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Russell Ó Ríagáin
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews

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Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books

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Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social · Nov 12
Hello new followers!

About me: I am currently conducting the project 'A prosopography of migration in the long Insular Viking Age, c.AD790–1300' at St Andrews, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, combining textual and material approaches.
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ingridrobeyns.bsky.social
Dutch universities go on strike - for the first time since anyone can remember. We protest the treatment and budget cuts of our extreme-right government. The strikers take turns - and Leiden university kicks off tomorrow. ✊🏼
March 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
“Who would have believed that 80 years after the greatest tragedy in Jewish history, the mass murder of half of the Jews in the world, a Jewish state would choose antisemites as its allies?”

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
Why is Netanyahu's Israel cozying up to Europe's antisemitic far right? | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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1000plateaus.bsky.social
postdoctoral research fellow for Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution Of Heritage-based Hostility On Social Media’ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p... #AcademicJobs
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
An academic position as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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thecelticist.bsky.social
On #InternationalWomensDay here are four fantastic books written by four fearless, intelligent, brilliant women that I have the privilege of knowing. Read women's words! 💪🏻📚
Justine Firnhaber-Baker, House of Lilies: the Dynasty that Made Medieval France Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women Sally Hayden, My Fourth Time We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route Suad Aldarra, I Don't Want To Talk About Home: A Migrant's Search for Belonging
March 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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sethchagi.bsky.social
This 1.5-myo bone tool is part of a newly discovered set of 27, made from large mammal bones like hippos and elephants. Found in Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania, this pushes back systematic bone-tool use by a million years.

www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of...

#Paleoanthropology #Anthropology
March 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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hornesupremacy.bsky.social
Aberlemno 3, a C9th #Pictish cross-slab of huge historical and artistic importance, has been blown over. The images give an indication of the damage, currently being assessed by HES.

Canmore 34863

See aberlemno.org/pictish-room... and Aberlemno Village Hall FB for updates

📷 Aberlemno Village Hall
March 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
This is excrutiating for us to watch back, but was fun to film and I hope will be of use more broadly. Let us know if you use it for teaching etc.! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/radiocarbon-...
The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a sample
archit.web.ox.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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janmachielsen.bsky.social
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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uonenglish.bsky.social
In collaboration with the University of Leicester, we are delighted to announce the return of the Midlands Viking Symposium!

Saturday 17 May 2025, 10am - 5pm
Senate Chamber, Trent Building, University of Nottingham
Registration: £30

Find out more: nott.ac/midlandsvikingsymposium
An open landscape around a bay with a boat on the water. Text repeated in post.
March 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#HistorianSignBunny
February 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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niamhwycherley.bsky.social
Job alert!!
Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details.
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February 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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lawcult.bsky.social
Our next lecture in the series is on 12th March at 15.00 CET by Sara Elin Roberts on the compilation of the law in medieval Wales. For more information and to register for the Zoom link, click here: www.uib.no/en/rg/lawand...
Lawyers and Lawbooks: Compiling the Law in Medieval Wales
We are delighted to welcome Sara Elin Roberts, Honorary Professor at the School of Welsh, Bangor University for her online guest lecture on medieval Welsh lawbooks.
www.uib.no
February 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social
A murder of crows and a gaggle of geese seem to be in the midst of some sort of avian version of Westside Story set in Guardbridge. #villageproblems
February 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
I'm thrilled to announce I'll be working on a 3rd book with my great publisher, Hachette: 'Rewilding Ireland'.

I hope the result will help continue the growth in interest and support for what is by FAR the best cure for nature collapse in one of the world's most ecologically ruined countries. 🌍
February 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social
📣 WE ARE RECRUITING A 3-YEAR POST-DOC RESEARCHER 📣 to work on the new @leverhulme.bsky.social project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based hostility on social media', with myself and @acerbialberto.com, based at @uoe-sps.bsky.social. Apply by 24/03/25: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/p...
February 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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elenaparina.bsky.social
The Department of Celtic Studies (IAAK, Uni Bonn) will host the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 27th to 30th August 2025.
The deadline for abstracts is 28th February.
Any questions can be addressed to escs4@uni-bonn.de.
We look forward to receiving your contributions!
December 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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davidstifter.bsky.social
1. "Hound's X" (Old Irish Con...) and 2. "Hound of X" (OIr. Cú X) are two very different types of names and formations.
Both are extremely common; however, only the former type is found very commonly on ogam inscriptions (CUNA...).
The second type, which I call binomial names or phrasal names,...
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dkhbklyn.bsky.social Dkh_Bklyn @dkhbklyn.bsky.social · Feb 25
Interesting! ‘Hound’s head’ immediately makes me think of Cuchulainn. Is “Hound of ____” a common warrior’s epithet? The Ogham stones are generally believed to be headstones of important warriors/leaders so my brain goes there… But that’s just wild speculation.
February 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social
I don't think I can ever overstate just how much of a fantastic resources @dias-isos.bsky.social is.
February 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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socmedfem.bsky.social
Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.
February 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social
🐋 Animal #563 🐿️
I figured it out in 2 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 6.9

metazooa.com
#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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February 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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emile-chabal.bsky.social
Hard to describe my sheer excitement at the news that my first book in French will appear in the autumn! It's a revised translation of my introduction to contemporary French history for Polity, which came out in 2020. Tell your French friends! Link: www.markushaller.com/d/Chabal-dos...
February 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
With all the new archive accounts on Bluesky our list of UK & Republic of Ireland archives has now hit a round 130!

Welcome too to the excellent Clarks Archive at @shoemakersmuseum.bsky.social
& *the first official UK National Archives account* @natarchivestrust.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/6Qz8qG3
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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blindboyboatclub.bsky.social
If you’re not a member of your local library then you’re a silly billy. You get free access to online newspapers and a movie streaming service called Kanopy which is a bit like Mubi www.librariesireland.ie
Library Services in Ireland | Libraries Ireland
Welcome to the Library Services in Ireland. With Resources for Business and Employment Support, School Services, Reading Adventure and Digital Reading.
www.librariesireland.ie
February 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM