Thank you 🙂

Thank you!

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I spent my 45th birthday on the coast yesterday with @pumaparded.bsky.social, and a meal in the evening with my wonderful friends - I feel very lucky to have had such a nice birthday 💖

Updated Centre for African Art and Archaeology (UEA) events for the spring semester:

PUT A CORGI ON THE MONEY YOU COWARDS

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Week 6 of teaching, and today my class of 2nd years had a brilliant session in the UEA Archives - lots of great examples of ‘tricky’ objects in the collection - for the students to think through the challenges of archiving film, floppy discs, audio etc.

The demolition of Anglia Square by robot dinosaurs. Here we see one of the best bits; a brick and precast reinforced concrete car park being slowly dealt with like a plate of coleslaw at an all you can eat.

The demolition of Anglia Square by robot dinosaurs. Here we see one of the best bits; a brick and precast reinforced concrete car park being slowly dealt with like a plate of tagliatelle at an all you can eat.

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Anglia Square
Norwich

Would anyone out there (preferably fairly senior in academia) be able to cast their eyes over a certain short but ‘Very Important Confidential Document’ for me towards the end of this week?

(I’m looking to give it my full attention on Friday, so reading it on Thursday would be quite helpful)

Had a coffee with friends on Friday, have spent three days recovering from the activity. Honestly this whole ‘body being a bit shit’ thing is… a bit shit.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Oh we had Up Pompeii (in hindsight I think the teacher went a bit rogue)! I remember in infant school Wizbit being stuck on multiple times, and in juniors it being Geordie Racer and Charlottes Web. Somehow I avoided Kes.

Do you have any favourite zines? If so, could you reply with a link? Ta!

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The second 2026 Centre for African Art and Archaeology seminar takes place on Wednesday 25 February 2026. Dr Eva Namusoke (University of Cambridge) will deliver a talk titled:
"Uganda, Cambridge, and the Afterlives of Return."

In person or register online: tinyurl.com/5b8z8mrr

All are welcome!

Five (!) weeks it took to get over that nasty virus going around - I have *so* much to catch up on as I’ve been barely functioning for the past month 😣

a werewolf in front of a house wearing a ‘BE MINE’ heart and holding a sign that reads ‘THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE’ above a photo of bad bunny

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Really useful info! I had my MMR just before the pandemic as my childhood GP advised my mum that I didn’t need the measles vaccine as I’d already caught it - but I didn’t want to take any chances - was quick and simple, my medical centre were great about booking me in for it

Exciting - congrats!

Heated blanket, paracetamol, stuffy nose and a cough… and yet I’m attempting to stay up for #BenitoBowl

Still got it, ludicrous.

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Volunteers wanted to live on Skomer Island and count puffins Successful applicants will spend several months helping conservation efforts on Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast.

Back up plan: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This morning’s view 🌍 #MonaHatoum

Oh I’m inherently very annoying

Turns out I’ve got that wretched bug going around 🤧

Metal Music Studies 11.3 is out now!

Including ‘The heaviness of metal music: The sublime and religious experience’ by Marek Vodička.

Access the issue via discover 👉
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/mms/11/3

Have spent my life a fan of cold weather, I fear I'm turning into someone who would like to escape to sunnier climes in the winter months... if only for the sake of my aching joints. Alternating between heatpads and hobbling around the flat making groaning noises like some kind of Victorian spectre