Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I had a sinking feeling when I saw one on holiday in SW Scotland. Used to be a place where you'd see the red squirrel... The link doesn't open for me btw. 000
Reposted by Lou Matthews'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The Knepp Accord has launched! Supported by the National Trust & representatives from 30+ orgs, it sets out shared principles for collaboration between archaeology, heritage & the nature sector to support nature recovery. We're proud to have played a key role in developing it. shorturl.at/KxRF7nationaltrust.org.ukPress Release | MediaThe National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate have launched the ‘Knepp Accord’, a new framework to tackle the nature and climate crisis. 0214
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Look what they could have won (un-mowed field today). 130
Reposted by Lou MatthewsClaire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026"Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest." placesjournal.org/article/the-...placesjournal.orgThe Disappearance of the Public BenchBenches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest. 0215
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I love the colour of this sphagnum in full sun. We have so little of this left in Oxfordshire...Cothill #fen has most. 163
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I've been telling people if they read (or listen to) one book this year it should be Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification'. I'm not a tekkie person, so have really struggled to understand just what the big tech people are doing/capable of doing. The book sets it out really well, and I was *horrified* 030
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 21/03/2026*Name-dropped on BBC radio yesterday, so don't just take my word for it (interests statement: one of the performers is known to me and ruined his socks in the cause of Art and the Muppets!). 010
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 21/03/2026At a loose end in #London tonight? I'm going solo to the capital to see some #Sketch #Comedy performed by the very funny #NextLevelSketch*. There are still tickets, so you a) get to be spontaneous b) fill up the room so I don't feel self conscious 😊 www.unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/sketc...? 142
Reposted by Lou MatthewsRobin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 02/03/2026London gig on Tuesday - fantastic bill - tickets here #comedy #poetry #neurodiversity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurospicy...eventbrite.co.ukNeurospicy Comedy - a Neurodivergent Comedy NightA night of neurodiverse comedy and laughs. A friendly night in an intimate venue. 13811
Reposted by Lou MatthewsMark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Bog-oaks in a palaeochannel #Fenland #FlagFenBasin #Holocene 0162
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Something happened recently that made me think of it. I've been reflecting on how every instance of harassment or assault is different in terms of context, and there's no one-rule to successfully intervening. It's useful to have a number of different tools to deal with different situations 2/2 030
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 21/11/2025A while back, (possibly in twitter days) I saw a brilliant thread on how to intervene when someone is being harassed in public. It involved tips for standing with the person being harassed and not engaging with the perpetrators. Can anyone point me to a UK-specific resource? 1/2 211
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Oxford Brookes Uni students had a great time recently in #LyeValley #fen learning various coring techniques, studying peat & tufa sediments. They learnt what hard work it was! but some very interesting layers discovered, now for some lab study... @friendlyevalley.bsky.social @palaeolou.bsky.social 0122
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Another one here for never having seen The God Father. Also: Saving Private Ryan Titanic Never purposely watched the Eurovision song contest (although I have caught bits now and then). 000
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Umberto Eco? One of the Amisses? Dying to know then I don't bother. 000
Reposted by Lou MatthewsMichelle Hughes Printmaker @michellehughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Last-minute cancellation for Friday 26 Sept #linocut #workshop in #York. Find out more: www.michellehughesdesign.com/lino-printin... 273
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 24/09/2025That's going to be tough. The MMR scandal had bad design/ data... The paracetamol nonsense has... None? 020
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Sadly archaeology is heading towards repeating history: the preserve of those with a secondary source of income or generational wealth. I really don't know if I would have 'made it' if I started my degree/career now from where I was in 1998. 000
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 20/09/2025This was taken down the eyepiece with a mobile phone! If I had a proper camera it would be even better. 161
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I love Brunel. I bought my secondhand microscope from them. It's been really good. I have both things to hand at home. The glycerine jelly probably came from Brunel as well! 210
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 20/09/2025🤯😯 Wow! That's amazing. I wish I'd done something like that. Who's/what prep method did you use? I've been toying with the idea of making up my own reference slides for ages... Maybe 2026 will be the year! 120
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Went to the big smoke. Saw archaeological bling. Interpretation panels at the London museum mudlarking exhibition were very well thought out. 240
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 30/08/2025If the world is just a bit much, I heartily recommend feeding pygmy goats. 060
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025One of my favourite floodplain meadow plants - Pepper Saxifrage Silaum silaus. For it's amazing cinnamony smell of leaves and fruits mostly. And a good insect nectar source, like most Apiaceae. @floodplainmead.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 2233
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Visited Somerford Mead, a recreated (from arable) floodplain haymeadow nr Oxford. Looking good, but surprised to see that even here the Rough Hawksbeard Crepis biennis (last photo) is gaining ground as it is in all dry verges & meadows locally @floodplainmead.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1254
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Did I mention how important skilled #volunteers are to maintaining Oxford's special calcareous fens? 3 #scythers get on with the summer cutting, felling reed & avoiding Common Valerian& marsh thistle. 1 vol carefully chops reed in a patch of fleabane, left uncut @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social 0142
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Footnote: I did actually hang around in the changing room for a bit to see if I could talk to her, because: yikes. They must have gone straight home tho cause I never saw them again. 000
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I stopped going and bought a vertical climber off eBay. The final straw was a man standing over his wife as she stepped on a weighing scale and he demanded 'how much?'. Seriously tested my commitment to non-violence. My hand actually twitched towards a nearby dumbbell. 110
Reposted by Lou MatthewsLeah Berman @leahberman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025sunsets are better with you #landscape #photography #wildflowers #losangeles 1243
Reposted by Lou MatthewsMelanie Leng @meljleng.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Congratulations NERC on 60 yrs of leadership in environmental science. In celebration NERC published its new 10-year vision, launched at the Royal Society. The Forward Look for Environment Science www.ukri.org/publications... 092
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025It's scything, scything and & more scything time in #LyeValley #fen. Reed, reed sweet grass & rank grass - late May/June is the time to take them down to reduce vigour & take nutrients away in risings to encourage more biodiversity @friendlyevalley.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social 0202
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Delighted to welcome our first Common Spotted orchid flowers in #LyeValley #fen, but Ooohh...now our Common Cotton grasses are shedding fluff & seed like snow... @friendlyevalley.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social #Oxfordshirefens @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0355
Reposted by Lou MatthewsJudy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Nestling down amongst the sedge bases in #LyeValley #fen time to notice the small lilac-purple flowers of insectivorous butterworts & their strange star-shaped yellow-green sticky leaves that trap and digest tiny midges. @friendlyevalley.bsky.social #Oxfordshirefens @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social 0264
Reposted by Lou MatthewsTerry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Watching BBC News. Good grief, that Chris Mason's a pointless gobshite. Don't just gibber on about how the UK/EU deal is 'complex'. Tell us what it is. Give some real context to the blethering vox pops. OK, rant over. As you were. 3171
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I need to do a thing, don't wanna do the thing... My bathroom has been cleaned, books alphabetised, new recipe tried and the thing is still not done, and will not be started until unutterably urgent... (This will not fit a tattoo 😉). 110
Lou Matthews @palaeolou.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Tricky, it's all going to depend on the specifics of how the mapping will be used of course... I'm not quite sure I know what my thoughts are yet (although I'm already aware of another colleague who's spotted an error). I'd probably defer to @judywebb.bsky.social on this one! 000