Alex Slucky

I passed my PhD progress review yesterday! I got some valuable feedback that I am keen to take on and continue doing exciting work with my supervisors! @york.ac.uk

We are looking at a large room known as the Undercroft which has central wooden posts that branch out to hold a wooden ceiling (which is also the floor of the Great Hall above). The floor is stone flagged.

Psst early birds. Yes you, put down your toast, we have a mind blowing fact for you! 🤯

The oak trees used in the construction of the Undercroft were felled in 1358. The trees were likely to be 200 to 250 years old. Making them saplings within 50 years of the Norman Conquest!

I have the same chat with one of my kitties every morning

Alt text for this poster can be found here: https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-papers/. Scroll down to the section of the webpage tited 25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?

I am thrilled to say that me and Thomas Dowson will be hosting a session at TAG 2025 titled '25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?'.

We seek submissions that engage with queer archaeology in its broadest sense.

More details here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

The call for papers for @tag2025york.bsky.social‬ is now OPEN!! 🏺

Abstracts for all sessions are available at
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Contact individual session organisers to submit your paper abstract by AUGUST 1st!

#TAG2025
#tag2025_york
#YorTAG

Being a neurodivergent female academic is sometimes really rough, that’s all 🫠

WOW!!!!!

A stack of books on a desk with a pair of glasses resting on top

UoY staff! Join us online on Wednesday 11 June, 1-2pm for a bitesize training session on our reading lists system. Whether new to York or wanting a refresher, this session will help you get the most from reading lists, including accessible provision of texts. Book a place:
forms.gle/qQ2EUD6kRjep...

Poster for an academic event: here is the necessary info: The Honors College and the Department of Anthropology are excited to present the Spring 2025 Bhatia Lecture, featuring Dr. Kate Franklin. Join us as Dr. Franklin explores the lives of the people of medieval Armenia through an insightful examination of art and historical writing from that era. We invite you to join us on the Pullman Campus on Thursday, March 27th, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Bryan Hall 305.

So excited to head to Washington State University Honors College next week to talk about #medieval #Armenia, & specifically the lives of medieval folks who built a beautiful world in art even while surrounded by political chaos, & left traces of themselves for an uncertain future to remember

The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.

I want this sticker !! Where can I copy of one?

UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Childe Lecture 2025 This year's UCL Institute of Archaeology Gordon Childe Lecture, to be given by Professor Liv Nilsson Stutz (Linnaeus University, Sweden), will take place on 14 May 2025.

The 2025 Gordon Childe Lecture will be given by Professor Liv Nilsson Stutz Linnaeus University lnu.se/en/staff/liv...

'Piecing Together Past Human Encounters with Death'

🎟️ Link tickets for the lecture 14/05 - bit.ly/4bAFW0F
🎫 Link tickets for the seminar 15/05 - bit.ly/3DDZViz

#LocalAndGlobal

I like springtime when it begins to get warm again, so I can sit outside with my kitties and drink my coffee to start my day ☺️

Very proud father's day: Sam Dalrymple’s fabulous book Shattered Lands on the making of modern Asia is now available for pre-order!
amzn.in/d/0dNxZYr

Mine hears the alarm and begins to start chirping at us LOULDLY and lick my husbands and I nose, but she waits till the alarm which is very sweet of her

Originally built in 1084, the Castle of Rocca Sinibalda (Rieti, Lazio, 70 kilometres east of #Rome) was turned into a magnificent fortress during the late #Renaissance by Architect Baldassarre Peruzzi and decorated with frescoes.
📸 Dimore Storiche Lazio
#MedievalMonday

If you are a Northern California person upset about Chuck Schumer’s @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, his book tour will be in Corte Madera at The Book Passage on 3/22

Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses.

Let’s not make it harder to learn.

Turnip surprise! Hahaha
Share far and wide! Another archaeogastronomical adventure is here!

Regular reminder:

Mothers, Priestesses, Fighters: Story of Greek Islands Retold Through Women’s Eyes A new exhibition on the history of the Cyclades reveals the ‘untold stories’ of the islands’ women – and how they made the best of a male-dominated world.

'Mothers, Priestesses, Fighters: Story of Greek Islands Retold Through Women’s Eyes'

next Canadian government should think of boosting research funding up here and trying to grab as many American postdocs and researchers as possible

It’s such gift !! And to be written by such a brilliant botanist and owned by another, passed to me, a PhD in archaeobotany, feels like the highest of honours 🥰

Part of a page of a medieval manuscript that had a hole cut into it. Underneath it is a restoration of a large decorated B, which would have been in this place, and which was restored by Eliza. The letter emulates the medieval style of script, but the image inside it is in a late 18th century style, showing a verdant tree standing against a green bucolic landscape.

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Claudia Scheinbaum, President of Mexico, in the centre of the image in a purple dress on International Women’s Day, 2025. A search around on google fails to turn up an image credit unfortunately, I found it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AccidentalRenaissance/s/MGhF9O80FL

HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.

(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)

Hells yes this is SO my vibe

jaz keldi mix The past is the future: a nostalgic mix of disco, funk, soul and pop from the Levant through Central Asia and China

While I was on my Fulbright in Kyrgyzstan last year, I discovered a ton of amazing disco/funk music from Central Asia. Here's a small mix I made with some gems from Central Asia, interspersed with a smattering Turkish, Levantine and Chinese songs

soundcloud.com/yaxshiyan/ja...

It included newspaper clippings about him & an obituary of his daughter! This is insane. I am so honoured, as a lover of plants, an archaeobotanist & archaeologist #ethnobotany

I received the most wonderful gift from my husband today, a first edition copy from 1939 of “The World was my Garden” by Dr. David Fairchild, who is a great botany hero. The copy was originally owned by Victoria Burbidge botanist at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens & at Kew, & Denver Botanic Garden.

Amazing postdoc with the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre here at York:

🏺

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...