Dr Stephen O'Brien
@rhipsaspis.bsky.social
An archaeologist of no importance.
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Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Got the editors' blessing to share this news. My chapter "National Socialist Black Metal & the Usurpation of Greece and Rome" will appear in the forthcoming volume "Abusing Antiquity? Classics and the Contemporary Far Right," edited by Helen Roche and @denisemccoskey.bsky.social!
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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I've signed this - it's imperative that archaeologists challenge the uses of the past to justify and perpetuate genocide, and to apply our reseasrch and teaching expertise to critique, investigate and challenge those conducting genocide.
In response to ICOMOS Palestine's February 2025 appeal, archaeologists of conscience everywhere are mobilising. We are calling on our representative bodies to boycott Israel now!
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Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel
Please fill out the form below and add your name to over 1100 others on this open letter*, calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal for cultural he...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I've signed this - it's imperative that archaeologists challenge the uses of the past to justify and perpetuate genocide, and to apply our reseasrch and teaching expertise to critique, investigate and challenge those conducting genocide.
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I'm just back from a week of carrying out portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in Greece. 🏺🏛
June 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I'm just back from a week of carrying out portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in Greece. 🏺🏛
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I've often wondered if the primary benefits of elite education are knowing when to be quiet for personal gain and how to manage or avoid cognitive dissonance while ignoring injustice. It sure seems like elite universities are going all in on punishing their students who haven't learned those lessons
groveling collaborative fucks at nyu behaving exactly as expected
May 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I've often wondered if the primary benefits of elite education are knowing when to be quiet for personal gain and how to manage or avoid cognitive dissonance while ignoring injustice. It sure seems like elite universities are going all in on punishing their students who haven't learned those lessons
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UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open Letter to CBA, CIfA, FAME, and UAUK, in relation the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Interim Guidance
If you are in any way involved in UK Archaeology (in its broadest sense), and you would like to sign this open letter then please fill in GOOGLE FORM LINK. Responses will be manually inputted. The for...
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May 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
UK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Please sign this open letter to UK Archaeological associations to urge solidarity with trans archaeologists and action in light of the horrendous EHRC guidance:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"There is immense variation between individuals within a biological sex. Biological sex itself (not just gender) is a spectrum – and it really shouldn't be a big deal. If you don't like trans people then just be honest about your prejudices."
Small museums respond to UK Supreme Court gender ruling - Museums Association
Vagina Museum and Crab Museum pledge their support for trans community
www.museumsassociation.org
April 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"There is immense variation between individuals within a biological sex. Biological sex itself (not just gender) is a spectrum – and it really shouldn't be a big deal. If you don't like trans people then just be honest about your prejudices."
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Museums in the UK are increasingly having to deal with requests to access or get information on human skeletal remains from Britain in their care because the people requesting access have been told they have a specific genetic connection to an ancient individual.
Opinion | Genetic descent: a new challenge for the management of human remains in museums
The rise in commercial DNA tests is having unforeseen consequences for museums.
The rise in commercial DNA tests is having unforeseen consequences for museums.
Genetic descent: a new challenge for the management of human remains in museums - Museums Association
The rise in commercial DNA tests is having unforeseen consequences for museums
www.museumsassociation.org
April 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Museums in the UK are increasingly having to deal with requests to access or get information on human skeletal remains from Britain in their care because the people requesting access have been told they have a specific genetic connection to an ancient individual.
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There is an academic job market / labor mobility if you're a tenured prof at an Ivy. The rest of us will have to suffer the end of the American university system as we know it.
This speaks volumes:
Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
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Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada.
leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03...
munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
There is an academic job market / labor mobility if you're a tenured prof at an Ivy. The rest of us will have to suffer the end of the American university system as we know it.
A Statement by Colonel The Right Honourable Mark Antony Will Follow Shortly. 🏺🏛
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A Statement by Colonel The Right Honourable Mark Antony
YouTube video by Celluloid Justice
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March 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A Statement by Colonel The Right Honourable Mark Antony Will Follow Shortly. 🏺🏛
youtu.be/fytCo8YQf0k?...
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My response to Cambridge University Press wishing me to sign away my work to train AI.
March 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
My response to Cambridge University Press wishing me to sign away my work to train AI.
