Trevor Wiley
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
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Trevor Wiley
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Getting a lot of new followers from the excellent medieval starter pack - so hello! I'm a Ph.D. student writing a dissertation about the estuary landscapes of fifth- to eighth-century southern Scotland, and more importantly, about the people who lived in them and transformed them.
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JOINT ONLINE EVENT: Care-full: An Examination of Care in Archaeology and Heritage
On 22 January, Prof Hannah Cobb FSA FSAScot discusses how care can be an act of radical and transformative resistance in archaeology at our free event with @antiquaries.bsky.social: www.sal.org.uk/event/care-f...
On 22 January, Prof Hannah Cobb FSA FSAScot discusses how care can be an act of radical and transformative resistance in archaeology at our free event with @antiquaries.bsky.social: www.sal.org.uk/event/care-f...
January 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM
JOINT ONLINE EVENT: Care-full: An Examination of Care in Archaeology and Heritage
On 22 January, Prof Hannah Cobb FSA FSAScot discusses how care can be an act of radical and transformative resistance in archaeology at our free event with @antiquaries.bsky.social: www.sal.org.uk/event/care-f...
On 22 January, Prof Hannah Cobb FSA FSAScot discusses how care can be an act of radical and transformative resistance in archaeology at our free event with @antiquaries.bsky.social: www.sal.org.uk/event/care-f...
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Not assessed. Online. Open to everyone.
If you can't read all the books no problem (I'll provide extracts)
If you can't come every week, no problem (I record my talk)
If you can't do extra work, no proble
Everyone interacts at the level they have time for.
If you can't read all the books no problem (I'll provide extracts)
If you can't come every week, no problem (I record my talk)
If you can't do extra work, no proble
Everyone interacts at the level they have time for.
I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up!
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Not assessed. Online. Open to everyone.
If you can't read all the books no problem (I'll provide extracts)
If you can't come every week, no problem (I record my talk)
If you can't do extra work, no proble
Everyone interacts at the level they have time for.
If you can't read all the books no problem (I'll provide extracts)
If you can't come every week, no problem (I record my talk)
If you can't do extra work, no proble
Everyone interacts at the level they have time for.
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Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
My favorite date to provoke a good argument is always 1918!
Guys, we have failed Bluesky. We have failed utterly. In the days of yore it was clear that if you got two historians into a room and asked them when did the Roman Empire fall you would get three opinions.
Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
My favorite date to provoke a good argument is always 1918!
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🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/
January 1, 2026 at 5:50 PM
🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/
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Does anyone else take great pleasure in printing out vintage line-hachure drawings of prehistoric monuments? Sometimes I mount them on card, sometimes I create handouts for field trips from them. I just love the detail and tangibility of these beautiful, evocative, technical works. 🏺
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Does anyone else take great pleasure in printing out vintage line-hachure drawings of prehistoric monuments? Sometimes I mount them on card, sometimes I create handouts for field trips from them. I just love the detail and tangibility of these beautiful, evocative, technical works. 🏺
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🧬 ⚛️ Want to learn how biomolecular analyses such as #isotopes, ancient #DNA, & proteomics are changing the fields of #medieval history & #archaeology? Then this is the paper for you! We hope it'll be particularly useful for teaching arts & humanities students - so please share & use widely! ❤️ 🔁
December 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧬 ⚛️ Want to learn how biomolecular analyses such as #isotopes, ancient #DNA, & proteomics are changing the fields of #medieval history & #archaeology? Then this is the paper for you! We hope it'll be particularly useful for teaching arts & humanities students - so please share & use widely! ❤️ 🔁
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I hope everyone is spending this holiday season comfortable and happy, with the people you most want to be with.
Beginning in on some newly acquired Christmas reading in a warm sweater, myself.
Beginning in on some newly acquired Christmas reading in a warm sweater, myself.
December 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I hope everyone is spending this holiday season comfortable and happy, with the people you most want to be with.
Beginning in on some newly acquired Christmas reading in a warm sweater, myself.
