Reminder that most racist, misogynist and classist gatekeeping in UK academia isn't screeching bigots with newspaper columns, it's a lowkey team effort of rejections for grants and jobs.

I've been working with Mazen Iwaisi & @evamol.bsky.social on a CBRL funded project, Gaza on the Shelf, coordinating a team of scholars to examine, digitise, and archive the diasporic Palestinian collections in the UK. The UK Home Office denied the visas of our Palestinian colleagues. +

For too long, the people who have done the real work of archaeology have not been recognised. At Dura-Europos in Syria, one of the ways this is evident is in the lack of credit given, or even names recorded, for the many workers there.

👀 Collections Trust (UK) CPD: Accountability for Born-Digital Collections Delivered by MDS "for people who already have a good understanding of the Spectrum procedures for physical objects, but want to better understand how to follow the standard for digital objects." tinyurl.com/4xjtz4dh

1/3 New recommendation: Despoina Tsiafaki, Natasa Michailidou, Melpomeni Karta, Vasiliki Syrakouli (2026). Pioneering Preventive Preservation: The role of remote sensing in Cultural Heritage. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

You can own "Carved in Stone" yourself as a PDF or a physical copy here: carvedinstone.scot

Carved in Stone

A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now!

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Cutting PIP for ADHD, autism anxiety etc is the perfect example of government policies looking to grab headlines while actually costing more. PIP helps support many people to work. Cutting it means they risk being unable to, that means more costs in the long term. 1/ inews.co.uk/news/politic...

PIP likely to be cut for ADHD and anxiety

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden tells The i Paper that such conditions were less widely diagnosed when the system was designed

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Well done to @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social ’s @leilaar.bsky.social who did a fantastic job presenting her PhD research on the impact of digital recording on knowledge production in development-led archaeology at the Visual Dialogues workshop at @durham.ac.uk 🏺

3) Use the skills you have developed through your discipline to take action elsewhere. @blacktrowel.bsky.social have a great resource on this here:

There would be no archeology if our ADHD ancestors were cool with washing up instead of chucking their dirty stuff in the nearest ditch

HUGE Congratulations to @leilaar.bsky.social for publishing her first paper: "Body Mapping the Digital: Visually representing the impact of technology on archaeological practice" in the CAA 2023 proceedings: 🏺 www.sidestone.com/books/advanc...

ADS will be providing training on semantic data mapping of archaeological and heritage data from the 12th-16th October 2026 at the University of York, UK as part of the ATRIUM Project TNA programme. Find out more: www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2026/04/15/t...

Just flagging up this great digitisation on a budget guide from the HLF for small organisations: www.heritagefund.org.uk/funding/good...

We’re delighted to share that #CAAUK2026 will be held in Glasgow, hosted by the University of Glasgow! We look forward to welcoming you for another exciting year of digital archaeology, collaboration, and innovation — see you there! #DigitalArchaeology #CAAUK

I was in elementary school when the Iraq war started and I gotta say, I much preferred that to being able to fully comprehend the horrors™

Tired of excuses and obfuscation from the EAA Executive? Want a collegial and supportive society fit for its members? Then #boycottEAA Read our call for voting and boycotting below! If you want a detailed description of the events so far please read: drive.google.com/file/d/1jdGO...

Interested in hosting a community-led archaeology conference? We’re inviting expressions of interest to host CAA-UK 2026 across the UK & British Isles. 🗓 28 Feb deadline 🔗 uk.caa-international.org/2026/01/14/caa-2026-call/

CAA 2026 call – CAA-UK

Following the success of the CAA-UK Conference 2025, we are now inviting expressions of interest to host the CAA-UK Conference 2026.

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👀 Funded PhD: 'Capturing stories of the coast' "oral histories are a common & widely used approach in Env History, here we seek to extend their use, to explore how such knowledges can be integrated into climate adaptation & resilience planning ..." #DeepMapping www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/capt...

Tomorrow we begin CAA-UK 2025 in Cambridge — we can’t wait to welcome you! 🎉 🕚 Workshops start at 11:00, followed by lunch, Session 1 at 13:30, and a drinks reception at 18:00. Final programme & info: 👉 linktr.ee/caa_uk #CAAUK #DigitalArchaeology #Archaeology

Registration is open for #CAAUK2025! Join us in Cambridge, 9–10 Dec, for talks, posters & workshops on digital & quantitative archaeology. 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...

CAA UK 2025 Annual Conference

Join us at CAA UK 2025, featuring research & workshops in the application of quantitative methods and computing to archaeology and heritage.

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

“We do archaeology because we care about people in the past and people in the present, and oppose the violent destruction of lives and heritage … interference with a democratic process to overturn a decision like this is unacceptable.” Solidarity with BTC and others holding EAA to account.

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📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza. Archaeologists: Cancel membership | Speak up | Share Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b... #EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza

📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza. Archaeologists: Cancel membership | Speak up | Share Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b... #EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza

CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats

Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…

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📢 Call for Papers – #CAAUK2025 Join us in 📍Cambridge | 9–10 Dec. for the 🏛️💻 Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology UK Conference! Submit abstracts (max 300 words) to 📧 caauk25@mcdonald.cam.ac.uk by 🗓 12pm, 15 Sept. Linktr.ee/caa_uk #Archaeology #CAAUK #DigitalArchaeology

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York! Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology! maiacost.eu #DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction

“It just feels different” @leilaar.bsky.social’s research on digital vs analog recording, using body mapping and ethnography in development-led archaeology #eaa2024 🏺