Colleen Morgan
@clmorgan.bsky.social
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.
She/her 🏴
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy
January 8, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Its being boycotted fwiw
January 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Its being boycotted fwiw
Grant writing besties/beasties
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Grant writing besties/beasties
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do the work not because you have to but because that's a life well-lived.
live the fuck outta your life.
the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't.
make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.
live the fuck outta your life.
the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't.
make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.
January 8, 2026 at 8:00 AM
do the work not because you have to but because that's a life well-lived.
live the fuck outta your life.
the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't.
make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.
live the fuck outta your life.
the people we buried would be fucking pissed off if you don't.
make art. kill nazis. don't get discouraged. enjoy the sunrise. work hard on this and rest. enjoy being alive. go down swinging.
A Molinillo—Mexican hot chocolate whisk. It was cool but just not very useful.
I also had some copper Moscow mule cups that were used…once.
I also had some copper Moscow mule cups that were used…once.
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
A Molinillo—Mexican hot chocolate whisk. It was cool but just not very useful.
I also had some copper Moscow mule cups that were used…once.
I also had some copper Moscow mule cups that were used…once.
(and you worry a bit about people who gravitate towards such roles)
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
(and you worry a bit about people who gravitate towards such roles)
I'm less into the reconstruction of The Fortress of Buhen. Relatively little architectural detail and no sense of how the building was used. Slightly crowded and clumsy for Sorrell:
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
Sorrell R.W.S., Alan (1904 – 1974) – Sudan / Ancient Egypt; ‘The Fortress of Buhen’. | ABBOTT and HOLDER
Watercolour and gouache. Signed and dated, 1959. Illustrated: Margaret Drower, 'Nubia: A Drowning Land', (Longmans Young Books, 1970), p29.
www.abbottandholder.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I'm less into the reconstruction of The Fortress of Buhen. Relatively little architectural detail and no sense of how the building was used. Slightly crowded and clumsy for Sorrell:
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
There's a couple of archaeological reconstructions by Alan Sorrell in the Abbott & Holder sale if you are feeling richer than me. Love the detail of the houses in this visualisation of Hazor:
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
Sorrell R.W.S., Alan (1904 – 1974) – Hazor in the time of Tiglath-Pileser, 732BC. | ABBOTT and HOLDER
Ink and monochrome wash. Signed and dated, 1958. For 'The Illustrated London News'.
www.abbottandholder.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
There's a couple of archaeological reconstructions by Alan Sorrell in the Abbott & Holder sale if you are feeling richer than me. Love the detail of the houses in this visualisation of Hazor:
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
www.abbottandholder.co.uk/product/sorr...
Reposted by Colleen Morgan
This Friday we have an important appointment to debate the imminent future of the EAA. If you are a 2025 or 2026, attend and vote afterwards to remind leadership this is a membership-based association, and certain actions cannot be tolerated.
🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy
January 7, 2026 at 5:57 PM
This Friday we have an important appointment to debate the imminent future of the EAA. If you are a 2025 or 2026, attend and vote afterwards to remind leadership this is a membership-based association, and certain actions cannot be tolerated.
Maybe give it a listen before you thank me. It does manage to scrub most of the cobwebs
January 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Maybe give it a listen before you thank me. It does manage to scrub most of the cobwebs
The quickest way to kill any interesting conversation is to threaten to study/share it. It’s such an interesting liminal space with a lot of trust involved.
January 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM
The quickest way to kill any interesting conversation is to threaten to study/share it. It’s such an interesting liminal space with a lot of trust involved.
Logout, clear your cookies, turn the vpn on, then login. It’s a lot of faff and @sarahmay1.bsky.social is right, I wish they’d just turn them off.
January 7, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Logout, clear your cookies, turn the vpn on, then login. It’s a lot of faff and @sarahmay1.bsky.social is right, I wish they’d just turn them off.
You can also use a VPN and change your location to see your DMs. I know it's beside the point but some knowledge of and engagement with VPNs is generally a good thing amidst all of this *waves hands*
Choose your own adventure though, obvs.
Choose your own adventure though, obvs.
January 7, 2026 at 1:37 PM
You can also use a VPN and change your location to see your DMs. I know it's beside the point but some knowledge of and engagement with VPNs is generally a good thing amidst all of this *waves hands*
Choose your own adventure though, obvs.
Choose your own adventure though, obvs.
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Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
January 7, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
That and a family-sized bucket of calpol
January 6, 2026 at 1:07 PM
That and a family-sized bucket of calpol
r/t this for the bat/pig conversation I didn't know I needed today
New research reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific 🐖🐽🐷🧬🌴🏝️🗿region. www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/geno... @gregerlarson.bsky.social Image credit: A Brumm (Griffith Uni) & A Agus Oktaviana (BRIN, Indonesia).
January 6, 2026 at 12:18 PM
r/t this for the bat/pig conversation I didn't know I needed today
Said it before, but the greyest of the grey literature is archaeology fieldwork whatsapp groups
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Said it before, but the greyest of the grey literature is archaeology fieldwork whatsapp groups
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The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
BASH BACK
www.transbashback.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The Free Speech Union commissioned a "security" report on us, so we tested their security. Turns out - it sucks.
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
We've now published the names of everyone who has donated to a FSU fundraiser, along with how much they gave and to which campaign.
www.transbashback.com/fsu.html
xoxo BASH BACK
Congratulations and well done.
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Congratulations and well done.
Starting the new year by submitting a big grant (well hopefully at least) and getting more color in my mahoosive tattoo, so we continue to contain multitudes, etc.
January 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Starting the new year by submitting a big grant (well hopefully at least) and getting more color in my mahoosive tattoo, so we continue to contain multitudes, etc.
Reposted by Colleen Morgan
‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
This happened during the recent CCC conference.
This entire thread but THIS THIS THISSSSSS especially
the way you collect data determines what kinda data you collect. Who knew? (Many people). So a survey of our archive is a survey of the data we can reach — it’s most often the history of people who were wealthy and connected enough to be remembered, and it’s pretty white and anglophone
January 4, 2026 at 6:37 AM
This entire thread but THIS THIS THISSSSSS especially
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Hellloooo wow how do people find time for social media these days. And welcome to my TAG talk! Which was in fact about just that “the existential panic of keeping a social media based project like @trowelblazers.bsky.social alive when we can barely keep our heads above water: a DEI Story”
January 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Hellloooo wow how do people find time for social media these days. And welcome to my TAG talk! Which was in fact about just that “the existential panic of keeping a social media based project like @trowelblazers.bsky.social alive when we can barely keep our heads above water: a DEI Story”