We need more of this across the UK and worldwide!!! 🌱
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We need more of this across the UK and worldwide!!! 🌱
📷 Louis Stettner
#photooftheday #photography
#blueskyphotography #photokind
Adorno showing a human face, dated to the AD 650-1400
Amerindian petroglyphs (Photo: Sébastien Perrot-Minnot)
Absolutely thrilled that my trip to Martinique in April is materialising!
Flights booked ☑️
Accommodation booked ☑️
Looking forward to studying the archaeological materials — look at these beauties!
... et j'ai vraiment hâte de déguster la cuisine créole!
#archaeology #ArchaeoSky #Caribbean
🔊 Job alert! 4 Postdocs open at the fantastic Centre for Ainu and Indigenous Studies (CAIS) at Hokkaido University (Japan).
Apply here: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor...
Deadline: 18 February 2026 (Japanese time)
#AcademicSky #IndigenousSky #NativeSky
Sustainability Week 23rd-27th February
Next week is Sustainability Week here at the Uni, with loads of activities from building tours to Dragons' Den challenges to get involved with. Read all about it below, and follow @livunisustain.bsky.social for the latest news and events.
news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/16/s...
Entre las dramáticas consecuencias de tener a un vecino que es un bully profesional:
Cuba: la Isla en pausa 2.0
ctxt.es/es/20260201/...
One of the most striking and grim aspects of all the colonial reports on the Great War, its impact and its legacy in French West Africa is how convinced officials were that Africans did not feel individual attachment to, love for or loss of family members or husbands who went away to war.
Photo Credit: Chester Zoo
Exciting news! We've launched a new MSc in Wildlife Health and Conservation, offering students the opportunity to develop the specialist skills needed to protect wildlife populations and support global biodiversity in collaboration with Chester Zoo! 🦁
Read more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/02/13/n...
‼️TONIGHT‼️
The new UUP leader, Jon Burrows MLA, will be speaking @irishinstitute.bsky.social tonight.
ℹ️ + FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unionism-i...
Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🎸 Helping the University celebrate 100 years of Catalan Studies, we're thrilled to announce this upcoming gig from The Tyets, one of the most popular Catalan bands around. See them at the Cavern Live Music Lounge on 10 March.
Please, join us in person or online this coming Wednesday 2-3pm to hear about German memorial culture/monumentalisation by our great scholar Prof Saunders (German Studies @livunihss.bsky.social)
In person & online, reg here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bfcbac...
#MaterialWorldsNetworkLiv
Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera
🎧 In this month's 'researcher in focus' podcast, meet Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social, and learn about non-linear careers, the archaeology of colonialism, and how to win a Philip @leverhulme.ac.uk Prize
www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
Join community representatives and University colleagues at this public event on 22 February to discuss issues of equitable education access in Merseyside, presented by our Anticolonial Education Working Group and @nawalabu72.bsky.social
I can only say that tickets for the food workshop I co-organised with the World Museum & Luma Creations were sold out within two days! And, most importantly, the audience and us had so much fun! 🤩
Job alert! 🔊
Lecturer in Western European Prehistory @ucc.ie
Closing date: 30 March
Salary scale [new entrants]:€34,912 – €56,713
Back from Christmas to these wonderful archaeological discoveries! 🤩
An Iron Age war trumpet (probably from the Iceni, in today's Norfolk): www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
...And a whole Byzantine monastic complex in Sohag (southern Egypt): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...
#Archaeology
The University is very pleased to welcome five scholars from Gaza as part of its Humanitarian Postgraduate Scholarship programme, including HSS students Batoul, studying International Business, and Israa, who is studying English. #TeamLivUni
Dr Mary Shepperson (R)
A new project, led by Dr Mary Shepperson, Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Heritage, has received over £28k AHRC funding to explore Iraq’s marshes as a model for climate resilience and cultural endurance. Read about their millennia-long history here
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...
Panamá/Noriega 1989
This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
Two photos showing two women in each smiling at the camera, one of them is the same person. In one photo they are in front of a black curtain, in the sitting in a restaurant.
Photo showing two of the women on stage, one is talking with a microphone. Photo courtesy of Speaking Archaeologically Instagram account. Caption says "Nothing more inspiringfor an organisation run majorly by women archaeologists in India to see TAG Award being awarded to @trowelblazers !".
Photo showing woman with dark hair and glasses holding a ceramic vessel with strap-like handles, and smiling. The vase is white, pink, red and dark red in colour.
Photo showing a lecture in progress with woman speaking on stage. The slide shows text, titled: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of an accidental archive" with boxes showing further information in a "good vs bad" format.
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Yesterday was really a fantastic and warming experience to share my research with the @postmedarch.bsky.social community! It was lovely to see so many friends and meet new colleagues — Thanks a lot for coming and to the SPMA for the invitation!
The lecture was recorded, so stay tuned for more info!
Indeed! Thanks!
This was for sure a wonderful year! Looking forward to writing my monograph and starting a new project thanks to the generosity of the @leverhulme.ac.uk!
Amazing research coming from my colleague Dr Sally Hoare and the British Museum team who excitingly push back the origins of fire use by humans! 🎉
You can also read their paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm late for the online celebration, but I'm thrilled for my brilliant colleague Ceren Kabukcu who got an ERC Consolidator Grant!!! 🥂 She and her future team will revolutionise the way we think about food and diet in history!
Go team @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!
'Evidence points to a genuine rise in distress linked to poverty, insecure housing, austerity and the pandemic - and NO evidence that mental health problems were being over-diagnosed.' @danwjoyce.bsky.social Oladayo Bifarin @uk.theconversation.com #MentalHealth
theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
