I'm ready.

You can donate to Soad and Omar here: chuffed.org/project/1838...

An urgent humanitarian appeal to save Suad and her child Omar after the war destroyed their lives.

My name is Liz and I reside in the US; Suad has asked me to manage this campaign on her behalf and all funds raised will go directly to her.

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liztism™ 🍉 ليز@lizardry.bsky.social · 56m ago

🚨🚨 I have appealed to you with all the pain and hope in my heart; will my plea find its way to your compassionate hearts?😔 My child Omar is very sick; he has lost weight due to malnutrition. Every time he tried to walk, he fell to the ground😭 I need $100 to buy food.😭🙏🏼👇 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx

this is also what your emails mostly look like when you do museum collections research

oblivion.txt@oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 2h ago

You do not have all the materials you were told to collect.

17/530. No movement for TWO DAYS for single mum Maha… can we get her campaign moving? Join others who’ve chipped in small, regular amounts to help cover Maha’s rent and living expenses… basically, who’ve kept Maha alive for more than a year. Amazing! bit.ly/for-maha

it really makes you think

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 9h ago

I have one answer.

You can donate to Ahmad and his family here: chuffed.org/project/1572...

liztism™ 🍉 ليز@lizardry.bsky.social · 24h ago

I urgently need to raise €200 to renew shelter for my family after our home was destroyed. ❤️🇵🇸 We have nowhere else to go, and every day brings more fear, displacement, and uncertainty. Please don't leave us alone. Every €1 or even a share brings us closer to safety. 🫂🙏🏻⬇️💸 chuffed.org/project/157281

You can donate to Eslam’s family here: www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...

Donate to Please help me support my children and provide for their edu, organized by Abdo Ridwan

​From the Rubble to the Tent: Help Yahya, Mohammad, and Islam… Abdo Ridwan needs your support for Please help me support my children and provide for their edu

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 4h ago

Donations have stopped. Please save my little ones. I lost my husband in the war; I do not want to lose my three children. 😭😣💔 Please, the feeling of being an orphan is so cruel. 😣They are longing for a proper meal. Please do not leave me alone. Every donation means life to them. gofund.me/8db2db8db

So, the modern UK university clearly no longer even cares about its own neoliberal premise: that researchers should obtain multi-year external funding for research projects. Even if you achieve this, it will still put your humanities job at risk.

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 7h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

Please interact if you can see this. The only ask is five dollars. The ONLY ask. Is five dollars! That you make weekly/monthly! It’ll help Mohamed, his siblings, & their disabled parents who are boiling in a tent. Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

You can donate to Mahmoud’s family here: chuffed.org/project/1905...

help mahmoud look after his family & orphaned children in gaza

hello! i'm kat & i'm running this campaign for my friend, mahmoud, who is stuck in gaza &, with his family, is trying to survive occupation & genocide.

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨 Ahmed is losing his fight. A deadly virus is destroying his tiny body. His fever rises, painful sores cover his skin, he can barely breathe, cannot eat or sleep, cries in terrible pain, and grows weaker every hour. Please save my little boy before it is too late. !!💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/1905...

You can donate to Amir and his family here: chuffed.org/project/help...

Urgent Appeal: Save My Family in Gaza

Hi, I’m Tess from the UK and I’m raising money for Amir Shamala and family:

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 18h ago

STOP. 🙏🏻 Please You are my hope 💔 My mother is struggling with severe eye problems and losing her sight My phone the only way I share her story and ask for help is now broken I’m trying to keep my family going Even $10 can help save a family’s life chuffed.org/project/help... Can you donate? ❓

Gentle reminder: if you like Palestinian fundraising posts, please share them, it takes the same amount of time. Shares might help them, likes won't. People helping Palestinians can't do this alone. Engagement & donations are dying out. We need others to join, even in the bare minimum. Thank you🤍

You can donate to the Jameel family here: chuffed.org/project/1839...

Help us Survive the War(om jameel)

northern Gaza, in the yellow zone under occupation.

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Memento Mori Povich 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥@paradis3gained.bsky.social · 17h ago

Om jameel:My heart, which suffers from a heart valve prolapse, is almost stopping from beating because of the severe pain in my shoulder, which is affected by a tear&joint inflammation.I cannot buy the injections that cost 200$ I left my 5 kids hungry Don't let us die🙏😭🥹 chuffed.org/project/1839...

