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Colleen Morgan
@clmorgan.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.

I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.

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clmorgan.bsky.social
Just filled out my ethics application for our (me, @kjkillackey.bsky.social, @apolitopoulos.bsky.social & Stu Eve) play session on Worldbuilding at @tag2025york.bsky.social. Not particularly exciting in itself, but I love taking the little steps that make research a bit more real.
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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dah-lab.bsky.social
14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social

Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺

1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link:

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A screenshot of two video game characters, one appears to be a ghost, holding their arms in a circle. There is a dialogue box that says "joy ahead"
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
LaTeX documents look so nice

Good morning
November 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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florencesn.bsky.social
Next Friday 14th at 1pm GMT I'll be giving the Digital Lunch talk in the University of York Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab, King's Manor, G/60 or online on "(Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play"
Screenshot of a message from Elden Ring with a player doing the Ring of Miquella gesture. Message reads "joy ahead"
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
I’ve submitted mine! Hopefully we’ll see you there. ☺️
valuefnd.bsky.social VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 4d
If you are planning to attend CAA in Vienna and you have an #archaeogaming paper to present consider submitting in our #archaeogaming session! Deadline has been extended to November 9 so there are a few more days left!
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Me and the boys on a night out in 3000 BC 🍻

In ancient Sumer, it was common to drink beer from a communal vessel using long straws. Similar straws and vessels have been found as far away as the Caucasus, indicating the practice was popular!

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
Diagram of people encircling a vessel, each drinking through a straw.
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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blacktrowel.bsky.social
BOYCOTT EAA-ATHENS 2026 🏺

This is not a BTC action but we are helping to disseminate this call, as the president of the EAA has shown great willingness for reprisals.

Please distribute widely, particularly to offline colleagues.
Poster titled BOYCOTT EAA-ATHENS, with a circle/slash crossing out the EAA 2026 Athens logo. This is an urgent call for all members of the archaeological community to join this boycott. Do not submit a session to the EAA until Eszter Banffy steps down as president of the EAA after her anti-democratic actions. There has been a concerted campaign of intimidation against individual members of the board, including large numbers of threatening and defamatory emails and individual participants, groups, and student volunteers have been intimidated. Even after close documentation of her shameful autocratic actions in the press and on social media, she refuses to step down. We cannot let this happen, this is not what we stand for as a community. Many departments and institutions already decided not to participate and submit sessions after it has become clear that the EAA has not resolved its issues. Do not submit a session until Banffy steps down. If you have already submitted a session, retract it.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
The victory of progressive candidates is a byproduct of our work caring for one another and building a better world, not the goal of our work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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nikadubrovsky.bsky.social
Join Tim Ingold’s public talk “Sharing Time: The Work of Art in a Possible World” tomorrow:
davidgraeber.institute/public-talk-...

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Public talk : Sharing time: the work of art in a possible World -Tim Ingold
David Graeber Institute “In the world of possibilities, every work begins with an idea in mind, and ends in its realisation. This is work that cuts across. But the creativity of
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November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Guy Fawkes day:

Is it bad for the environment? Yes
Is it a mostly incoherent melange of monarchism and harvest festival? Yes
Is my daughter's school fundraising by building a big dragon-shaped bonfire and burning Gandalf amongst other fantasy guys which I will enjoy immensely? Yes
a painting of a man with long hair and a beard in a dark room
ALT: a painting of a man with long hair and a beard in a dark room
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November 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Rumours have it that there's an EAA Athens boycott brewing, plan accordingly
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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gabemoshenska.bsky.social
It's remembrance remembrance day
Galaxy brain meme template with three panels labelled gunpowder, treason, and plot.
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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bajr-badger.bsky.social
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.

Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology

survey.app.do/archaeologis...
BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...
survey.app.do
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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pennybickle.bsky.social
What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 7d
Now the fantastic @pennybickle.bsky.social is taking us through kinship and aDNA in the LBK cultural world, teasing out some key questions posed by ethnographic concepts of kinship that might be answered through the archaeological record #NSGKinship
Penny Bickle
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
If you get one of these grants can I be an archaeology-tourist?

I draw and dig good 🥹
November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
If you are local to York, please help us preserve The Crescent, an indie DIY venue that supports gigs and community events.

thecrescentyork.com/we-need-your...
We Need Your Help! – The Crescent York
thecrescentyork.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Found a chapter in a book that basically rips an entire literature review off from my thesis, reference by reference, without citing the original. I don't really care, but it's pretty lazy.
November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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richardacarter.bsky.social
This week! "Agentia" will be available in the Games Lab at the
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York! I'm planning to speak on Wednesday as part of the Makers Forum too. asff.co.uk/games-and-vr... #gameDev #indieDev #indieGame #soloDev #poetry #nature #gaming
Aesthetica Short Film Festival Poster A screenshot from agentia showing a hand drawn isometric landscape with the words "agentia" overlaid in green serif font. Aesthetica Short Film Festival official selection laurels present.
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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artcrimeprof.bsky.social
Incredible survival of 2,000 year old cake
drnwillburger.bsky.social Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 9d
An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2

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Two views of a damaged wooden human-shaped sculpture shown from the front and back. The figure is missing parts of its arms and legs, with a cracked and worn surface, and is placed beside a black, red, and white measuring scale for size reference.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
A day late but I absolutely love this fully recorded pumpkin from @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social vm.tiktok.com/ZNdTF2qTj/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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November 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
clmorgan.bsky.social
Still trying to get my head around why some tweets go viral with the weird emoji lib-bots of bsky
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
clmorgan.bsky.social
I just made a very large piece of concrete into many small pieces of concrete with a sledgehammer.

10/10 would recommend
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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kjkillackey.bsky.social
Last day to get early bird rates for #TAG2025 in York.
suegreaney.bsky.social Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Sep 22
Early bird registration and bursary applications are now open for Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference 2025 in lovely York: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
Registration - TAG 2025
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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guillermodiazliano.bsky.social
So happy to see this article out!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3...

In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..
www.tandfonline.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM