Mrs C
@cogitoergo.bsky.social
Archaeology MA, teacher PGCE | lover of plants, taphology, vulture culture, general geekiness, random useless facts, and all things archaeology | snarky bog witch ♾️
My dad’s cat, T-Rex, displaying standard orange behaviour.
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My dad’s cat, T-Rex, displaying standard orange behaviour.
This Egyptologist clearly knows how to Egypt. 👏🏻
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This Egyptologist clearly knows how to Egypt. 👏🏻
Grandpa Grog got the hots for chicks with huge five heads, and now I’ve got to obsess over weirdly specific things and hate bright lights like a Mogwai.
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Study implicates Neanderthal DNA in autism susceptibility
While people with autism don't have more Neanderthal DNA than those who do not, researchers discovered that some Neanderthal-derived variations are more common in people with autism than in the genera...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Grandpa Grog got the hots for chicks with huge five heads, and now I’ve got to obsess over weirdly specific things and hate bright lights like a Mogwai.
news.clemson.edu/study-implic...
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If this is your doing, you’re a knob.
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If this is your doing, you’re a knob.
Do you know…the Muffin Man??
October 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Do you know…the Muffin Man??
Oxfam book shops near universities are 🔥. Homeric hymns, Old and Middle English, and a history of Poland? Yes, please.
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Oxfam book shops near universities are 🔥. Homeric hymns, Old and Middle English, and a history of Poland? Yes, please.
This photo was taken around this time of the year in 2023 at an open day at The Boy’s first choice for university. This week, he’ll be showing us around the city as a first year student. 🥺
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This photo was taken around this time of the year in 2023 at an open day at The Boy’s first choice for university. This week, he’ll be showing us around the city as a first year student. 🥺
Friends, Normans, countrymen, lend me your ears so that I may tell you the woes of oversimplifying the KS3 history curriculum. I’m replanning Norman conquest lessons and I’m getting fed up with teaching that feudalism is both 1. A Norman concept, 2. Is a uniformly agreed concept and…
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Friends, Normans, countrymen, lend me your ears so that I may tell you the woes of oversimplifying the KS3 history curriculum. I’m replanning Norman conquest lessons and I’m getting fed up with teaching that feudalism is both 1. A Norman concept, 2. Is a uniformly agreed concept and…
Made an overnight booking to stay in a “haunted” inn in York with my husband. Do we believe in ghosts? No. Will we bring an EMF meter to satisfy our childhood obsessions with Ghostbusters? Absolutely.
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Made an overnight booking to stay in a “haunted” inn in York with my husband. Do we believe in ghosts? No. Will we bring an EMF meter to satisfy our childhood obsessions with Ghostbusters? Absolutely.
Soooo…there’s a Classics-inspired perfume range, but it isn’t part of my tax bracket.
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ARGOS
Offical stockists of Roja Parfums, Zaharoff, Rogue Perfumery, Argos Fragrances, YeYe Parfums, Lorga Parfums, Sora Dora, Memoirs of a perfume collector, Nishane, Affinessence, Gallagher Fragrances, Hir...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Soooo…there’s a Classics-inspired perfume range, but it isn’t part of my tax bracket.
luxeparfum.co.uk/collections/...
luxeparfum.co.uk/collections/...
Love when a second-hand charity book shop speaks my language
October 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Love when a second-hand charity book shop speaks my language
He’s just a guy with his cat in the Tower of London
October 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
He’s just a guy with his cat in the Tower of London
I cannot stress how much I hate that 2 factor authentication has been connected to our own personal devices.
October 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I cannot stress how much I hate that 2 factor authentication has been connected to our own personal devices.
I said this when I got my citizenship just over a decade ago. I could see the writing on the wall then.
Tried to persuade my mum and sister to get their UK citizenship over lunch (both on settled status).
They both couldn't believe there would be a risk, and that they've been here for 50+ years.
Even though they admit Farage said what he said, they couldn't take it seriously.
I think they should.
They both couldn't believe there would be a risk, and that they've been here for 50+ years.
Even though they admit Farage said what he said, they couldn't take it seriously.
I think they should.
September 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I said this when I got my citizenship just over a decade ago. I could see the writing on the wall then.
