Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
@animalarchaeology.com
Zooarchaeologist. 🏺
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜
Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪
Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK.
She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️🌈♿️
https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
Links to find me and my current work.
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
I’ve got a bunch of new followers this week, so just a friendly reminder that I am unable to check any DMs at the moment due to the age verification nonsense.
Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
really cannot be overstated how shit the mainstream media and journalism landscape is in the UK
just folks who graduated from the same private schools using their positions to promote the most reactionary and bigoted shit imaginable
just folks who graduated from the same private schools using their positions to promote the most reactionary and bigoted shit imaginable
December 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
really cannot be overstated how shit the mainstream media and journalism landscape is in the UK
just folks who graduated from the same private schools using their positions to promote the most reactionary and bigoted shit imaginable
just folks who graduated from the same private schools using their positions to promote the most reactionary and bigoted shit imaginable
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Ok so what if support has slowed down by [garbled noise] percent...we meet that with radical hope! You've helped six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more survive for seven months! Recently with tents, surgery, more! Pretty amazing! Click "weekly"! chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ok so what if support has slowed down by [garbled noise] percent...we meet that with radical hope! You've helped six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more survive for seven months! Recently with tents, surgery, more! Pretty amazing! Click "weekly"! chuffed.org/project/hope...
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Capitalism, fascism, and climate-denialism are all the same thing. The governments of the world have made their choice.
🚨🚨Major #EU news: More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules on Monday. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU closes deal to slash green rules in major win for von der Leyen’s deregulation drive
Controversial “omnibus” bill saw center-right EU lawmakers side with the far right to water down environmental standards.
www.politico.eu
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Capitalism, fascism, and climate-denialism are all the same thing. The governments of the world have made their choice.
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Solidarity with the staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, the people who actually make the place work, in the face of wretched management.
Due to ongoing strike action, all St Pancras Reading Rooms will be closed today (8 December). We are also likely to have to close our Reading Rooms for the rest of the week and will update if this is the case. Please make sure you check our service updates before you visit: bit.ly/StrikeAction...
Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 8 and Friday 12 December 2025.
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Solidarity with the staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, the people who actually make the place work, in the face of wretched management.
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I would recommend that people make formal complaints about the reporting in the Sandy Pegg case.
December 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I would recommend that people make formal complaints about the reporting in the Sandy Pegg case.
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Less than 3 hours before the donation & match funding window for this year's Big Give closes at 12 noon.
Spare change? Swap a cup of coffee? A sustainable gift?
Please help @archscot.bsky.social deliver their 'Attainment through Archaeology' program to disadvantaged young people across Scotland 🙏🙏
Spare change? Swap a cup of coffee? A sustainable gift?
Please help @archscot.bsky.social deliver their 'Attainment through Archaeology' program to disadvantaged young people across Scotland 🙏🙏
Empowering Young People Through Archaeology
Please contribute to our fundraising appeal, every pound you give will be matched by the Big Give and your help greatly appreciated donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
#archaeology #scotland #learning
Please contribute to our fundraising appeal, every pound you give will be matched by the Big Give and your help greatly appreciated donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
#archaeology #scotland #learning
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Less than 3 hours before the donation & match funding window for this year's Big Give closes at 12 noon.
Spare change? Swap a cup of coffee? A sustainable gift?
Please help @archscot.bsky.social deliver their 'Attainment through Archaeology' program to disadvantaged young people across Scotland 🙏🙏
Spare change? Swap a cup of coffee? A sustainable gift?
Please help @archscot.bsky.social deliver their 'Attainment through Archaeology' program to disadvantaged young people across Scotland 🙏🙏
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Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
Israeli drone chases and kills elderly woman in Gaza as attacks continue
At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks as military pushes deeper beyond truce demarcation line.
www.aljazeera.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Israel hunted a 70 year old lady down with a gun drone and then hoovered above to make sure she bled out next to her dying son. They both join almost 1,000 Palestinians Israel has massacred or maimed in its genocide during the "ceasefire".
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...
