Ulla Rajala
@ullamr.bsky.social
An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
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Small institutions in danger. But the government does not withdraw the levy on international students.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Small institutions in danger. But the government does not withdraw the levy on international students.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
#Accordia Anniversary Lecture
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#Accordia Anniversary Lecture
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
‘Italy, Africa and the Central Mediterranean: changing perspectives on the 1st millennium BCE’ by David Mattingly, University of Leicester, on December 2 at 5.30pm in Room 264 in the Senate House, London. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
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A bonus post for this #MosaicMonday. Ever puzzled over why Neptune has crab claws and Oceanus has a trident in some RB mosaics? My thoughts have just been published in the latest Journal of Mosaic Research. Open access, so feel free to enjoy! 1/2
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jmr/i...
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jmr/i...
Journal of Mosaic Research » Makale » Neptune and Oceanus in Romano-British Mosaics: A Special Case?
dergipark.org.tr
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A bonus post for this #MosaicMonday. Ever puzzled over why Neptune has crab claws and Oceanus has a trident in some RB mosaics? My thoughts have just been published in the latest Journal of Mosaic Research. Open access, so feel free to enjoy! 1/2
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jmr/i...
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jmr/i...
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An interesting inscription reveals new information about a previously unknown Roman governor at Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Spain.
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
A Roman Inscription Found in Cartagena Reveals the Name of an Unknown Governor and the Use of a Urn for Casting of Lots in Antiquity
A team of Spanish researchers has presented the discovery of an extraordinary object from the Roman period that sheds light on the history of ancient Cartagena (southeastern Spain). It is a metal cont...
www.labrujulaverde.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
An interesting inscription reveals new information about a previously unknown Roman governor at Carthago Nova (Cartagena), Spain.
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
#EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology #RomanEmpire
www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...
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Today's knowledge commons free download "Vikings' Settlements in Ireland Before 1014" (2014) #ireland #vikings #medievalsky #history #archaeology
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works.hcommons.org/records/4ae7...
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today's knowledge commons free download "Vikings' Settlements in Ireland Before 1014" (2014) #ireland #vikings #medievalsky #history #archaeology
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works.hcommons.org/records/4ae7...
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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Interested in the history od scientific #publishing?
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
RMZ Jour fixe/ The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications
Marco Seeber (Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway)
www.rmz.hu-berlin.de
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Interested in the history od scientific #publishing?
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
Join us tomorrow for a talk by Marco Seeber:
"The evolution of the scientific publishing market, its drivers and implications"
Nov. 26 | 11 AM CET | on Zoom or at Schönhauser Allee 10-11 in Berlin
More in the link below 👇
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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It’s not all bad news. Plenty of people still care quite a lot about archaeology. They are out there and nothing can stop them. Take heart! Courage 💪🏻
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It’s not all bad news. Plenty of people still care quite a lot about archaeology. They are out there and nothing can stop them. Take heart! Courage 💪🏻
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Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
Subsellium
ANS specimen Another ANS Specimen I want to think about how RIC Augustus 407 intersects with Republican types of Caepio Piso and also the Plebeian Aedile issue of the Cinnan regime, not to mention …
livyarrow.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Notice the staff. Can you tell me what the staff is?! It does not appear on the republican designs which inspired this type. livyarrow.org/2021/01/19/s...
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"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj
Tim Davie misled audience about the BBC’s supposed leftwing agenda | Good Law Project
Speaking at a book festival, the former director general suggested the BBC newsroom was full of BLM T-shirts and Kamala mugs. But that’s fake news.
goodlaw.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"The former BBC director general Tim Davie misled the public in suggesting BBC news reporters had a leftwing political agenda, Good Law Project can reveal." goodlaw.social/vyyj
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I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Historical Research Lecture 2025 | Can popular history be radical? Historical research and writing for the public
Historical Research Lecture 2025
www.history.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The talk will be in English. Everyone is welcome!
🏺Nächste Woche ist wieder Vortragszeit! Sara Pizzimenti von der Universität Pisa wird über die Ausgrabungen in Lagash sprechen.
