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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

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Zooarchaeologist. 🏺 Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜 Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪 Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK. She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️‍🌈♿️ https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · Aug 22

I’ve got a bunch of new followers this week, so just a friendly reminder that I am unable to check any DMs at the moment due to the age verification nonsense.

Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!

dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick

Links to find me and my current work.

dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 6h

you too can shitpost your way to love

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 6h

my partner and I were tumblr mutuals since like 2012, a full three years before I moved to the UK and five years before we even met in person.

we’ve been together nearly a decade now and got a little cat too 🥰

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 7h

Baraa has lost so much, please donate if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/to-help-my...

Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 7h

Mohammed has been trying to raise funds for his daughter - please donate if you can: www.gofundme.com/f/z6pc5k-hel...

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Capitalists Are Absurd @sanefacade.blacksky.app · 10h

This was something that was solidified for me in/after 2020 protests against police brutality: both of these parties (and our entire economy) are deeply invested in both the prison and military industrial complexes, and those investments inevitably lead to what we're seeing now.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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dog on the spectrum @sponcon.bsky.social · 11h

this is the direct consequence of refusing to defund the police

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 9h

is getting bullied online by a Roman palace the lowest one’s archaeological career can go or can I reach even deeper depths

Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 10h

Don't even get us started on this. 👇

(And for goodness sake, don't tell @animalarchaeology.com)

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 9h

why would you do this to me

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10h

I’m really sorry if you replied to Bryan’s post jokingly as a bit but I’ve just blocked everyone there, I can’t run the risk of seeing anyone from those replies ever again in my lifr

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10h

Gavin Newsom continues to prove his commitment to being transphobic and has lauded a literal white supremacist multiple times AND he isn’t even a presidential nominee…and yet liberals are obsessed with hanging every single wish and dream of theirs onto his shitty little haircut.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10h

Read the replies if you want to ruin your entire day. 😮‍💨

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1d

I want to tie myself to train tracks and let a train run over me every time someone says that they like Gavin Newsom because he trolls Trump

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 14h

Hey, given today’s grim statistics, and the fact I booked my crisis shifts yesterday - please consider donating, going to pester you a lot till Christmas, also shares appreciated

www.justgiving.com/page/lina-s-...

Lina's fundraiser for Crisis

Help Lina S raise money to support Crisis

www.justgiving.com

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 10h

372/640 by tonight........

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

…and we keep going, because this is our duty and our promise. We formed this giving circle with seven friends to ensure dependable, weekly support—for survival needs. As those needs become daily, we escalate.

24 hours left ⚠️ Food, tents, blankets, medicine, ASAP. 0/500: chuffed.org/project/hope...

A square white graphic. On the left is a stylized ink illustration of a kestrel falcon in black on white, without outline just the black marks on its wings and face, drawn from behind. His wings are partly open and his head is turned to the right. In his beak is an anemone poppy in red ink with a green stem. On the right is the title "Keep hope alive: a gaza giving circle" in ink-effect font. The text says "We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support." In the bottom right corner in green text is the link https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10h

You can donate to Nesma and her little girl here: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10h

Unfortunately due to this platform’s commitment to anti-Palestinian racism, Maisa has been unable to maintain an account on here - but she still needs help.

You can donate here: www.paypal.com/pools/c/9i8N...

Raed & Maisa's Family

القصة Hello my friends I'm Ronya and I'm the host of Raed & Maisa's Family Fundraiser. Raed is my dear friend from Gaza. His family consists of Raed 38, Maisa 37, Fares 15, Adam 13, Lana 7. They are...

www.paypal.com

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Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 7d

happy SPOOKY SEASON, folks!

I'm teaching a virtual class on FOLK HORROR (and how to better understand themes in movies), and there are 10 spots left!

You'll get access to all the required movies.
Subscribers to my patreon or twitch get a 15% discount code!
www.newberry.org/calendar/fol...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 11h

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 12h

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

@royalarchinst.bsky.social

Bursaries

Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...

www.royalarchinst.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 14h

Please share: now 12 hours to go on today’s giving circle drive—daily because the needs are escalating, so WE escalate.

Nya’s family is mostly kids, and they’re malnourished; it’s still a famine. YOU can help them eat. Not hopeless. Give/find her link here—10/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...

A pink banner titled “Keep hope alive: a Gaza giving circle,” with the text: “We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. More than ever, they need our sustainable support.” On the right is an ink sketch of a crouching falcon, below which says “click weekly to join: https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle,” underlined with green colored pencil. The background has a watercolor effect.

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14h

🏺📜 Next month! I’ll be giving a talk about my recent work with @garstangmuseum.bsky.social at the Society for Museum Archaeology Conference in Liverpool. You can get tickets at the link below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...

An orange coloured graphic with two boxes of text.

In the top box it reads, “Join us for the Society for Museum Archaeology Annual Conference in Liverpool, 13-14 November 2025!
Help us celebrate our anniversary - find out what has changed, what has not, and explore the world of museum archaeology today...”

In the box below this one it reads, “Meet our Speakers! Alex Fitzpatrick,
COLLECTIONS INFORMATION & ACCESS DEVELOPER, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. Interdisciplinary museums researcher and archaeologist currently developing new ways of making distributed collections more visible and accessible to others through digital and hybrid means.”

To the left of this text is a photo of me, an East Asian woman in her thirties with black shaggy hair and fringe, a white blouse on, and large square glasses.

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 16h

Reclaiming the English flag from the fasc is still white-coded. It’s an ugly flag with an equally ugly history, move on!

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14h

this is why I really dislike the focus that FPBE types put on Brexit as central to immigration discourse, it obscures the much longer history of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies

(but tbf, FPBE types also do that because they agree with the racists about non-EU immigration 🫣)

Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16h

there's never been a point where we *didn't* have them saying "too many brown people". commonwealth folks had free movement until the early 60s. immigration acts which followed were largely about "how can we stop brown and black people coming here". spouse visa rules in 2012 were explicitly this too

"it was inevitable that too many people speaking polish brexitism would become outright too many brown people"

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 14h

take it during a romantic dinner and make the interviewer the third wheel

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 15h

🏺🧪 Potentially for any zooarchaeologists out there!

Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 16h

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 1d

Reminder that you can subscribe to my blog (for free!) if you wanna keep up to date with posts and whatnot. I’m working to get a decent chunk of future posts written over the next few months so they should (finally!) be more regular.

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Animal Archaeology

All things archaeology but mostly dead animals.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 16h

I’m back every two hours, every day, every week for these six families and a camp—survival funds for survival needs, STILL.

It’s not on any one of us, but all of us collectively. So refocus. The overwhelm isn’t ours.

14 hours left on today’s goal. Please share 🫶🏾 10/500

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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