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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There will always be a firm who sends people to do the work. I don’t expect the guy with his logo covered is happy about being there. Most CRM/developer-led archaeology is at the behest of some grim client or other, current UK obsession is fighting over who gets to dig the data centres 👌🏻😭

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Stellar set of speakers for the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies seminar series again - free!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

London Pubs Burnham definitely hasn’t been in: 1. The Asylum Tavern, SE15

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

On bus: sailing past the huge queue at the school uniform shop. #TinyJoys

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Still seeing some very crappy takes about the ‘facts’ around Jason Arday (RIP). Well he *was* cleared of plagiarism, and he *did* run marathons:

Front page of Wandsworth Guardian, 13th August 2010. Showing Professor Jason Arday smiling wearing a T-shirt with name of childrens’ hospice on the front. Headline reads ‘Clapham based lecturer close to completing 30 marathons in 35 days’.

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Prospect Union @prospectunion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Prospect members at Royal Museums Greenwich are out on strike for a second day, fighting for better terms and conditions ✊ Members at the Royal Observatory are among those taking action ahead of this evening’s solar eclipse, sending a strong message to management: museum workers won’t be eclipsed 🌘

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Join @archscot.bsky.social and the Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies for the Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium, 10th and 11th September. Get your in person and online tickets for Day 1 here: lnkd.in/eRSCXhCa

Blue poster signposting the upcoming Sustainable Archaeological Futures Symposium from Archaeology Scotland and CISA.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Top line-up organised by Tom Chivers for this Symposium on Thames Mudlarks - free tickets, wide range of speakers, display of artefacts in Guildhall Art Gallery, come along!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#TinyJoys Babysitting for neighbours’ cheerful 14 month old daughter as our own teenage daughter is away. Little ones really are magic.

Gloriously chubby baby contentedly lying on sofa surrounded by cushion hedge, she’s drinking her bottle. Her face isn’t shown.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reminder that the UK Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act (which banned the tortuous and horrendous live boiling of some animals) was supported by LSE Philosophers in an interdisciplinary team. #Humanities scholars for the win.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Note the absolutely *humungous* set of caveats around the London volunteering figures though 😭 (arch vols contribute £24.7m to London economy, except it’s more complicated). As with all economics, it’s really about the small print!

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm very happy to have been awarded a grant from the Council for British Research in the Levant for the project: "Gaza on the Shelf." In cooperation with Dr Mazen Iwaisi we are coordinating a team of scholars to examine, digitise, and archive the diasporic Palestinian collections in the UK. 🍉

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/07/2026

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What is the long-term legacy of foreign excavations in places like Dura-Europos in Syria? Out today and open access in @antiquity.ac.uk with my colleague Adnan Almohamad: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Looted communities: the local contexts of illicit excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Glad someone has said this, I also struggled to make much sense of it. It won’t help the peer review process for funding either imo. Sad also to see ‘what works’ become uncapitalised, just re-fund the lost WWWellbeing for data-driven place-based responses to lots of the questions.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I rarely share jobs but this is a 🌟 one! With a salary that shows this work is considered equal to other types of project management.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

There’s a tiny shrine to the Dunblane children on an estate in Camberwell, maybe by a family member. Always really moving and a memory of a horrible day. Also v proud of how quickly we changed our laws. Lowe is so far away from public opinion on this.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just spent some time in the Roman Mediterranean and this aspect of material culture is rarely discussed, if at all. Looking forward to reading Jen!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🧵 #Venezuela #Earthquake 🇻🇪 A Venezuelan colleague has provided info on charities that are directly helping people in the aftermath of the earthquake, the Venezuelan Red Cross is best avoided apparently (local info). This one is run by Venezuelans in the UK: healingvenezuela.org

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Healing Venezuela | UK Non-Profit Supporting Healthcare in Venezuela

Healing Venezuela is an Award Winning UK charity rebuilding healthcare through clean water, medical aid and community health programmes.

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Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

30 days of #Pride. Day 20 There are no out football players playing in the Men’s World Cup. 48 teams. 1248 players. Yet it seems football doesn’t feel safe enough for any of the men to be out?

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Just really hoping that there’s a World Cup left in my lifetime I can a) ethically support and b) afford to attend.

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‎ @pogue.omg.lol · 23/01/2026

💡Helpful tip to avoid burnout!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And the fools who invited him on won’t meet his supporters, won’t have to argue the point with colleagues*, neighbours or in pub because they live in a bubble so won’t see the actual real world consequences. So incredibly irresponsible and dangerous. (*construction not archaeology usually)

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/05/2026

"On my way home from work, I don’t pick up food my child actually likes. Why would I? We have gross food at home, and I enjoy preparing it for maximum disgust."

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My Typical Day According to My Thirteen-Year-Old

“I wake before dawn to coordinate with my vast network of parental co-conspirators. Our agenda this morning is straight fire, as the youth would say, beginni...

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Great question: I am an average knitter and would swap that for average pianist skills without a second thought. Have concluded I have the stamina to neither improve one nor learn the other so remain unfulfilled (with terrible jumpers).

