Ulla Rajala

josephlewis - Overview Research Associate @ Cambridge University | Interested in Archaeological Mobility; Settlement Patterns; Spatial Uncertainty; and GIS - josephlewis

@archaeologyuk.bsky.social Dr Joseph Lewis is a nominee for the Early Career Archaeologist category of the #ArchaeologicalAchievemetAwards So what has he done to deserve my nominsrion. He has studied human mobility, especially in Roman Britain. Check his Github page at github.com/josephlewis

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government

This will be a source of trouble. They seem to be reluctant to keep environment and heritage onboard and have used belittling language in talking about local nimbies. They push building but we need planning for infrastructure needed first.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The fact that the asphyxiation of British higher education does not instantly count as a national scandal underlines the extent to which the austerity mindset continues to constrain our political imagination" - @robbhawkes.bsky.social & Scott Ferguson's piece is excellent.

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And how many illegals there actually are? That kind of talk is against all immigrants with those numbers 🧐

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Paterikon - Doom of the Doomed

Metal #ClassicsTober25 Day 5: Hermes Psychopompos

Paterikon 🇺🇸 Coming of the Psychopomp

Doom of the Doomed (2023)

Doom metal

"Dream or vision I cannot tell
But I fear it’s my death knell
Fiery creatures of piercing light
Mouths ablaze words glowing bright"

#ClassicsTober

The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous.

What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

YouTube video by Société Jersiaise Paleolithic archaeology and the Société Jersiaise

I was delighted to join other invited speakers to celebrate 150 years of the Société Jersiaise's commitment to science and culture. My lecture, on the history of their involvement in Palaeolithic research can be see via the link below. 🇯🇪🏺🦣
youtu.be/ZD_jKytjOv0?...

YouTube video by Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu Goldielocks – Made Of (music video) // UMK25

#OGAESecondChance results were a daylight robbery against Goldielocks #Eurovision youtu.be/p1FBSZNlhTk?...

Most of all, follow @romanpalace.bsky.social and @merchantshallyork.org 🥰🥰🥰

And are there 150,000 illegals? 🤨

Farage created his own issue.

The desire of the British state to curtail and prevent protest on ongoing social injustice issues is not new but their desire to legalize their authoritarian turn is worrying and should be resisted. #FreePalestine

Book on a wooden table. Book is entitled Ordnance Survey Field Archaeology I'm Great Britain. Cover shows the title, the OS logo and a Black line illustration of a Stonehenge trilithn on a mint green background

I now but hadn't knowingly come across this book before. Authored by the anonymous OS Archaeology Division (does that still exist?), It's a fifth edition originating from Crawford's "Notes on Archaeology..."
The cover design is wonderful and its just begging to be adapted by @scarfolk.bsky.social 🏺

Composite image of the author drawing with a dip pen & ink, an earthwork illustrated with hachures, an historic shading technique, the author giving a talk to colleagues & a colour cutaway drawing of a medieval house.

An illustrator at work with a dip pen and bottle of ink drawing a plan of an archaeological monument. On the desk are a table lamp and roll of drawing film. In the background another illustrator can be seen at work at a sloping drawing board.

Cutaway drawing of a Royal Observer Corps underground nuclear war monitoring post.

Cutaway drawing of a railway goods station building showing train wagons being unloaded and then despatched by horse drawn carts.

It's the 43rd anniversary of when I joined the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, the start of a career drawing old stuff. Almost 35 years later I 'retired' in 2016 but still drawing old stuff, 'illustrating the evidence for past ways of life'.

#ArchitecturalIllustration

@bbclaurak.bsky.social Why were the Greens not in your programme this morning? Not wanting a pro-Palestine Jew in your programme?

Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.

The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.

Druids Circle (Penmaenmawr): This fantastic ring of around 30 stones #StandingStoneSunday stands on the headland of Penmaenmawr above Conwy, close to a prehistoric trackway and three other stone circles.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

Israel accused of grabbing Greta Thunberg's hair, beating her, forcing her to kiss the Israeli flag and putting her in a bed bug infested cell.
Meanwhile, Luxon expressed little to no concern with the Kiwis on board and no official statements have been made by our govt #nzpol

Day 5 of #ClassicsTober25: Hermes Psychopompos. This stunning pottery painting is from an Anatolian grave. It is a white-ground cup from the eastern cemetery of Daskyleion in a Persian satrapal center. It dates to the late fifth century BC. #ClassicsTober

I was ashamed being at the University on Friday as it was a strike day. But I had promised to volunteer and needed to go to the library. I am deeply against the cuts of degrees at Leicester. The mess is government's and senior management's.

The stone

Boswens Menhir, also known as Boswens standing stone or the Long Stone, is located 3 kilometres northeast of St Just in Penwith, in Cornwall, England. The stone has a rectangular section and is 2.4 metres high. It dates to the Neolithic or Bronze Age. #StandingStoneSunday

UKHE is a world class export sector, but has financial problems because the state both doesn’t want unis charging market rates to domestics and doesn’t want to subsidise them. To make up for this, unis have been forced to take on more foreign students, and the gov response is to punish them for it

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Yes, them advertising the nominations an hour before the deadline was laughable! And you really had to explain why this person/project is so marvellous. My only fear is that Joe is 'disadvantaged' as he is at Cambridge. Can be expected to do fine in any case from now on...

Unknown to me, but sounds exciting. I also nominated and got shortlisted 😊

OGAE Second Chance 2025 Here we go. The Grand Final Show of the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2025 is now available online. OGAE Italy welcomes everyone in Firenze for a night of culture,…

#OGAE Second Chance Contest 2025 #Eurovision Spoiler: det är Sverige det första, Italien det andra och Finland det tredje 😕
vimeo.com/1124410452

I love her too, but a jive...?

Which one? For which category?