Colleen Morgan
@clmorgan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
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I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
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Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.
I saw Cub and They Might be Giants in Portland in 1997 because I'm both cooler and a bigger nerd than all of you.
I was there for Cub.
This vinyl looks beauuuutiful
cubtheband.bandcamp.com/album/come-o...
I was there for Cub.
This vinyl looks beauuuutiful
cubtheband.bandcamp.com/album/come-o...
Come Out Come Out - 30th Anniversary Edition, by cub
14 track album
cubtheband.bandcamp.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I saw Cub and They Might be Giants in Portland in 1997 because I'm both cooler and a bigger nerd than all of you.
I was there for Cub.
This vinyl looks beauuuutiful
cubtheband.bandcamp.com/album/come-o...
I was there for Cub.
This vinyl looks beauuuutiful
cubtheband.bandcamp.com/album/come-o...
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Again, I’ll repeat.
Archaeology shows us that people have always, always modified, altered and changed things - buildings, monuments, places - for their own present needs. Prehistoric Barrows built on, medieval castles changed, late medieval sculpture slighted during Refomation
It’s what we do!!!
Archaeology shows us that people have always, always modified, altered and changed things - buildings, monuments, places - for their own present needs. Prehistoric Barrows built on, medieval castles changed, late medieval sculpture slighted during Refomation
It’s what we do!!!
'Responding to the decision, Devine, 80, said: “In principle I am opposed to changing historic artefacts to suit today’s tastes. To do so is presentism, imposing 20th-century values on those of the distant past.'
'20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.
'20th-century'? Bit of an own goal Sir T.
Historian attacks ‘ludicrous’ changes to statues with slavery links
Professor Sir Tom Devine, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, said he was opposed to changing artefacts to suit modern sensibilities
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Again, I’ll repeat.
Archaeology shows us that people have always, always modified, altered and changed things - buildings, monuments, places - for their own present needs. Prehistoric Barrows built on, medieval castles changed, late medieval sculpture slighted during Refomation
It’s what we do!!!
Archaeology shows us that people have always, always modified, altered and changed things - buildings, monuments, places - for their own present needs. Prehistoric Barrows built on, medieval castles changed, late medieval sculpture slighted during Refomation
It’s what we do!!!
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This is what happens when you don’t aggressively kill, sometimes on a daily basis, the part of you that was indoctrinated to be impressed by and enamored with power and its many affirmations. So ridiculous.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is what happens when you don’t aggressively kill, sometimes on a daily basis, the part of you that was indoctrinated to be impressed by and enamored with power and its many affirmations. So ridiculous.
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Two years ago tonight we were setting up dumpster dived pink tents for migrants in the freezing cold and wind in the desert, they were held there for days without food water or shelter other than what we could share with them. That was the Biden admin, in case anyone thinks it was all good before.
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Two years ago tonight we were setting up dumpster dived pink tents for migrants in the freezing cold and wind in the desert, they were held there for days without food water or shelter other than what we could share with them. That was the Biden admin, in case anyone thinks it was all good before.
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Very much enjoyed @cjfrieman.bsky.social's talk re: the realities of integrating and interpreting archaeological and ancient genetics data yesterday. I didn't realise quite how much I miss science. 🏺
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Very much enjoyed @cjfrieman.bsky.social's talk re: the realities of integrating and interpreting archaeological and ancient genetics data yesterday. I didn't realise quite how much I miss science. 🏺
Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:
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TAG 2025 Worldbuilding Sign Up
This form is for you to sign up to participate in the TAG2025 Worldbuilding session. The session requires a 3 hour commitment and the slots are limited to 30 people. We will be playing an archaeology-...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:
forms.gle/bcMCZNZUJPUq...
forms.gle/bcMCZNZUJPUq...
First Adobe Aero then 8th Wall. What's happening with consumer grade augmented reality software/services?
www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
Thank You For Building With Us: The Next Chapter for 8th Wall
8th Wall will wind down over the next year, with hosted projects remaining active through February 2027.
www.8thwall.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
First Adobe Aero then 8th Wall. What's happening with consumer grade augmented reality software/services?
www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
Huge @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social presence at @caa-uk.bsky.social! ♥️
Excited for them to show their brilliant work.
Excited for them to show their brilliant work.
#CAAUK2025 Programme Now Live!
Two days of digital archaeology & fresh methods: Bayesian workshops, AI, modelling, 3D animation, digital twins, simulation, landscape analysis, and more!