🏺 I may not love fish bones, but I do love a fish sculpture. From Late Period Egypt, now at the National Museum of Warsaw. 📜 cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/en/catalog/4...

Isn't lovely how little has changed?! Notice in the bottom right corner the makeup "compact" with six pigments and a protective lid! Above it the funny thing like a thumb is the pestle of a mortar for grinding fine powders. BM 1861,0523.2

I really hope that someone from the Leverhulme Trust (which funds this project) has had words with Exeter’s management

The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 7h ago

📢PROJECT UPDATE📢 You may have seen the news that the University of Exeter, home of the wills project, has placed 500 academics at risk of redundancy. The project leader Prof. Jane Whittle & project co-investigator Dr Laura Sangha are both at risk, alongside almost all of the History department. 1/

Congrats to everyone who got a shoutout in the Telegraph today, although I don't know where they got the idea that Bluesky is a place where people are kind to each other. This is site is not kind. This is a PvP server where you get randomly matched with an American who has misunderstood your joke.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 8h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

Fighting for and winning the right to free movement of all people is fundamental to any chance survival of our species and our world. Borders will increasingly mean extermination, genocide and treating people as expendable

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

Well now we can move on to the part of the election where the centrist Democrats graciously accept their defeat and support the progressive primary winner for the good of party, state and country

Please share and donate if you can! My friend is fundraising for Retaj, who has been injured by the occupation. They’re hoping to raise £200 by the weekend, and have £135 to go. tiny.cc/HelpRetaj

You can donate to Alaa and her family here: chuffed.org/project/1908...

Donate and help Ala’a and her children

My name is Alaa, and I am a mother of four children from North Gaza. My husband is a prisoner, and since his imprisonment, I have become both a mother and a father to my children, carrying the respons...

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 3d ago

💔 We are starving in North Gaza. I can't provide food for my children, and my little daughter is sick and urgently needs treatment. We have no money for medicine or food. Any donation, no matter how small, can help save her. Please donate or share. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1908...

Yknow. I’ve just changed this goal. I can’t give up on Ahmed, he only has me, but no one will help anyone anymore. We’re at 74/250 by SUNDAY. Chop chop. Enough of this. We need to secure him a lawyer in three weeks. chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 16h ago

Please share!! Two simple asks, and ONE is free. 1 - Help a survivor continue to survive ongoing state violence. 2 - Get in touch with job leads in Italy for this children's art therapist! 74/1007. We have a month but I’m not optimistic we’ll make it 🙃. chuffed.org/project/ahmedf

5 August 2026 is our brother Mohamed's birthday, his third since being displaced. He said to me today, "When I receive a kind word from anyone outside of Gaza, I get a strange feeling / I feel like the word is a lifeline." Send him a message via @mossmallfarm.bsky.social (you know where to give)

Fortunately there's been a lot of attention in the press recently on the importance of thorough academic peer review and examination standards, so I'm sure the same newspapers doing that reporting will be calling for more funding for it 🙃

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 19h ago

As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.

Smiling #unicorns. initial כה, Haftoroh from the ‘Duke of Sussex’s German Pentateuch’, Germany 14th century. British Library, Additional 15282, fol. 314r. #medieval #MedievalArt

Blippo+ is one of my favourite games of the last few years - highly recommend, particularly to my friends and colleagues who are working with media and culture and how we interface with both.

Stefan Gagne@stefangagne.com · 15h ago

Play Blippo+. Do it. It's the perfect love letter to public access cable television, using period appropriate hardware and techniques. It oozes charm, queerness, and authenticity. It's not just some cheap VHS filters, this is the real thing and I adore it. store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/

Not to plug myself too much but we also did an episode on megafauna on my old podcast as well! www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/animals/32

A Little Bit of Zooarch, a Little Bit of Palaeontology...Ep 32 — ArchaeoAnimals (Archive)

Picture a world where dormice are the size of cats and hyenas roamed around Europe: welcome to the Pleistocene! Upon suggestion from one of our listeners, we explore the time period where zooarchaeolo...

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If you’re interested in learning more, I actually wrote an episode of @pbseons.bsky.social about them and their eventual extinction here: youtu.be/8ZEYcbhcLsw?...

When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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🧪 Spending my lunch break thinking about Megaloceros giganteus, like the one currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland 📜 www.nms.ac.uk/collections/...

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