David Roberts
@davidrobertsarch.bsky.social
Archaeologist at Cardiff University, directs Teffont Archaeology. Views my own not my institution's.
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith
The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What’s the difference between the period before Alexander the Great died and the period after he died?
One is kinda nistic, the other is hella nistic
One is kinda nistic, the other is hella nistic
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What’s the difference between the period before Alexander the Great died and the period after he died?
One is kinda nistic, the other is hella nistic
One is kinda nistic, the other is hella nistic
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A view from Norwich Castle of the wonderful Church of St. Peter Mancroft. The Church was built in one phase between 1430 and 1455. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StPeterMancroft #Norwich
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A view from Norwich Castle of the wonderful Church of St. Peter Mancroft. The Church was built in one phase between 1430 and 1455. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StPeterMancroft #Norwich
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It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
BAJR SURVEY PIR III: ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN FINANCIAL CRISIS
Inflation, energy costs, fuel costs and food are becoming increasingly expensive - this anonymous survey will help to understand the level of Financial Crisis we are in as archaeologists - as individu...
survey.app.do
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It is that time again. And that time where its up to you, to help make our collective lives better. Poverty Impact Report 2025 is anonymous and we so need this information to help.
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
Please answer if you are employed in - or have been employed in UK Archaeology
survey.app.do/archaeologis...
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Time to lie face down on the floor
I wrote about the stupid white paper.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
In summary, with these people in the driver's seat and apparently unbothered by consequences, we're so cooked.
Somewhere in the Department for Education, a phone is ringing
On October 20th at a bit after 5pm, the UK government introduced its Education and Skills white paper to Parliament, to absolutely no…
hitchcockian.medium.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Time to lie face down on the floor
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I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
Elon Musk donates $1 million for archaeological sites in Rome
Through the Musk Foundation, the foundation established in 2021 to support international humanitarian and scientific projects, Elon Musk, has chosen to fund a program dedicated to Rome's archaeologica...
www.finestresullarte.info
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...
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REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
October 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
REMINDER. Calling all hillfort folk and ex diggers from Maiden Castle excavation 1985 and 1986. There will be a small display and film from the excavations. Bring any stories, photos etc for archive gathering.
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Our fifth session at TRAC-TiDA 2025 looks at integrating the study of ancient DNA with archaeological theory and practice, in an interdisciplinary dive into one of the most fascinating and challenging topics facing our discipline today.
www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20...
www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20...
TRAC-TiDA 2025
Registration now open! We are pleased to announce that the The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, TRAC-TiDA 2025 will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format thro…
www.trac.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our fifth session at TRAC-TiDA 2025 looks at integrating the study of ancient DNA with archaeological theory and practice, in an interdisciplinary dive into one of the most fascinating and challenging topics facing our discipline today.
www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20...
www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20...
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Hey, grad students—this is for you! Getty’s graduate internship program hosts full-time paid 12-month positions at the Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles.
Apply before November 4 for the 2026–27 program: gty.art/gradinterns
Apply before November 4 for the 2026–27 program: gty.art/gradinterns
October 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hey, grad students—this is for you! Getty’s graduate internship program hosts full-time paid 12-month positions at the Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles.
Apply before November 4 for the 2026–27 program: gty.art/gradinterns
Apply before November 4 for the 2026–27 program: gty.art/gradinterns
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This can't be real can it? An AGI paper from many big names in the field that invents a metric of AGI and claims we're 58% of the way there, and then the references are fake, generated by an LLM? That's got to be an elaborate hoax doesn't it? It's too perfect.
The viral "Definition of AGI" paper tells you to read fake references which do not exist!
Proof: different articles present at the specified journal/volume/page number, and their titles exist nowhere on any searchable repository.
Take this as a warning to not use LMs to generate your references!
Proof: different articles present at the specified journal/volume/page number, and their titles exist nowhere on any searchable repository.
Take this as a warning to not use LMs to generate your references!
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This can't be real can it? An AGI paper from many big names in the field that invents a metric of AGI and claims we're 58% of the way there, and then the references are fake, generated by an LLM? That's got to be an elaborate hoax doesn't it? It's too perfect.
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Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Professors *never* supply information. Students aren’t paying premium prices for ‘information’ at all. How can people who presumably have attended universities misunderstand their role so badly?
