David Petts

A powerful argument against letting Americans emigrate

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Update from @digventures.bsky.social on their dig diary for 2026 featuring a call for crowdfunding work at Wrexham’s Rossett Roman Villa. More details to follow, but it's on their events listing at digventures.com/calendar/

See, that’s the good shit right there

New Yorker cartoon – Politician at podium: let this be a reminder: when they go low, we cave.

absolutely- you can't edit something you haven't actually written!

no- I think this is absolutely essential

ha! yes - I'm definitely mentioning this - Red Bull will only get you so far!

I think if I was starting my career again I'd be using ref managers - certainly talking to the students about them!

yes- I'm old school like this - I know some people swear by Endnote and Zotero- but never worked for me

good call

I'm really encouraging to read widely - not just for data but for style/approach/structure - and agree about close reading your own work

Definitely here for Pomodoro

indisputable! :-)

OK- I'm doing a practical session with MA [humanities] students about academic writing (soft skills) - what are people's best bits of advice about academic writing - anything from how to knuckle down to writing to style to structure?

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Wonderful!!

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Antifa

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

Groups stood in front of large stone features in an archaeological trench. Lindisfarne castle visible in the background

Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne.

Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Fragment of Roman terra sigillata

Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!

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Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

Early medieval namestone.- 8th century AD - from Lindisfarne

Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne

Thanks for such a succinct overview of your recent project (and I'm always here for pictures of Breton evangelist miniatures)

Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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I'm doing oral history with fishermen on Holy Island - another place that saw a catastrophic loss of a fish stock (herring and salmon) - trying to capture the taskscapes they left behind

For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!

aw shucks! good company there!

You obviously don't though

Skosh (if you fancy something pricey and foody) - Partisan is also really good.