Founder and co-CEO @DigVentures. Ashoka Fellow. Clore Leadership Fellow. Archaeologist and social entrepreneur. Innovation is resistance 💪🏻
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Austria: so many solar panels. Anyone who can grow food, does - balconies, raised beds, corner plots. They know.
When I say something stupid here I often think about just deleting the post out of embarrassment but then I always decide not to, because you know what? Even people who own exceptionally beautiful dogs can be stupid on social media. Let’s normalise it.
Hard agree 🙌🏻
Totally agree. Equally, I’m baffled when I see community digs that have everyone (including vols) in viz vests? Not a machine in sight? Reminds of a crowd of littles on the way to school, or a cosplay thing.
I’ve had a disastrous haircut. Why do I never learn
I was literally going to message you and ask when we were officially allowed to begin
A rather fantastic friend currently in the process of unburdening extensive closets full of treasure has today given me a grey velvet opera cape with a feathered collar. I know this means the Universe has already lined up a reason for me to need it, can’t wait, just what the doctor ordered
I just can’t stop WORRYING
I’ve heard as soon as October! A joyous pet owner here - and my very relieved vet, who HATES the new forms with a fiery passion.
Honestly. It’s torture not know what brought this into being
I am so glad you bought that. It is BEYOND
Remember this moment when they roll him out as a Presidential nominee.
A glorious summer morning in County Durham, bluebird skies and lovely green as far as the eye can see. I’m going to celebrate by going for a swim and jettisoning my emotional vulnerability to someone who mistook my kindness for weakness. Letting shit go feels goooooood
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*books visit to Suffolk*
I’m going pretend camping tomorrow in our garden with my 3 year old niece. We’re going to set up a tent, go berry picking, have a BBQ and toast marshmallows. I haven’t been this excited for a social event in AGES
A slightly more accessible route in to our research on Neolithic Ireland and the early breakdown of genetic kin as an organising principle for burial, as early at 3600 BC (from memory) - due to increasing mobility. Thanks for the heads up @pennybickle.bsky.social 👍🏼
tell me about it, tiny aloe plant on the counter at the cafe near my house
I am once again contemplating this banger.
one time my mum made me late for work because she was telling me about a cloud she saw on her honeymoon. i sometimes remind her of this and she tells me all about the cloud again as if she never told me in the first place. i love it. it's so good.
those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this
Adrift in a tsunami of too much, hanging on to trees and puppies for dear life. No corner of life feels safe from lies, hustle and people just selling the shit out of themselves. I’m ready to chuck it all in if it means I can have some peace.
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
I really cannot get over the fact that a group of folks got together, studied the original, identified and fully understood their roles, practiced, and flawlessly executed this level of unserious. This is ART!!
And opaque tights cc: @lornarichardson.bsky.social
We did some life affirming art stuff. So good.
Motherfucking wind farms…
Why do I have to rely on Al Jazeera for coverage of protests in the UK? This was a nationwide protest and the one in Cardiff took place between the @BBC and UK Government Buildings. We were making plenty of noise, you couldn't miss us www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
Thank heck they did, makes me howl with laughter every single time
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Hard agree
I’ve just seen this. There are no words. Reporting back from the other side … somehow one survives, and love endures.
There's a man dressed as a warlock walking down Tottenham Court Road, with a German Shepherd and a three-foot speaker blasting out heavy metal. It's a busy lunchtime and everyone is completely ignoring him. I honestly don't know how Reform can claim that London is anything other than just fine.
How did The Politics find us here?! I *deliberately* cleansed my feed and yet somehow … I can’t unfollow/delete/block enough to keep it away! Please accept my symbol of Neolithic endeavour in solidarity- from our trenches last week. Take me back there ….
Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
I’ll look into this, thanks
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Or red wine … highest histamine content of all the liquids. Since COVID, one glass and 30 mins later I have a crushing headache. I used to have exercise-induced anaphylaxis so the mast cell thing doesn’t surprise me now I think about it. Ah, shit this is going to really suck isn’t it
Completely linked - I caught COVID three times last year, (disaster) and boom - lots of food I can’t comfortably eat anymore. We are on our own with all this so I’m dosing on kombucha and other gut-friendly supplements etc and staying away from all the usual things. Pretty bad pain for awhile tho
Hi both - I also noticed this. Turned out it’s acid reflux or beginnings of ulcer - either way, COVID lives in the gut. So I’m self treating and banishing alcohol.