📅 Donnerstag, 4.12. 16:15h
📍Seminarraum, Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik oder online
www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...
📅 Donnerstag, 4.12. 16:15h
📍Seminarraum, Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik oder online
www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...
Stories of Matter: Clayscapes and Craft Practices in Ancient Lagash
www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The talk will be in English. Everyone is welcome!
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Listen deeply to the ancient space, as I did with Tanja Tiekso.
Our article out now❣️
#sensorystudies #research #researcherlife
"Deep listening the ancient fora of Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our article out now❣️
#sensorystudies #research #researcherlife
"Deep listening the ancient fora of Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Deep listening the ancient fora of Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia
This paper introduces and develops a listening method based on Deep Listening, a practice and a pedagogy of listening invented by American composer Pauline Oliveros. The method is applied in sensor...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Listen deeply to the ancient space, as I did with Tanja Tiekso.
Our article out now❣️
#sensorystudies #research #researcherlife
"Deep listening the ancient fora of Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Our article out now❣️
#sensorystudies #research #researcherlife
"Deep listening the ancient fora of Pompeii, Rome, and Ostia"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Venäjän ohjusiskussa kuoli kymmeniä – ukrainalaiset muistivat uhreja pehmoleluin, kukin ja kynttilöin
Venäjän ohjusiskussa kuoli kymmeniä – ukrainalaiset muistivat uhreja pehmoleluin, kukin ja kynttilöin
suomenkuvalehti.fi
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Venäjän ohjusiskussa kuoli kymmeniä – ukrainalaiset muistivat uhreja pehmoleluin, kukin ja kynttilöin
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Wall tiles
c. 1630-50
Probably from Lahore
Seen at -
The Great Mughals:
Art, Architecture and Opulence exhibition.
V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
c. 1630-50
Probably from Lahore
Seen at -
The Great Mughals:
Art, Architecture and Opulence exhibition.
V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Wall tiles
c. 1630-50
Probably from Lahore
Seen at -
The Great Mughals:
Art, Architecture and Opulence exhibition.
V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
c. 1630-50
Probably from Lahore
Seen at -
The Great Mughals:
Art, Architecture and Opulence exhibition.
V & A Museum #London
#TilesOnTuesday
The Nereid monument was shipped from Asia minor to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social The monument was probably built for Erbinna, ruler of Lycian Xanthos in modern-day south-west Turkey. It dates to 390-380 BC. It was influenced by the Ionic temples of the Acropolis of Athens #TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Nereid monument was shipped from Asia minor to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social The monument was probably built for Erbinna, ruler of Lycian Xanthos in modern-day south-west Turkey. It dates to 390-380 BC. It was influenced by the Ionic temples of the Acropolis of Athens #TombTuesday
An Etruscan cippus from Vulci with Enrico Benelli as a scale. #EpigraphyTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
An Etruscan cippus from Vulci with Enrico Benelli as a scale. #EpigraphyTuesday
My review of the @jewrywallroman.bsky.social Experience in the latest @ancienthistory.bsky.social magazine #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
My review of the @jewrywallroman.bsky.social Experience in the latest @ancienthistory.bsky.social magazine #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
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The Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) is an important project using remote-sensing methods to scan premodern prisons. They have now found medieval graffiti on Sicily & game boards etched by prisoners archaeologymag.com/2025/11/anci... Publication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ancient prison graffiti in Sicily reveals games and fears of Early Modern inmates
Graffiti from a Sicilian castle prison reveals gameboards and ship carvings that shed light on Early Modern inmates’ daily lives.
archaeologymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project (CMPHP) is an important project using remote-sensing methods to scan premodern prisons. They have now found medieval graffiti on Sicily & game boards etched by prisoners archaeologymag.com/2025/11/anci... Publication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (17-24 November 2025), the editorial college published 14 new and 286 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee and Enes […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (17-24 November 2025), the editorial college published 14 new and 286 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anne Chen, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Brady Kiesling, Gabriel Mckee and Enes […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
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Ooh, ooh:
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ooh, ooh: