Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
@animalarchaeology.com
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Zooarchaeologist. 🏺 Museums & Heritage Researcher. 📜 Science Communicator & Writer. 🧪 Chinese-American Immigrant in the UK. She/Her/她. All views my own. 🏳️‍🌈♿️ https://dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co/
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I’ve got a bunch of new followers this week, so just a friendly reminder that I am unable to check any DMs at the moment due to the age verification nonsense.

Instead, you can find my contact details - and links to my work - here!

dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
Links to find me and my current work.
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13 hours left 👋🏾 please share

Palestinians are seeing people lose interest in their lives even though famine, fire, grief are still terrorizing them.

We haven’t made our goals in three days. That translates to less money for food & shelter for 21 families ok?

We’re matching 250 🫶🏾 171/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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📜 Also in a little over a month, I’ll be talking about my work with communities at Museum Development North’s Transforming Collections online event!

You can book at the link below.

www.museumdevelopmentnorth.org.uk/event/transf...
Transforming Collections Programme: Co-creating Collections, 20 November 2025, online via zoom – Museum Development North
www.museumdevelopmentnorth.org.uk
animalarchaeology.com
This year has been probably the worst for writer’s block for me and I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older and more tired or, you know, the consequences of living amongst The Horrors™️ these days.
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Reminder that I’ll be speaking at the SMA Conference next month, assuming I get over this recent bout of writer’s block and actually finish my paper. 😭
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🏺📜 Next month! I’ll be giving a talk about my recent work with @garstangmuseum.bsky.social at the Society for Museum Archaeology Conference in Liverpool. You can get tickets at the link below.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...
An orange coloured graphic with two boxes of text. 

In the top box it reads, “Join us for the Society for Museum Archaeology Annual Conference in Liverpool, 13-14 November 2025!
Help us celebrate our anniversary - find out what has changed, what has not, and explore the world of museum archaeology today...”

In the box below this one it reads, “Meet our Speakers! Alex Fitzpatrick,
COLLECTIONS INFORMATION & ACCESS DEVELOPER, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. Interdisciplinary museums researcher and archaeologist currently developing new ways of making distributed collections more visible and accessible to others through digital and hybrid means.”

To the left of this text is a photo of me, an East Asian woman in her thirties with black shaggy hair and fringe, a white blouse on, and large square glasses.
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🏺 Really excited for these glass plate negatives to become more accessible online, they’re really wonderful.
garstangmuseum.bsky.social
This glass plate #negative shows the reverse of a red slate votive tablet from site 6 (Lion Temple). It depicts King Tanyidamani in a long robe, with helmet-crown and sceptre. The original #photo was took in 1910 by Garstang during his #excavations of the ancient Sudanese site of Meroë. JG/M/E/7/b
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145/1000 with 15 hours left… still plenty left to match
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We continue: out of duty, as our promise—because we still need to keep hope alive ❤️‍🔥

Today only, we’re matching £250 / $333 to help six families & a camp STILL survive. That means food, shelter, transport north, baby clothes.

24 hours left 🚨 0/1000: chuffed.org/project/hope...
A graphic featuring a black ink illustration of a falcon with his wings partly open. Title: “Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza giving circle” decorated with a red watercolor poppy. Text: Six families are completely starting over—amidst their grief and pain, they have lost their homes, livelihoods, and communities, and must still seek food and shelter. Help them start over and continue to survive this life-and-death situation. Give and be matched. https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle.”
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thembo.bsky.social
Democratic Party Leadership reading this article and immediately redoubling their efforts to try and win these guys votes while scolding socialists for being Too Extreme.
jaredlholt.bsky.social
One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
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(friendly reminder though that if you DO wanna get in touch with me, my contact details can be found here along with my other various links and whatnots)

dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
Dr Alex Fitzpatrick
Links to find me and my current work.
dralexfitzpatrick.carrd.co
animalarchaeology.com
since the UK Online Safety Bill went into effect I’ve had two notifications for DMs that I have been unable to remove and it has slowly been draining my life force
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will likely be visiting the US to see family for the holidays this year but am mostly looking forward to finally getting access to my BlueSky DMs again
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zeets.bsky.social
Standing and working against the Republicans is naturally a moral good because their worldview is so evil. It takes no second thought from me. And I honestly thought their counterparts would find a massacre indefensible but it became quickly clear that Israel supersedes any defense of human life.
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zeets.bsky.social
I don’t think I’m alone in saying that the last few years planted a kind of hatred for everyone in that administration and the whole game of liberal politics that won’t go away. I have spiritual contempt for anyone who allowed it to happen and tried to defend that position.
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zeets.bsky.social
Beyond the morally corrosive idea that everyone should have shut up as tens of thousands of people were blown up with American weapons, it’s just so comedic because the Dems will throw every group and position away if they think they can win any right wing vote. But can’t budge on genocide.
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zeets.bsky.social
It’s also been so amazing to watch liberals go from dismissing protestors and the calls for Biden to pressure Israel to end its genocide to now blaming those people for the Dems losing the election. And somehow the party that was sponsoring the event and watching it cost them has no responsibility.
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toxidrone.bsky.social
Please help the Om Jameel family get through this difficult phase. Aid is still being limited and everything is still expensive.

The genocide is not yet over and we still have a responsibility to the people of Gaza. Please keep talking about the genocide.

shorturl.at/hcCSb
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pastures.myatproto.social
To view this country as a flawed but noble project is to ignore the blood of millions of Native and Black people. A "Magda Goebbels makes good strudel" belief on a grand scale, to borrow that delightful saying we all recently learned
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Yes, to be clear, I am arguing that we should abolish America and not just ICE. This is really the most American moment in modern history (horrified, derogatory). Any attempt to reform it is fundamentally a statement that one agrees with the theft of Native land & the ethnic cleansing of a continent
swin24.bsky.social
For diff reasons, there are people who say if u look at the grand scheme of American history, Trumpism isn’t all that divergent from what America is, and yes exactly that’s why it’s so titanically bad
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divyampersaud.com
We're now at 20/100 thanks to a lovely person on Mastodon who met this challenge! Who's next?

We're trying to come together to collectively pledge 100/weekly for a community kitchen to meet urgent famine needs in besieged El Fasher. Join in: dhrn.org

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Displacement & Health Relief Network | student-led humanitarian initiative
Displacement & Health Relief Network is a student-led humanitarian initiative sharing stories, advocacy, and relief efforts for refugees, displaced people, and immigrants. Centering dignity, action, a...
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Man, I love being an archaeologist, you encounter so many little Guys™️ like this.
chapps.bsky.social
As cold blustery winds herald an incoming storm to Southern California, I’m bundled up like this little bronze Silenos figurine (we share the same hairstyle, in fact). Brrr! 🥶

Bronze, 1st c. CE. #BritishMuseum #Ancientbluesky 🏺
Small bronze figurine of a somewhat dwarf-like Silenos, the bald, bearded elderly companion of the god Dionysos-Bacchus. He’s tightly wrapped up in his himation (cloak), his hands pulling the garment tight around his chest. He wears an ivy wreath around his head and is barefoot.

British Museum, London (1824,0480.4)
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Look at those horns!!! 😮
palaeohan.bsky.social
I know I’m not team bovid, but it would take a heart of stone not to admire this 10,600 year old Aurochs from Vig in Denmark. #archaeology 🏺
Photo of a huge cattle skeleton - it’s easily 6ft at the shoulder and is stained dark brown after being buried in sediment. It’s standing on a low black shiny plinth and has large forward-curving horncores.
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Please share. We MUST be the steady hand in the dark—and the dark persists, even if fire has partially ceased. But everyone is saying that support for their survival has stopped 😓

Food, shelter, winter items URGENTLY needed for six families.

8 hours left ⚠️ 755/1000
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
chuffed.org