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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 1d

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 ...

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 2d

Update - this is terrible. Clearly meticulously planned.

#Archaeology 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Thieves in four-minute raid on museum gold

Two thieves stole 'irreplaceable' gold artefacts in a targeted attack on St Fagans Museum in Cardiff.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 4d

Thankyou!

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 4d

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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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to CBA for two nominations for Teffont Archaeology! Delighted to see our efforts to engage people from all backgrounds and demographics in archaeology, and our training and skills work, for everyone from carers, to volunteers, to positive action placements and students, recognised like this.

Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 5d

We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉

Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.

Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 5d

Just back from our final Teffont Archaeology workshop! Double header of human remains by Dr Anna Davies Barrett, plus three talks. Nearly 150 volunteers engaged in under 24 hours... exhausted! Thanks to NLHF for funding, and to our hosts in Teffont, Bowerchalke and Horningsham for the talks!

Volunteers with replica skeletons laid out on tables listening to Dr Davies Barrett during a practical exercise.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 12d

If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.

Photo of page from Guardian Weekend magazine showing Patrick’s 13-year-old daughter Milly and the starting words of a long feature story about her battle with Lyme Disease which was missed by the NHS for years.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 12d

It's been fab!

David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 12d

Our local market has put up a lovely crocheted St George cross, which sadly they've had to put a sign next to saying it's in support of the Red Roses.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing, inspiring Rugby World Cup final between England and Canada. Fantastic performance by the Red Roses under huge pressure. Perhaps they and the Lionesses are a better and truer vision of today's England than the standard negative, backward looking, exclusive media narrative..

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National Heritage Science Forum @nhsf.bsky.social · 16d

AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions are open for applications! Work in a major cultural or heritage host organisation on a co-designed research project. Apply by 10 Dec 2025.

More info:

Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025

Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 17d

Brilliant, thankyou! Evaluation survey coming out to you imminently, please feedback :-)

David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 20d

Just a reminder to the museums sector, UK national minimum wage for over 21 years old is £12.21 per hour, or at 40hrs per week, £25396...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 20d

And ran out of room in the last post, but also to our venues at CAER, Cardiff University, Exeter University, and the wonderful @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social .

David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 20d

Massive thanks to our trainers, Rachael Seager Smith, @littlebonelady.bsky.social and @jeremyfoot.bsky.social for such committed, enthusiastic and thoughtful work on this, our coordinators Jeremy and Edrys for ensuring all went smoothly, and collaborators @caerheritage.bsky.social and CBA Wessex.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 20d

Feedback has been really positive so far; we're addressing skills gaps identified by the CBA and others, and building resilience by nurturing connections across groups in Wales & SW England. We've heard groups make new connections, begin considering improvements to practice, and raising aspirations.

Animal bones in a Finds tray, laptop with animal bone recording guidance, on a table covered in trays of animal bones and paper resources. Photo courtesy CAER heritage

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 20d

Today is the last day of our AHRC IAA funded Community Archaeology Specialist Training workshops; we've run 2 day workshops on each of Roman pottery, animal bone, and digital data in each of Cardiff, Exeter and Devizes, for volunteers from more than 14 community archaeology groups. 1/2

Volunteers look at Toman pottery and reference books, and talk to each other, in a seminar room with pottery laid out across tables.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 23d

Blatant, gross homophobia.

As many, many people have predicted, by promoting the erosion of public respect for and then the actual rights of the trans community for more than a decade, conservative/far right are now feeling more comfortable to say all the other things that they think.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 23d

Wouldn’t it be nice to have one day where the human rights of LGBTQ ppl were not ‘being debated’. Just FYI this false talking point is a Heritage Fdn/ADF one. The so-called Gender Critical movement seeks the abolition of same-sex marriage, as a next step after trans erasure.

Nigel Farage claims ‘most stable relationships’ are between men and women

The Reform UK leader was accused of ‘vile homophobia’ after claiming that heterosexual relationships ‘last the longest’

www.independent.co.uk

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · 23d

Some cracking #ClassicalReception in David Squires football cartoon this week on … Nottingham Forest’s mythical quest for a new champion www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

David Squires on … Nottingham Forest’s mythical quest for a new champion

Our cartoonist tells the ancient Greek tale of one godlike figure’s pursuit of glory at the City Ground

www.theguardian.com

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · Sep 9

AFAIK, UK govt expenditure on HE has always been comparatively low, and what is remarkable is how amazingly strong and effective our HE sector is. Imagine the turbo-charging of R&D if we got up to OECD average levels. And yet, even with a national Mission of economic growth...

Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · Sep 9

Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills, showing that the UK is bottom when it comes to the share of expenditure on HE coming from government sources.

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REMADE - Roman & Early Medieval Alloys Defined @remade-uor.bsky.social · Sep 9

Check out the latest @uor-research.bsky.social blog post to learn more about how REMADE's analysis of the Cunetio Hoard coins is revealing details of rebellion & uprising during the Roman Empire's Third Century Crisis 🪙

#AncientSky #Archaeology #RomanEmpire 🏺

Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · Sep 9

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
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Tracing rebellion in the chemistry of Roman coins - Connecting Research

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great article. If AI coding is so transformative where are the end products?

Reminds me of how archaeologists use proxies like coin debasement and shipwreck frequency to model the economic collapse of the Roman empire.

Mike Judge @mikejudge.bsky.social · Sep 3

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

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David Roberts @davidrobertsarch.bsky.social · Sep 4

Two workshops in my AHRC IAA funded Community Archaeology Specialist Training programme, it's day 2 of Digital Data eith Jeremy Foot at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social and day 1 of pottery with Rachael Seager Smith at Exeter University.

Really good to see collective plans coming to fruition!