Jessica Smyth

Absolutely harrowing testimony from speakers Georgia Andreou, whose students have been displaced and killed, and Fadel Al Utol, who travelled some distance in Gaza to get signal to report on the destruction and looting of Gaza's heritage, and that he's not slept in three days.

If Iron Age torcs float your boat, you might also enjoy @nomadic_treads' upcoming book 'Iron Age Wetland Deposition'. Available soon! This is the debut title in our new Archaeology of Prehistoric Ireland and Britain series 🎉 @NWilkinBM @JessHSmyth @pre_historian #FindsFriday

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@LMcAtackney I do this all the time 🤪

@cmount1 @ucdarchaeology @IrishResearch @FabiennePigiere @ucdsocscilaw And 💩! Transporting manure seems a big focus among traditional agro-pastoralists

@JessHSmyth @ucdarchaeology @IrishResearch @FabiennePigiere @ucdsocscilaw That’s a great result. Animal traction would have assisted a range of activities from forest clearance, to moving large stones and bulk loads (grain and water), timber for house construction, ploughing, etc.

New 'Passage Tomb People' open access paper: first evidence for cattle traction in Ireland (& Britain) c.3600BC. What were they used for?! journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

This week, we've been taking samples from some of our bog butter collections with @KarenOT101 and @JessHSmyth from UCD. Among the first examples of bog butter from Northern Ireland to be sampled, they will help us date these objects and find out more about their uses!

@JackmanNeil @IrishTimes Thanks @JackmanNeil ! More in the pipeline on this amazing site. Watch this space!

Reading the news coverage of the @UCU #FourFights strike, I get the impression that many people don’t know what University lecturers do (and why would they?), so here’s a thread on it. I’m a psychologist, so let’s start with the work of the average psychology lecturer. 🧵👇1/18

The motion on annexation in Palestine has passed making Ireland the first country to recognise the Israeli settlement as De facto annexation. LOVE YOU IRELAND ♥️🇮🇪♥️🇵🇸♥️

@Hugh_Willmott @sheffielduni @UniShefArch Devastating news, and so short-sighted. Sheffield and Archaeology are synonymous. Thinking of you all today - utterly cruel treatment by your employer.

Graduated UCD in 2000, contemplating an MA in Landscape Archaeology. Had a scholarship to stay but a lecturer whispered to me "Go to @UniShefArch instead. It's the best one". They weren't wrong! Amazing course, amazing staff, transformative. #ArchaeologistMadeInSheffield

@SueGreaney @PrehistSociety Great news Sue! A fantastic handover 🤗

Following the sell-out success of our Official @edinburghcastle Tartan Paint, we're delighted to bring even more of the colours of Scotland into your home! Pick your favourite historic hue and let those retro-renovations begin!

@urbanprehisto I nearly wasn't let through Munich airport security because I'd a cheese grater in my hand luggage. Potential weapon (they actually mimed the grating action)

I was just reminiscing about the time I wasn't allowed through a security check in Munich because I had a bratwurst in my possession.

🧵 I have a series of posts on my website (alisongarden.com) offering advice for #ECRs & #PhDs about my experience of applying for grants, postdocs & fellowships. But I absolutely do not want to perpetuate #SurvivorshipBias so I wanted to address this here.

@jameseogan @IrishTimes Ah this depressed me so much too! Tired tired 'Us v. Them' tropes. So much amazing open access research on ringforts - no excuse for this ignorance.

So @IrishTimes published this article on Saturday, like many Irish archaeologists my heart sank when I read it because of the depth of ignorance it displays of the work of current & past generations of our profession & the laws that apply 1/ irishtimes.com/culture/herita…

@LMcAtackney Oh my. WTF indeed!

@JackmanNeil @VoxHib Excellent! Looking forward to that!

@SueGreaney @CurrentArchaeo Just watched Mel Giles' excellent talk on bog bodies 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