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🩷 Good news!! 🧿
After a year+ of an immigration fight, Ahmed is going to get his visa!! 💚 I haven’t slept a wink so I’ll do this properly when cogent & we’re calculating travel costs and (IMMINENT) dates later today BUT
Let’s start with the plane ticket, 0/450 by Sunday
tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF
After a year+ of an immigration fight, Ahmed is going to get his visa!! 💚 I haven’t slept a wink so I’ll do this properly when cogent & we’re calculating travel costs and (IMMINENT) dates later today BUT
Let’s start with the plane ticket, 0/450 by Sunday
tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF
FINAL 3 HOURS to cover rent for a genocide survivor & stateless refugee from Gaza!
Ahmed doesn’t deserve help just because his work—treating child trauma in Gaza—is noble. We owe everything to Palestinians and genocide doesn’t end, but rather continues, after exile.
215/450 tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF
Ahmed doesn’t deserve help just because his work—treating child trauma in Gaza—is noble. We owe everything to Palestinians and genocide doesn’t end, but rather continues, after exile.
215/450 tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🩷 Good news!! 🧿
After a year+ of an immigration fight, Ahmed is going to get his visa!! 💚 I haven’t slept a wink so I’ll do this properly when cogent & we’re calculating travel costs and (IMMINENT) dates later today BUT
Let’s start with the plane ticket, 0/450 by Sunday
tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF
After a year+ of an immigration fight, Ahmed is going to get his visa!! 💚 I haven’t slept a wink so I’ll do this properly when cogent & we’re calculating travel costs and (IMMINENT) dates later today BUT
Let’s start with the plane ticket, 0/450 by Sunday
tinyurl.com/HelpAhmedF
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Hi everyone, I’m raising a survival fund. I lost my job because visa status, this year my sickle cell has gotten worse from stress. I’m currently homeless relying on SW to get by since,can’t do my resin art in the winter without a workspace. Any support/ shares will help💔
ko-fi.com/pinkyyspromi...
ko-fi.com/pinkyyspromi...
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Hi everyone, I’m raising a survival fund. I lost my job because visa status, this year my sickle cell has gotten worse from stress. I’m currently homeless relying on SW to get by since,can’t do my resin art in the winter without a workspace. Any support/ shares will help💔
ko-fi.com/pinkyyspromi...
ko-fi.com/pinkyyspromi...
You can donate to Mohammed and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/z6tr4-help...
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
You can donate to Mohammed and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/z6tr4-help...
Violet Update - Unfortunately the scabs from her allergic reaction to her first medication have not properly healed due to her inability to stop rubbing and scratching them, so we have had to utilise the Flower of Shame.
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Violet Update - Unfortunately the scabs from her allergic reaction to her first medication have not properly healed due to her inability to stop rubbing and scratching them, so we have had to utilise the Flower of Shame.
Maha has been through so much, this is horrible to hear.
Please keep Hamoud in your thoughts, and remember you can continue to donate to his family here: gofund.me/5d702cd5f
Please keep Hamoud in your thoughts, and remember you can continue to donate to his family here: gofund.me/5d702cd5f
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Maha has been through so much, this is horrible to hear.
Please keep Hamoud in your thoughts, and remember you can continue to donate to his family here: gofund.me/5d702cd5f
Please keep Hamoud in your thoughts, and remember you can continue to donate to his family here: gofund.me/5d702cd5f
The UK is run by fascists and white nationalists and bigots, of course, but it must be stressed that it’s also run by the most miserable fucks in the world who get off on making everyone just as miserable.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The UK is run by fascists and white nationalists and bigots, of course, but it must be stressed that it’s also run by the most miserable fucks in the world who get off on making everyone just as miserable.
You can donate to little Hassan and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/please-don...
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You can donate to little Hassan and his family here: www.gofundme.com/f/please-don...
