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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well and they have redone Old St so I can’t vouch for it anymore but 🤞🏻

Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If it’s Moorfields Eye Hospital hopefully you can all have some fun following the thick green stripe on the pavement from Old St tube, there for people with sight issues 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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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 · 22/09/2026

But whatever opens up in its place will have access to the remains as part of their lease, so you will still be able to rock up and ask!

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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 · 27/08/2026

I worked with Jack Cardiff’s son for years, the tall tales of his homespun creativity were incredible. Also great starry gossip!

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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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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🥳🏆🤩 this looks in-credible! Congratulations!

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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 · 09/08/2026

They’re on The List though aren’t they, so there’s that!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Quick chat with colleague about idea for publication based on assemblage, year later saw the paper in his name with no mention of me or the strat I had analysed. 🤷‍♀️

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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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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A lengthy trawl through Museum Assoc publications awaits then…but it definitely bears wider scrutiny.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

When you do write this piece, speak to someone in @prospectunion.bsky.social Heritage Section!

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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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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Two more ticket releases to come - I also missed it but all is not lost!

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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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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

That’s true and utterly ridiculous. As bad as restricting them to one language 😟 the vertical columns on the options table are a scourge!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Agree entirely although I discovered (via my daughter) that GCSE Geography covers a decent amount of palaeoenvironmental evidence of landscape change which is great. (Thames Valley & London basin specifically here) Hoping this one has a similar long term view.

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‎stinky doug @pogue.omg.lol · 23/01/2026

💡Helpful tip to avoid burnout!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Red lights were maritime distress flares set off (illegally) from Bermondsey Beach. Weird but not extraterrestrial!

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yes please to this offer, as usual I am lacking an institutional affiliation that would grant me access 😟

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

😳 I think archaeology/museum content is perfect for it as it skirts on the edge of accuracy and most people understandably have little clue about facts. But people watching them in horror must also be a reasonable % of views.

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Sadie Watson @drsadiewatson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you’re on Facebook (😩) check out Archive Available- they’re all AI-generated and bloody awful as far as I can tell from the London history one. So probably not exactly what you’re after but a good example of bad!

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

I wish it was a mystery why they’re not charged with inciting racial hatred, because that’s the end result.

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