FSA Professor of Bioarchaeology at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, biological anthropology, archaeology, paleopathology... Archaeological dead bodies, identity, disability. Ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, Saxons in England.
This year's theme for TAG was surely set before the host department realized the redundancies it would be facing. Archaeology has a lot of capacity to understand persistence, loss & change that can sort communities facing those things. But the theme may loom larger than other years.
Tânia CasimiroJoin us in December at Exter for tag @jrosantos.bsky.social @joaols.bsky.social
The social care system is currently a horrible lottery where 1 in 7 of us will pay more than £100,000 on the cost of our adult social care. It is grotesque how we let families down when they are most vulnerable. (1/2)
"I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up. Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure." archive.ph/oQ2Cs
Do not adjust your screens: Daily Telegraph, purveyor of hard-core #climate denial, has temporarily noticed reality. Don’t panic: normal service on behalf of its energy industry sponsors will be resumed shortly.
One consequence of the democratising effect of social media is too many people treat “the statements made and endorsed by a social media platform’s wealthy and powerful owner” with the same seriousness as “a random user with no influence or importance”.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
As a former financial crime compliance specialist for more than 10 years, I’ve never heard of a British political party unable to access its banking facilities *during an election* The Times reports this follows SARs being filed with the National Crime Agency. What on earth is going on at Reform?
Reform UK’s bank account was frozen after Cottrell donationsNigel Farage’s party could not make or receive payments for two weeks during the 2024 general election campaign, Insight can revealwww.thetimes.com
To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
Universities and students are not enclosed units, ivory towers separate from the rest of their local communities. They eat and drink (a lot) including spending lots of money in local pubs and restaurants. They shop. They get buses, taxis and Ubers. They put money into local economies.
For those overseas: I really cannot stress what a big deal Larry the Cat is in British political life. It's not even a bit. He's an obsession of the 'Westminster bubble' – I'm no exception – but because the British public love animals, beyond that too.
Richard M. NixonLarry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
I see Labour MPs still announcing stuff on X, a platform specifically designed to make people hate them, 100% shaped to push them out of public life and which would ideally see many of them in prison. Funny old world.
Great to see the Guardian champion the SHAPE (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) subjects, but this piece gives impression that they are expensive, whereas many are 'cheap to teach' subjects subsidising more expensive subjects, mainly in STEM and medicine. The crisis demands better understanding.
The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | EditorialEditorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezedwww.theguardian.com
#SVPCA is happening this year, on September 10th, at the University of Southampton... registration info and details are coming soon, stay tuned!
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PMLabour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoonwww.theguardian.com
They’ve obviously got to redo this after the final with whoever loses in the tub
kottkeContender for the most remarkably bonkers sports photo of all time: a 20-year-old Lionel Messi bathing a five-month-old Lamine Yamal (taken in 2007 for a UNICEF fundraiser). [kottke.org]
The Argentinians love having a go at the REF so much that you‘d be mistaken for thinking they work in a UK university.
