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Enricharch

@enricharch.bsky.social

We are Enrichment Through Archaeology. We provide school workshops, manage community heritage projects and offer guided tours of the Peak District. Interested in Neolithic, museums & religion and rapidly learning about early medieval agriculture!

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BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h ago

Blackrock US Billionaire is using 13,000 gallons of water a day to keep his grass green and trees watered in Wessex, England, where drought has been declared. They just think they can use everything up because the rules only apply to you.

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The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 17h 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/

The Past and other Places@pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 17h ago

The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia tonight on Radio 3 (5th Aug). "Songs shaped by the North and reimagined by the orchestra in bold new ways. an evening of storytelling, atmosphere and musical alchemy." #Northumbria #NorthEastEngland #music #proms www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2026, Proms Across the UK: The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia

The Unthanks and friends with Royal Northern Sinfonia at the BBC Proms.

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Norwegian Archaeological Review@norwegianreview.bsky.social · yesterday

Rannveig Þórhallsdóttir explores how sedimentary ancient DNA #sedaDNA can be reimagined through a #more-than-human lens in this visual essay, offering a fresh perspective on environmental data in an Icelandic fjord. #openaccess 🏺 #Archaeology 📷 #VisualEssay 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interpreting sedaDNA: A More-Than-Human Perspective from Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

Research on sedaDNA has developed quickly over the last decade. This five strata visual essay looks at sedaDNA interpretation from a more-than-human and ‘being with’ perspective on humans and nonhu...

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Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 3d ago

Seriously, please watch this. And make your non-academic friends and family and neighbours watch it. Only 45 minutes, free, and SO revealing about the people making money off squandering what is a public good.

Catherine Gander@catgander.bsky.social · 4d ago

A deeply damaging, unethical model designed to dismantle the university and rebuild it as a corporation. It’s caused a crisis in Australia and its causing a crisis in the U.K. Sad to see Irish universities watching the chaos and happily following suit. youtu.be/quc24Ot9Qwgr

Sami Rifai@samirifai.bsky.social · 2d ago

Are Australia's endangered plant species more likely to go extinct from climate change? Here is a Plant ecophysiology PhD opportunity in sunny South Australia, open to both domestic and international applicants. Contact @ilainematos.bsky.social (ilaine.matos@adelaide.edu.au) for further details.

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Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 2d ago

"I said it's a bold move by Reform to use the Navy to return migrants. What did I say Roy?" "You said it's an unworkable load of bollocks designed to win back some racist numbskulls from Rupert Lowe and distract attention from Farage's £5m bung"

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Nettlecake@nettlecake.bsky.social · 2d ago

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last wk.

The plan is for a big volunteer nurdle effort tomorrow and Tuesday, after both high tides. So from 6 in the morning to start on Tynemouth Longsands. Details/info/context in the pic (attached twice with half of alt text in each). WhatsApp for organising here: chat.whatsapp.com/KXTZ6zO69si0...

There is a major volunteer effort kicking early in off from 6am Monday morning Longsands at the High Tide Line starting from Crusoe's to clear nurdle plastic pollution from our beaches and everyone in Tynemouth has a part of play. More teams being assembled and will branch off to other beaches so watch out for information including Monday Afternoon after the second High Tide. Based on expert advice the organisers have come to the conclusion that: • The insurers contractors are equipped and staffed only to handle the Fish Quay and nearly all of the equipment needed in the North East unlikely to be here for days. We can leave the Fish Quay to them but Tynemouth needs to step up, nobody else will. • The Tides this week, in particular Monday and Tuesday, are such that there is a golden opportunity to put a dent in this which otherwise we will regret. Residents here would never forgive ourselves if we let that happen. • With each High Tide this week more and more pellets will refloat and form the nice neat lines along the High Tide mark, easy for volunteers to sweep up. • It's been possible to locally manufacture enough filtering bags this weekend to support a big effort. Enough people who have already been volunteering have developed experience using them. • There's scope for others less experienced to sweep up material with just a couple of minutes training (without touching a single pellet). You brush/scrape it, they will filter out the pellets. So, if you have some time to spare before work, please come down. Don't expect perfection but do come and help. A few do's and don'ts: [Rest of alt-text attached to second identical pic]So, if you have some time to spare before work, please come down. Don't expect perfection but do come and help. A few do's and don'ts: 1. Don't step on the nurdles, this is the one thing which can make the situation worse. With the beaches in heavy use this has happened to much. 2. Do wear gloves (there will be plenty available or bring your own) it's not essential but helps the organisers minimise the work they need to do supervising less experienced folk. 3. Do wash your hands when finished. 4. Do leave the more experienced volunteers running the operation handle the filtering, this is more complicated 5. If possible bring a dustpan (and brush), you'll learn why..... This is not a small problem, the effects are long term and will be reduced by prompt action. The insurers have not bought enough resources to bear early enough and there's nothing we can do about that. Nurdles that embed into the beaches will break down into micro plastics over decades. We will likely experience a sustained period of this material coming ashore. There is still a substantial amount in the Tyne and sea which will come out in waves as the tides move. Even after the first stage of this ends, storms will bring it back several times over coming years. We are still in the short window where volunteers will make a difference, please consider helping.
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 2w ago

25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.

Guardian headline from Weds 22nd July reading: “One billion plastic pellets spilled into River Tyne after two ships collide Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manutacturing, have spread further than initially feared” With an image of a beach covered in nurdles.