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prehistorian.bsky.social
Reader in European Prehistory & Archaeology Lead at UoL • VP The Prehistoric Society • Chair AGE (EAA) Digs hillforts and Celts • working out the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past. Personal a/c #NUFC
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Great example of how data generated by algorithms can look correct, yet is largely false. With no on-the-ground truthing steps, this kind of thing will continue to happen. Policymakers and policy advocates need to understand the limitations of creating data sets like this.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

I do love this time of year. The young gorse still soft, bright green bilberry, and bracken still mildly under control!

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Fantastic display of solidarity with @chelseapride.bsky.social for the trans+ community at today's Women's FA Cup Final! ❤️💙 We stand by our trans, non-binary and intersex siblings in their time of need. Transphobia has no place in women's football! #MUWomen #WomensFACupFinal

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

#NUFC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

So I think I need to do a sober thread on just how disasterously bad the new trove.scot website is, in comparison to the sites - especially Canmore - that it's replacing. tl:dr - the new site is not fit for purpose; switching off the old sites on 24 June 2025 is way way way premature.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss" "...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

Why wasn’t this on the news @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ? 400,000 March for Palestine. London hasn’t forgotten Gaza

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

No #Eurovision, we don’t platform a fascist state (mid-genocide) and we don’t physically assault young anti-fascist protestors. Shame on Europe. 80 years and nothing learned.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Immediately after Israel comes 2nd in Eurovision, BBC News comes on, and the first story is footage of Israel bombing Gaza and killing children Someone please tell me how this is real life? 😔 free Palestine 🇵🇸 #Eurovision #Politics #Palestine #Israhell

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

hey EBU, if you don't let a genocidal nation take part, you don't have to worry about a genocidal nation winning #Eurovision

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

No Eurovision here until they stop platforming a country that is actively killing tens of thousands of children.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

People in Gaza are posting final messages.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Last in, first out. Gen X got a bit close to potentially starting to reach the path to a degree of equality.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I hope there’s a gender audit ongoing regarding all of this. Because that’s what it’s about.

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We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Currently free online: Insularity and Identity Prehistoric Britain and the Archaeology of Europe www.cambridge.org/core/element...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Worrying stuff at this point in the year.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

🏺 Submerged stone tools and stone circles discovered off the coast of #Scotland show that people were settling farther north than what was previously thought 11,000 years ago #Archaeology #SubmergedLandscapes #AncientBlueSky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

@netflix.com I’m already paying £12 a month so I can do the admin. for my elderly mum, and you now want to increase it to £18 - when we could just have two accounts for £12. What am I not understanding?!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Really interesting Viking paper (but what else from the Body Politics team). Lots of bellies on Early Iron Age daggers… absence of certain groups in combat deposits.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Here is your periodic reminder that Canmore is soon to be switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Appalled that Chester Storyhouse have withdrawn Kneecap from their forthcoming events. Very worrying.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Marking.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Dorset Museum @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social is fundraising to acquire, conserve and display the Bronze Age *Crichel Hoard* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... which includes a twisted gold ribbon torc Fundraising details here: www.dorsetmuseum.org/the-crichel-...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I’m sure the next few weeks are going to throw up some marvellous ideas for the new club crest. I’m personally hoping for some quality Greggs ideas. #NUFC #newcastleunited

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

This was in my living room. My neighbour had one in her garage. We don’t know if it’s the same one. We have at least one local hornet.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Average mark at the end of today: 67. Very happy with that.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile, female weaponry burials in La Téne N Italy. #Celts

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

“the supra-regional megalithic phenomenon may not reflect deep social integration, but rather a shared cultural expression without strong underlying biological connections.” Clarke was right (on that at least). Not everything maps. There is no such thing as a ‘culture’. @boothicus.bsky.social

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