Dr Susan Greaney

Hi Dan. From what I've read on here, including at least one person who answered their FoI request, it seems like the questions asked could have been interpreted differently by the institutions asked. The number for Uni of Winchester seems incredibly high, for example.

👋 Shuck looks like a very good dog.

I think the person behind this one should know better.

This captures a lot of my thoughts, well done @boothicus.bsky.social. This FoI campaign seems to be deliberately stirring up trouble based on poor data rather than a genuine attempt to help solve some of these well known issues.

Those. And environmental costs, power resting in the hands of big tech bros in other countries, asymmetries in access between rich and poor students. Wholesale adoption by uni leadership showing their disconnect from the fact that learning/teaching/feedback should always be human.

Enjoy, it was an amazing match.

Ah, a good guess! I did think Longtown might be the real answer.

I feel like this needs a 'name the site' competition. Clifford maybe?

Thanks Matt!

I'll pass those thoughts onto my students!

Should have tagged @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social in this 👋

I know... Not our choice! Sorry for your bookcase. It's a CUP decision based on standard size paper being cheaper.

If you look closely, I'm afraid that this volume is editorially a bit of a mess and it is very late. But we have learnt a lot and feel much more confident as a team going into Vol 92. Which is already shaping up well!

Front cover of Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2025, Vol 91 from Cambridge University Press. The front cover photo is a series of stone circular walls from an Iron Age Spanish site, Castro de Elviña.

Chuffed to finally see an IRL copy of Vol 91 of PPS, the first produced by the new editorial team of Prof Daniela Hofmann, Dr Courtney Nimura and me! New front cover, new size, new article template.

Photo of two small replica pottery vessels with tealight candles lit inside them. One with slot openings casts a radial pattern of light outwards onto the desk

Yep well done most of you - thinking about the purpose of early Bronze Age miniature cups/incense cups/accessory vessels using @pottedhistory.bsky.social replicas! Managed not to set off the smoke alarm.

Ah no, but earlier in date than that site!

Almost! Or, maybe!

I figure that I didn't set off the smoke alarm so all good 😬

Bingo

I wish!

Sorry to hear that! Fair point, both wars are horrendous.

I have had c.4 hours sleep (goddamit insomnia), I have THE most full-on day ahead and America is using AI to commit war crimes. Happy Thursday everyone!

Packing tealights and matches for tomorrow's teaching. Anyone want to guess what type of artefact we'll be covering?

😂

I wish I could've met her! She seems to have endless energy.

This was fun to organise! Thanks to my students who created the timeline and organised the display, and who have been cataloguing our teaching collections and discovering our archive in cupboards...

I feel sad about this in some ways. I hope the NT retains the local and unique feel of the place. We visited on a family holiday when I was a kid and it left distinct impressions (particularly the dentist chair at Blists Hill)

Also inaccessible language, obscure publication venues, irrelevance ...

Yes, I think that is what I was trying to say. REF is a very strange, fleeting and ineffective method to try and measure uni research and its impact.

There is an interesting question here of how to track the long-term impact of a specific research study or paper, and how that knowledge becomes embedded in wider understandings over many years, but that would be a research study in itself.