Beginning in on some newly acquired Christmas reading in a warm sweater, myself.
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hey i made a starter pack of cutting edge humanists (broadly defined) doing cool stuff inside and outside academia.
check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!
check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!
November 1, 2024 at 4:23 PM
hey i made a starter pack of cutting edge humanists (broadly defined) doing cool stuff inside and outside academia.
check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!
check out these folks and repost to signal boost! let's see if we can't "network" better than conferences!
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My main point when bringing up historical accuracy in movies isn't that I, an archaeologist, am demanding 100% accuracy at all times always, it's because I want to see something good and not the same cheap shit we see over and over again when things are set in Rome, Greece, etc.
December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My main point when bringing up historical accuracy in movies isn't that I, an archaeologist, am demanding 100% accuracy at all times always, it's because I want to see something good and not the same cheap shit we see over and over again when things are set in Rome, Greece, etc.
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Very excited to see this out in the wild 👀🏺
It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle.
The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉
It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle.
The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉
📣Now Available📣
The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺
@brparchaeology.bsky.social
The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺
@brparchaeology.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Very excited to see this out in the wild 👀🏺
It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle.
The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉
It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle.
The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉
My absolute favorite of the OE poems as well, and this is a lovely set of thoughts on it.
Was a joy to recently revisit it for the baþian brimfuglas - bathing sea-birds - part of the coastal world imagined by the poet (from experience?)
Was a joy to recently revisit it for the baþian brimfuglas - bathing sea-birds - part of the coastal world imagined by the poet (from experience?)
New post, in which I talk about the Old English poem “The Wanderer” and the place of empathy in interpretation.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/12/19/t...
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/12/19/t...
The Wanderer
The role of empathy in reading pre-modern literature If you’d prefer, you can listen to this article below The Wanderer was the first piece of Old English literature that really grabbed …
nikolasgunn.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
My absolute favorite of the OE poems as well, and this is a lovely set of thoughts on it.
Was a joy to recently revisit it for the baþian brimfuglas - bathing sea-birds - part of the coastal world imagined by the poet (from experience?)
Was a joy to recently revisit it for the baþian brimfuglas - bathing sea-birds - part of the coastal world imagined by the poet (from experience?)
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☠️ I'm in a 1,500-year-old graveyard at Govan Old to tell you about ⤵️
A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY!
It's written by me, Dr Tom Horne, and brought to you on Substack by History Hit.
Out 2x a week, on Mondays and Fridays, it showcases the most interesting #history and #archaeology from around the globe.
A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY!
It's written by me, Dr Tom Horne, and brought to you on Substack by History Hit.
Out 2x a week, on Mondays and Fridays, it showcases the most interesting #history and #archaeology from around the globe.
December 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
☠️ I'm in a 1,500-year-old graveyard at Govan Old to tell you about ⤵️
A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY!
It's written by me, Dr Tom Horne, and brought to you on Substack by History Hit.
Out 2x a week, on Mondays and Fridays, it showcases the most interesting #history and #archaeology from around the globe.
A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY!
It's written by me, Dr Tom Horne, and brought to you on Substack by History Hit.
Out 2x a week, on Mondays and Fridays, it showcases the most interesting #history and #archaeology from around the globe.
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Open access and hot off the presses for anyone interested in the end of Roman Britain.
Establishing a Chronology for Roman and Post-Roman Stanwick, Northamptonshire | Britannia | Cambridge Core
Establishing a Chronology for Roman and Post-Roman Stanwick, Northamptonshire
doi.org
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Open access and hot off the presses for anyone interested in the end of Roman Britain.
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If you’re feeling the holiday spirit, consider throwing a few dollars to Lonesome Pine Mutual Aid! After getting more than $20k directly into the hands of folks in need, our coffers could use a boost. CashApp is $carecollectiveofswva and Venmo @carecollectiveofswva. Just label the donation “LPMA”!
