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Dr Matt Pope

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Archaeologist & Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology at UCL, where we run the PaPa MSc programme. Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte. Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE. He/Him 🏺

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Jan 9

Our book, Repeopling La Manche, is available direct from Oxbow Books.
Sharing research the Neanderthal archaeology of #LaCotte and the Ice Age landscapes of Jersey and La Mancheland.
www.oxbowbooks.com/978178925152...
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 10h

To mark the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings here are four Sussex scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry:
1. Bosham Church.
2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey.
3. Castle built at Hastings
4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote a human skeleton quiz -- filled with terrible puns -- for your Spooky Season enjoyment. 🧪🏺💀

Human skeleton quiz: What do you know about the bones in your body?

Do you have what it takes to be a bone-ified quiz champion?

www.livescience.com

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

Marc Maron ends his podcast with final guest Barack Obama after 16 years and nearly 1,700 episodes www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Marc Maron ends his podcast with final guest Barack Obama after 16 years and nearly 1,700 episodes

Obama gave new status to Maron and to podcasts in general when he visited Maron’s Los Angeles garage studio while still in office a decade ago.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

An update on last week's theft.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police checked museum security week before gold jewellery stolen

Officers were

www.bbc.co.uk

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

"landowner used an excavator"

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story only someone in your profession would understand

“papers in IEEE format”

Capricorn Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Mixed inclusion ratio trust"

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

Secure your place to join us, and our speakers, through the link below, for an informative, friendly and memorable day at a great conference venue.
Tickets include lunch and refreshments and there are discounts for Members of @sussexpast.bsky.social and students. 4/4

See you there!

The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference - Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record - Sussex Past

The Sussex Archaeological Society's Annual Conference: Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record on Saturday 8 November at University of Sussex.

sussexpast.co.uk

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

With a line-up of subjects and speakers curated by the brilliant combination of Dr Sue Harrington and Prof Martin Bell, it promises to throw light on this crucial period for southern Britain from the late 5th Century.
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The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference - Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record - Sussex Past

The Sussex Archaeological Society's Annual Conference: Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record on Saturday 8 November at University of Sussex.

sussexpast.co.uk

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

The staff, volunteers and Trustees of Sussex Archaeological Society are excited to be organising this meeting at such a pivotal time for our understanding of the Early Medieval history of the county. 2/4

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

Join us in four weeks, on the 8th November at Sussex University, for a day of talks from leading archaeologists and historians on the origins of the Kingdom of the South Saxons. 1/4

sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

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The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference – Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record. 8th Nov Sussex University

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

What a week! Packed out theatres, fantastic audiences, and finishing the week catching up with my lovely friend Dana Goodburn-Brown. I’ve visited Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull, Northampton this week. On to Nottingham, Leicester, Colchester and Truro next week!

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 3d

Gazing in awe & wonder 😮

Inside the spectacular Little Woodbury house at @butserancientfarm.co.uk where the great soot-blackened roof stands without central posts

An incredible family house from Late Iron Age Britain

With @durotrigesdig.bsky.social
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social

📷 My own, Sept

Duncan & Miles inside a roundhouse gazing up at the roof

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly! But so many classes, projects, communities and projects surely should be routinely using this data. Maybe they are just going doing the WMS route, which is pretty but not real data, data. I was rescued by friend who had downloaded the .qml file. I'm going to send them an email later.

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 3d

I'm glad it's not just us that can't find them. It raises a question, unless they dissapeared recently or there is another way, how are people using this resource?

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 4d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 4d

@bgs.ac.uk I can find anywhere online with you that can supply the .qml files that unlock the symbiology. I was given the files by someone who downloaded them at least five years ago. Are we missing something?

Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to everyone who helped me with this but esp to the person who provided the key files that unlocked the correct symbiology 🙏. Some glitches but, behold, the Ice Age sedimentary coverage of Greater London. 🦣🏺

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 5d

I made these for friends last year, but seeing if anyone else would be interested for xmas? They're painted plaster of paris, modelled from real arrowheads.

£35 a set incl. gift box, gift tag & 24hr SignedFor postage (sorry, can only do UK).

(... & there's more artefacts to come!)

#Archaeology 🏺

Rainbow coloured arrowheads on rainbow coloured ribbons.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 5d

It's just one tiny file I need, but Ive been totally unable to track it down

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 5d

Gosh we have a Daryll Forde lecture theatre next door in anthropology, I'd never given who that person might be was much thought and now I'm wondering why it took me so long.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 5d

Asking in a little bit of desperation, does anyone know how to unify the colours for BGS mapping polygons or point me in the direction of some help? I've hit a wall, even though I know I've done it before. Is the a file I need to apply?
What I have now is funky but not helpful. @bgs.ac.uk? 🙏

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 5d

Waning but still awesomely beautiful.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 6d

Great interview with Svante Pääbo Source: EL PAÍS English
search.app/WcjQz
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Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’

The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit

search.app

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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