John Wainwright

A blond haired woman stands in front of a lecture in front of a projector screen

@drlucyclarke.bsky.social kicking off the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop for first year PGRs with the importance of having an online presence #PhDchat #AcademicSky #BSGWindsor2025 #BSGTNG

Another paper out from the I-CONN network. Well done Deborah

The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems Analysing and understanding connectivity of human social networks of (ancient) societies offers new perspectives on their functioning. However, social…

New paper out! 🥳

We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.

Read the full open access paper here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Archaeology #NetworkScience

@dl-arch.bsky.social @ecogeo.bsky.social
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Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

@geogdurham.bsky.social

A composite image of vegetation change at the Sevilleta LTER site in New Mexico USA, illustrating how grass landscapes on the left of the image are progressively invaded by shrubs, leading to a shrub-dominated landscape on the right. Image by John Wainwright

Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our
@iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

University College London seeks candidates for a FUNDED Ph.D. in #geoarcheology and #archeobotany examining the antiquity of slash and burn agriculture in the northwest Amazon of Brazil

Deadline 17 December!

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...

BBC Radio 6 Music - Riley & Coe, A tribute to Danny Thompson Gideon Coe plays the music he loves from every era and genre. A tribute to Danny Thompson.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music:

#RileyAndCoe
- A tribute to Danny Thompson

Gideon Coe plays the music he loves from every era and genre. A tribute to Danny Thompson.


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Tremendous tribute to Danny Thompson by Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music atm www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

RiscBal welcomed @geogdurham.bsky.social students last week with two field trips:

1. Exploring the Flash-Flood Early Warning System in the Balearic Islands at Ca n’Amer River catchment.

2. Learning about ecogeomorphic modelling in Mediterranean catchments at Sa Font de la Vila River catchment.

🌿 Excited to share FAIRTraits!

A data set with 189,452 records of 180 quantitative #traits from 240 Mediterranean plant species, fully FAIR-compliant & openly available 📊🌐

🔗🔓 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Started back in 2013 when I was a MSc student, now a huge team effort 💪

@esajournals.bsky.social

Well, it's finally *really* out:

habemus full citation — Krebs, V. (2025). ‘People and Things Have Always Been Mixed Up’: Notes on the So-Called Global Middle Ages. Journal of Medieval History, 51(4), 581–585. doi.org/10.1080/0304...

50 free downloads at: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RAEXD...

Congratulations everyone- fewer than 3000 to hit 100K. So let’s get signing #parkypetition100k petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

T-shirt please!

Alan Bates: my compensation claim has been cut in half The campaigner has called for an independent body to administer payouts for public scandals, including Horizon, tainted blood and Windrush

Scandals within The Post Office (TPO) scandal

Alan Bates offered 49.2% of his compensation claim.

Postmasters bullied to accept less.

Public purse to bear cost of £1.8bn+. No contribution from TPO execs, Fujitsu, TPO lawyers, auditors.

When will the scandal end?
archive.ph/OP10x

Sign the Petition SAVE YOUR ARCHIVE / ACHUBWCH EICH ARCHIFDY

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1909 Yorkshire Miners' Association leaflet: YORKSHIRE MINERS' ASSOCIATION. Registered under Trades Union Acts, 1871-76. A MASS MEETING OF THE Miners of Manvers Main, Wath Main, Denaby Main and Cadeby Main, and Warren Vale Collieries, WILL BE HELD IN THE MARKET PLACE, MEXBRO' ON Good Friday, April 9th, 1909, TO BE ADDRESSED BY MR. JOHN DIXON, Financial Secretary, Yorkshire Miners' Association, and MR. JOHN POTTS, HEMSWORTH. Chair to be taken at 11 a.m. by Mr John Baker (CHECKWEIGHMAN, MANVERS MAIN). All Miners are earnestly requested to attend. The following Bands will head processions:- GREAT CENTRAL PRIZE BAND FROM NEW CONISBRO'; KILNHURST BANK FROM STATION INN, KILNHURST; WATH BAND FROM ALBERT ROAD, MELTON, and play to the MARKET PLACE, MEXBRO'.

Page from a book of 'Compensation intimations', records of compensation claims for Yorkshire Miners' Association members injured at work. This handwritten page includes entries for collieries at North Stavely, Wombwell Main and Low Laithes in 1907-9.

Front cover of rank and file news sheet 'The Barnsley Main Spark', 1931. It includes a cartoon showing exhausted miners coming out of the pit.

Front cover of a strike edition of the Yorkshire Miner newspaper, September 1984, reporting on the 1984/5 miners' strike. It includes the headline 'Thatcher is pulling the strings'.

Major new archive catalogue online!

Explore the Yorkshire Miners' Association / National Union of Mineworkers Yorkshire Area collection at mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/YMA

More than 3,700 files/items charting the union's history from 19th century King Coal to late 20th c deindustrialisation

A hand holding a chocolate dodecahedron, painted in green and bronze edible paint.

Hello folks! It's time for the Great #DodecaBakeOff Photo Parade! Huge thanks to everyone for taking part, there's been some amazing makes - breaks - & brilliant interpretations!

Here's mine - 'The Not-Norton Disney Dochocahedron'.

(Trust me, it's WAYYYY easier if you cast it! 🤣)

#Archaeology ⚱️

We’re advertising an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social undergraduate summer research experience project on ‘Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing Climate’, with me, @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson & @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social. Please share with your undergrads! iapetus2.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Sign the Petition Urge King Charles to Withdraw State Visit Invitation to Donald Trump

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If you're in Ireland there is absolutely no reason to buy ebooks. Get a library card and use BorrowBox, it's free!

Why am I posting this at half ten on a Saturday, when I know we're all locked?

#speirgorm

Greenpeace under attack Stop Big Oil silencing the climate movement

Support Greenpeace
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema The future of the iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords, Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion...

I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too?
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YouTube video by Marsh Family "Here You Come Again" - Trump Inauguration 2025 parody of Dolly Parton classic by The Marsh Family

youtu.be/sRP4LCCcLcI

A 🎶 quickfire Monday night song - parodying the
@dollypartons.bsky.social classic "Here You Come Again" - but about the #Inauguration2025 speech, and the first claims made during the Return of The Donald...

#TrumpInauguration
#McKinleyReferences

🎧 Catch up with the Heritage Türkiye Podcast with us! Today we are revisiting Episode 5: Conservation of Historic Sites 🎙️ In this episode, Dr. Işılay Gürsu and Dr. Peter Cherry are joined by Dr. Aylin Orbaşlı, deputy chair of the BIAA and lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

4 shelves of books: Shelf 1: A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder; Sandwich; The Other Valley; Orbital; Sometimes People Die; The List of Suspicious Things Shelf 2: Ink Ribbon Red; Falling Animals; All the Colours of the Dark; Freakslaw; Leading Man; William Shelf 3: Anyone's Ghost; Bored Gay Werewolf; The Betrayal of Thomas True; Guilty By Definition; The Pairing; The Actor Shelf 4: The Last Murder at the End of the World; The Examiner; The Husbands; Helle & Death; Death on the Lusitania; The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December.

I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky.

One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat!

UK only.

View of buildings of Cumberland Lodge in Great Windsor Park in London

The group of attendees standing together in front of the grounds of Cumberland Lodge in Great Windsor Park, London

Looking out at the conference tables filled with the attendees at the Windsor Workshop

View of the living room at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Parm showing the Christmas tree, leather sofas and staircase

Fantastic week at the @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop at Cumberland Lodge with @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social. We have an exciting bunch of #geomorphology PhD projects to watch develop over the next few years…