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you’re feeling the holiday spirit, consider throwing a few dollars to Lonesome Pine Mutual Aid! After getting more than $20k directly into the hands of folks in need, our coffers could use a boost. CashApp is $carecollectiveofswva and Venmo @carecollectiveofswva. Just label the donation “LPMA”!
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
So grading ends, and holiday editing begins...
December 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
So grading ends, and holiday editing begins...
The fact that a significant amount of my grading time nowadays is taken up just by trying to figure out if the work is AI is so deeply depressing.
I could be spending this extra time writing comments or suggestions, or assessing structure, or checking sources, but no...
I could be spending this extra time writing comments or suggestions, or assessing structure, or checking sources, but no...
December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The fact that a significant amount of my grading time nowadays is taken up just by trying to figure out if the work is AI is so deeply depressing.
I could be spending this extra time writing comments or suggestions, or assessing structure, or checking sources, but no...
I could be spending this extra time writing comments or suggestions, or assessing structure, or checking sources, but no...
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A treat for you in the New Year - the work at East Lomond, a major Pictish and late Roman fort conducted by Northern Picts and the Falkland Stewardship Trust will feature on the new series of Digging for Britain. The episode will be broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A treat for you in the New Year - the work at East Lomond, a major Pictish and late Roman fort conducted by Northern Picts and the Falkland Stewardship Trust will feature on the new series of Digging for Britain. The episode will be broadcast on the 28th January at 20:00 on BBC2.
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I need your help! I want to put together a year-end episode, and I want to know what you read this year. Go here: www.speakpipe.com/DraftingtheP... and record a short message telling me who you are and the best history book you read this year. Doesn't have to be published this year!
Send a voice message to
DraftingthePast
A podcast devoted to the craft of writing history.
www.speakpipe.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I need your help! I want to put together a year-end episode, and I want to know what you read this year. Go here: www.speakpipe.com/DraftingtheP... and record a short message telling me who you are and the best history book you read this year. Doesn't have to be published this year!
I am also a big Macfarlane fan, and his work has really helped in thinking about my own work on landscape... and this is a great cause!
I got the hardback of Is a River Alive when it came out and tore through it, and can't recommend it enough - grab a copy, help the rivers!
I got the hardback of Is a River Alive when it came out and tore through it, and can't recommend it enough - grab a copy, help the rivers!
I'm a big fan of the work of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and he's now donating one pound from sales of the paperback of Is a River Alive to @riveractionuk.bsky.social. It's published in March next year, but available for pre-order uk.bookshop.org/p/books/is-a... Pre-orders count as presents, surely
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I am also a big Macfarlane fan, and his work has really helped in thinking about my own work on landscape... and this is a great cause!
I got the hardback of Is a River Alive when it came out and tore through it, and can't recommend it enough - grab a copy, help the rivers!
I got the hardback of Is a River Alive when it came out and tore through it, and can't recommend it enough - grab a copy, help the rivers!
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We have a brand new mini-podcast, thanks to @monikierockart.bsky.social! PAS committee members and other Picticists answer five questions in 10 minutes about what got them interested in the Picts, sites they'd recommend, etc. First up is actually me (@fortrenn.bsky.social), with more to come soon.
Pictish Shorts Episode 1- Fiona Campbell-Howes
YouTube video by The Scot-Craft Podcast
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December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
We have a brand new mini-podcast, thanks to @monikierockart.bsky.social! PAS committee members and other Picticists answer five questions in 10 minutes about what got them interested in the Picts, sites they'd recommend, etc. First up is actually me (@fortrenn.bsky.social), with more to come soon.
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Our plans to establish a new environmental #archaeology laboratory in Kirkwall have been #approved by Orkney Islands Council.
Council approves plans for AEONS environmental archaeology facility
The UHI Archaeology Institute's plans to establish a new environmental archaeology laboratory in Kirkwall have been approved by Orkney Islands Council.
archaeologyorkney.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Our plans to establish a new environmental #archaeology laboratory in Kirkwall have been #approved by Orkney Islands Council.