Old anchors on the Northumberland coast. Tinted charcoal on paper.

Part of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. Pencil and graphite sticks.

St George's Church, Jesmond.

Very happy (and spooked) to be returning for the London Month of the Dead, speaking about haunted highways in Highgate Cemetery on 15th October, 7pm #folklore #hauntology #corpseroads ☠️💀👻 londonmonthofthedead.com

Genuine question. Why, 20+ years after the introduction of widespread WiFi, is it still so unutterably crap on trains?

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"The people versus the Establishment".

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🚨 BREAKING: Labour says it won't stand against Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election As it stands, only Count Binface will run against Farage

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Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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"The humanities are not a supplement to, but a foundational component of, undergraduate education, especially in a technology-driven institution". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another foray into gouache on paper.

Happy to share that this short commentary reflecting on advanced digitalisation and art history is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reframing Art: Five Years On

Debates in digital art history have moved on since ‘Reframing Art: Opening Up Art Dealers’ Archives to Multi-disciplinary Research’ was published five years ago. Generative artificial intelligence ...

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I'm no expert, but am I right in thinking that banning teenagers from doing things isn't always vastly effective?

A fantastic talk, testing the boundaries (pun intended) between fictional, imagined, and physical place, "Santa Claus, c/o Oslo" from @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social.

Fascinating panel on death rituals this morning @folkloresociety.bsky.social conference - thank you @stuartdunn.bsky.social, Helen Frisby & Eira Betthell for some really thought-provoking talks

First session, Rituals of Death! @stuartdunn.bsky.social on corpse paths, Helen Frisby on funeral processions, and Eira Betthell on musical psychopomps.

Night falling over the Caledonian Sleeper to Aberdeen, which also seems to be the @folkloresociety.bsky.social Express.

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

I've wanted to try using gouache (opaque watercolour) for a while. First attenpt here - you get a much better range of heavy/dark and light tones. But it's too hot, the paint kept going runny!

🌳 Preserving the uncanny(?): Digital Folklore in the Age of AI with @stuartdunn.bsky.social: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist... 📘 Social Science Fiction with Genevieve Lively: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

"Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clan" ❤️ 👏

Come join us discussing LLMs, language and the humanities on Thursday, June 11 5.30pm UK time. It's my belated inaugural lecture 😱 so I am not coming alone - thankfully @joannazylinska.bsky.social will be with me. 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Register – Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language, and the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis – Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205)

Culture as Calculation: Technology, Language, and the Machine Learning Turn in Times of Polycrisis – Nash Lecture Theatre (KIN 205), Thu 11 Jun 2026 - Inaugural Lecture: Mercedes Bunz, Professor in Di...

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I'm really looking forward to keynoting at this symposium next week in Cork #maps #spatialhumanities mapmattersconference.wordpress.com

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Map Matters Conference 2026

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Nothing says "We value your opinion" like "Dear Comma".

The real reason I miss writing deadlines.

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Bid to recognise trig points as historic summit landmarks

C20 Society submits applications to register the first and last trig points built 90 years ago.

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New publication. Always good to see one's name in print alongside that of a brilliant colleague: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @criskimi.bsky.social

In the 1990s, my parents ran a small regional magazine called the Wessex Journal. It contained all sorts of insights, artworks, etc on life in the South West in the late C20th. My mum kept a full set; here it is being packed up to go to the Dorset History Centre, where it will be publicly available.

I love Northumberland's big skies.

Whoops. BBC News - Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Officer reportedly leaks location of French aircraft carrier with Strava run

The 35-minute workout reveals the vessel's location as it heads towards the Middle East, Le Monde reports.

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