Edmund Lee

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

Please join the nearly 20k people who have signed this petition... actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

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✨️ Gaining an understanding of soil carbon and its management in an archaeological context
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Whoever wins the by-election tomorrow, the whole country loses under a First Past The Post election. Please join me in signing the Electoral Reform Society 's call for a fairer voting system by 2029.

Known to friend and foe alike in the American west as 'Wild Bill Dead Hat'.

Apprenticeships and guilds may be the way forward...

Joining and Managing Digital Communities and Online Groups | Historic England Find out about online groups for keeping your knowledge and skills up to date.

I spent a lot of time a few years back persuading my profession to invest in defined membership online communities of practice, often getting the reaction 'but we've got social media'. I just might have been right...
historicengland.org.uk/education/tr...

You can find the details of your local Historic Environment Records on this website HeritageGateway - Historic Environment Records share.google/NvZsJTsUCe0P...

A good introduction to HERs, a great resource for #OnePlaceWednesday and #LocalHistory for #OnePlaceStudies with a focus on old buildings and #archaeology.

Historic England – Free Carbon Reduction Training for the Heritage Sector Historic England is offering a range of courses, workshops, webinars, and networking to support heritage organisations on their Net Zero journey. This is part of HE's ‘Sector to Net Zero’ programme. This initiative provides guidance and practical tools for measuring carbon footprints, developing carbon reduction plans, and embedding sustainability across heritage organisations. This free training covers: Heritage Carbon Literacy Training…

Historic England – Free Carbon Reduction Training for the Heritage Sector

Historic England is offering a range of courses, workshops, webinars, and networking to support heritage organisations on their Net Zero journey. This is part of HE's ‘Sector to Net Zero’ programme. This initiative provides…

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. 🏺

It's a street map of Calleva, showing where to find the mosaicist's workshop 📍

The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which…

They're calling it the Representation of the People Bill, while keeping a voting system that fails to represent the people. Add your name to demand they make it do what it says on the tin

𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐤 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is aimed at fostering collaborative research on apples across the historic Silk Road regions!
The website is currently under construction. If you are working on apples in the region & like to join the network, please email via website www.silk-road-apple-association.org

Spam (Monty Python sketch) - Wikipedia

Those pasties can only be ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%2...

Nice relevant use of archaeological discovery for a primary school motto too - 'Aim high'.

Understandable: no-one wants to roll an Omega 🎲 😉. Amazing photos - thanks for sharing.

This really shows how unrepresentative of public opinion our elections have become.

It's not just that seats in Parliament have little to do with how people voted.

It's also that people feel like they can't vote how they want in the first place.

We need PR more than ever.

bsky.app/profile/edsr...

Support for proportional representation has fallen among Reform UK voters | YouGov 31% of Reform UK voters now back retaining first past the post, up 14 points since January last year

Of course the answer to the problems of endless second-guessing under a first past the post system is to campaign for proportional Representation for Westminster elections - now widely supported by voters yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

While 67% of current Green voters would tactically vote Lib Dem to stop Reform UK from winning their seat, this falls to 57% willing to back Labour in a contest between them and Reform and just 44% open to backing Labour to stop the Tories in their seat

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

In the event only the Conservatives and Lib Dems stood a chance of winning in a seat...

Current Lab voters
LD: 63%
Con: 6%
Stick with Lab: 21%

Current Grn voters
LD: 57%
Con: 5%
Stick with Grn: 35%

Current Ref voters
LD: 7%
Con: 45%
Stick with Ref: 37%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

🧵/ With tactical voting ever more common, who do voters back when only two parties have a chance in their seat?

Con 31% v Ref 24%

Lab 35% v Ref 31%
Lab 29% v Con 28%

LD 41% v Ref 29%
LD 34% v Con 26%
LD 29% v Lab 21%
LD 26% v Grn 25%

Grn 42% v Ref 27%
Grn 37% v Con 29%
Grn 30% v Lab 20%

Khronos Announces glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension Today, The Khronos Group, announces a release candidate for the…

Ok I'm way out of my zone of experience here, but this also sounds like a relevant update for 3D #heritage 🏺💾. Open standard development for data sharing
www.khronos.org/news/press/g...

Shawn, are you aware of this news from the UK Archaeology Data Service?
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Reusing 3D heritage models in media - Tems

I'm assuming (but posting here to check) that @ads-update.bsky.social is aware of and involved in this .... tems-dataspace.eu/reusing-3d-h...

Excellent news 👏. A stable, professionally maintenance platform for 3D archaeological and built scan data might encourage HERs and the NHLE to start linking to these scans, improving access and understanding for all. 🏺💾

Good to hear Alexa.

Metal detecting is not covered by any of that system, however. No permission is needed (other than from a landowner) to detect. Unless a site is protected ('scheduled') by law, in which case detecting is a crime. There's around 20,000 such sites across England.

The system usually works well, though does tend to lead to chronic underfunding for things like training and professional development for archaeologists, or long term careers.

On completion, a record of the work done, and usually the archive and artefacts found are deposited the local authority, so there's a public record that can then assist future research.