Trevor Wiley
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
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Trevor Wiley
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Getting a lot of new followers from the excellent medieval starter pack - so hello! I'm a Ph.D. student writing a dissertation about the estuary landscapes of fifth- to eighth-century southern Scotland, and more importantly, about the people who lived in them and transformed them.
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Britannia, 274 AD. A rogue general has defied Rome to form a splinter state and, somewhere in Wiltshire, 55,000 coins are buried in the dirt.
Now, analysis of their alloys is letting archaeologist @kmurphster.bsky.social track an empire's rise & fall
Read our blog 🔗 rdg.ac/4notWE9
#AncientSky
Now, analysis of their alloys is letting archaeologist @kmurphster.bsky.social track an empire's rise & fall
Read our blog 🔗 rdg.ac/4notWE9
#AncientSky
Tracing rebellion in the chemistry of Roman coins - Connecting Research
rdg.ac
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Britannia, 274 AD. A rogue general has defied Rome to form a splinter state and, somewhere in Wiltshire, 55,000 coins are buried in the dirt.
Now, analysis of their alloys is letting archaeologist @kmurphster.bsky.social track an empire's rise & fall
Read our blog 🔗 rdg.ac/4notWE9
#AncientSky
Now, analysis of their alloys is letting archaeologist @kmurphster.bsky.social track an empire's rise & fall
Read our blog 🔗 rdg.ac/4notWE9
#AncientSky
Now there's a soundscape!
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Now there's a soundscape!
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Here's a bit of alliterative humor from the redoubtable Martin Vine. #alliterative #poetry #medievalsky
alliteration.net/poetry/king-pendas-apache-attack-helicopters/
alliteration.net/poetry/king-pendas-apache-attack-helicopters/
King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine
...weapons of wonder ‧ Weland crafted -- / with elven pilots, Penda’s gleaming / Apache attack ‧ helicopters ...
alliteration.net
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Here's a bit of alliterative humor from the redoubtable Martin Vine. #alliterative #poetry #medievalsky
alliteration.net/poetry/king-pendas-apache-attack-helicopters/
alliteration.net/poetry/king-pendas-apache-attack-helicopters/
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OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
Celebrating Hild
On this day in 680 CE Hild of Whitby, patron saint of learning and culture (including poetry) died. I mark her feast day because she marked my life, and my writing, indelibly.
nicolagriffith.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
Alright so I actually checked and realized I got the PDF advance copy and I did a quick read and wow, this is an absolutely essential book for anyone interested in the Picts. Combines the latest research with beautiful images and encourages RPG play as a way of understanding/interpreting the past!
Very excited for this - should be getting my copy soon!
A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Alright so I actually checked and realized I got the PDF advance copy and I did a quick read and wow, this is an absolutely essential book for anyone interested in the Picts. Combines the latest research with beautiful images and encourages RPG play as a way of understanding/interpreting the past!
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Nov 17: Feast of Hild (c.614-680), abbess. She succeeded Heiu in charge of Heruteu (Hartlepool) before founding, or refounding, Streanæshalch (Whitby), where she championed the 'Irish' dating of Easter at the synod in 664. She later founded a monastery at Hacanos (Hackness). #medievalsky
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Nov 17: Feast of Hild (c.614-680), abbess. She succeeded Heiu in charge of Heruteu (Hartlepool) before founding, or refounding, Streanæshalch (Whitby), where she championed the 'Irish' dating of Easter at the synod in 664. She later founded a monastery at Hacanos (Hackness). #medievalsky
Very excited for this - should be getting my copy soon!
A few of us designers have been privileged to follow along while @stoutstoat.co.uk chipped away at this project for the last few years.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
It's something new. An interactive history book like the kind you'd maybe read as a kid, but with the combined powers of archaeology and game design.
Game designers bring to life to Scotland's mysterious Picts
Writers and archaeologists also worked on a new guide to a lost early medieval Scottish society.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Very excited for this - should be getting my copy soon!
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Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Saying goodbye to the beautiful venue of #Haskins2025 after two and a half days of brilliant papers and even better conversations over coffee and drinks. Eagerly looking forward to the next one.
