'Enormous' cave under Pembroke Castle could rewrite history, researchers say Archaeologists have so far uncovered

Incredible Upper Palaeolithic discoveries from Wogan Cavern, Pembroke

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

🌊 Critical Atlantic current (AMOC) significantly more likely to collapse than thought

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[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #111: Coot In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #110: Conger, European In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #109: Comfrey In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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Oh these are fascinating! I see what you mean! Thanks

That seems very likely! Thank you

An image showing a single square from a micropalaeontological slide with a number one in the bottom right . There are 8 white nearly-circular objects in the square. Seven of these are forams but one, which resembles a daisy, is not

Does anyone with a micropalaeontological inclination recognise the object at the bottom right of this square to the left of the number 1?

[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #108: Coltsfoot In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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Graduate outcomes are also shaped by factors not considered here: family income, parental education, social capital, mobility, and ability to move to London and other high-pay regions.

Aww thank you :)

[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #107: Cod In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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That's very nice!

A snail shell held against a drawing that is supposed to be the same shell. The shell is globular with dark bands

I'd like to get better at drawing shells from life (I am not good at this). Here's a first attempt, a snail from my Iranian cave project

[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #106: Cockle, Dog In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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Very nice!

[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #105: Cockle, Common In 2026, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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Exactly. This is not a lot of money. And once destroyed you don’t get to rebuild it.

BBC warns Russia is taking over World Service radio frequencies Russian propaganda is filling the void where the BBC has closed World Service radio services due to cuts

BBC's Arabic radio service in Lebanon closed after 85 years as part of a £28.5m savings drive. 'Just months later, in October 2023, the Russian state-owned Sputnik news agency took over the frequency. Its news bulletin opened with “This is Moscow”, replacing the previous “This is London” intro.' 🙄

The purple cover of a large book entitled 'The Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset'. A blurb explaining the contents is on the back, along with sponsors logos. A reconstruction of the villa is the cover image. This image and all others from the book.

Our @antiquaries.bsky.social Low Ham book (myself, Roger Leech and @thepostexcox.bsky.social ) is now available OA - library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... - the first synthetic publication of one of Britannia's largest villas, with reports on strat, finds, & enviro remains, & fully contextualised. 1/10

An oversized model of a molar tooth cut in half with fearsome looking snakes eating one person and cooling around another inside

The Tooth Worm! People only really understood the cause of tooth decay in 19thC. Some thought worms caused this pain by gnawing into the teeth.This replica of an 18thC French Ivory of the tooth worm is in the Medical History Museum in Ingolstadt last year. Reminds me I need to go to the dentist…

Not at all corny!! These have been great contributions

Hello!
A little Sunday evening survey... 📝
We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures...
Pls repost!

you have to internalize this. you make this place worse when you don’t. Oh no they’ll say I couldn’t countenance rebuttal! Who gives a shit? They are not speaking in good faith! Give your time to people whose debate is actually in pursuit of knowledge! Not reply guys! Do this every day!

I cannot stress enough that is some rando responds to something you reposted trying to draw you into a “but have you considered” discussion of it, they are not acting in good faith, and you just block. Please, embrace the blue sky way. block. block. block.

A set of museum drawers labelled 'bivalvia problems'

A place for everything, and everything in its place

1776: Black snails are still about, tho' the shell-snails have withdrawn for some time. Slugs keep-out all the winter in mild weather. It seems strange that naked snails should be more hardy than those that have houses to their backs.

Can anybody recommend an open geospatial dataset that might contain errors that my students can look at to assess data quality? I've got police crime data but I'm looking for more

Cubone 🥺

South Wales Police statement on the burglary at St Fagans Museum of History early on Monday 6th October.

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime