Ulla Rajala

We should not have to buy our heritage back from treasure hunters. And our museums should not be in stark, market-driven financial competition with auction houses for our shared past. 🏺

Appeal to save Bronze Age torc found in Leicestershire It is hoped the golden torc can be kept in a Leicestershire museum rather than being sold.

A fundraising appeal has been launched to keep a 3,000-year-old golden torc found near Market Harborough in the county.

I'm waiting for York
To claim our torc.

”- - tieteen vapauden rapautuminen tarkoittaa myös meidän koko demokraattisen järjestelmämme rapautumista”

Speaking of ice murder sports, one of the biggest downfalls of a hero ever must be how Teemu Selänne turned into Temu Gretzky.

He’s been openly a full blown MAGA diehard and a general moron for a decade now. Here’s just one and relatively innocuous example out of far too many.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

I've followed the EMEC research work based in Eday, Orkney for many years - they are very good neighbours! This is great news both for the EMEC team and the Eday community.
#renewables #orkney

#MCRHumNetwork TOMORROW at 6pm

Reminder that the Consortium for #histSTM has research fellowships available (d/l april 15) for travel to 2 or more of its constituent members. Tho' most are in US, McGIll, U of Toronto and Wellcome Collection are also options for ppl who can't travel safely to US for research
🗃️

This has been a slog but I’m pleased to day that I’m currently checking the proofs, which means this book will soon be out in the wild!

I'm really looking forward to talking to Eastbourne Natural History and Archaeological Society this Friday. I'll be talking about the Ice Age records of the Cuckmere Valley, Hope Gap, Birling Gap and the Downlands between Eastbourne and Lewes. Expect Mammoth. 🏺🦣https://www.eastbournearchaeology.com/

I've now closed 263 browser tabs that were open from last year. I'm starting a new thread! They are far and few between now, as the old ones remaining open require that I do some work (reading or writing stuff). But I will keep going! #TabClosed2026

How do you encourage kids to read books in the age of digital distraction? 🧐

This week in our learning newsletter LESSONS FROM THE PAST, we'll be celebrating literacy with an interview with bestselling children's author Caroline Lawrence.

Subscribe free: www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/learning/res...

Hmmm, a SEND status has been essential for my son to start thriving at school...

Dissertation prizes top off successful student conference in Aberdeen It’s been a successful weekend for the UHI Archaeology Institute at the Scottish Student archaeology Society conference (SSACC) conference in Aberdeen.

It’s been a successful weekend for the UHI Archaeology Institute at the Scottish Student archaeology Society conference (SSACC) conference in Aberdeen.

Reform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search

Is there any demand for a British ICE? And abolishing indefinite right to remain would only drain the country of care workers, doctors and nurses and make Britain a pariah state... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

TOMORROW the founding meeting of the non-tenure #MCRHumNetwork on Tuesday February 24 at 6pm on Zoom
Join the Facebook group, message me or e-mail ulla.rajala (a) antiken.su.se to get the link

Bears and forest results...

Archaeologists’ race to save ancient footprints from the sea A storm uncovered 2,000-year-old tracks on a Scottish beach, prompting a frantic effort to record them before they vanished forever

Exciting archaeology story this. A storm uncovered 2000 year old footprints, giving archaeologists only hours to record the site before the tide and weather destroyed it
www.thetimes.com/article/da88...

A large mosaic depicting the legendary Trojan hero Aeneas, from Virgil’s epic poem “The Aeneid” and the ancestor of the Roman people, was found from the southern Turkish city of Osmaniye. The mosaic adorned the floor of a villa from the first and second centuries AD. #MosaicMonday

💥Monday, London, 7pm
www.energyembargoforpalestine.com/partners-in-...

Then & Now Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Key developments since Portugal decriminalized drugs in 2001 Overdose deaths 1999 369 2016|30 New HIV diagnoses due to injecting 2000 907 2017 18 Number of people incarcerated for drug offences 1999 2017 3,863 1,140 Sources: TheLancet, drugpolicy.org, EMCDDA, VHPA

Labour has been pushing lies about the Greens’ policy on reducing drug misuse. This is a policy that has already been very successful in Portugal. It has reduced harmful drug taking by ending the so-called “war on drugs”.

Last month, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin approved a proposal to establish a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence funded by private corporations and philanthropy. Mnookin said the move was a response to the inevitable creep of artificial intelligence into all disciplines of academia. Rather than reject AI, she envisioned a university that capitalized on this change by making artificial intelligence a "hub" connecting the humanities to computer science.

On the first day of my economics elective this spring, my professor said we would be expected to use NotebookLM to pass his class. He had lengthened the coding assignments so that they would be doable only with the help of AI. The reading assignments were longer, too: ten 40-page papers per week, which he asked us to feed into AI for a summary rather than read ourselves. When it came to lectures, he told us to simply upload the slides to AI and ask it to teach us whatever he failed to explain properly in class.

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI.
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

The History of the English Pub from Medieval Times Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · January 7, 2025 · 1h 2m

We are losing 100s of pubs in UK every week.
But how did the pub survived and changed through the past 1000 years? Listen here with the amazing @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

#podcast #pubs #history

#bbclaurakk on student debt "This is not a tolerable situation, is it"

Phillipson "it is really difficult"

"you've made it harder"

"no"

Phillipson later admits the govt is freezing the thresholds & they don't have any plans to help graduates but its all the Tories fault

Domesticating Grasslands or Wetlands: two neolithic styles of landscape and productivity in China This lecture examines the emergence of two contrasting agricultural systems in Neolithic China, with millet-based farming in the north and wetland rice cultivation in the south shaping distinct ways o...

Cool lecture we are holding in Nottingham. How did agriculture impact society in Neolithic China?

Rice in the south offered reliable yields, supporting the rise of sedentary communities.

In the north, millets produced lower yields, encouraging mobility.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Champions!

I am pleased to share that on December 18, I received the Award for the Best Researcher of the Year at Vilnius University in the Open Science category. This recognition was granted for my work on untargeted #paleoproteomics for the biological sex identification of archaeological remains

The founding meeting of the non-tenure #MCRHumNetwork on Tuesday February 24 at 6pm on Zoom
- a monthly online lecture?
- e-mailing list?
- survey?
- British Academy Small Grant?
- ambition: a COST action?
- funding networking?
- article workshops?
Message me or e-mail ulla.rajala (a) antiken.su.se

#StandingStoneSunday with the Cosdon Hill Stone rows

see more of it in our new episode on Dartmoor >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec-6...

Kung Björns grav (RAÄ: Falköping 18:1) is a megithic tomb in Sweden. It was excavated in 1952. The following objects were found:
- a slate knife
- a bronze double button
- flint flakes
- an amber bead
- bones
This was a Bronze Age secondary burial in a Neolithic tomb.
#StandingStoneSunday