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Zena Kamash

@zenakamash.bsky.social

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Writing - archaeology - heritage. British Iraqi. Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' student. Editor: European Journal of Archaeology. Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025. Working Classicist of the Year 2025. She/her (NB: no access to DMs)

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello 👋 Some more about me:
📚Senior Visiting Research Fellow at KCL working on archaeology/heritage projects
🏛️Archaeology tour guide
🔍Writing a crime fiction novel
🧶Love books, snooker, board games, cake & embroidery
😻Live in a tiny village w my husband, Pete (pottery specialist), & our cat, Cyril

A tabby cat sits on a windowsill bathed in a pink sunset. Through the window a village church can be seen.

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Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 19d

🚨CFP for #ResDiff7 is now available!🚨

Res Difficiles 7 will take place on 13th March 2026 with Dr Samuel Agbamu as our keynote speaker.

Submit an abstract by 12th January 2026:

resdifficiles.com/cfp/

CFP: Res Diff 7

CALL FOR PAPERSRes Difficiles 7Challenges and Pathways for Addressing Inequity In Classics Organizers: Hannah Čulík-Baird and Elke Nash Date: Friday March 13, 2026Platform: Webinar Since 2020 Res D…

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Yusi Liu @yusiliu.bsky.social · 23h

Please check out and circulate our CFP (due Nov 14)! So excited to turn our SCS/AIA panel into a special issue with Res Diff ✨🌄💛🌎

Dr Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 1d

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Yusi Liu, Chris Gipson, and Najee Olya, building on the Mountaintop Coalition's panel at the SCS earlier this year. "International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World?" resdifficiles.com/internationa...

International Scholarship in a ‘Globalized’ World? CFP

At the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies and the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia, the Mountaintop Coalition sponsored the joint panel, “Internationa…

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 6h

⚡ Important thread by fearless community champion George Monbiot!

Highlighting the very real consequences of Simon Wessely's campaign to deny vulnerable people care.

Neurodiverse people are now in the firing line 😕

👀 One to read

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Kayt Hawkins @kayth.bsky.social · 6h

Accesibility & #archaeology conferences. TAG what are you doing? No day rate? Not hybrid but if you are speaking and cant afford to attend in-person (reg/travel/accomodation just before xmas) then you still have to pay £40 to speak online just in that session at a conference that isnt hybrid? 🏺

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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 11h

Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing! Today they are dancing to a bit of Bowie and Let’s dance.
Dance like a weasel you know you want to!
#weaselwednesday

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 1d

Hope Marianne and I live up to expectations. Miss you! ❤️

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d

my last issue of EJA just published, including a very self indulgent valedictory editorial.

Feeling bittersweet again, but so glad @zenakamash.bsky.social and Marianne are there to take the reins

European Journal of Archaeology: Volume 28 - Issue 4 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - European Journal of Archaeology - Volume 28 - Issue 4

www.cambridge.org

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 2d

Mutuals who know Paris well, I'm looking for recommendations for a nice place to have an early lunch near Gare du Nord this Thurs.

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 2d

Always in your corner 💗

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes you feel a bit down about the human race. How horrible we can be to each other, to nature, to everything

And then you stumble across a thread like this and a wee bit of hope in humanity is restored ❤️❤️

#Birds #Owls

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Evelyn Scott @evelynscott.bsky.social · 3d

It was an absolute honour to sit on a panel at the Royal Society of Medicine on Friday. Thank you to the Menstrual Health Project for putting on such an incredible event. I was honoured to share space with so many incredible women and experts. We must keep talking, and raising awareness.
#endo

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 3d

queen shit, rest in peace

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 6d

I have a lot of books about ghosts and hauntings on my shelves. So, as we countdown to Halloween 2025, I'm going to pick a book and a ghost/haunting from that book and post a little bluesky sized summary of that on here.
#DailyGhost

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 6d

The copyright thing is were the SoA in the UK needs to get really REALLY involved and loud. Because copyright is copyright, and scraping something in the US shouldn't mean that UK copyright is irrelevant.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 7d

Chef’s kiss…

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 7d

#RepresentationMatters is published! Jo Zalea Matias, @archaeologiskop.bsky.social and I, together with our fantastic authors, are happy and proud that we finally made it! For more info and to order: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
🏺

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 8d

I’m recording a podcast episode later today on #mystery reads and thought it a great reminder to share this Pack of great & varied crime fic authors.

Our web home crimewritersofcolor.com
includes books listed by subgenre, speakers db, events etc. 🖤

@crimewoc.bsky.social

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Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation @a-rfa.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 NEW SEMINAR ALERT 🚨
On 14/10 Steph Halmhofer (@cultarchaeo.bsky.social) will speak on 'Manufacturing History', examining the relationship between pseudoarchaeology, conspiracy, and the far-right and highlighting its contemporary relevance. Go to archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/events/ to register.

Events

Upcoming Events Stephanie Halmhofer – Manufacturing History: Pseudo-archaeology, Conspiracy, and the Far-Right Date and Time: 17-07-2025, 17:30BST//09:30PDT To Register: About the Speaker: &#…

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 9d

Call for papers - hopeful pasts for hopeful futures - a session at Nordic TAG 2026 (in person, Kalmar, Sweden) 6-9 May 2026 - deadline 15 October.

I'm organising this with Daniela Hofmann and @arkeostrida.bsky.social

How do we story the past? As many of us are trying to address cascading environmental, political and social polycrises through our work, reflection about the stories we tell, and why we tell them,
is more important than ever. Yet, certain kinds of stories – often involving origin/ancestry, warfare, inequality or ecological degradation – seem to enjoy a broader reach than stories of multiculturalism,
coexistence, cooperation, or integration. While this work outlines the scope and history of the problems we now confront, it rarely offer alternatives to the status quo or paths to a better future.
In this session, we discuss the implications of our narrative choices and how we can choose more actively to shape the approaching future. The past was diverse, comprising manifold social processes at various scales. The past was lived by people other than elites and warriors, and the dominant trends we observe were variously resisted and adapted. The past was not just human, but material and otherwise animate. In sum, the past has an innate capacity to surprise us, a property we can use to imagine different ways of being and relating.
We invite participants to reflect on how we might foreground work, both in scholarly articles and in outreach, to shape the future we want. Do we have moral and ethical obligations? And to whom (or to what)? Are different ways of telling more suited to different kinds of stories (articles versus images, computer games versus podcasts, Science Fiction versus childrens books)? Can we extract tales of hope to inspire better futures? Is that just idealistic dreaming or unscientific? How do we represent uncertainties and ambiguities? How do we turn our eyes from past to future with a better world in mind?
• The workshop will be structured around blocks of short presentations (6 slides in 6 minutes), followed by panel debates.
• Interested participants should contact us at daniela.hofmann@uib.no
• send a max 200 word abstract

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10d

🎉 80,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 We have no time to waste. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 11d

Oooh thanks for sharing - I need to try this! 🙏🏼

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12d

🏺 Rachel and Anne have tirelessly (and often thanklessly and entirely without financial support) produced yet more vital work on the state of professional experience for #trowelblazers

Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org · 12d

The Paper of the Month from Cambridge Archaeological Journal is 'Archaeology as Worldbuilding' by Colleen Morgan, available #openaccess!

📚 https://cup.org/4gKi1yv

#PaperOfTheMonth

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Paper of the Month. Next to the text is an issue cover of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 13d

My fabulous husband @thundercabbage099.bsky.social thought this was a brilliant shadow puppet of a hare. Howard (of hare pair, Howard and Hilda) was overjoyed by the praise for his shadow puppetry skills...
#TinyJoys

A grey shadow on a duck-egg blue wall. The shadow is in the shape of a hare's head and shoulders.

Howard, an upright ceramic hare bust decorated with impressed lace, sits on a duck-egg blue windowsill, in front of window with a grey wooden frame. The sun shines brightly in a blue sky outside. Howard was made by ceramicist Jackie Needham.

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