Beatriz Marín-Aguilera
@archaeotext.bsky.social
Historical Archaeologist working on the #Caribbean & #Chile | All things #Archaeology | Indigeneity, Subalterns, Colonialism, Slavery, Gender, Ethics | Foodie and hangry | 1st Gen • Class Matters | Mamá • Feminista • Made in Madrí-La Mancha
Back from Christmas to these wonderful archaeological discoveries! 🤩
An Iron Age war trumpet (probably from the Iceni, in today's Norfolk): www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
...And a whole Byzantine monastic complex in Sohag (southern Egypt): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...
#Archaeology
An Iron Age war trumpet (probably from the Iceni, in today's Norfolk): www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
...And a whole Byzantine monastic complex in Sohag (southern Egypt): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...
#Archaeology
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Back from Christmas to these wonderful archaeological discoveries! 🤩
An Iron Age war trumpet (probably from the Iceni, in today's Norfolk): www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
...And a whole Byzantine monastic complex in Sohag (southern Egypt): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...
#Archaeology
An Iron Age war trumpet (probably from the Iceni, in today's Norfolk): www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
...And a whole Byzantine monastic complex in Sohag (southern Egypt): www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a...
#Archaeology
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The University is very pleased to welcome five scholars from Gaza as part of its Humanitarian Postgraduate Scholarship programme, including HSS students Batoul, studying International Business, and Israa, who is studying English. #TeamLivUni
University welcomes Gazan scholars - University of Liverpool News
University welcomes Gazan scholars
news.liverpool.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 8:02 AM
The University is very pleased to welcome five scholars from Gaza as part of its Humanitarian Postgraduate Scholarship programme, including HSS students Batoul, studying International Business, and Israa, who is studying English. #TeamLivUni
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A new project, led by Dr Mary Shepperson, Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Heritage, has received over £28k AHRC funding to explore Iraq’s marshes as a model for climate resilience and cultural endurance. Read about their millennia-long history here
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...
January 6, 2026 at 2:07 PM
A new project, led by Dr Mary Shepperson, Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Heritage, has received over £28k AHRC funding to explore Iraq’s marshes as a model for climate resilience and cultural endurance. Read about their millennia-long history here
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...
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Panamá/Noriega 1989
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Maduro y su mujer serán juzgados en Estados Unidos, acusados de varios cargos relacionados con el narcoterrorismo y posesión de armas, según ha anunciado la fiscal general
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January 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Panamá/Noriega 1989
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This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
January 3, 2026 at 12:23 PM
This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.
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It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
December 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆!
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺
Yesterday was really a fantastic and warming experience to share my research with the @postmedarch.bsky.social community! It was lovely to see so many friends and meet new colleagues — Thanks a lot for coming and to the SPMA for the invitation!
The lecture was recorded, so stay tuned for more info!
The lecture was recorded, so stay tuned for more info!
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yesterday was really a fantastic and warming experience to share my research with the @postmedarch.bsky.social community! It was lovely to see so many friends and meet new colleagues — Thanks a lot for coming and to the SPMA for the invitation!
The lecture was recorded, so stay tuned for more info!
The lecture was recorded, so stay tuned for more info!
This was for sure a wonderful year! Looking forward to writing my monograph and starting a new project thanks to the generosity of the @leverhulme.ac.uk!
🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - University of Liverpool News
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This was for sure a wonderful year! Looking forward to writing my monograph and starting a new project thanks to the generosity of the @leverhulme.ac.uk!
Amazing research coming from my colleague Dr Sally Hoare and the British Museum team who excitingly push back the origins of fire use by humans! 🎉
You can also read their paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You can also read their paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🔥🔥 We're very proud to see Dr Sally Hoare from the University as one of the bright sparks (ahem) who helped discover humans had been able to create fire much earlier than previously thought. Read about this amazing work here 🎇
Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought - University of Liverpool News
Groundbreaking discovery shows humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Amazing research coming from my colleague Dr Sally Hoare and the British Museum team who excitingly push back the origins of fire use by humans! 🎉
You can also read their paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You can also read their paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm late for the online celebration, but I'm thrilled for my brilliant colleague Ceren Kabukcu who got an ERC Consolidator Grant!!! 🥂 She and her future team will revolutionise the way we think about food and diet in history!
Go team @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!
Go team @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!
A celebratory #AcademicAdvent today, as we share the great news of Dr Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanical expert from @livancworlds.bsky.social, and her recent win of a £1.4m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant. Read about her exciting project here ➡️
Double success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants - University of Liverpool News
Double success: Liverpool academics awarded ERC Consolidator Grants
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I'm late for the online celebration, but I'm thrilled for my brilliant colleague Ceren Kabukcu who got an ERC Consolidator Grant!!! 🥂 She and her future team will revolutionise the way we think about food and diet in history!
Go team @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!
Go team @livancworlds.bsky.social!!!
