Michael Harris
@davidmichaelharris.bsky.social
MA (Hons), MScR, FSA Scot
Archaeologist. Adult Education Tutor. Editor & proofreader.
Member: Friends of the Earth Scotland; Red Rope; Solidarity Federation-IWA
Archaeologist. Adult Education Tutor. Editor & proofreader.
Member: Friends of the Earth Scotland; Red Rope; Solidarity Federation-IWA
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"I'm from the confluence of the Ganges; our rivers carry the stories of the climate crisis. We need the finance to adapt, build our future, and protect our communities. Not to come and beg in an annual humiliation ritual for what is rightfully ours."
Bareesh Chowdhury, BELA / FoE Bangladesh
#COP30
Bareesh Chowdhury, BELA / FoE Bangladesh
#COP30
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"I'm from the confluence of the Ganges; our rivers carry the stories of the climate crisis. We need the finance to adapt, build our future, and protect our communities. Not to come and beg in an annual humiliation ritual for what is rightfully ours."
Bareesh Chowdhury, BELA / FoE Bangladesh
#COP30
Bareesh Chowdhury, BELA / FoE Bangladesh
#COP30
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By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:
The hidden cost of Brazil’s climate crisis for UK supermarkets.
Most people in the UK have little idea that the food in their fridge is closely connected to extreme weather now sweeping Brazil.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The hidden cost of Brazil’s climate crisis for UK supermarkets.
Most people in the UK have little idea that the food in their fridge is closely connected to extreme weather now sweeping Brazil.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The hidden cost of Brazil's climate crisis for UK supermarkets
Climate extremes in Brazil, the UK’s breadbasket, are driving up food prices and disrupting supply chains — urgent action is needed
www.thecanary.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:
The hidden cost of Brazil’s climate crisis for UK supermarkets.
Most people in the UK have little idea that the food in their fridge is closely connected to extreme weather now sweeping Brazil.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The hidden cost of Brazil’s climate crisis for UK supermarkets.
Most people in the UK have little idea that the food in their fridge is closely connected to extreme weather now sweeping Brazil.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Support @hynotnw.bsky.social in the fight against pouring state funds into oil industry technofixes
Ahead of the budget next week, we're calling on #RachelReeves to #StopFundingCCS. The £22billion black hole in public finances could be filled by taking back the £22billion of public money being handed to #HyNetNW and #NetZeroTeesside.
Sign and share 👇
Sign and share 👇
Tell chancellor Rachel Reeves to stop funding carbon capture and storage
Dear Rachel Reeves,
In your statement to the House of Commons in July last year, you announced a £22billion black hole in public finances. Three months later, the government pledged £22billion of pub...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Support @hynotnw.bsky.social in the fight against pouring state funds into oil industry technofixes
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Before the storm.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Before the storm.
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We're proud to be a partner on this project, which is bringing the stories of carpets to life - they're much more than just somewhere to put your feet 👣
The website for Knotted Histories is now up at tinyurl.com/2tszcc2f 🧶✨🧵The project is run between @engfac.bsky.social, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and @researchnt.bsky.social, and will be looking at the creation of early modern carpets as well as their role in global networks.
Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange, and the Public Country House
tinyurl.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
We're proud to be a partner on this project, which is bringing the stories of carpets to life - they're much more than just somewhere to put your feet 👣
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BREAKING - Police FAIL to arrest dozens of “terrorists” today.
Police left most sign-holders in Truro with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.
No arrests in Edinburgh, and many were not arrested in Oxford.
Sign up to Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
Police left most sign-holders in Truro with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.
No arrests in Edinburgh, and many were not arrested in Oxford.
Sign up to Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
BREAKING - Police FAIL to arrest dozens of “terrorists” today.
Police left most sign-holders in Truro with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.
No arrests in Edinburgh, and many were not arrested in Oxford.
Sign up to Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
Police left most sign-holders in Truro with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs.
No arrests in Edinburgh, and many were not arrested in Oxford.
Sign up to Lift The Ban: wedonotcomply.org
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"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them. But increasingly they are not prioritised..."
CEO of the British Academy Hetan Shah on the ongoing impact of the cyber attack on the British Library & why nobody seems to care.
CEO of the British Academy Hetan Shah on the ongoing impact of the cyber attack on the British Library & why nobody seems to care.
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"Libraries and archives are the labs of humanities and social science scholars, and history is not possible without them. But increasingly they are not prioritised..."
CEO of the British Academy Hetan Shah on the ongoing impact of the cyber attack on the British Library & why nobody seems to care.
CEO of the British Academy Hetan Shah on the ongoing impact of the cyber attack on the British Library & why nobody seems to care.
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A great article about GenAI, low-resource languages and decoloniality. Current Fellow Dr Deepshikha Behera is working on this topic: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr%C...
She will be presenting her research on 27 November @hias-hamburg.bsky.social - see hias-hamburg.de/en/events/co... for more info.
She will be presenting her research on 27 November @hias-hamburg.bsky.social - see hias-hamburg.de/en/events/co... for more info.
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A great article about GenAI, low-resource languages and decoloniality. Current Fellow Dr Deepshikha Behera is working on this topic: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr%C...
She will be presenting her research on 27 November @hias-hamburg.bsky.social - see hias-hamburg.de/en/events/co... for more info.
She will be presenting her research on 27 November @hias-hamburg.bsky.social - see hias-hamburg.de/en/events/co... for more info.
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The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The only way Shabana Mahmood will implement her vile, racist "reforms" is by importing anti-migrant ICE raids from the US into our communities, supported (more readily than in Britain than in some US states) by the police. It's time to get organised against the horrors that lie ahead
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This is the Tehran Times propaganda model. The culture pages are actually quite good. The journalism is largely unremarkable. And the really diabolical stuff is in the op-ed pages.
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is the Tehran Times propaganda model. The culture pages are actually quite good. The journalism is largely unremarkable. And the really diabolical stuff is in the op-ed pages.
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
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’ I went back to warn them…. They didn’t care ‘
@williamripple.bsky.social
@williamripple.bsky.social
And we warned them with our new 2025 State of the Climate Report which you can check out here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
’ I went back to warn them…. They didn’t care ‘
@williamripple.bsky.social
@williamripple.bsky.social
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![4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: We haven’t checked in on the geology department for a while. I wonder if they’re doing okay. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail: I’ll go see what they’re up to. (3) [Person 2 opens door to room where a person is gesturing at a projector screen and explaining to two other people] PERSON 3: 49 million years ago, Heart Mountain, Wyoming slid sideways 15 miles like a giant stone hovercraft. (4) PERSON 2 [returning to Person 1]: ...They’re not okay. OFF-PANEL PERSON: Hey, *you* come up with a better explanation!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigkmmwkcyhpp7flvvqlj5dwg26hn4rssqln4c3zrtidabl4y3efvy@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#PeoplesSummit Day 1
We call for internationalist solidarity, the liberation of all peoples, and an end to all forms of oppression. From the Amazon to Palestine, across the entire world, justice will prevail
We call for internationalist solidarity, the liberation of all peoples, and an end to all forms of oppression. From the Amazon to Palestine, across the entire world, justice will prevail
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
#PeoplesSummit Day 1
We call for internationalist solidarity, the liberation of all peoples, and an end to all forms of oppression. From the Amazon to Palestine, across the entire world, justice will prevail
We call for internationalist solidarity, the liberation of all peoples, and an end to all forms of oppression. From the Amazon to Palestine, across the entire world, justice will prevail
In November we remember.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In November we remember.
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🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
"Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed."
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
BBC's "War on Woke" was never enough for the right - Freedom News
Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed ~ punkac…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed."
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/10/b...
Inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists – NAI. November 9th, 2025.
anarcomuk.uk/2025/11/10/i...
anarcomuk.uk/2025/11/10/i...
Inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists – NAI. November 9th, 2025
Over the last few months, various revolutionary internationalist anarchist organisations put their names to the following statement. Though itself ready for an update it was the precursor to establ…
anarcomuk.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Inaugural meeting of the Network of Anarchist Internationalists – NAI. November 9th, 2025.
anarcomuk.uk/2025/11/10/i...
anarcomuk.uk/2025/11/10/i...
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Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
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I see a lot of pseudoarchaeology & pseudohistory in these spaces, used to begin the process of casting doubt that helps open doors to this pipeline. One influencer on TikTok, with 1.1 million followers, shares pseudoarch/hist Tartaria & Grand Canyon stuff to "question the narrative," as she puts it.
Incredibly bittersweet to be published in Teen Vogue this weekend after devastating layoffs, including my editor for this piece. It’s about how beauty influencers have fallen into and become part of the alt-right pipeline targeting girls and women
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
www.teenvogue.com/story/womano...
The 'Womanosphere' Is Coming for Teen Girls
How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I see a lot of pseudoarchaeology & pseudohistory in these spaces, used to begin the process of casting doubt that helps open doors to this pipeline. One influencer on TikTok, with 1.1 million followers, shares pseudoarch/hist Tartaria & Grand Canyon stuff to "question the narrative," as she puts it.
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the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
Global body adopts policy to protect Earth’s old, wise and large animals | Charles Darwin University
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recognised Charles Darwin University-led research into the Earth’s oldest animals with the adoption of the ‘Longevity Conservation’ global...
www.cdu.edu.au
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
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My unpopular thought on this is that the bling we pay million pound ransoms to land owners & metal detectorsists for... Is not worth that much money. I get that it has that exchange value, that a billionaire would buy it for that so we couldn't see it. But we, as a nation, don't get that much value
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My unpopular thought on this is that the bling we pay million pound ransoms to land owners & metal detectorsists for... Is not worth that much money. I get that it has that exchange value, that a billionaire would buy it for that so we couldn't see it. But we, as a nation, don't get that much value