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À ces deux scandales récents, il faut ajouter la destruction, en début d'année, de 500 m2 de vestiges sur l'oppidum de Corent (Auvergne), sur un site pourtant classé MH dont les travaux d'aménagement en cours n'ont donné lieu à aucune prescription malgré le diagnostic positif réalisé par l'Inrap...
"Scandales archéologiques en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes : l’austérité rase notre passé"
Une tribune d'archéologues publiée dans l'@humanite.fr en libre accès et à faire circuler
Une tribune d'archéologues publiée dans l'@humanite.fr en libre accès et à faire circuler
Scandales archéologiques en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes : l’austérité rase notre passé - L'Humanité
www.humanite.fr
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
À ces deux scandales récents, il faut ajouter la destruction, en début d'année, de 500 m2 de vestiges sur l'oppidum de Corent (Auvergne), sur un site pourtant classé MH dont les travaux d'aménagement en cours n'ont donné lieu à aucune prescription malgré le diagnostic positif réalisé par l'Inrap...
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We don't just have university departments represented at University Archaeology Day #UAD25! The CBA @archaeologyuk.bsky.social will also be there and contributing to our panel session talking about the huge range of careers you can pursue with an archaeology degree!
October 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
We don't just have university departments represented at University Archaeology Day #UAD25! The CBA @archaeologyuk.bsky.social will also be there and contributing to our panel session talking about the huge range of careers you can pursue with an archaeology degree!
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Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
@royalarchinst.bsky.social
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
@royalarchinst.bsky.social
Bursaries
Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
@royalarchinst.bsky.social
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
@royalarchinst.bsky.social
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The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.
Art meets archaeology in new exhibition about Wiltshire landscape - BBC News
Artist and archaeologist Dr Rose Ferraby's exhibition aims to show Wiltshire's influence on art.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
The exhibition at the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes consists of screenprints, paintings and relief prints, alongside books, lithographs, prints, paintings, drawings and maps drawn from the museum's own collection.
Thanks to CBA for two nominations for Teffont Archaeology! Delighted to see our efforts to engage people from all backgrounds and demographics in archaeology, and our training and skills work, for everyone from carers, to volunteers, to positive action placements and students, recognised like this.
We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉
Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.
Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk
Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.
Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk
October 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Thanks to CBA for two nominations for Teffont Archaeology! Delighted to see our efforts to engage people from all backgrounds and demographics in archaeology, and our training and skills work, for everyone from carers, to volunteers, to positive action placements and students, recognised like this.
Just back from our final Teffont Archaeology workshop! Double header of human remains by Dr Anna Davies Barrett, plus three talks. Nearly 150 volunteers engaged in under 24 hours... exhausted! Thanks to NLHF for funding, and to our hosts in Teffont, Bowerchalke and Horningsham for the talks!
October 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Just back from our final Teffont Archaeology workshop! Double header of human remains by Dr Anna Davies Barrett, plus three talks. Nearly 150 volunteers engaged in under 24 hours... exhausted! Thanks to NLHF for funding, and to our hosts in Teffont, Bowerchalke and Horningsham for the talks!
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
September 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.
Amazing, inspiring Rugby World Cup final between England and Canada. Fantastic performance by the Red Roses under huge pressure. Perhaps they and the Lionesses are a better and truer vision of today's England than the standard negative, backward looking, exclusive media narrative..
September 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Amazing, inspiring Rugby World Cup final between England and Canada. Fantastic performance by the Red Roses under huge pressure. Perhaps they and the Lionesses are a better and truer vision of today's England than the standard negative, backward looking, exclusive media narrative..
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AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions are open for applications! Work in a major cultural or heritage host organisation on a co-designed research project. Apply by 10 Dec 2025.
More info:
More info:
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
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September 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions are open for applications! Work in a major cultural or heritage host organisation on a co-designed research project. Apply by 10 Dec 2025.
More info:
More info:
Just a reminder to the museums sector, UK national minimum wage for over 21 years old is £12.21 per hour, or at 40hrs per week, £25396...
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Just a reminder to the museums sector, UK national minimum wage for over 21 years old is £12.21 per hour, or at 40hrs per week, £25396...