📘 Full programme & abstracts: Linktr.ee/caa_uk
#DigitalArchaeology
Two days of digital archaeology & fresh methods: Bayesian workshops, AI, modelling, 3D animation, digital twins, simulation, landscape analysis, and more!
📘 Full programme & abstracts: Linktr.ee/caa_uk
#DigitalArchaeology
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Huge @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social presence at @caa-uk.bsky.social! ♥️
Excited for them to show their brilliant work.
Excited for them to show their brilliant work.
Looking for an osteo experienced (2+ years would be great) in excavating commingled burials who digs single context for an 8 week project in January. Paid, obvs. Email me: [email protected]
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking for an osteo experienced (2+ years would be great) in excavating commingled burials who digs single context for an 8 week project in January. Paid, obvs. Email me: [email protected]
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
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And so there was a small part of me that thought, "hey. maybe Epstein emailed Chomsky once or twice, got amiable responses, and then assumed that Chomsky was in the bag for him." But that isn't the case. The emails we've seen clearly show that Chomsky and his wife Valeria were friendly with Epstein.
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 AM
And so there was a small part of me that thought, "hey. maybe Epstein emailed Chomsky once or twice, got amiable responses, and then assumed that Chomsky was in the bag for him." But that isn't the case. The emails we've seen clearly show that Chomsky and his wife Valeria were friendly with Epstein.
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Before the storm.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Before the storm.
We are all storytellers, in period-inappropriate drag
It's the LARP turn in academia
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We are all storytellers, in period-inappropriate drag
It's the LARP turn in academia
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It's the LARP turn in academia
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
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i reiterate my case that the true alpha in any given group is the mum friend with spare pads and cheesy crackers and a mysterious number of packs of wet wipes
Whereas the top wolves are basically just acting like parents and making sure everybody’s got food and letting the cubs crawl all over them.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
i reiterate my case that the true alpha in any given group is the mum friend with spare pads and cheesy crackers and a mysterious number of packs of wet wipes
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Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...
Towards a Wind Humanities
IIn this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian ...
www.rmets.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...
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Great thread.
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Great thread.
Congratulations Owen!!
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access!
Check it out here:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access!
Check it out here:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality
This paper uses Cal Horton’s theory of Cis-Supremacy to demonstrate the interplay of trans exclusionist histories and contemporary cis power structures. The paper, through this preliminary discussion,...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Congratulations Owen!!
Trying to write a "don't be a dick to people with kids" section for our @tag2025york.bsky.social conference program.
I brought my kid to TAG in Southampton when she was 6 months old and another woman was a jerk about it. Same happened to a close friend at TAG Chicago, but worse. FFS folks.
I brought my kid to TAG in Southampton when she was 6 months old and another woman was a jerk about it. Same happened to a close friend at TAG Chicago, but worse. FFS folks.
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Trying to write a "don't be a dick to people with kids" section for our @tag2025york.bsky.social conference program.
I brought my kid to TAG in Southampton when she was 6 months old and another woman was a jerk about it. Same happened to a close friend at TAG Chicago, but worse. FFS folks.
I brought my kid to TAG in Southampton when she was 6 months old and another woman was a jerk about it. Same happened to a close friend at TAG Chicago, but worse. FFS folks.
I won't lie, the un-learning parts of being an anarchist are intense, and even when you get through it (never ending tbh) there is residual reflexive institutionalism that can be hard to shed. While prefiguration is very important - means leading to ends - purity is not particularly desirable.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I won't lie, the un-learning parts of being an anarchist are intense, and even when you get through it (never ending tbh) there is residual reflexive institutionalism that can be hard to shed. While prefiguration is very important - means leading to ends - purity is not particularly desirable.
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🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🧪 Academic journal editor using gen-AI for cover art...
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
Time for some discussions in scientific community around standards and ethics approaches for illustration?
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Hi! You can now watch me and archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner doing our Stone Age & Star Carr double act at York University last week
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
The Stone Age Runs Wild at Star Carr: An evening with Greg Jenner and Nicky Milner
YouTube video by York Ideas
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November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hi! You can now watch me and archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner doing our Stone Age & Star Carr double act at York University last week
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
And you can get signed copies of my Stone Age book, cowritten with @brennawalks.bsky.social, from the ace @foxlanebooks.bsky.social
youtu.be/OzjiSlOWWug?...
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Just under a month until the Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting
@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.
Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
🏺
@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.
Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
🏺
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just under a month until the Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting
@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.
Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
🏺
@tag2025york.bsky.social!
This year's theme is 'Theory in Action', so come along from the 15th-17th December to explore how archaeological theory can make an impact on the world.
Learn more: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/
🏺