan Studies, we're thrilled to announce this upcoming gig from The Tyets, one of the most popular Catalan bands around. See them at the Cavern Live Music Lounge on 10 March.

Please, join us in person or online this coming Wednesday 2-3pm to hear about German memorial culture/monumentalisation by our great scholar Prof Saunders (German Studies @livunihss.bsky.social) In person & online, reg here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfcbac... #MaterialWorldsNetworkLiv

🎧 In this month's 'researcher in focus' podcast, meet Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social, and learn about non-linear careers, the archaeology of colonialism, and how to win a Philip @leverhulme.ac.uk Prize www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Join community representatives and University colleagues at this public event on 22 February to discuss issues of equitable education access in Merseyside, presented by our Anticolonial Education Working Group and @nawalabu72.bsky.social

I can only say that tickets for the food workshop I co-organised with the World Museum & Luma Creations were sold out within two days! And, most importantly, the audience and us had so much fun! 🤩

Job alert! 🔊 Lecturer in Western European Prehistory @ucc.ie Closing date: 30 March Salary scale [new entrants]:€34,912 – €56,713

Back from Christmas to these wonderful archaeological discoveries! 🤩 An Iron Age war trumpet (probably from the Iceni, in today's Norfolk): www.theguardian.com/science/2026... ...And a whole Byzantine monastic complex in Sohag (southern Egypt): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a... #Archaeology

The University is very pleased to welcome five scholars from Gaza as part of its Humanitarian Postgraduate Scholarship programme, including HSS students Batoul, studying International Business, and Israa, who is studying English. #TeamLivUni

A new project, led by Dr Mary Shepperson, Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Heritage, has received over £28k AHRC funding to explore Iraq’s marshes as a model for climate resilience and cultural endurance. Read about their millennia-long history here www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...

Panamá/Noriega 1989

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆! Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺

Yesterday was really a fantastic and warming experience to share my research with the @postmedarch.bsky.social community! It was lovely to see so many friends and meet new colleagues — Thanks a lot for coming and to the SPMA for the invitation! The lecture was recorded, so stay tuned for more info!

This was for sure a wonderful year! Looking forward to writing my monograph and starting a new project thanks to the generosity of the @leverhulme.ac.uk!

Amazing research coming from my colleague Dr Sally Hoare and the British Museum team who excitingly push back the origins of fire use by humans! 🎉 You can also read their paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm late for the online celebration, but I'm thrilled for my brilliant colleague Ceren Kabukcu who got an ERC Consolidator Grant!!! 🥂 She and her future team will revolutionise the way we think about food and diet in history! Go team @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!

'Evidence points to a genuine rise in distress linked to poverty, insecure housing, austerity and the pandemic - and NO evidence that mental health problems were being over-diagnosed.' @danwjoyce.bsky.social Oladayo Bifarin @uk.theconversation.com #MentalHealth theconversation.com/what-looks-l...

Christmas is a time for gathering round and listening to a tale well told. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social, an expert in communications. Explore her work helping scientists of all kinds explain their research here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Really, BBC?

Seizing an oil tanker is a perfect symbol of what the US is actually after in its war of aggression against Venezuela.

JOB! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... 🏺 #archaeology #classics

So my 4-year-old fell at home. She immediately stood up and said 'I'm sorry' (to no one). And this, my dear friends, is how Britishness begins ...or better put, it's established.