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Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks

Dan Hicks, is a British archaeologist and anthropologist. He is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology, material culture studies, historical archaeology, colonial history, heritage studies, and the history of art, archaeology, anthropology, and museum collections. .. more

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Elon’s emails to Epstein.
Location: Starbase, Texas

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Morgan McSweeney resigns.

Is he defecting to Reform?

🙃

last year someone tried to convince me that the culture war was “over” on the basis of a MORI poll and an announcement by the British culture secretary

this new announcement on Harvard from the US War Department underlines that their War on Culture is just getting going

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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

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minor point of order since it keeps coming up, it's "Woke 2" and not "Woke 2.0". we're leaving tech industry bullshit behind too

thank goodness that the most toxic bits of the legacy of New Labour were only about *checks notes* one bad apple

link to the WhatsApp channel I mentioned here >> whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
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It's wet and horrible out there

but inside the woodburner's on and I just signed off the proofs for the paperback edition of #everymonumentwillfall—with a new preface Militarist Realism 2.0

out on 1 May—watch this space or follow my WhatsApp channel for the paperback book tour, links in my bio🔥💫

having said that it's great that after like ten years of civil engineering works they are at long last installing the new Botley Road bridge this week 🙏

there are surely no three words in the English language that will strike terror into the rail passenger’s heart more deeply than that most ominous phrase “bus replacement service” 💫

👏👏👏

impossibly I actually got mine submitted before 5pm this year

happy Self-Assessment Procrastination Comeuppance Day to all who observe 💫

my grad students tell me I need to read this; a dark academia novel on the theme of “academia is hell” in which a doctoral advisor is dispatched to hell by a mistaken magic spell? bring it on, diving in 💫🙃😱

for 600-page version of this post see www.penguin.co.uk/books/452252... #everymonumentwillfall

Precisely 😱

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holy shit they did what

LONDON -- come to hear me speak about "The unfinished story of the Worcester College Skull Cup" at the @antiquaries.bsky.social on Thursday 19 Feb at 5pm
free, registration required >> www.danhicks.uk/talks
#Everymonumentwillfall
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

here’s one of the videos, content warning but this needs to be seen and shared

listening to a debate on radio 4 about enforcing age restrictions on social media

the answer is surely simple?

children can’t open an adult’s bank account because there’s an id check

social media platforms would be vastly better with full id checks — so behind every account is a real person 🤷‍♂️

indeed! 🙃

Trump's "we're going to build a Dome like no other" has significant 1998 Tony Blair vibes 🤷

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Trump speaks in Davos

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When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.
Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

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You know people are unpopular when corporate brands come along to personally disavow any connection.

singling out seven EU countries for tariffs is less an attack on Greenland and Nato (although it’s clearly both) than it is an attack on the EU