Meghan Dennis

If today is The Day, I will renew my commitment to snarky posts about ethics and archaeology. I will be VERY ONLINE again.

So it maybe being The Day is what brought me back to socials. That’s fun and not at all a commentary on our society.

Same.

I’m not sure returning to social media is a good idea, but it can’t be as bad as my worst idea (attempting to succeed in academia).

Today I was rejected for an entry-level internship in an area of scholarship in which I’ve done post-doctoral work. Fuck academia.

Congratulations Doctor!

This is a great thread on how to “do” conferences if you’re an introvert. There’s good practical advice in here!

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

The iconic railway tracks leading into the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, framed under a vibrant orange and blue sunset sky. The tracks converge at the main entrance gate with the guard tower silhouetted against the fiery hues of the setting sun.

We expect that some 50 Auschwitz Survivors will come to the Memorial for the 80th anniversary of the liberation.

The eyes and ears of the world should rest upon them.

We must safeguard their voices from silence, distortion, or being overshadowed.

(Photo: https://buff.ly/4jd1BiU)

Have you seen that we're hiring a part-time Development and Outreach Officer for Northern Ireland? This role will be essential to the Network's role across the nation & is ideal for someone experienced in community development and outreach work.

Find out more & apply: https://buff.ly/4haGmwk

For those keeping track, current fee for a naturalisation application in UK is £1630.

I am reluctant to add up total amount paid since 2016 on various applications.

Let me explain to all of you nerds why My Nostalgia for the text based roleplaying world is otherworldly and cannot be beaten by anything on offer in the world of Graphical MMORPGS.

OK, we're gonna get on Flickr. We're gonna start blogs. We're gonna share our bookmark lists and start doing meetups.

Maybe the dumbest thing about Zuckerberg binning fact checkers on Facebook is that he looked at Musk handling Twitter and said, “yes, be more like that.”

I said that three years ago, and even got so far as partially stripping the door to make adding new seals sit better…it resulted in a half-stripped door and a second house under restoration (that were only just about to move into.) The front door still isn’t fixed up though.

If I’m not on one, I’d love to be.

That way madness lies…

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Please let me be deeply involved in this.

Woke up to #uksnow in YO21 - it’s currently 5/10.

C-SPAN Becomes Ungovernable

RumC-SPANger.

Love it when C-SPAN gets let off the leash. Always Be Broadcasting.

Guys, C-SPAN is momentarily in a state of lawless anarchy.

Obligatory read.

#Decolonialstudies #gamedev #gamestudies #colonialism

I know I’m not the general public as re: this, but I AM ALSO SO EXCITED ABOUT ANCIENT TEXTILES!!!

Nine years ago a very nervous me flew to the UK to begin an #archaeogaming PhD. (One of the first.) I knew two people in York - my supervisor, Sara Perry, and a student I’d met at a conference, Tara Copplestone. Neither was in York when I arrived. I was terrified I’d made a huge mistake. …I didn’t.

Is there anyone my age who isn’t in at least one insane group chat with a few friends they haven’t seen in person in years? Today, while driving through Northumberland, mine had an impromptu video chat - and none of us is sure who initiated it. We were last all together at my wedding in 2019.

It was my first trip, and everyone was so kind about us taking the dogs in, and patient as I considered buying everything.