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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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'The career ladder in academia is of particular interest as it is a “greedy” occupation due to its lack of substitutability among workers, long hours with increasing returns to productivity, and the importance of establishing and maintaining personal contacts.' Academia is a "greedy" occupation.

The lack of women at the top of the academic ladder is driven by unequal childcare responsibilities - LSE Impact

Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina ...

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Lovely to see "Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives" available now via firstview in Advances in Archaeological Practice (open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our paper on archival approaches to large digital cultural resource databases is now out open access! 🏺🗃️: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... We describe a method derived from #archive science as a complement to #BigData approaches to #development-led datasets, applied to #SouthAfrica but relevant globally

Project biography: an archival approach to large digital cultural resource management datasets | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Project biography: an archival approach to large digital cultural resource management datasets

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Be kind to our colleagues. Be canny for our colleagues. Be outraged for our colleagues. Be vocal about our colleagues' plight, which is not of their making. Be there for our colleagues. Be an ally in whatever way we can. 3/3

In these dark times it’s good to remember the joys of archaeology: a colleague just accidentally sent an auguring plan for a Medieval cock-fighting ring to a Teams channel and now this is all I care about

Grateful for lovely things like an evening read outside with a fire and a run through a riot of colour

Hooray! Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Prehistoric Policies project now has a website 👇👇👇👇. PP examines how & why contemporary environmental policy makes claims about the deep time human past, and why that matters!

Ben Elliott@archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Prehistoric Policies now has its own corner of the internet to call home! Here you can find an overview of the project, information on the researchers involved, and details of our upcoming events. Stand by for a major announcement from us on Monday! www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeolo...

Fully-funded AHRC PhD scholarship at Swansea: the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Wales, 1945-1994. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

History: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Studentship in History with Museum Wales (RS949) - Swansea University

We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

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Since 2019, HERI has run women-focused field camps for archaeology & geology students. Female-led and hands-on, they provide field skills, mentorship, and safe spaces—building confident, resilient researchers ready to study #Africa’s rich heritage.

Essential reading from @mininghistory.bsky.social on Anglo American winding down operations in Southern Africa

Duncan Money@mininghistory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you also missed it, you can still read my article on mining giant Anglo American, and what they are leaving behind as they depart Southern Africa:

Interesting argument in this recent article about fragmented digital historical data that historians need to change how we reference things. I almost always reference the physical document, but this does not reflect how I found many of these things. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Glad to see this paper finally out. Its been fascinating, if not scary, to write - and I am certain the UK is not alone. Lost or overused: legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lost or overused: legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Lost or overused: legal, ethical and research imperatives for a centralised human-remains database in the UK

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it’s beautiful that historians and archaeologists and archivists can all bond over how our disciplines are constantly misunderstood as “directly extrapolating the past from the source material” tbh

Rhys Kaminski-Jones@rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 4mo ago

OP saying "I wish the corpus from the era was big enough that we could build a properly large model and do counterfactual history" does suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of what a written historical source is. It's art and rhetoric and persuasion, not operating code for human actions!

Relevant to my interests as someone constantly being asked BUT ARE YOU ARCHAEOLOGY OR HERITAGE

Colleen Morgan@clmorgan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

There’s a lot that’s wrong with “anthropological archaeology” but it’s more holistic in that it understands that current “reception” is not a separate field but fundamentally tied to archaeology. It’s exhausting to always get “oh that’s heritage” here in the UK.

Standing ovation for the headline of this briefing from The Continent (and for the always-stellar reporting across the board).

The Continent@thecontinent.org · 5mo ago

All Protocol Observed | Welcome to Issue 233 of The Continent This week, we meet an aspiring chef from Botswana. He was promised a job in a Russian hotel - only to end up in a remote military training camp, with dozens more Africans. Download your copy here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

New piece just landed in @theconversation.com about the history and present of the #Lesotho Highlands #Water Project (#LHWP) -Why people are sour on a project that fundamentally WORKS! -What governments of Lesotho and #SouthAfrica could do to win popular support theconversation.com/the-lesotho-...

The Lesotho Highlands Water project is 40 years old and going strong: but history weighs on its successes

The Lesotho-South Africa water deal was clinched during the apartheid era and without public consultation.

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Excellent 🧵 and the the environmentalisms of the 1960s-1970s. The neo-Malthusian thinking that Ehrlich represented is all over UNESCO activities (esp re urban heritage preservation) during this period

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93. The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

Applications are now open to join our 2026 UCL Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣📷https://tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

🚨🏺 Come work with us! 2-year full time Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology teaching our fabulous undergraduates. Salary £54,931-£64,644. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Job Vacancy: Lecturer (Teaching) in Archaeology and Anthropology

The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer (Teaching) in Archaeology and Anthropology (Ref.: B03-02939).

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Day 12 of 200: The first of our Free Open Access books for you! Today UCL loA Rachel King & Trinidad Rico (editors) "Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies" link, and more info, in today's story and do follow UCL Press for the link. #UCL200 📲 uclpress.co.uk/book/methods...

Publication Day! 'White Gold and Thirsty Communities: The Cold War, Apartheid, and the #Lesotho Highlands Water Project' is out TODAY! Can be found at all South African bookstores! exclusivebooks.co.za/products/978... (and in North America/Europe: www.rienner.com/title/White_...)

White Gold and Thirsty Communities

The story of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a tale both of international diplomacy and of the ways that high politics and the antiapartheid struggle played out—and continue to play out—...

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John’s book is fantastic. A truly staggering amount of detail told with nuance and care, which is hard to do with Cold War geopolitics!

John Aerni-Flessner@lesothojohn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hey South Africa, it looks like my new book on the history of the #Lesotho Highlands #Water Project (published by @HSRCPress) is now available! Also available at other quality booksellers across the country! #LHWP #History #Apartheid Exclusive Books: exclusivebooks.co.za/products/978...

In a 1968 submission to UNESCO the UK rep said ‘nah we don’t need heritage regulation because the aristos own the heritage and it’s fine’. Hewison’s 1987 ‘Heritage Industry’ noted nothing had changed in 20 yrs except increasing imperial nostalgia. And now …

Gabe Moshenska@gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ancient artefacts, monuments and landscapes should not be in private hands. Heritage should be part of the commons, shared by everybody. 30% of England's land and its archaeology is held by a tiny cabal of aristocrats and gentry, descendants of the thugs who stole it. Isn't it time we took it back?

Come work with us! We’re advertising a one-year full-time post to cover teaching in #MuseumStudies 🏺🗃️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Very much looking forward to going to Reading and seeing the Radical Rural trail at @themerl.bsky.social soon. #ContestedCommons #LandRights

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

Always read Will!

William Carruthers@williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I have a new article out (open access!) about what the Archaeological Survey of India was doing in Nepal in the 1960s, with thoughts about the global complexity of post-war archaeological knowledge and the categories we use to understand it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Relooted drops tomorrow!! 🏺

Wallace@exalclaw.com · 6mo ago

Relooted is not only a neat puzzle game with grand heists and a charming cast, but also a challenge to who owns and tells African history. Plus, it's one of the few games to capture Africa's diversity well, pulling artifacts from all across the continent. My review: www.avclub.com/relooted-gam...

The only Super Bowl thread anyone should be reading

Becky Hammer@beckyhammer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Cape Town! Are you interested in the history of #water? Specifically the history of the #Lesotho Highlands Water Project (#LHWP)? Well, I wrote a book on it! Launch: 27 Feb, Exclusive Books, Waterfront, 1800 RSVP here and come hear me talk! exclusivebooks.co.za/pages/events...

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