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'Evidence points to a genuine rise in distress linked to poverty, insecure housing, austerity and the pandemic - and NO evidence that mental health problems were being over-diagnosed.' @danwjoyce.bsky.social Oladayo Bifarin @uk.theconversation.com #MentalHealth
theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care
Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.
theconversation.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
'Evidence points to a genuine rise in distress linked to poverty, insecure housing, austerity and the pandemic - and NO evidence that mental health problems were being over-diagnosed.' @danwjoyce.bsky.social Oladayo Bifarin @uk.theconversation.com #MentalHealth
theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
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Christmas is a time for gathering round and listening to a tale well told. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social, an expert in communications. Explore her work helping scientists of all kinds explain their research here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Christmas is a time for gathering round and listening to a tale well told. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Hannah Little @hanachronism.bsky.social, an expert in communications. Explore her work helping scientists of all kinds explain their research here www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a...
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
Really, BBC?
December 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Really, BBC?
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Seizing an oil tanker is a perfect symbol of what the US is actually after in its war of aggression against Venezuela.
December 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Seizing an oil tanker is a perfect symbol of what the US is actually after in its war of aggression against Venezuela.
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December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So my 4-year-old fell at home. She immediately stood up and said 'I'm sorry' (to no one).
And this, my dear friends, is how Britishness begins
...or better put, it's established.
And this, my dear friends, is how Britishness begins
...or better put, it's established.
December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
So my 4-year-old fell at home. She immediately stood up and said 'I'm sorry' (to no one).
And this, my dear friends, is how Britishness begins
...or better put, it's established.
And this, my dear friends, is how Britishness begins
...or better put, it's established.
"It's not about bringing home intimate objects or items or even artifacts. To us, it's about bringing home memories. It's about bringing home the dignity and the power that was taken away from our ancestors. In some ways, you're restoring those energies“
#museums #repatriation #IndigenousAmericas
#museums #repatriation #IndigenousAmericas
Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican collection return to Canada
MONTREAL - First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders welcomed back dozens of Indigenous artifacts released from the Vatican collection at Montreal's airport Saturday.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"It's not about bringing home intimate objects or items or even artifacts. To us, it's about bringing home memories. It's about bringing home the dignity and the power that was taken away from our ancestors. In some ways, you're restoring those energies“
#museums #repatriation #IndigenousAmericas
#museums #repatriation #IndigenousAmericas
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December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ethnic cleansing, genocide, and this horrific crime against toddlers (!!). Must be the year of massacring people with no consequences.
RSF kill 33 children in strike on nursery school in Sudan
The Sudanese paramilitary group accused of murdering tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur has killed more than 30 children in a drone strike on a nursery school, according to a doctors’ group.
m.independent.ie
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Ethnic cleansing, genocide, and this horrific crime against toddlers (!!). Must be the year of massacring people with no consequences.
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You can still register for the lecture via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-geoff-.... Please note that the lecture starts at 6pm, not 5pm. This will allow #TAG attendees to reach the venue. As always, it is free to attend: attendees need not be delegates of @tag2025york.bsky.social
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December 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
You can still register for the lecture via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-geoff-.... Please note that the lecture starts at 6pm, not 5pm. This will allow #TAG attendees to reach the venue. As always, it is free to attend: attendees need not be delegates of @tag2025york.bsky.social
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Today's #AcademicAdvent festive star is Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Associate Dean for Global Engagement at @sotauol.bsky.social, who has just been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director at the UK National Commission for UNESCO. Christmas comes early! 🎁
Communication and Media researcher appointed as UNESCO Non-Executive Director - University of Liverpool News
Communication and Media researcher appointed as UNESCO Non-Executive Director
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today's #AcademicAdvent festive star is Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Associate Dean for Global Engagement at @sotauol.bsky.social, who has just been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director at the UK National Commission for UNESCO. Christmas comes early! 🎁
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Hubo un tiempo en el que la arquitectura asturiana brilló con luz propia.
Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo y Santa Cristina de Lena son tres pequeñas joyas del prerrománico.
📻 Lo contamos ayer en la radio: www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo y Santa Cristina de Lena son tres pequeñas joyas del prerrománico.
📻 Lo contamos ayer en la radio: www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
December 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Hubo un tiempo en el que la arquitectura asturiana brilló con luz propia.
Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo y Santa Cristina de Lena son tres pequeñas joyas del prerrománico.
📻 Lo contamos ayer en la radio: www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
Santa María del Naranco, San Miguel de Lillo y Santa Cristina de Lena son tres pequeñas joyas del prerrománico.
📻 Lo contamos ayer en la radio: www.rtve.es/play/audios/...
“We built a relationship of trust,” Heckenberger recalls. “They taught me about their culture, and I taught them how to do archaeology.”
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
“We built a relationship of trust,” Heckenberger recalls. “They taught me about their culture, and I taught them how to do archaeology.”
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!