'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
Clemency Cooper
@clemencycooper.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist, Engagement Practitioner | PhD @york.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social | Trustee @archaeologyuk.bsky.social | Palaeoecology and perceptions of natural and cultural heritage in the North York Moors | Views own
It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡
Universities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers ft.trib.al/KP8p07e | opinion
Monks wrote chronicles about the devastating heat of the 13th century, and detail what happened.
Drought, water shortages and crop failures: how does the medieval warm period compare with today?
Monks wrote chronicles about the devastating heat of the 13th century, and detail what happened.
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Helping landscapes become resilient to wildfires 🌿 National Parks contain massive areas of peatland, a powerful wildfire defense We're calling for: 💧Rewetting & restoring all peatlands 💧Ban on disposable BBQs 💧Ban on burning as a land management Read the plan 👉 www.cnp.org.uk/.../wildfire...
🚨Call for Papers🚨 I’ve got a session at this year's TAG UK meeting! “Recalling the Wild: Persistence, Loss, and the Making of More‑Than‑Human Worlds” is open for submissions with a deadline of September 7. Send submissions to e.quinlan@exeter.ac.uk. More info: tag2026.square.site/sessions
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For #HillfortsWednesday the view from Garn Fadryn looking north towards the other Llŷn hillforts at Garn Boduan and Tre'r Ceiri. I was struck by how parched this usually wet and lush corner of Wales is looking. By contrast, the Iron Age climate was relatively cool and wet.
Our brand new Local Explorer Challenge is here! This year we're asking you to get out and about and explore archaeology and nature. We've teamed up with the Countryside Code to encourage everyone to Respect, Protect and Enjoy the outdoors. Download 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/eng...
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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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Really proud to be a trustee of @archaeologyuk.bsky.social today and seeing to amazing launch of #FestivalofArchaeology at @forestryengland.bsky.social Westonbirt Arboretum today. 7000 archaeology fans enjoying themselves. Go find your local FoA event www.archaeologyuk.org/festival.html
This has been a bit of time coming but so glad its now out in time for #FestivalofArchaeology. A call to #Archaeologists to help tackle the nature crisis. Share your examples of how archaeology has helped nature restoration? @nattrustarch.bsky.social www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
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The National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis.
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When @andyburnham.bsky.social takes over, I hope he bins this pathetic plan & takes radical action to fix our nature crisis: - Protect more land as SSSIs - Give National Parks & the FC legal duties to restore nature - Fund Landscape Recovery round 3 guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/starmers-n... [ENDS]
A Welsh community cow-sharing scheme is helping safeguard one of the world's most significant lowland heathland areas from the growing threat of wildfires ✍️Debs Luxon wp.me/p8Mk4U-1oNT
Welcome to the Bluesky account of the Young Archaeologists' Club! 💙 We're looking forward to sharing the latest updates from the YAC network including news, blogs posts, resources, competitions and ways to get involved! Find out more about YAC at www.yac-uk.org #archaeology #history #heritage
Hands-on archaeology for young people across the UK - Young Archaeologists' Club
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Europe absolutely must prioritise landscape-led planning, as thinking through all the sets of landscape relationships is the only way to come to grips with (or even to survive) wicked problems like this.
“Europe is increasingly paying the costs of a hotter world it has failed to prepare for…The EU’s science advisers warned that efforts to adapt to a hotter planet were insufficient, incremental and often coming too late.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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There's a temporary reduced rate of VAT (5%) for children’s meals and tickets to family attractions to reduce the cost of activities during the summer season. Ends 1 Sep 2026. As this was news to me, I'm sharing! www.gov.uk/government/p...
Temporary reduced rate of VAT for children's meals, tickets and family attractions
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Are you coming to our next lunchtime talk on 15 July, 12am? It will focus on the Festival of Archaeology with Neil Redfearn from the The Council for British Archaeology! It's promising to be very exciting. Please sign up via the CIfA webpage or the link below: www.archaeologists.net/civicrm/even...
Landscape SIG tea break lecture | CIfA
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We’re excited to share new free KS2 resources for teachers. Covering Must Farm and the Bronze Age, the resources include videos, reconstruction illustrations, presentations and more! We’re hoping they’ll help teachers bring the Bronze Age to life historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...
Why not write a poem With seventeen syllables And travel in time⌛
Write three little lines Where nature meets history Send us your haiku Our Festival of Archaeology competition is now open, and this year we’re asking you to write a haiku inspired by archaeology and nature. To enter, submit your original haiku by 3 August 👉 shorturl.at/FOcx1 T&Cs apply
Instantly inspired to consider how to combine my PhD research and my love of knitting... Despite the insane heat!
How socks helped tell the story of Mesolithic Dartmoor 🧦 Soils are a silent archive beneath our feet. But how do you bring that archive to life? For Emma Stockley’s PhD research on Dartmoor’s Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, the answer was simple: knit them. 👉 shorturl.at/d2LtL
This map shows a clear concentration of Forestry England and MOD land in the North York Moors, showing the government as a major landowner in this National Park alongside large private estates.
3) Yet before now, there wasn’t actually an official map of all central government land! On my suggestion, DEFRA worked directly with the Land Registry to build this map for the first time. I look forward to it being published as a GIS data layer soon… (they say by April 2027 🙄)
Today we’re hosting, ‘Running out: facing the crisis in land use’, at UCL East, bringing together policymakers, farmers, planners and researchers to tackle England's land-use crisis head on. We'll be posting highlights all day. Follow along with #CPRELUC 🌿
Enjoyed the webinar by @archaeologyuk.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social this evening. Great to hear about all the fantastic and varied work being done by the archaeologists of Natural England. Great job hosting @clemencycooper.bsky.social
Transformative Change is both urgent and necessary. 🌍 The key principles identified in the 🏡 IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment are important for directly countering the underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline. 🧪 👉 Read the assessment here: https://ow.ly/w6YE50Zf32R
Another reminder to sign up for this @archaeologyuk.bsky.social webinar on Wednesday evening!
I'll be hosting another @archaeologyuk.bsky.social webinar later this month. Join me and @tonyjuniper.bsky.social for An Evening with Natural England's Archaeologists 📅 24 June at 7pm 👉 Book a free place: www.archaeologyuk.org/get-involved...
Solstice crown of fronds Caress lapine cranium Mark the longest day 🐰💀🌿 Installation by the NYM Young Rangers.
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A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.
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The @northyorkmoors.org.uk Young Rangers did a fab job clearing vegetation at Warren Moor Mine in the heat today. Better than the industrialists who built this stunning chimney and dug a 220ft mine shaft only to go bust before they recovered any ironstone.
A new exhibition on Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social opened at @northyorkmoors.org.uk Danby Lodge today. Freely explore the history of public access to the countryside and find common ground among artists' responses. 🖼️ No Owner of Mountains by Izzie May izzie-may-illustration.sumupstore.com