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Lovely to see "Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives" available now via firstview in Advances in Archaeological Practice (open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives

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Gavin MacGregor @gavinmacgregor.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Amazing to be at @thescottishcrannog.bsky.social launch on behalf of @archscot.bsky.social Destroyed by fire 5 yrs ago, the team worked tirelessly to regenerate the new site, with passion for archaeology & learning, always inclusive, creative and fun. Many congratulations #Scotland #Archaeology

Dark cloudy grey sky. Wooden causeway running to a circular timber structure, sitting put on grey water of Loch Tay, distant hills to either side.

Circular timber structure with open entrance facing. Scaffolding still up people in white hard hats and yellow vis vests are thatching the roof

Cut end of large log, with To Be A Log Boat written in green on it. Timber crannog and loch beyond

Group of people in front of Crannog as part of celebration.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Very useful info here about implications for employers/workplaces, which unions will be working on internally. Horrific that we have ended up here but #archaeology should remain a safe space for trans friends & colleagues wherever we can influence. Everyone has a part to play - resist bigotry 🏳️‍⚧️

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

First day on the Birkbeck/MOLA field school Thames through Time. The strandline on the sands and gravels with brick, tile, animal bone, tobacco pipe, nuts and bolts. And fragments of built up surfaces caught behind wooden revetments (made from old ship parts). @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

Butchered bone from cattle are scattered amongst fragmented brick and tile on sand and gravel.

Fragment of built up surface behind a wooden revetment and on top of sand and gravel.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm working with my ButCH colleagues to support the update of the South West Archaeological Research Framework (UK). If you're interested in being involved, there's a form to complete here forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Microsoft Forms

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

His writing about the Thames as a receiver of bodies is incredible too, very moving and carefully handled. Highly recommend (am listening on Audible and frequently having to pause it).

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Every polling day I remember the best letter I ever received from our legendary primary school head Mr Baffoe (and there are many I have saved, he was/is wonderful).

Dear Parent/Carer
Due to the Government's inability to complete the EU withdrawal/ Brexit process on March 29th 2019, along with the inability of members of parliament to agree an acceptable deal, Great Britain remains within the European Union and will participate in the European elections.
This means that on Thursday May 23rd 2019, Jessop Primary will be closed to children due to the that the school will be used as a polling station.
We express regret for any difficulties that families may experience on this day as a result of the closure.
Yours sincerely,
K. Baffoe
Head of School

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I used to work somewhere where the contract allowed for random drug tests and breathalysers whilst on shift, and if you failed, you’d be sent home and face disciplinary measures. It’s wild the media think politicians should be held to a lower standard than employees at a fucking waxwork museum.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

“They [bikes] turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.” The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth A classic worth repeating, via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social. #UrbanScience

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The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

No need to pay to know what’s this is about, more horrible reports. MASSIVE side eye at the rest of the Classics Department too.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

We’re doing AI staff workshops at work, our fab Digital Lead has freely outed herself as cautious & anxious which is the perfect combo imo. Also most of the ideas presented are really about existing tools badly used/not known about, things we could just not do/improve, & lack of training.

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Archaeologist Carole Crumley talking about heterarchies, if you are looking to cite someone in addition to Mark Fisher wrt capitalist realism. The ability to dream outside of hierarchies and the state should be taught by every archaeologist. GOOD MORNING

“the inability even to think of power wielded and maintained in the absence of hierarchy implies an alarming lack of both imagination and powers of observation”

From: Crumley, C. L. (1987). A Dialectical Critique of Hierarchy. In T. C. Patterson and C. W. Gailey (eds.) Power relations and state formation. Washington, D.C: American Anthropological Association, 155–69. Available: https://archive.org/details/powerrelationsst0000unse

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 22/04/2026

Biologists: Pay attention to this. This is the legal basis for NOT teaching creationism and intelligent design in science classes. If this ruling sticks, teaching evolution as science will be attacked in short order, with geology and astronomy not far behind.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Now thinking which book I would be buried with, probably something hugely sentimental from my childhood.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Finally got 1 Labour leaflet this week (Southwark), Greens probably 2 a week for last month. Nothing from anyone else 😂 complete landslide incoming.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

No paywall copy of the article in the Times about unwanted sexual advances by Simon Goldhill at Cambridge. Thank god students in 21st century report this shit and the universities take it seriously archive.ph/2026.04.09-1...

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I’m thrilled to join the Carena Institute @bbkhistorical.bsky.social team, which will develop my teaching, build on my research, and also means @drclaireharris.bsky.social and I get to work with @lesleymcf.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social and Esther Breithoff! ✨💚

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Put Fairford into your search and it’s easy to see what’s going on. I didn’t think Starmer could go lower- or poll lower - but apparently he is happy to be complicit in war crimes. When do we demonstrate?

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Really really great job at the ICS, with Anna Walas on her brilliant research. Also #Roman artefacts, #HadriansWall and decolonising approaches to interpretation 🏺

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A decent one from my local #Dorset Facebook scouts:

Photo of cliff at West Bay, Dorset with some probable AI editing showing scaffolding up the cliff face in an attempt to make it safe against rock falls. Text reads ‘work has begun on strengthening East Cliff. Safe to say they’re taking it seriously’. The date is April 1st.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Cats love books. Here is ours preventing my daughter from the precise 15 minutes of revision she had planned for today 😹

Tabby cat sitting squarely on GCSE revision book with claws ready to pierce any hands that come near.

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