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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 1d

My thoughts...

#Archaeology 🏺 #Gold #Torcs #Robbery

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by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Before I go any further, I want to state that the theft and destruction of heritage across the world is not unco…

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · 29d

I hope they're planning to subsidise student rail fares - that's an intimidating commute!

A map showing 54 miles (87km) between the University of Greenwich and University of Kent, with the Medway campus in between.

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nonetheless, the value of Japanese Studies endures. As demonstrated in my podcast, Beyond Japan, the field thrives on the rich diversity of scholars who work on the nation. We can hope that the strength of that diversity will overcome the adversity imposed by short-sighted uni administrators.

Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Sep 8

The conference is only triannual, and BAJS 2018 was my first time attending a conference as a bright-eyed undergrad. The mood was bittersweet: it was wonderful to return and present original work to a crowd of familiar faces, but cuts to JS courses at Cardiff U and Sheffield U weighed heavy.

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Sep 8

My co-panellists brought perspectives on Japanese imperial heritage from across East Asia. Hyunjae Kim discussed how local interpretations challenge national discourse in Korea, while Changwei Huo shared how imperial Japanese shrines in former colonies had been repurposed by modern nations.

Hyunjae Kim presenting on Japanese imperial heritage in Amidong Biseok Village, South Korea.

Changwei Huo discussing imperial Japanese shrines left across China and Taiwan.

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last week I presented my PhD research to a packed room at the 50th British Association for #JapaneseStudies conference. The panel I convened on "Imperial heritage today and tomorrow" went down a treat with many pertinent questions from an engaged audience of scholars across the disciplinary spectrum

Oliver Moxham standing before a projected slide titled "domestic heritage, international memory".

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Aug 28

It's great to be back! As part of an ongoing retrospective project on WWII at Sainsbury Institute (SISJAC), I produced a special episode of #BeyondJapan, interviewing Mary-Grace Browning on post-war reconciliation through their Pacific Venture programme. Have a listen and share your thoughts!

Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures @sainsbury-institute.org · Aug 22

Beyond Japan podcast with @docmox.bsky.social returns with a special episode marking 80 years since WWII’s end, featuring Mary-Grace Browning MBE on UK-Japan reconciliation.

[Special] 🕊 UK-Japan WWII Reconciliation with Mary-Grace Browning, MBE

Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham · Episode

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Aug 21

Usually when pushing for written works on a niche topic. It happened often enough that I decided it's better to search myself than searching fruitlessly for an imagined citation. Here's to the old ways!

This was ChatGPT 4.0, though. I hear 5 is more willing to admit when it doesn't know something.

Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Aug 19

After a year's fieldwork in Tokyo and Kyoto, observing the tension in public war memorial and narratives, it was a personally healing experience to see Japanese attendees bowing and praying at a British memorial. Acknowledging suffering on all sides remains essential for intercultural memorial.

Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Aug 19

On Sunday I joined a reconciliation Evensong at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the 80 years since the end of WWII. With the Japanese ambassador in attendance, it was a sombre yet reassuring occasion indicating willingness at the highest level to heal past wounds.

World War memorial in the stone floor of Westminster Abbey, bordered by red poppies.

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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello, my book will be out in just one month! I don't really want to do a book launch, can I just have a normal party instead?

Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Jun 19

My book 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge' is now up on the Leiden UP website! Coming out on 17 September (if I can finish checking these proofs before that...) Order for your library if so inclined etc etc.

Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge - Leiden University Press

This book provides students with a solid foundation in the basic frameworks and concepts of International Studies.

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Aug 13

I've tried ChatGPT as an alternative to Google Scholar to see how good a literature review it could do. I experienced several critical issues:
1) The response was out of date by >1 year
2) It highlighted well-known works, but ignored new developments
3) It made up citations of well-known authors

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · Aug 11

💥”Lady Thangam Debbonaire said the statue commemorating Robert Clive’s bloody establishment of British rule presented the UK in a poor light and was historically inaccurate” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Labour peer calls for removal of Clive of India statue from outside Foreign Office

Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past ‘historically inaccurate’ bronze

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Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · Aug 7

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · Jul 31

A Poster advertising public libraries Painting: Harvey Dunn. 1923.
#Libraries #Art

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bit of #BlueSkyWriting this fine July Friday

"Wont To Do"

So I thought I'd write a poem,
But that won't get me knowledge,
And that won't get me a degree,
But that won't get me money,
And that won't get me a degree,
But that won't get me knowledge,
So I thought I'd write a poem.

#poem #poetry

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Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social · Jul 10

Excellent article from David Wengrow. Given how much the far right and white supremacists have co-opted history and prehistory, as well as "race science", this should be required reading for anyone interested in how we combat fascism seeping its vile way into perceptions of the archaeological past.

David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · Jul 7

To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship.
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

Seeds of another world

The nexus of radical inequality, social atomization and male victimhood has been exploited before. But why now, on such a scale? To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the...

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Jul 10

All good, thanks! Just finishing the third year of my PhD and nearly a quarter into my first thesis draft. Had some interesting insights into transnational nationalism on Google Maps reviews you might be interested in! Hope you're weathering the changes at UEA well?

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · Jul 7

Hey there #Skystorians! Looking for more great people to populate your feed? Eager for more history in your social media timeline? Don’t forget to check out the AskHistorians Starter Pack! A collection featuring the mods, flairs, friends & contributors that make up the community!

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Join the conversation

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Jul 9

- De Boeck et al. (2022) for how easily online anonymity can be deanonymised
- Van Dijck et al. (2025) Governing the Digital Society
- Ström (2020) for the disproportionate power in private hands of the Big Five and the financial motives behind seemingly 'neutral' platforms

Hope that helps!

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Jul 8

As someone who regularly works in Japan, I can guarantee only a tiny fraction of archaeological texts are available in English, or even available online for remote translation! Second language courses should be broadly available for all postgrads to bridge this gap imo

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Hefin Meara @hefinmeara.bsky.social · Jun 26

Sign up now for this free webinar on heritage crime and maritime heritage. Monday 30 June 12-2pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-c... #MaritimeHistory #MaritimeArchaeology

Photograph of fire damaged buildings and a burnt boat partially sunk in the water, at Underfall Yard, Bristol.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · Jun 23

The second point here nails why generative so-called AI cannot replace human translation. Cheapskate publishers are trying to, even so, offering skilled translators copy edit rates to 'tidy up' machine translation which ends up as more work than starting from scratch. Readers, please reject this.

Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · Jun 23

What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?

Translation is about 80% skill in your native language, 20% skill in your second language.

It's not about knowing what is being said. Anyone can do that. It's about saying the same thing in a different language with the same emotional impact.

Tsun. All Tsun. @alltsunnodere.bsky.social · Jun 23

What is common in your field but shocks outsiders?

Montessori and Waldorf are like, opposite ends of the spectrum in fancy educational philosophies in early childhood.

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Jun 18

I was there last autumn, just after they finally fixed their online systems. All working fine now!

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Oliver Moxham 🎙️🗾🏛️ @docmox.bsky.social · Jun 16

Dr Megan Kelleher was an excellent chair, offering stimulating discussion in the Q&A. Many thanks to Megan Hamilton et al. for coordinating such a successful conference!
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