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Saying goodbye to the beautiful venue of #Haskins2025 after two and a half days of brilliant papers and even better conversations over coffee and drinks. Eagerly looking forward to the next one.
An astoundingly brilliant talk, and a great beginning to the last day of #Haskins2025 !
Alison Beach has just finished up inspiring this gathering of medievalists with the possibilities of telling far more empathetic and inclusive stories of medieval people. #Haskins2025 #medievalsky
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An astoundingly brilliant talk, and a great beginning to the last day of #Haskins2025 !
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So what can historians of science do?
Valencius answers by citing an exciting, forthcoming resource for #histSTM & #STS practitioners--A Historian's Handbook to Saving the World, edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social.
More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #HSS2025 #histSTM
Valencius answers by citing an exciting, forthcoming resource for #histSTM & #STS practitioners--A Historian's Handbook to Saving the World, edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social.
More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #HSS2025 #histSTM
Historians' Handbook for Saving the World TOC
A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency Co-organized by Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley Table of Contents Acknowledgements and List of Contributors ...
docs.google.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So what can historians of science do?
Valencius answers by citing an exciting, forthcoming resource for #histSTM & #STS practitioners--A Historian's Handbook to Saving the World, edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social.
More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #HSS2025 #histSTM
Valencius answers by citing an exciting, forthcoming resource for #histSTM & #STS practitioners--A Historian's Handbook to Saving the World, edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social.
More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #HSS2025 #histSTM
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Hello again from Napoleon C, where a large crowd has gathered for the #HSS2025 distinguished lecture! Our speaker is Conevery Valencius, whose research draws connections b/w #histSTM, #EarthScience & #envhist.
Her talk tonight is entitled "Boom: What History of Science Needs to know About Shale."
Her talk tonight is entitled "Boom: What History of Science Needs to know About Shale."
two women are sitting next to each other and one is pointing at the camera
ALT: two women are sitting next to each other and one is pointing at the camera
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Hello again from Napoleon C, where a large crowd has gathered for the #HSS2025 distinguished lecture! Our speaker is Conevery Valencius, whose research draws connections b/w #histSTM, #EarthScience & #envhist.
Her talk tonight is entitled "Boom: What History of Science Needs to know About Shale."
Her talk tonight is entitled "Boom: What History of Science Needs to know About Shale."
Something about the AI discourse, especially as I'm seeing it in the university context, that's important to note:
While many students recognize that AI is, on some level, bad for work, and produces bad work (slop), many still use it to complete basic assignments.
While many students recognize that AI is, on some level, bad for work, and produces bad work (slop), many still use it to complete basic assignments.
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Something about the AI discourse, especially as I'm seeing it in the university context, that's important to note:
While many students recognize that AI is, on some level, bad for work, and produces bad work (slop), many still use it to complete basic assignments.
While many students recognize that AI is, on some level, bad for work, and produces bad work (slop), many still use it to complete basic assignments.
On my way to Miami for the @haskinssociety.bsky.social conference and very excited!
Planning to ditch my sweater (an absolute necessity today in Boston) about halfway to balmy FL...
Planning to ditch my sweater (an absolute necessity today in Boston) about halfway to balmy FL...
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
On my way to Miami for the @haskinssociety.bsky.social conference and very excited!
Planning to ditch my sweater (an absolute necessity today in Boston) about halfway to balmy FL...
Planning to ditch my sweater (an absolute necessity today in Boston) about halfway to balmy FL...
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
Cambridge University Press
view.updates.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=85c24bbd7...
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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
A little extra teaching money means the budget is there for a final-summer-of-the-PhD research trip to Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland!
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A little extra teaching money means the budget is there for a final-summer-of-the-PhD research trip to Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland!
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
A reminder that if you live in a place with elections today, no matter how local, you should get out and vote!
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A reminder that if you live in a place with elections today, no matter how local, you should get out and vote!
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For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Periodisation, Terminal Narratives, and the Beginning of the Middle Ages in Lowland Britain
This brief contribution seeks to remind readers that familiar periodisation schemes are deeply entrenched not so much because they have withstood the test of time but because scholars come of age a...
www.tandfonline.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Save the Date!
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Save the Date!
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
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Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭
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Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology