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News, events and research from the Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
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Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
We are looking forward to the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture tomorrow.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We are looking forward to the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture tomorrow.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
Join us this Thursday for ‘The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia’ with Amaia Arranz Otaegui from @ehu.eus
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Join us this Thursday for ‘The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia’ with Amaia Arranz Otaegui from @ehu.eus
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
Happy Birthday to Dr Rose Solecki who turns 100 today!
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy Birthday to Dr Rose Solecki who turns 100 today!
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
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Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
Join us for ‘Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies’ with Michelle Alexander from University of York
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Join us for ‘Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies’ with Michelle Alexander from University of York
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
The MAEASaM & MAHSA teams announce two new articles:
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The MAEASaM & MAHSA teams announce two new articles:
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
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Register for the CAA-UK Conference 2025! 📢
Join us in December for conversations in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
Find out more and register to attend here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...
Join us in December for conversations in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
Find out more and register to attend here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Register for the CAA-UK Conference 2025! 📢
Join us in December for conversations in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
Find out more and register to attend here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...
Join us in December for conversations in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
Find out more and register to attend here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...
Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you?
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
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Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you?
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Join us this Thursday for ‘Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways’ with Erica Rowan from Royal Hollaway, University of London
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Join us this Thursday for ‘Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways’ with Erica Rowan from Royal Hollaway, University of London
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
We are delighted that three Cambridge Archaeologists have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants; Prof Enrico Crema as co-PI of FORAGER, and Dr Stefania Merlo and Prof Paul Lane as collaborators of the AFRI-CAN Project.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We are delighted that three Cambridge Archaeologists have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants; Prof Enrico Crema as co-PI of FORAGER, and Dr Stefania Merlo and Prof Paul Lane as collaborators of the AFRI-CAN Project.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
On 23 and 24 October, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosted the conference Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century, organised by Federico Zangani.
📸 Federico Zangani
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📸 Federico Zangani
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November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
On 23 and 24 October, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosted the conference Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century, organised by Federico Zangani.
📸 Federico Zangani
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📸 Federico Zangani
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Congratulations to Dr Tamsin O’Connell on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology.
Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇
www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...
This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology.
Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇
www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Congratulations to Dr Tamsin O’Connell on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology.
Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇
www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...
This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology.
Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇
www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...
Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
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Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5T...
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Previously unknown Neolithic society discovered in Morocco - Antiquity author interview
Antiquity authors Professor Cyprian Broodbank and Dr Giulio Lucarini discuss the discovery of the earliest and largest agricultural complex yet found in Africa beyond the Nile, indicating North…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5T...
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Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
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Join the S.A.M.A network for their first event on 4 Nov, online
Tracing the Beat: Dabke and conversation
Prof Shayna Silverstein, on the histories, politics, and cultural life of dabke, a vibrant line-dance tradition shared across the Levant and Syrian diasporas
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47811
Tracing the Beat: Dabke and conversation
Prof Shayna Silverstein, on the histories, politics, and cultural life of dabke, a vibrant line-dance tradition shared across the Levant and Syrian diasporas
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47811
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Join the S.A.M.A network for their first event on 4 Nov, online
Tracing the Beat: Dabke and conversation
Prof Shayna Silverstein, on the histories, politics, and cultural life of dabke, a vibrant line-dance tradition shared across the Levant and Syrian diasporas
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47811
Tracing the Beat: Dabke and conversation
Prof Shayna Silverstein, on the histories, politics, and cultural life of dabke, a vibrant line-dance tradition shared across the Levant and Syrian diasporas
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47811
✨ We are delighted that Dr Andrew Pottorf has been recognised by the International Association for Assyriology for Outstanding Early Career-Research.
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
✨ We are delighted that Dr Andrew Pottorf has been recognised by the International Association for Assyriology for Outstanding Early Career-Research.
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
Please join us for the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture on 26 November at 5pm.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please join us for the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture on 26 November at 5pm.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
Join us for ‘Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica’ with Katie Sampeck from the University of Reading
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Join us for ‘Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica’ with Katie Sampeck from the University of Reading
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
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What is the 'last great unknown' of Mediterranean prehistory? Cyprian Broodbank explains the colonial underpinnings of our relative ignorance of north-west African prehistory.
Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What is the 'last great unknown' of Mediterranean prehistory? Cyprian Broodbank explains the colonial underpinnings of our relative ignorance of north-west African prehistory.
Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
✨ A collaboration between Agnese Benzonelli and Caroline Goodson has culminated in the project "Between Tradition and Innovation (BTI): The Evolution of Glass-Making at King’s College Chapel".
@kingscollege.bsky.social
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@kingscollege.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
✨ A collaboration between Agnese Benzonelli and Caroline Goodson has culminated in the project "Between Tradition and Innovation (BTI): The Evolution of Glass-Making at King’s College Chapel".
@kingscollege.bsky.social
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@kingscollege.bsky.social
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Why is the Maghreb so important to understanding Mediterranean prehistory?
Giulio Lucarini explores North Africa's role as a cultural crossroads in the Bronze Age
Read the prize-winning research🆓https://buff.ly/9Yui0ok
#Archaeology
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
Giulio Lucarini explores North Africa's role as a cultural crossroads in the Bronze Age
Read the prize-winning research🆓https://buff.ly/9Yui0ok
#Archaeology
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Why is the Maghreb so important to understanding Mediterranean prehistory?
Giulio Lucarini explores North Africa's role as a cultural crossroads in the Bronze Age
Read the prize-winning research🆓https://buff.ly/9Yui0ok
#Archaeology
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
Giulio Lucarini explores North Africa's role as a cultural crossroads in the Bronze Age
Read the prize-winning research🆓https://buff.ly/9Yui0ok
#Archaeology
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
We are delighted to share that Dr John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by the @leverhulme.ac.uk
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are delighted to share that Dr John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by the @leverhulme.ac.uk
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Join us this Thursday for ‘Pots, Bones and Biomolecules: Multiproxy Dietary Reconstructions in the Baltic Region’ with Ester Oras from University of Tartu
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Join us this Thursday for ‘Pots, Bones and Biomolecules: Multiproxy Dietary Reconstructions in the Baltic Region’ with Ester Oras from University of Tartu
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide