Dr Matt Law

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Oh wow! Do tell me more! I'm always happy to talk molluscs!

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[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #103: Cloudberry In 2025, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of the Ryūkyū Archipelago AbstractThis chapter provides an overview of the archaeology and historical ecology of the Ryūkyū archipelago located between Kyūshū and Taiwan. Geological

Is anyone with access able to share these chapters with me? doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... and doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...?

A new editorial team for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog We are very excited to have been chosen as the new editors for Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (PPS), the flagship journal of the Prehistoric Society. The journal has a long tradition of publis...

Amid challenging times for publishers and authors, a new look and a new editorial team, for the important gateway, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.

This is great!

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag - fabulous version - LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967

Musical satirist Tom Lehrer has died. He once declared: “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” Here’s one of my favorite Lehrer tunes

Oh! Yes, I think that's the one! Thank you!!

A photo of a white moth with brown speckles

Forgive the purple grow light, but is this a speckled footman? Or someone else?

This is a crucial research resource and repository of open access data.

#OTD 1858 Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution at the Linnean Society, London

so it seems the take away is that if you have a Spotify sub, you’re paying for military technology development?

scale, current towns and cities on the map + csv file with coordinates of all the sites in the supplementary information

Don't like: North arrows

At what scale?

Generally I like topography- either as elevation or a hillshade. Watercourses. Coasts.

Not too many classes of object. Distinct symbology between classes.

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Question: what do you think makes a really good map of site locations in a publication? Any elements you think are essential? Or that you don't like to see?

The Archaeo+Malacology Newsletter seeks contributions - short research articles or site reports, conference or book reviews, interesting images, news of new publications or theses. Get in touch if you have an idea!

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, students told Guidance has been published by the Office for Students on new free speech rules coming into force this year.

How did we let such weak thinkers get such power (everywhere - but specifically in HE) education can unsettle deeply held views, but being offended is not essential to education. Being told that your very existence is 'debatable' makes learning & everything else harder www.bbc.com/news/article...

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[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #102: Cleavers In 2025, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

matthewlaw.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/a...

Would anybody be able to send me this new paper from Journal of Archaeological Science? doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Call for Papers - TAG 2025

Call for Papers for @lornarichardson.bsky.social and my session on Archaeological Integrity at this year's @tag2025york.bsky.social
Come and share your thoughts on keeping our profession safe from AI, intellectual theft, & political manipulation!

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Funded PhD on natural and cultural heritage on islands! www.mic.ul.ie/sites/defaul...

‘We sometimes milked 3,000 snails a day!’: the dying art of milking molluscs For 1,500 years, Mexico’s Mixtec people have extracted ink from the rare purpura snail to dye yarn. But they fear the species – and their rich tradition – may soon be lost for ever

An 1,500 y/o tradition on the brink:

🐚 On #Mexico’s coast, #Mixtec artisans "milk" a rare snail (Plicopurpura colummelaris), w/o harm, to extract #purple dye ink.

Now #ClimateChange, poaching, & tourism threaten snails & centuries of #Indigenous knowledge:

📰 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Woke up to the sound of rain, and the familiar smell of the earth hydrating after a dry spell

This is a brilliant and deeply disturbing thread. Essential baseline data and it's totally unreliable.