I feel a bit weird asking people to give me their unwanted soot. I’m on a quest to make black ink and attempt to write with reeds to see if it’s viable for my students.
September 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I feel a bit weird asking people to give me their unwanted soot. I’m on a quest to make black ink and attempt to write with reeds to see if it’s viable for my students.
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This blue-green Egyptian faience amulet was meant to protect its owner (apotropaic) and bring good luck. It was in the form of the head of the hero Hercules, identifiable by his beard and the Nemean lionskin - a symbol of power.
2nd-3rd c. CE, Karanis, Egypt. V&A Museum. #ancientbluesky
📸 me
2nd-3rd c. CE, Karanis, Egypt. V&A Museum. #ancientbluesky
📸 me
September 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This blue-green Egyptian faience amulet was meant to protect its owner (apotropaic) and bring good luck. It was in the form of the head of the hero Hercules, identifiable by his beard and the Nemean lionskin - a symbol of power.
2nd-3rd c. CE, Karanis, Egypt. V&A Museum. #ancientbluesky
📸 me
2nd-3rd c. CE, Karanis, Egypt. V&A Museum. #ancientbluesky
📸 me
I just want to preemptively put this out there - my mother cannot take Tylenol. She wouldn’t have taken it while pregnant. Take from that what you will.
PS the only take away is that RFK Jr is full of crap.
PS the only take away is that RFK Jr is full of crap.
September 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I just want to preemptively put this out there - my mother cannot take Tylenol. She wouldn’t have taken it while pregnant. Take from that what you will.
PS the only take away is that RFK Jr is full of crap.
PS the only take away is that RFK Jr is full of crap.
It seems like a fever dream, but I remember the following in Georgia public schools in the late 90s/early 00s:
-mandated patriotic songs played every morning, a “moment of silent reflection” because prayer would be illegal, and stickers in our science books creationism. I’m sure I’ll remember more.
-mandated patriotic songs played every morning, a “moment of silent reflection” because prayer would be illegal, and stickers in our science books creationism. I’m sure I’ll remember more.
September 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It seems like a fever dream, but I remember the following in Georgia public schools in the late 90s/early 00s:
-mandated patriotic songs played every morning, a “moment of silent reflection” because prayer would be illegal, and stickers in our science books creationism. I’m sure I’ll remember more.
-mandated patriotic songs played every morning, a “moment of silent reflection” because prayer would be illegal, and stickers in our science books creationism. I’m sure I’ll remember more.
Currently wondering how it is I got roped into doing crafty things for The Boy’s D&D group.
August 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Currently wondering how it is I got roped into doing crafty things for The Boy’s D&D group.
I didn’t think it would be difficult to donate some of Bast’s stuff to the local animal sanctuary. I of course sobbed. It made me feel better when my son’s friends who volunteer there said they needed cat beds, so they now have two of her beds and lots of her toys amongst other things.
August 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I didn’t think it would be difficult to donate some of Bast’s stuff to the local animal sanctuary. I of course sobbed. It made me feel better when my son’s friends who volunteer there said they needed cat beds, so they now have two of her beds and lots of her toys amongst other things.
After seeing how quickly dust settles in my house and what is collected in the vacuum, I’m absolutely certain the way that Vulcans are written to be repulsed by human smell is spot on.
August 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
After seeing how quickly dust settles in my house and what is collected in the vacuum, I’m absolutely certain the way that Vulcans are written to be repulsed by human smell is spot on.
I’m pretty sure I can definitively say I’m British. I keep getting misnamed, even by coworkers I’ve had for 8 years, and it’s too awkward to correct them.
August 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I’m pretty sure I can definitively say I’m British. I keep getting misnamed, even by coworkers I’ve had for 8 years, and it’s too awkward to correct them.
Totally using this to help explain Popper and falsificationism to my students.
Side note, I want off this planet.
Side note, I want off this planet.
August 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Totally using this to help explain Popper and falsificationism to my students.
Side note, I want off this planet.
Side note, I want off this planet.
Trying miniature painting for the first time, and it’s so relaxing. I’ve let hours pass without realising. So these are the very first ones I’ve done.
August 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Trying miniature painting for the first time, and it’s so relaxing. I’ve let hours pass without realising. So these are the very first ones I’ve done.