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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · May 26

Catching up on email and now listening to the fab @chloeduckworth.bsky.social‬ on BBC Radio 4 talking about our rubbish!

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

You may enjoy this abstract…

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

Wonderful. It’s so important in science to report negative results!

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

“Urological mayhem!” 😅

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

I’m also rather delighted to find this book: “Does it fart? The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence.”

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

This title conjures up SUCH a mental image 😳

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

Here’s one … a scholarly paper on penis rings authored by … S. Wang?!

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 12

Bored?
Let’s play a game…
1. Go to Google Scholar
2. Search for the rudest or silliest topic you can think of
3. Giggle like a 13 year old at all the serious papers and attempted humorous titles pertaining to said topic
4. Quote post this with your best discovery

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Apr 10

I’ve just remembered the time my darling offspring conflated my disability with my doctorate, and told our friends that I have a bad case of “PDHD”…

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is a brilliant listen. Jacqueline McKinley of Wessex Archaeology on today’s episode of The Life Scientific.

She explains things beautifully, in an all-too a rare piece of public exposure for the importance of work in the commercial archaeology sector ☺️

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

The Life Scientific - Jacqueline McKinley on unearthing bones and stories at Britain's ancient burial sites - BBC Sounds

Jim Al-Khalili digs into the subterranean world of ancient bones with Jacqueline McKinley.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Dec 20

“Let me be very clear…”

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hahaha undoubtedly 😅

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Dec 19

It just me or this dog look like Keir Starmer?

Cute doggie with Keir Starmer-esque glasses

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 30

Awesome 😍

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 28

We are unlikely to ever find out that one! 😉

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 25

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Archaeologist: Okay, we have half a cup

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 24

Just got back from watching it with my 13 year old. Loved it!

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 24

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 21

Oooh, I recorded a video on this a few years ago, with @derekpitman.bsky.social and @lawrence-shaw.bsky.social

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Nov 21

If you haven't read this important document for UK #archaeology then do, and read the heartbreaking appendix of comments. We shouldn't be here. Share, discuss, engage with CIFA, join a Union.
Ask why we can't have sustainable, prodessional wages within a sector worth £382 billion pounds. 🏺

David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · Nov 20

www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/ar...
Today we release the BAJR Poverty Impact Report 2024, continuing the work begun with the first Report in 2022.
Contained within are the voices of 644 colleagues.
Read, absorb and act. Discussions on BAJR Facebook
[ this time with Image ]

Archaeologists in Financial Crisis – Poverty Impact Report 2024

This 2024 Poverty Impact Report is based on the responses of 644 individuals in UK archaeology. The statistics that have been collected, analysed and collated by Lu Stanton-Greenwood. The concept w…

www.bajrfed.co.uk

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 20

Obviously the ancient examples are somewhat more impressive than mine as they were clearly made by skilled craftspeople who had more experience than me. My students had quite a bit of fun with this and sent me some memes…

Meme reading ‘what I ordered on Wish’ with an image of an ancient core-formed glass vessel, and ‘what I got’ … showing my rather wobbly attempt to recreate it.

Meme reads:
“Mom, can we have core-formed glass?”
“No. There is core-formed glass at home.”
“At home…”
…followed by an image of my attempt to recreate this ancient technology!

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 20

I recently tried my hand at replicating an Ancient Egyptian core-formed glass perfume bottle.
I did this in a tiny handmade bead furnace (something like a pizza oven but even smaller), showing that such processes can be done in structure which leave relatively little archaeological evidence.

Small perfume bottle made of opaque blue glass with trailing decoration in yellow, white and turquoise.

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 20

She arrived last night … my new motorbike 😍

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 20

Orkney … what a lovely name for a dog! 😝

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Dr Chloe Duckworth @chloeduckworth.bsky.social · Nov 20

Ssshh Lars, this is Blue Sky we are not doing fights … yet …

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