Maria Relaki
@mariarelaki.bsky.social
Archaeologist, islander missing sea views. Mostly Greek, lately British. Technology, materials,Crete, Bronze Age, gender, kinship. Associate Lecturer, Classical Studies, The Open University. Assist. Reviews Ed. European Journal of Archaeology
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ICYMI yesterday afternoon a fantastic new digital resource pulling together data on the Roman road network has just launched. Explore at:
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itiner-e.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
ICYMI yesterday afternoon a fantastic new digital resource pulling together data on the Roman road network has just launched. Explore at:
This makes me feel old but also so lucky to have experienced and adored every minute of this album while living in Sheffield in 1995. It will forever be the most beloved soundtrack of my life. "A different class it truly is."
theconversation.com/a-different-...
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A Different Class of social commentary: Pulp’s era-defining album turns 30
All the tracks have stood the test of time, but Common People stands out above them all.
theconversation.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This makes me feel old but also so lucky to have experienced and adored every minute of this album while living in Sheffield in 1995. It will forever be the most beloved soundtrack of my life. "A different class it truly is."
theconversation.com/a-different-...
theconversation.com/a-different-...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Welcome to the Planet of the Apes everyone
Truck with monkeys thought to carry Covid and other diseases crashed in Mississippi
The truck carrying Rehsus monkeys from Tulane University in New Orleans crashed on Interstate 59
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Welcome to the Planet of the Apes everyone
I have not done too well with reading for pleasure in recent years. This year I am on 7 books and want to reach the 10 mark before the end of year. I know this is meagre for some, but it will be a welcome small achievement for me. #reading #books #wellbeing
October 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I have not done too well with reading for pleasure in recent years. This year I am on 7 books and want to reach the 10 mark before the end of year. I know this is meagre for some, but it will be a welcome small achievement for me. #reading #books #wellbeing
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For those whose works were included in the Anthropic class action, the Authors Guild and settlement administrators are hosting a webinar on what you need to know: authorsguild.org/event/anthro...
You can check if your works have been included here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
You can check if your works have been included here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know - The Authors Guild
Copyright holders recently secured preliminary approval of a $1.5 billion class settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, in which authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Johnson, and Charles Graeber led a class-...
authorsguild.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
For those whose works were included in the Anthropic class action, the Authors Guild and settlement administrators are hosting a webinar on what you need to know: authorsguild.org/event/anthro...
You can check if your works have been included here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
You can check if your works have been included here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty.
Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3
Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3
a black and white photo of a crowd of people with a sign that says walter
ALT: a black and white photo of a crowd of people with a sign that says walter
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September 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty.
Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3
Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3
#EAA_vote This is very useful and important information. Please read and vote. NB: the deadline has been brought forward to today 20 Sep 2025!
#archaeology #EuropeanAssociationArchaeologists
#archaeology #EuropeanAssociationArchaeologists
No and No - Reasons: drive.google.com/file/d/1jlPw...
We are preparing a bottom up proposal and already have the signatures. Original letter here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
Specially serious after knowing the direct involvement of the president in all this: thepipeline.info/blog/2025/09...
We are preparing a bottom up proposal and already have the signatures. Original letter here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
Specially serious after knowing the direct involvement of the president in all this: thepipeline.info/blog/2025/09...
A Reader’s Digest guide to the AMBM 2025 Report.pdf
drive.google.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#EAA_vote This is very useful and important information. Please read and vote. NB: the deadline has been brought forward to today 20 Sep 2025!
#archaeology #EuropeanAssociationArchaeologists
#archaeology #EuropeanAssociationArchaeologists
#EuropeanAssociationArchaeologists members: what is your view for the per rollam vote that has been sent out?
I want to vote yes, so that it is clear that members want change. But, at the same time, I find these proposals (below) very problematic.
1/
I want to vote yes, so that it is clear that members want change. But, at the same time, I find these proposals (below) very problematic.
1/
September 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#EuropeanAssociationArchaeologists members: what is your view for the per rollam vote that has been sent out?
I want to vote yes, so that it is clear that members want change. But, at the same time, I find these proposals (below) very problematic.
1/
I want to vote yes, so that it is clear that members want change. But, at the same time, I find these proposals (below) very problematic.
1/
Listening to that live press update from the US made me feel like I am living at the start of the Handmaid's Tale
September 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Listening to that live press update from the US made me feel like I am living at the start of the Handmaid's Tale
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🏺 For #EAA members (past and present!) still looking to sign the call for an emergency meeting following the events of #EAA2025 - here’s the new link. ⬇️
📣 EAA Members 📣
If you haven't signed yet or have been trying to sign today, the original Google form was removed (all data saved, thankfully!)
🍉✊🏼🍉
Here is the NEW LINK: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...
If you haven't signed yet or have been trying to sign today, the original Google form was removed (all data saved, thankfully!)
🍉✊🏼🍉
Here is the NEW LINK: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...
SACO
saco.csic.es
September 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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So EAA update: the google form calling for the EAA to hold a special meeting was taken down after 'complaints' - however all signatures were saved as the form has been moved over to a different host. If you want to sign there is still time - link is here:
ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
Enketo Express for KoboToolbox
ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org
September 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So EAA update: the google form calling for the EAA to hold a special meeting was taken down after 'complaints' - however all signatures were saved as the form has been moved over to a different host. If you want to sign there is still time - link is here:
ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ
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Reform is not some unstoppable political force.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
Reform call Connolly "Britain's favourite political prisoner"
Soft on crime, soft on racism
We don't have political prisoners.
The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
Soft on crime, soft on racism
We don't have political prisoners.
The woman who posted "“Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care” is not a national treasure, ouside their conference.
September 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reform is not some unstoppable political force.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
It spent the weekend calling Lucy Connolly a "political prisoner", cheering a guy who opposes Covid vaccines & dismissing climate change.
Labour should spray these clips across the web.
Make Reform fight on this ground. It is eminently beatable.
A very important message. Archaeology is not 'neutral', it must always live up to its ethical responsibility. Many Congratulations @zenakamash.bsky.social !!
One of the key points I make in "Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq" is about the roles and ethical responsibilities of archaeological and heritage organisations in conflict areas. In the following skeets is the text of my acceptance speech 1/n
Thrilled for @zenakamash.bsky.social to have won the EAA book prize for her brilliant new monograph
September 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A very important message. Archaeology is not 'neutral', it must always live up to its ethical responsibility. Many Congratulations @zenakamash.bsky.social !!
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Here’s a CNRS offer to come to PACEA. It’s a multi-year contract that at the end will turn into a permanent Senior Researcher position if objectives are met. So if you’re a several years post PhD and a specialist in paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and human adaptation give it a look!
🚨 Join the PACEA Laboratory! The CNRS @cnrsecologie.bsky.social is recruiting a senior postdoc (3 to 6-year contract) to work on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments. This is part of a long-term strategy and may lead to a permanent full-time research position emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Paléo-environnements et peuplements pléistocènes et holocènes M/F
emploi.cnrs.fr
May 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Here’s a CNRS offer to come to PACEA. It’s a multi-year contract that at the end will turn into a permanent Senior Researcher position if objectives are met. So if you’re a several years post PhD and a specialist in paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and human adaptation give it a look!
Well, if we are living in a post-nuclear war situation, then this may be a welcome distraction...
Giant asteroid could crash into moon in 2032, firing debris towards Earth
Giant asteroid could crash into moon in 2032, firing debris towards Earth
Researchers say satellites may be at risk and impact could create a spectacular meteor shower in the skies
If a giant asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032 it could send lunar debris hurtling towards Earth, researchers have said, posing a risk to satellites but also creating a rare and spectacularly vivid meteor shower visible in the skies.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 triggered a planetary defence response earlier this year after telescope observations revealed the “city killer” had a 3% chance of colliding with Earth. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Well, if we are living in a post-nuclear war situation, then this may be a welcome distraction...
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Up to 7 fully-funded, salaried PhD positions in the humanities open for proposals by 15 Oct. #academicsky #phdsky I'm especially keen to hear from applicants interested in the nexus media-data-museums: www.ntnu.edu/ikm/research...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: UP TO 7 PhD POSITIONS (282483), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
June 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Up to 7 fully-funded, salaried PhD positions in the humanities open for proposals by 15 Oct. #academicsky #phdsky I'm especially keen to hear from applicants interested in the nexus media-data-museums: www.ntnu.edu/ikm/research...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
This rings true on so many levels
June 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This rings true on so many levels
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Here's an idea to promote #sustainability and greater #equality: ban big tech companies from not releasing software updates for our older devices! No devices in landfill, no money (we can't afford) spent to replace perfectly working machines!
June 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Here's an idea to promote #sustainability and greater #equality: ban big tech companies from not releasing software updates for our older devices! No devices in landfill, no money (we can't afford) spent to replace perfectly working machines!
Analysis of the stomach contents of a sea turtle recovered from Australia reveals it swallowed large quantities of plastic, including some of the millions of tonnes of PPE used during COVID. #WorldSeaTurtleDay 🐢 🏺
🔗 from 2021 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🔗 from 2021 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
June 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Extreme marking season is upon me but we are not required to annotate student scripts. My guilty pleasure is to annotate them for my own enjoyment with truly honest thoughts about the contents. Comments can include stuff like“Blooming brilliant” but more often I resort to “WTF?!”
Very cathartic
Very cathartic
June 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Extreme marking season is upon me but we are not required to annotate student scripts. My guilty pleasure is to annotate them for my own enjoyment with truly honest thoughts about the contents. Comments can include stuff like“Blooming brilliant” but more often I resort to “WTF?!”
Very cathartic
Very cathartic
If you need a little laugh right now
Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express
This is remarkably incoherent even for him. But I especially like the notion that these evil criminals are applying to pick crops and mop hotel bathrooms.
June 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If you need a little laugh right now
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Stop press! 📣 The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social's European Journal of #Archaeology has gathered together some recent #openaccess articles on #prehistory for this weekend's #Prehistoric Society #Europa Conference 2025. Find them here, alongside other #Cambridge #research: ✅ cup.org/43KN3ju
June 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Stop press! 📣 The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social's European Journal of #Archaeology has gathered together some recent #openaccess articles on #prehistory for this weekend's #Prehistoric Society #Europa Conference 2025. Find them here, alongside other #Cambridge #research: ✅ cup.org/43KN3ju