Has any of your research looked at the proportion of m/f undergrads and Masters? Obvs gender is a construct (!) but if what I see onsite is anything to go by, the archaeological future is female in the UK … just wondering about elsewhere now too.
Most atmospheric removal of string line and sampling ever
Triboluminescence 🤩💎
that’s a wrap, supervised by DVs Chief Dog Officer
33C🥵
Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities
It is still colossal.
#4 this year, plus cores too 💎
😉 patience … patience …
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A soft power approach to the responsibilities of Site Dog
Ernie leads today’s dig briefing #topdog
I am seeing these tags on lots of content now, and I really really like it. I can no longer get news or extract real meaning from LinkedIn bc so many of the posts are AI slop. I’ve decided I am just now going to read them - and also disconnect from the ppl posting. SO OVER IT.
Thankfully nobody has budgets for those anymore!
So many places ‘made’
Ernie can’t wait to open the trenches 🤩🇮🇪🎉 #BruNaBoinne
There can be utterly no justification for UK Government doing business with this company.
Along with ‘resilience’ and ‘delivering wellbeing’
Swotting up 🙌🏻
Alors, c’est la guerre
Many thanks the judges and team at @arselectronica and the #IMPETUS project, and MOST ESPECIALLY to our crew of Pastronauts and Futurenauts 🚀 ars.electronica.art/citizenscien... #CitizenScience #Conservation #ClimateAction #DeepTime #NatureRecovery #SustainableFuture #ClimateChange #archaeology
Today's award is even more powerful for me as it recognises the crucial role that citizens can and must play as actors in systemic change solutions - in our case, to the creation and monitoring of landscape intelligence within nature recovery and historic environment conservation processes 3/4
I am always moved when archaeology finds recognition as a social good alongside projects like those empowering Roma women; reducing food waste; and responsibly handling sensitive geospatial information in earthquake disaster zones 2/4
Very proud today to stand with the winners and incredible Honourable Mentions as a recipient of the European Union's Citizen Science Prize, which honors, presents and supports projects whose social and political impact advances the development of a pluralistic, inclusive and sustainable society.
Am I being simple … or does this mean the archaeology department is going?! That’s the school it’s in, so … ? I can’t even.
Is there a paper or anything those of us not heading to Aus can read? Or slides? Pretty pretty please?
my free will had received a mortal wound; and that another’s mistake or misfortune might plunge innocent me into unmerited disaster
Uncommonly wonderful dog walk today - it’s misting, all is lush and green and for some reason everything smells of watermelon, which is totally delightful. Plus we saw a two-year old Irish wolfhound and an English mastiff. I adore gigantic dogs, though I’ve never had one. My two littles are enough 😍
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How I love the purple dusk 💜
Story of the year, we can stop news now
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Spectacular things others have said in the past 24 hours: Blakely Thornton calling Lauren Sanchez’ Paris bachelorette party the ‘Real Housewives of Hades’; And Kristen Stewart saying: “She hasn’t got big tits but acts like she does. She has Big Tit Energy” 👏🏻💅🏻
There is no bottom.
story of my life
Best day ever
If you know someone great Who deserves a better job than the one they have Who is curious, motivated and cares deeply about the intersection of the historic environment, nature, public engagement, and impact evaluation Send them to me please 😎 digventures.com/jobs/
We’re hiring a new senior role (Strategic Projects Manager). There are lots of PM roles for archaeologists and ecologists out there, but ours is different - because DigVentures is a one-of-kind organisation. Check us out - we’d love to hear from you! digventures.com/jobs/
I wonder how many people actually notice the violence of this.
Also there is a tent settlement of unhoused people right in front of Heal’s. The sight of it with luxury living room furniture three feet behind them behind glass is too much to process.
*chef’s kiss*
Two days in London and I can already feel the shadow on my lungs
Tell me, does it taste of petrichor and sunsets long past?
I was panicked that my 7-year-old might freak out during the face melting scene in Indiana Jones but she said "I guess he shouldn't have opened that" as seriously as possible and I've been crying laughing for 10 minutes
Whale-balls for breakfast—don’t forget.
We are all Elmo.
I *almost* walked into the shower with my PJs on this morning. Only thing that stopped me was the door catching on my sleeve. Still managed to wash my face with shampoo instead of soap though. How’s your day going?