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Lara Band
@laraband.bsky.social
I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I think I've changed several times since then // archaeologist, likes scapes: sea, land, film, sound
Maritime Archaeology! Built Heritage! Trees! All together = perfect! Nice work here from @dendrorodbale.bsky.social
Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology
September 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Wishing my colleagues from ButCH Sef Penrose, @laraband.bsky.social & @angelapiccini.bsky.social a fabulous Gullfest more than human art and heritage FTW www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
Plymouth to celebrate its 'majestic' seagull population
'Gullfest honours them all'
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
For #LondonRiversWeek I'm sharing a photo of the Channelsea, much culverted but where it emerges is a lovely marshy spot, cared for by #SurgeCollective #BlancSceol and the site, recently, for #LeakyInstruments workshops on how we can live ethically with rivers #RiverCommons
May 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck for the 2nd week, and the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social has brought in a new model! This one is a scaled model of The Admiralty Dockyard. Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!
May 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck, but the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social only brought in a scaled model of the Thames historical dockyards that he has made! Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!
May 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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This is well worth a go! Have you seen it @lornarichardson.bsky.social ?
Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is!

Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?

Enter the garden.
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales

Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Super 2 days teaching building recording & talking sound w/ @bbkhistorical.bsky.social #ThamesThroughTime BA & MA fieldschool students. We all discovered much more about this GII wall than the List description! Thx so much @lesleymcf.bsky.social @drclaireharris.bsky.social for the invite!
April 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Thames through Time @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and an archaeology of sound with @laraband.bsky.social and @drclaireharris.bsky.social!
April 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."
#15: Critical Climate Computing
A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.
wesleygoatley.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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"This database provides the locations of 575 NBS projects distributed across 55 countries."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries
www.nature.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Launched Friday - World Heritage Day - the latest @citiesandmemory.bsky.social project Sonic Heritage - the sounds of #UNESCO Designated sites : citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
citiesandmemory.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019.
We love finding bridges
March 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Like Section 28 in the UK, the 'promotion' of DEI is defined as any representation of diversity, showing anything other than cis, white, straight, able bodied men. And lazy implementation takes 'don't say gay' to ridiculous new heights
March 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Yellow #DistanceDrift for spring and (nearly) St David's Day. Fun to be joining in again with @soniaoverall.bsky.social longstanding remote and communal wander, felt just the weather for it!
March 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Morning! We haven't had a colour #DistanceDrift for a long while & today's proximity to St David's Day tells me it's once again time to follow yellow. Wherever you wander, indoors or out, be led by yellow objects & flashes. Share finds as you go or at the end - bonus cheers for daffodils!
March 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Just discovered that the Scottish Wildlife Trust publish downloadable snorkel trails! #tinyjoys
scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do...
Snorkel Trails
scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Well that was a great day, thinking about silence as presence and ways of 'noising', socially engaged practice and the ethics of tech plus the ASR captioning providing a theme fitting accidental aural misguide. Fantastic conversations on and of stage #ListeningTogether #CRiSAP
February 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Weather great nice site we've got a sex maniac one side and a Russian spy on the other.
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Waiting for the #CRiSAP Listening Together: Practices for Community Centred Listening symposium to start at UAL: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/lis... A full house and super excited chatting and laughing going on for what should be a fantastic day with a stellar line up!
Listening Together: Practices for Community-Centred Listening
www.arts.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Thinking of a PgT qualification? Come chat to me about MSc Heritage at UoS Open Day. Innovative course, leading experts, key theoretical & practical issues (eg identity, community, museums/collections, intangible cultural heritage, nature/culture, & more!) www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...
Postgraduate Open Day | Study | University of Stirling
By attending our Postgraduate Open Day, you’ll be able to explore our stunning campus, learn more about our diverse range of Masters courses and PhD opportunities
www.stir.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Oliver Rackham died 10 years ago today; there’s so much in these books to inform a more ecologically minded archaeology that is relevant to current conversations about landscape and nature…
February 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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We are looking for 8 Female Harbour Pilots for a new programme: SHE_SEES HER VOICE📸
A participatory photography programme to encourage more women to share their own stories.

Get involved👉🔗https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/rewriting-women-into-maritime-history-enters-a-new-international-phase
February 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM