The remains of the late medieval Church of St. Mary on the Island of Rousay in Orkney 📸Kevin Wilbraham #History #HistoryMatters
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Their conclusion about what this all means is better cyber hygiene. I would suggest policymakers might also wish to come back to questions of agent liability and who is responsible when things go wrong
Fairly sober testing report from the AI Security Institute: they gave internet access and removed some guardrails from latest AI models and found without them they were capable of potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
Dreamt that I bought a t-shirt for the first day of classes that says “Maybe WE are the Sea Peoples” and honestly need to make this happen.
Pisamalahti hillfort in Finland rises 55 m above the Lake Saimaa. It has perpendicular cliffs on sides so that a defense wall is needed only on the eastern side. It is one of 12 hillforts in the Saimaa area. #HillfortsWednesday
NEW: Four professors with the AAUP are suing the Texas A&M University System over its policy barring discussions of gender, race and sexuality in classrooms. They're represented by the ACLU of Texas. Story pubbing shortly: www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/...
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Fortunately there's been a lot of attention in the press recently on the importance of thorough academic peer review and examination standards, so I'm sure the same newspapers doing that reporting will be calling for more funding for it 🙃
Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · yesterdayAs thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.
Good editorial from the FT saying our new PM must take a strategic approach to universities www.ft.com/content/1419...
The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.
Israel approves $37m to seize more than 70 occupied West Bank sites
The allocated funding seeks to accelerate Israel's control of historical landmarks across the occupied West Bank.
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Do you hear that? That's the sound of a million scholars around the world rejoicing as people turn away from their phones towards books written thousands of years ago
Join us at the UCL Institute of Archaeology for a free day of discovery at the Winter Archaeology Festival! Whether you're an archaeology enthusiast, a prospective student or simply curious, there's something for everyone. 🎟️ Book your free place: tinyurl.com/WAF26 #Archaeology #UCL #UCL00 #IoA
My favourite object from the famous Regolini-Galassi tomb. Now in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum in the Vatican Museums. #TombTuesday
An inscribed Etruscan rooftile from Etruria. On show in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum in the Vatican Museums. #EpigraphyTuesday
This is absolutely an illegal scam preying on heritage tourism. But I will say I… can’t help but admire this incredibly capacious hustle on some level—although I do think he needs to make reparations. www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
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If the topics of the current exhibition and their wider historical context are of interest, you can download the East India Company at home book in full for free from @uclpress.bsky.social or as individual chapters (no subscription needed) from JSTOR. Very much enabled by @leverhulme.ac.uk . 3/4
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...
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i'm mad about the inane and senseless destruction of a 900 year old archaeological site, yes, very mad i'm even more mad about the genocide those same destroyers have been committing against actual humans because people matter more than archaeology, to be clear but i'm also mad about the castle
For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD. 📷 Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
Future alien archaeologists: "There was a sudden glut of hand-held devices with whirling blades, and then the species died. We think these tiny engines somehow killed off humans."
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d ago‘Immediately stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature - 42.5C #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
'The university's vice-chancellor says 92% of students have agreed to move to the university's Colchester campus, with just 1% saying they are not going to transfer.' The new university maths.
University of Essex's Southend campus shuts and staff say goodbye
The university says the closure is due to financial pressures, leading to 400 staff redundancies.
bbc.co.uk
Kokoomus, tuo ENTINEN sivistyspuolue. Nyt luokkataistelun käsikassara 🙄
Panopticon@panopticon2.bsky.social · 3d agoOnhan se sinänsä reilua kertoa wnnen vaaleja, vaikka sitten sivulauseessa, aikovansa luopua maksuttomasta kouuituksesta.
Onhan se sinänsä reilua kertoa wnnen vaaleja, vaikka sitten sivulauseessa, aikovansa luopua maksuttomasta kouuituksesta.
2/3 It points to this research by Michael Christl and Monika Köppl-Turyna which suggests we are in line with European comparators. It also points to this 2015 IFS paper which suggests ‘only a small minority of people across their life wind up being net recipients overall.’ ifs.org.uk/publications...
Definitely the case here. In two weeks we find which 9 of 12 in my group will be gone. The other 3 will then have a month to prepare and find hourly-paid replacements for all the classes across two degrees. And supervise 25 PhDs. Plus admin and pastoral care and research. Management doesn’t care.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d agoIf you're arriving at uni this autumn, or maybe dropping your kids, remember that there could be a ghostly phalanx of absent redundant staff, lost modules and degraded degrees making it a very unhappy place. It may *look* the same, but it won't *be* the same. www.ft.com/content/e5b0...
It is August, so it is time to bring Mosaic of the seasons from El Djem, Tunisia. It was found from the Amphitheatre and it dates to the 3rd century AD. Now in the Sousse Archaeological Museum. #MosaicMonday
Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 4d agoSo it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