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Not even rebuilding, just surviving day to day. In the past month, mutual aid through the giving circle:
- Saved a woman’s life
- Got kids a tent - their only shelter (in the rain!) had been a plastic sheet
- Helped with ongoing care for a woman with degenerating lupus
- more; I’m out of characters
- Saved a woman’s life
- Got kids a tent - their only shelter (in the rain!) had been a plastic sheet
- Helped with ongoing care for a woman with degenerating lupus
- more; I’m out of characters
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Not even rebuilding, just surviving day to day. In the past month, mutual aid through the giving circle:
- Saved a woman’s life
- Got kids a tent - their only shelter (in the rain!) had been a plastic sheet
- Helped with ongoing care for a woman with degenerating lupus
- more; I’m out of characters
- Saved a woman’s life
- Got kids a tent - their only shelter (in the rain!) had been a plastic sheet
- Helped with ongoing care for a woman with degenerating lupus
- more; I’m out of characters
Palestinians like Hammam and his family are still without shelter, and winter only brings freezing cold weather and torrential rain.
Please donate if you can: chuffed.org/project/1580...
Please donate if you can: chuffed.org/project/1580...
December 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Palestinians like Hammam and his family are still without shelter, and winter only brings freezing cold weather and torrential rain.
Please donate if you can: chuffed.org/project/1580...
Please donate if you can: chuffed.org/project/1580...
Please do not forget about Gaza. Direct mutual aid has been crucial to the survival of so many attempting to rebuild their lives there - but since the alleged “ceasefire” donations have fallen greatly. The least we can do is donate when we can.
Idk how we can even help with this, no one is giving anymore. I saw a mutual aid volunteer in Gaza (who fundraises in Arabic) say donations are down 90%. 90!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Please do not forget about Gaza. Direct mutual aid has been crucial to the survival of so many attempting to rebuild their lives there - but since the alleged “ceasefire” donations have fallen greatly. The least we can do is donate when we can.
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H’s little one is severely sick
If you’d like to help directly:
PP: divyamper, “friends and family”
Note: “H” (NOTHING ELSE)
If you’d like to help directly:
PP: divyamper, “friends and family”
Note: “H” (NOTHING ELSE)
Dear H truly only has this—no campaign of his own, not active on socials, and deeply committed to privacy for his toddlers.
They’ve been housed for eleven months thanks to you, but now face eviction since no one GAF anymore…click “weekly” on anything: chuffed.org/project/hope...
They’ve been housed for eleven months thanks to you, but now face eviction since no one GAF anymore…click “weekly” on anything: chuffed.org/project/hope...
December 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
H’s little one is severely sick
If you’d like to help directly:
PP: divyamper, “friends and family”
Note: “H” (NOTHING ELSE)
If you’d like to help directly:
PP: divyamper, “friends and family”
Note: “H” (NOTHING ELSE)
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RIP Martin Parr (1952–2025)
December 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
RIP Martin Parr (1952–2025)
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Museum folks! I'm running a small, anonymous & unscientific survey about how much museums and other heritage organisations pay writers. If you have a moment, please respond, and share if you can. Thank you!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
How much do museums and heritage organisations pay freelance writers?
An informal, unscientific and totally anonymous survey asking how much museums pay writers. This is for my personal research only, results won't be published.
docs.google.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
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Catch up on week one of my Ancient Greek Art Advent here! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Catch up on week one of my Ancient Greek Art Advent here! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
🏺 I’ve never felt so seen before in archaeology.
What better way to start the week than with a lovely Roman face pot - this one was found in York and dates from the early third century. It's features resembles those of the empress Julia Domna and it may have been made to commemorate her time spent there in 208-211 CE.
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🏺 I’ve never felt so seen before in archaeology.
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It's that time of year--now accepting nominations for the Gene Stuart Award, given by the SAA "to the author of the most interesting and responsible original story or series about about any archaeological topic published in a newspaper, magazine, or online publication." 🏺 www.saa.org/career-pract...
Gene S. Stuart Award
www.saa.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's that time of year--now accepting nominations for the Gene Stuart Award, given by the SAA "to the author of the most interesting and responsible original story or series about about any archaeological topic published in a newspaper, magazine, or online publication." 🏺 www.saa.org/career-pract...