Pro tip: dehydrating basil flowers will make your kitchen/home smell amazing.

This hurricane humidity is making LA feel like Europe or New England in the summer 🫠

All rise for the Southern California chorus: "We really needed this rain."

Turns out the antidote for rude people is homemade salsa and a paloma 🤷‍♀️

As of today, my nemesis is the hand glyph.

I have gone outside to take a real and proper break on this research+writing day! Please clap!

Once more into the folder of PDFs...

I have now seen a nearly total lunar eclipse with my own eyes.

There are entirely too many big helicopters flying over my house right now. Something is on fire... 🫠

I need everyone in the UK to know that Americans are discovering Butlins thanks to TikTok 🤣😂

Whenever there is particularly sad/upsetting news, I try to do a video featuring cute/derpy artifacts (Little Guys™). Please send me your favorites and I'll put them in today's video for TikTok/IG 😁. Bonus points if there are silly shapes or expressions.

I need the UK to have fewer haunted hotel options. I'm just trying to find somewhere nice (but also fun) to stay 😂

EgyptAir does direct flights from LA now?!?

Finally had enough tomatoes and chiles, so salsa has been made!

Bill was good friends with Khaled. In memory of them both, please enjoy this photo from the U of Michigan field season in Syria in 1971 when the team had a huge feast to celebrate the end of the season. Khaled is on the left.

Following Hadrian@followinghadrian.bsky.social · 3w ago

On 18 August, we remember Khaled al-Asaad, the heroic Syrian archaeologist who was murdered by ISIS on 18 August 2015 for refusing to reveal the hidden treasures of Palmyra. 🙏 #OnThisDay www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a...

The one downside of eating the leftover pizza is that there is no longer any pizza.

Discovered a single monarch caterpillar when I was watering my plants this morning and I will now be protecting this caterpillar with my life.

London museum folks! I will be in your land in October. Who wants to meetup and/or potentially collaborate on some videos? Thinking of checking out the Petrie Museum (haven't been since 2008), Natural History Museum (never been!) and maybe the BM (always love to see old friends/favs)?

More HBO Rome. Each season can be a specific dynasty or emperor if it's one of the more drama-filled ones and it'll take us through the Severan dynasty. Maybe we can do the crisis of the 3rd century as a treat.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 4w ago

youve got 5.6 billion to make a 7 season 56 episode show airing over 15 years, wdyd

Ok Odyssey (1997) part 2 here we go! When last we left, everything was on fire. Now, everything is still on fire. Such are things in this specific version of the underworld. The goat hasn’t even been sacrificed yet.

Right. Steak and martini time, followed by Odyssey (1997) part 2 viewing time.

Attention Ecologists! We are going to need *a lot* of ecologists. The First Lego League Teams need to speak with a scientist about their projects every year. Every year it's a different type of scientist. Last year was archaeologists. This year, ecologists! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4w ago

If a fish was a schoolteacher would they wear a short sleeve button up shirt and a tie, or JUST a tie?

Niche production post incoming: Hahahaha a history talking head documentary AP position has just hit my inbox. I completely forgot I still had job alerts set on StaffMeUp. Amazed to see that they're offering 2018 rates.

Sitting down to watch The Odyssey (1997) for the first time since I originally watched it on TV as a special 2-night TV movie event.

Which viewing option pairs best with shawarma fries? 1) Catching up on House of the Dragon 2) The Odyssey (1997) with Armand Asante and Vanessa Williams

Just adding to this because I was recently exploring PhD fees and for international/distance students they're seriously asking for £12-21K per year 🫠 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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I am so very here for all your eclipse photos!! Please continue posting them!

Woah, one of my tiktok posts went viral and now I have about 50 packages to drop off to the postbox tomorrow morning 😊 If you want to jump on in, have a gander at my Etsy tephraarts.etsy.com

If I hadn't yelled about it enough already, my Graveyard Guidebook is available for pre-order!! I've collected some of the links where you can get it from, please consider supporting a bb author or requesting it for your library! 🏺 spadeandthegrave.com/2026/08/05/g...

“Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland” Book Pre-Order is live!

The book cover! It’s nearly here! After two years of hard work, my first non-academic book is nearly out in the world! “Graveyards of Eastern Newfoundland: The history, stories, and une…

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