Another important read from #monkdebunks

#TonightsGig: Emergence Collective. Improv minimalist sounds. Beautiful. Seek them out.

News! We have entered this year's @buxtonfringe.bsky.social and will be bringing @archaeoplays.bsky.social @lesleymcf.bsky.social and more to share more from the varied world of #archaeology! Let the excitement begin!

Big money causes amnesia. Banks are in win-win loop as govts have eliminated the risk of bankruptcy. They are always bailed out by the public purse whilst profits are privatised.

I'm sorry but how the fuck did this get published and will there be any formal sanctions

Dubai's iconic Burj Al Arab is on fire after being struck by an Iranian projectile.

And in the UK Higher Education sector as a whole? Easily double that possibly treble. NB: ‘Russell Group’ is a completely arbitrary marketing label. It means next to nothing.

Can recommend this! 👍👍👍

Everyone remember The Arab Spring? 🤔

it is far, far from the most important thing, but it is still an important thing. An article that came out earlier this month theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...

Both U.S. Olympic hockey teams won gold. But only the men got a presidential call and celebration, while the women were met with a joke at their expense. The contrast isn’t just about sports. It’s about how respect, power, and attention are allocated in our culture.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

The Spectator published this attack on me & colleagues just as the High Court is considering Sussex’s request for review of the Office for Students fine. It accuses us of ‘repressing’ our students. The magazine ignored my request for to reply. Please disseminate. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...

Still spaces available for this evening’s session on the Implications for Archaeology in the Draft National Planning Policy Framework! Join Neil Redfern and Catherine Bell as they unpack what the changes mean, key areas of concern, and how to contribute to the consultation. 👉 tinyurl.com/2wwwm9z7

Things must be bad in town, looking like #Greggs has shut up shop. 😬

Timely — just saw this post yesterday. Haven’t explored it yet myself, but it looks promising! bsky.app/profile/sara...

Just found out that all National Museum of Ireland images on their website are made available under Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0 licence. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Terms-... Useful for someone, I hope.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social This professor & his merry band, who documented museum signage before it was bowlderized under Trump, are heroes. The truth is preserved in 50k phone photos. Fact checking & history is a subversive act that can get you surrounded by guards. Gift article. wapo.st/4kT0GVX

@markknight63.bsky.social surely some sort of EBA pottery?

While I do like the Swatch vs @guggenheim.bsky.social collaboration, would it have killed them to include at least one woman artist? And yes I did go into the shop and ask. Oh, she said. You are right…

I keep seeing this and I can’t really process it. FIFTY universities. Could close.

Tom Nichols: “There are people in the Republican Party who think it’s a hoot to post Nazi memes and to use language from the Third Reich, and I wrote it because we can’t keep ignoring this and pretending that it’s normal. The Republicans in fact do have a Nazi problem.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

Random guy in striped shirt Sat with Jeffrey Epstein With two people whose faces have blacked out Image is from EFTA00254398, Dataset 9

The White House comment comes after a senior Trump aide said Iran is a week away from having material for nuclear bomb.

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Good to see journalists covering the links between University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Science and race science networks. It ought to be pretty shocking to see a university openly affiliate with pseudoscience peddlers such as Aporia

Remembered this. #NotRothko

Well this is interesting news. ‘Women's museum planned to replace International Rugby Experience in Limerick’ #spéirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

And you know, I hate the terms 'the girl' and 'the girls' so fucking much. But this series is giving me a whole new level of visceral aversion to it.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (4?) is waiting at a pedestrian crossing with Nana but the light is taking SO LONG to go green. With a huff, she lays down like a starfish on the footpath and says: "Tell me when we can go Nana! I'm SLEEPING NOW!" (1)

In a park: A barefoot, sturdy small human (3?) struts up to a woman (30s?) giving a tiny new human a feed. Small Human surveys the situation for a moment, nods decisively and then says with supreme confidence. "I've drank that. It's good." New Mum bursts into laughter. (2)

Part of award-winning filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr's speech in which he says 'Free Palestine" was not aired.

Israel’s threat to demolish Aida Camp’s football pitch shows how children’s play is targeted under occupation. Hind Shraydeh traces how assaults on Palestinian sports are part of a wider system suffocating community life. palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

Welcome to the brand-new social media page for the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age! The longship has set sail for new shores as we have parted ways with X (Twitter) and are setting up camp here on Bluesky. Follow along for updates on upcoming events, new research, and all things Viking Age!

Not now, strange structures in my blood. www.sciencealert.com/strange-stru...

Which professions are dominated by the privately educated? We've repeatedly highlighted the problems with elitism in sectors like the media, politics, and sport. Here are the most & least representative professions (in terms of education backgrounds) ⬇️

I found something wonderful today. The internet still has beautiful moments of joyful surprise. #Hookland

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

#TonightsGig: The Spark's Desire at Dubrek Studios. #Derby

They say "hang it in the Louvre". So we did #princeandrew

We are losing 100s of pubs in UK every week. But how did the pub survived and changed through the past 1000 years? Listen here with the amazing @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #podcast #pubs #history

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them phys.org/news/2026-02...

Not that we were all warning that this is exactly what would happen with mandatory age verification, or anything…

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Do any of my #archaeology contacts know about 'pitting' on the inside surface of #Beakers? Some sort of damage done to the inside of pots because of use or maybe functional wear and tear. I have no photos. It's just that I've been asked about it. It's not something that I have come across myself. 🏺

FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.

I see the University of York is offering a fixed-term post in public history for the same salary (£37k) I earned for a fixed-term post in public history, also in Yorkshire, in 2012. Had the rate risen with inflation it would now be £53k.

The fact that racists podcaster Kirk was given a vigil INSIDE our capital where Mike Johnson spoke in reverence but decades long civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is denied laying in honor INSIDE OUR CAPITOL exemplifies Republican racism to a tee. Americans silence exemplifies our racism.