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Ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about Spain’s first astronaut.

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And, tbh, I think most of us have.

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Fair. Just curious to see what people think.

Q: would you teach archaeology to a fascist student? Genuinely curious about your answer, and mine’s probably not what you think.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We had some American relations in town last weekend and the thing that reliably shocks them the most is how much my pay-as-you-go cellphone bill is each month: £10. Unlimited minutes, texts, 10GB of data. And it works in Europe. I could get 75GB for a bit more, but I don't really need it.

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Contents of an ostrich’s stomach extracted after its death. Taken at the Zoological Society of London, ca. 1930: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…

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I was talking to an eminent prehistorian and while they'd known that hawthorn wood was used extensively during the British Neolithic, they'd never considered that this meant that each spring past people would have been surrounded by great gobs of white flowers that smell of honey and carrion.

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I like to think that worldbuilding approaches lean into the investigation of the mundane, and that the detail they lend makes its own beauty.

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We find this relatively often when trying to use historical sources to illuminate archaeological data. We study the accumulation of the mundane but we can also fall prey to privileging the extraordinary; we focus on rupture and change.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I heard it mentioned on the radio that Borges said that there's no camels in the Qur'an; this is a misreading of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. There are actually mentions of camels, of course, but the point that Borges was trying to make was that we often omit the familiar.

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Also might explain this: bsky.app/profile/arch...

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OTOH citational politics is important and full names and sources should be listed correctly in the bibliography OTOH we could just list DOIs and have happy lives

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you have a panorama mode on your phone you can make a vertical pano of big trees 🌳

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A reading pile for those interested in the history of anti-fascism in Britain

A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League - Geoff Brown
Physical Resistance - Dave Hann
Our Flag Stays Red - Phil Piratin
London Jews and British Communism 1933-1945 Henry Felix Srbernik
When We Touched the Sky - David Renton
Black Star - Anandi Ramamurthy
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider - Satnam Virdee
British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945-79 - Joshua Cohen
Never Again - David Renton
Say it Loud - edited by Brian Richardson
Beating the Fascists - Sean Birchall
No Platform - Evan Smith
The 43 Group - Morris Beckman
No Free Speech for Fascists - David Renton
Remembering Cable Street - edited by Tony Kushner & Nadia Valman
We Fight Fascists - Daniel Sonabend
Anti-Fascism in Britain - Nigel Copsey

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Well it’s mapmaking rather than maps, but I think you’ll like it anyway.

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Will love to hear what you think!

Not going to go into too much detail, but I enjoyed it, having visited the haunted landscapes of Ireland & a family blown apart by distance, migration and poverty. And there’s a bit of magic and a couple of Very Good Dogs.

Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just finished Maggie O’Farrell’s Land, which was my summer read so I guess it’s time for autumn now. I picked it up at an airport without any spoilers or expectations, just that I’d read Hamnet and enjoyed it. It’s gently archaeological, with maps and colonialism and placemaking.

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It brings together a lot of things I love: Arabian archaeology, digital creativity, and working with local partners and development-led archaeology. The students are smart and keen and bring a lot of skills as well. Anyway, happy Friday!

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We will be using the very cool archaeological landscape of Mu’tarid to build digital interpretations. The module will run concurrently with this second season of excavations which should be very cool. Hoping to set up live-streaming 360 video to our new immersive room from the site.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today was mostly second marking and (late, I’m sorry!) reporting for my Beatrice De Cardi grant, as the final C14 dates came back. Publication that clarifies domestic activity in the Bronze Age in Arabia forthcoming. Earlier this week I gave the Intro lecture for my Digital Creativity module

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He likes to hold hands while he’s sleeping

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I think they’re not doing as many this year so as not to overwhelm folks

oh god these send me way back. Instant shot of nostalgia

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I haven't seen this posted here, but thank you to Jona Schlegel (archaeoink on Instagram) for making this #archink #inktober list. Not sure I'll be able to contribute this year, but I always love to see more archaeology drawings.

Archink prompts: 1. figurine 2. midden 3. hand axe 4. flotation 5. ditch 6. leather 7. Indus/Harappan 8. dating 9. antler 10. pXRF 11. Lapita

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Throwback to when I got so annoyed at the destruction of a shed (and of misuse of my friends) I co-authored a whole article about the contemporary archaeology of dig houses: doi.org/10.1558/jca....

A decrepit shed next to two more recently built structures and a firepit. The vegetation is brown and there are big agricultural fields behind the structure. It's the notorious "chicken shed," a building that was torn down at Catalhoyuk.

Morgan, C., & Eddisford, D. (2015). Dig Houses, Dwelling, and Knowledge Production in Archaeology. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2(1), 169–193.

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Trying to finish a book chapter, write a proposal for a new article and finalise proofs all at the same time, it'd be very cool if my brain wasn't like this but okay let's goooooooo

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I spy with my little eye, distinguished @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD, Dr Christopher Wakefield. ☺️

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Solidarity with folks at Edinburgh!

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#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd

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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have a new article out today in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism called "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s." 1/ Access it for free with my author link: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsr/art...

Screenshot of the beginning of an article called "Building the American Anarchist Movement: Radical Collectives and Continental Convergences in the 1980s" by Spencer Beswick. Text reads:

“Bowl a strike, not a spare—Revolution everywhere!” Members of the Revolutionary Anarchist Bowling League (RABL) chanted bowling-themed slogans as they marched against President Ronald Reagan's threat to invade Nicaragua in 1988. Acting within a broad progressive coalition, RABL helped shut down major sections of downtown Minneapolis for three days in an outpouring of rebellion against the Reagan administration's covert wars in Central America. Events reached a dramatic climax when a masked protester threw a bowling ball through the window of a military recruitment office.1 The crash of the broken glass marked the beginning of a new era of anarchist militancy in the United States. The rage of a generation of young people raised in Reagan's America threatened to explode.

Reflecting this mood, the pilot edition of what became the Love and Rage anarchist newspaper (published from 1990 to 1998) was simply called RAGE! The pilot, which was distributed at an action at the Pentagon in 1988, reflected growing anger at the Reagan administration's wars at home and abroad, including the war on drugs. Promised a “new morning in America,” a generation of disaffected young people raised in the alienation

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh I’d love to read it, please send it along when it comes out