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beathas-ailsa.bsky.social
African & Islamic Archaeology. Art history. Anthropology. History. Chinese ceramics in Ethiopia, East Africa & the Indian Ocean World. BA (SOAS), MA (SRU, UEA), PhD (IAIS, UoE) I enjoy yoga, cycling & weightlifting.
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"We live side by side with yesterday’s ghosts, haunted by the histories they carry... If humanity carries on as it is, our story will eventually become a ghost story only, as there will be no one left on earth to haunt.…"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Please don't ignore me I'm not asking for help for myself, and if I die it won’t matter to me I have lost my mother,father,6 siblings,and their 12 kids I'm begging for help for the rest of my family I can't bear to lose them or see them die from hunger Please help us before it’s too late 🙏😭

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Nour & Mohammed are trying to keep Julia and Ziad fed and safe. Even the water isn’t clean and safe for them - but they have to drink it anyway to stay alive. Anything you can send helps keep them!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social graduate Alwaleed Abdeen: another life cut short by shocking cruelty and violence, in a crisis that has been ignored by the western countries he once called home. #KeepEyesOnSudan

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

He took a coconut & a can of coca cola & left them on the beach. It immediately reminded me of Gade's work, which critiques capitalist globalism & its impacts on Tibetan people, landscape & culture. photo©Jason Sangster2006 The quote below is from the website. www.asianart.com/pw/gallery7/... 1/7

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I don't share much these days because nothing feels important compared to genocide & a burning world. But I'm panicking. After years of setbacks my final deadline looms. I've been writing upto 18 hours a day for weeks. I'm so, so close. My job has just rota'd me for 70 hours in a 9 day window..

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

There is nothing that strikes me as more unfair than an overpaid politician using the most minoritised and vulnerable as scapegoats for the policies and economic conditions his class have created. Even more so at a time when his foreign policy is creating even more refugees.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

We will publish the letter tomorrow. Still time to share widely and directly! tinyurl.com/2rcmmm2e On this Land Day, let’s keep fighting for Palestinian self-determination, right of return, freedom, happiness🔑🫒✊ Eid Mubarak everyone🌙 #wacwithoutapartheid #wac #wac10 #wacaustralia #archaeology #🏺

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Pals! Do me a solid please and shout about @aat-transcribes.bsky.social to your networks please? I've just checked our inbox/incoming projects queue and we've got an unexpected gap due to delays on booked projects -- it happens, it's totally understandable, BUT is consequential for us.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote this poem over a year ago. Seems like now is a good time to post it again.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Tired of witnessing the complicit silence and ongoing coloniality of disciplinary associations, from the AHA to the SCS and AIA? Us too! That's why we founded the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social: JOIN US! societyforthestudyofthepast.com

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

📣📣 Still 5 days to apply for our 3-year Post-doc position, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social (deadline: 31st March)! 📣📣 Come and work with me & @acerbialberto.com on the 'Weaponised Pasts', funded by @leverhulme.bsky.social. More info and to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

New article in the Journal of Field Archaeology on looting of archaeological sites in the West Bank, Palestine. 🏺 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

@prmativapostate.bsky.social sincerely apologize for my approach, We are fragments of fate, living on the edge of survival,where each moment is a gamble with life."I am searching for hope in every person.I appeal to you ,I need your support Plz donate ,share and quote 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹 bsky.app/profile/amir...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It's time to announce our first keynote speaker for this year's TAG: Dr Mazen Iwaisi! He will be speaking on how local Palestinian communities in the West Bank embody theory in action through family-based museums! Check it out here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/keynote-spea...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is going to be an incredible and hugely vital keynote for archaeologists. ⬇️

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Please support Amira and her family if you can, and share the post 🙏

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

On top of everything else, Palestinians have been facing suppression online, with their attempts to ask for help deleted and suspended. Please donate and share, these campaigns are basically their lifelines.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Here we are go again 😢😢 You can help my family by donate here 🥹🥹 www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-a... We can hit our short goal ❤️

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Sign the open letter to the World Archaeological Congress asking them to make WAC an apartheid and genocide-free organisation and congress. forms.gle/JAZz9Nfw8hRL...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We could have lived in a world where collaboration & kindness reigned supreme, where science found solutions & cures. Instead, a minority of countries are forcing the world full speed into climate collapse & apocalypse in their bid for money & minerals by bombing babies. What world will be left?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments