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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 5h

Animate it with augmented reality

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 7h

Someone is grumpy today

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 8h

So many tons of books being shed by the Archaeology department as we move from King's Manor. We've had loads of charity book sales, but it's just not enough. I just took another couple of metres worth off my shelves.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 9h

whoa

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 13h

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 13h

Anthropology should replace RE as mandatory at state schools: faiths are just one facet of the extraordinary ways people have chosen past & present to organise their lives and express identity - from households to states, craft to economy, or dealing with death. Anthropology opens minds & hearts.

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Not Anyone You Know @slowcrush.bsky.social · 16h

A British version of ICE already exists. And it’s also called ICE! They raid businesses and detain people with the intention of deporting them. Lots of antiraids networks across the country do valuable community work building resistance to them. Lazy, incurious journalism strikes again.

A British Ice and more stop and search: Badenoch’s Tories set out new policies

Shadow ministers have announced far-reaching and often radical proposals – here is a roundup of some of them

www.theguardian.com

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to miss fieldwork around this time.

Sunrise at Hili Archaeological Park, with excavations visible in the foreground, a lush green park in the background, and mountains on the horizon.

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme.

Applications are now open!
Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social

artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

Arts Council Digital Artist in Residence at University College Cork (Pilot) - The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

artscouncil.ie

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North East Anarchist Group ⬛️🟥 @neanarchogroup.bsky.social · 1d

A little guide we have put together to help you all with some important community work! Do not let the fascists claim your local spaces with their intimidation tactics - fight back! 🖤❤️

www.instagram.com/northeastana...

North East Anarchist Group 🖤❤️ on Instagram: "A little guide we have put together to help you all with some important community work! Do not let the fascists claim your local spaces with their intimid...

1,407 likes, 43 comments - northeastanarchistgroup on September 28, 2025: "A little guide we have put together to help you all with some important community work! Do not let the fascists claim your lo...

www.instagram.com

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 2d

day 6 of #archInk2025: horn

I did a kind of archaeology journaling page, where I focused on exploring the texture of the horn, noting down functions and anatomy.

#archInk

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing! Well done.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

A horn core is:

A) a ska band
B) the bony part under the keratin sheath on bovids
C) a source of terrible puns and innuendos on an archaeological site

“Horn” #archink #inktober #archink2025

An ink drawing on a piece of paper of a horn core with a scale.

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UHI Archaeology Institute @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social · 2d

The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual #archaeology project.

Western Isles job opportunity with new virtual archaeology project

Augmented reality at Cladh Hallan, South Uist. The UHI Archaeology Institute team behind Uist Unearthed is looking for an assistant for the next stage of the award-winning, virtual archaeology project. The full-time position, which runs from January 2026 to May 2027, is to help deliver the new Barra and Harris Unearthed project. Since it was launched in 2021…

archaeologyorkney.com

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

Brenna is so incredibly brilliant, I’m ecstatic about this!!

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just going to go ahead and assume people aren’t posting about all the spicy antifascist organizing and direct action they are doing. 🖤

damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 3d

it's impossible to know what people *aren't* posting and why, but i assure you that "is this safe to post" is a real concern that is shaping the decisionmaking of many real people right now

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Direct action gets the goods 🖤

www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2551791...

A photo of a St. George’s cross being taken down in front of York Minster.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 3d

The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News

Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 4d

1) it’s the Hindsgavl Dagger, super pretty, look it up
2) drawing flint at a small scale is diabolical
3) it’s a flint skeuomorph of a bronze dagger so counts for both days nyaaaaah
4) idk it’s @cjfrieman.bsky.social’s research not mine, ask her

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 4d

“Bronze is brilliant!” #archink #inktober - bronze & flint
youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ

Drawing of a skeuomorphic spear head made of flint. It says, “bronze bronze bronze bronze…what’s wrong with stone?” And hashtags in the tweet.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 4d

day 3 of #archink2025: residue. what's left inside a pot can say a lot. grains, fats, traces of meals long gone.
drew that chain in a kind of comic style: pot in use, pot buried/excavated, pot in the lab.

Small remains lead to past recipes.

#archInk #archaeology

A three-panel digital illustration showing the archaeological process of residue analysis.
In the first panel, a clay pot sits over a small fire surrounded by stones.
In the second, a broken pot is uncovered in the ground with a trowel nearby.
In the third, gloved hands hold a sherd and take a sample with a small tool. Two circles highlight what residue analysis can reveal: plant grains and a goat

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 4d

day 4 of #archInk2025: bronze. tin meets copper, and new colours are created based on the mixture, from gold, green, brown, red.

i drew them circling between two hands, an acknowledgement of how innovative humans are and bronze meant exchange and shared skill

#archInk #archaeology

A digital illustration showing two hands reaching toward a circle of bronze artefacts, including swords, spearheads, and axes. Each object has a different shade of bronze — from golden yellow to deep reddish-brown — representing the varied colours of Bronze Age metalwork

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ama @amasugiru.bsky.social · 6d

#archInk2025 Day 2: Shell
During prep, the Conch of Teleportation reminded me of oracle bones, divinatory records from the Shang. They feature some of the earliest writing in China. I thought dragon turtles, taken from Chinese mythological creatures, would help expand a focus on Chinese archaeology.

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archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel @jonaschlegel.com · 5d

day 2 of #archInk: #shell.
a watercolour scallop in the centre, with digital pen sketches of shell artefacts and tools around it. shells are versatile in archaeology, and this page is also a mix of drawing techniques, from watercolour to digital.

#archaeology #archInk2025

day two of archInk 2025: shell.

the central piece today is a scallop shell painted in watercolour. around it i sketched different shell artefacts — scrapers, spoons, containers, ornaments. it shows how versatile shells are as archaeological finds, and how many uses they once had.

this page is also a small experiment in drawing itself. mixing digital work with watercolour and pen sketches makes it feel layered, like different notes on the same theme.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 5d

Pretty good, I think, after having my flu & covid jabs in my shoulders earlier today.

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