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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today I've told multiple undergrads they can't use a peer reviewed paper published in a reputable journal in their essays because I believe it's AI generated. Extremely poor quality. I can see the flaws, but I'm an expert. Students have no chance. Quality markers they relied on before don't work.

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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How well do objects of design fare in secondary markets built for fine art and antiquities? This is the question I tackle in my newest article for transfer, out now (in open access!): ahnp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/tra...

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do you want to hear about events, jobs, and opportunities related to provenance, art & heritage crime research, and the liked? I send out an Opportunities List email every week. Sign up here: www.unescochairculturecrime.org/mailing-list...

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With growing intensity in past weeks, I've been working to confirm my Polish citizenship via ancestry. The research process is so delightful intricate with years, laws, and loopholes al influencing the outcome. I realised earlier this week why I'm enjoying it: I'm doing provenance research on me.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A gold "substance" is poured on Avebury and the term "Heritage Crime" is used by the police and press. National Trust’s ancient stones ‘painted’ in 'criminal act' www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/2659949...

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Criminal investigation as National Trust’s ancient monument is ‘painted’

An incident which saw a substance painted on ancient standing stones at a National Trust site is being treated as a “heritage crime”.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coming back to social media after years away is an odd feeling. I feel like I have totally lost an ability that I once had. I can't seem to think of what to post. I can't seem to think of what to say to what everyone else posts. I have thoughts but they don't crystallise into anything pithy.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Louvre boss vows to instil ‘culture of security’ after heist www.ft.com/content/8be6...

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My husband and I have both found meg teeth on our own fossil hunts along the coast of the Chesapeake *and* bought them from dealers, so I find this deeply fascinating and weird (albeit not remotely surprising)

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

CALL FOR JOURNAL PAPERS: "Natural Heritage as Cultural Property: legal and social dimensions to the collection, display, and sale of natural history specimens", a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Property edited by @p-stewens.bsky.social & me. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Paul Stewens @p-stewens.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Natural history specimens are #culturalproperty. If you have an idea for a paper that drives this point home, @profdonnayates.bsky.social and I want to hear from you for our special issue in the International Journal of Cultural Property. Find the #cfp here: paul-stewens.com/news/cfp-nat...

Old postcard showing the Natural History Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, facing each other in parallel

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Why would anyone pay $38,000 for a Megalodon shark tooth that they could buy now for less than $1,000? I explore answer that question in my latest publication: **Illusions of Rarity and Value in Competing Megalodon Tooth Markets** Available free and open access. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

A hand next to a two black megalodon sharks teeth. The larger toot is as long as the index finger of the hand.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I guarantee this will be the weirdest story you hear today. And you know what? It's even weirder than what is published. Take it from me...a T. rex will bite you. They make people do weird things. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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Billionaires’ T. Rex Obsession Has Turned Fossils Into Red-Hot Drama

As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market.

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CPP4ALL @culturalprope4all.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

After WG1 in Warsaw last May and WG3 in Budapest this July, WG2 will celebrate this year's workshop in Santiago de Compostela on September 29. The call for proposals is still open. If you are not a member and want to participate, join the action! cpp4all.eu

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Are you interested in funding and networking opportunities in Cultural Property Protection? Follow @culturalprope4all.bsky.social and perhaps join the COST action.

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CPP4ALL @culturalprope4all.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This Thursday July 2, at 16:00 CET, don't miss the webinar: "Digital traceability and provenance: Multi-scale 3D modelling within the ECCCH Framework" by Mohamed Soliman Interested and not a member of the Action yet? Join! cpp4all.eu

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

SLAAPS (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) stifle academic freedom. Defamation law in some places leave academics "exposed to retaliatory litigation" for sharing societally relevant research. Mark Hanna's new paper on SLAAPS in NZ hits VERY close to home for me doi.org/10.1080/1757...

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SLAPPs in Aotearoa New Zealand

This article examines strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) in Aotearoa New Zealand, focusing on how civil procedure can be used to suppress public-interest expression. Drawing o...

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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We've just launched our website! Have a look at what the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime is about here: unescochairculturecrime.org

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Homepage | UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Mayanists and Mesoamerica people: does anyone happen to have a scan of or access to Sylvanus Morley's 1933 and/or 1934 field notebook/diary? I'm looking for something that would be on one page or less but have had no luck accessing the diary.

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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Call for Abstracts: “The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Europe: A Comparative Legal and Policy Agenda”, 14 May, Warsaw. This workshop is fully funded for selected attendees, but only members of the CPP4ALL Cost Action can attend. Sign up to join the action here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...

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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Join our Chair at the International Symposium on "Cultural Property Protection: An enabler for cooperation in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Gulf region", 20–21 April, Nicosia, Cyprus. Details and Registration here:

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Cultural Property Protection

20–21 April 2026 – Constantine Leventis Auditorium, A.G. Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Would you like to visit us to work on topics related to Cultural Heritage and Crime? The UNESCO Chair will host a funded Short Term Scientific Mission through COST Action Cultural Property Protection for All. Only members of the Action can apply so request to join here: www.cost.eu/actions/CA24...

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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New Publication! "Variably Legal and Irregularly Regulated: Global Markets in Collectable Antiquities, Wildlife, and Fossils" by Annette Hübschle, Simon Mackenzie, and our chair, Donna Yates. In the exciting book "Variably Legal Markets Rethinking Markets and Crime"

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Variably Legal Markets: Rethinking Markets and Crime

This book offers a novel perspective for conceptualizing legality in market exchanges. It challenges the conventional binary of ‘legal’ versus ‘illegal’ markets by introducing the concept of variably…

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Interested in art crime, antiquities trafficking, provenance, repatriation, or cultural property law? Sign up for the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List for learning, conference, and work opportunities! anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities

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Opportunities List

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Blog post! Performance of Security at the Drents Museum Helmet Return Press Conference www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2026/04/perf...

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

They "TA-DA'd" the recovered helmet! They even gave it a "drie...twee...een!" before they removed the cloth. Then there was silence followed by a slow, uncertain applause. A very "is this a clapping moment?" vibe from the attendees of the Helmet of Coțofenești press conference.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Performance of security at the press conference to announce the recovery of the stolen Helmet of Coțofenești.

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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Cambridge Elements Critical Heritage Studies seeks book proposals. We're looking for exciting, boundary pushing methods, theories, ideas that are too long for a single journal paper, but to pressing to wait on. It's a series for exciting heritage work. Let's see it! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Critical Heritage Studies

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime @unescochair-chec.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Join us at the REVITALISER Cultural Property Protection Summer School in Cyprus. Participants explore cutting-edge topics including remote aensing, AI-based analysis, criminological approaches to heritage crime. We can keep the fee low because it's subsidised by the EU revitaliser.eu/summer-schoo...

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