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As a human rights scholar, I've read countless reports where both Western media + prominent human rights organizations term this as an "enforced disappearance" when this happens in other countries. Wild (and completely unsurprising) how the same terminology is missing when it's happening in the US
A U.S. greencard holder of Palestinian origin, active in Columbia's student encampment, was arrested by ICE yesterday from his home, separated from his 8-month pregnant wife, told his greencard would be revoked, and taken into custody.
America today. apnews.com/article/colu...
America today. apnews.com/article/colu...
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
apnews.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As a human rights scholar, I've read countless reports where both Western media + prominent human rights organizations term this as an "enforced disappearance" when this happens in other countries. Wild (and completely unsurprising) how the same terminology is missing when it's happening in the US
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Now available for preorder - The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World is an original and provocative reconstruction of 1,400 years of classical antiquity. Sharply written, it is a major intervention in Marxist theories of cl...
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March 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Now available for preorder - The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World by G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
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"It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology: Making, understanding, storytelling" by Prof Aidan O'Sullivan
This talk was recorded as part of the Garrod research seminar series hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on 11 November 2021.
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This talk was recorded as part of the Garrod research seminar series hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on 11 November 2021.
youtu.be/x9FIEoWrZyg?...
Prof Aidan O'Sullivan - It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology
YouTube video by Cambridge Archaeology
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February 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"It might have been like this? Experimental archaeology: Making, understanding, storytelling" by Prof Aidan O'Sullivan
This talk was recorded as part of the Garrod research seminar series hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on 11 November 2021.
youtu.be/x9FIEoWrZyg?...
This talk was recorded as part of the Garrod research seminar series hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research on 11 November 2021.
youtu.be/x9FIEoWrZyg?...
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American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza
American Historical Association Condemns Israel’s Scholasticide in Gaza
The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehensively...
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January 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … [Eric] Bristow's only 27."
– Sid Waddell (1984)
– Sid Waddell (1984)
Luke Littler thrashes Michael van Gerwen to claim historic world title
Luke Littler thrashes Michael van Gerwen to claim historic world title
* 17-year-old Englishman beats his Dutch rival 7-3
* Littler becomes youngest ever PDC world champion
Tonight the Palace; tomorrow the planet. Whatever Luke Littler goes on to achieve in the fields of darts, celebrity or world peace, nothing will…
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer … [Eric] Bristow's only 27."
– Sid Waddell (1984)
– Sid Waddell (1984)
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Archaeodeath Notes on Necroviolence and Gaza howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/a...
Archaeodeath Notes on Necroviolence and Gaza
Stop the conflict, end the genocide and cease the Gazan necroviolence! ‘Death is not the end’ when it comes to state-violence – because violence can extend to the dead and their t…
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December 23, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Archaeodeath Notes on Necroviolence and Gaza howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/a...
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New paper out today. It's always worth reading the original research, rather than the media spin...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
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#Archaeology #Prehistory
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‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK
www.cambridge.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:37 AM
New paper out today. It's always worth reading the original research, rather than the media spin...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#Archaeology #Prehistory
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sad news from SHA: Mark Leone, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, has passed away. A founding voice in US Marxist archaeology, director of the long-running Annapolis archaeology project.
December 14, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Sad news from SHA: Mark Leone, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, has passed away. A founding voice in US Marxist archaeology, director of the long-running Annapolis archaeology project.
An author copy! 🏺🏛
December 12, 2024 at 1:36 PM
An author copy! 🏺🏛
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A masterpiece
December 6, 2024 at 10:26 PM
A masterpiece
The one time I spoke to Colin Renfrew it was at the TAG conference in Exeter in 2006. He was impressed that I'd successfully identified an extract from a Seamus Heaney poem in the TAG quiz. 🏺🏛
November 25, 2024 at 10:20 AM
The one time I spoke to Colin Renfrew it was at the TAG conference in Exeter in 2006. He was impressed that I'd successfully identified an extract from a Seamus Heaney poem in the TAG quiz. 🏺🏛
The BAJR report on poverty in UK commercial archaeology, released today. www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/ar...
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Archaeologists in Financial Crisis – Poverty Impact Report 2024
This 2024 Poverty Impact Report is based on the responses of 645 individuals in UK archaeology. The statistics that have been collected, analysed and collated by Lu Stanton-Greenwood. The concept w…
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November 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM
The BAJR report on poverty in UK commercial archaeology, released today. www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/ar...
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