Isabelle Vella Gregory
@ivg.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Sudan. Malta. UCL. Cambridge. https://thejebelmoyaproject.wordpress.com/
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This year we ended up with three nativity scenes. This one features mummies and a galaxy. Obvs. Oh and my Agatha Christie collection cos why not?
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This year we ended up with three nativity scenes. This one features mummies and a galaxy. Obvs. Oh and my Agatha Christie collection cos why not?
Time for the Christmas tree and my hair metal play list obvs.
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Time for the Christmas tree and my hair metal play list obvs.
Reminds me of the reviewer who yelled at me for calling colonialism a burden.
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Reminds me of the reviewer who yelled at me for calling colonialism a burden.
I’m told this is fabulous so I booked tickets (it’s free!). Anyone else up for a bit of medieval Nubia and robes? If so, see you there :-)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dress-to-i...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dress-to-i...
DRESS TO IMPRESS. Reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia.
A live presentation of re-created costumes of Nubian kings, royal mothers, and bishop based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m told this is fabulous so I booked tickets (it’s free!). Anyone else up for a bit of medieval Nubia and robes? If so, see you there :-)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dress-to-i...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dress-to-i...
So Malta beat Finland at football and the Finns are losing their minds. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ps dear Finns if it helps we are equally surprised.
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
So Malta beat Finland at football and the Finns are losing their minds. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ps dear Finns if it helps we are equally surprised.
Oh this is interesting. The Nature paper on her was interesting tho didn’t quite get into the old boys’ club thing. But this is really interesting - good to learn more about her and her record. Thank you!
I am seeing a lot of posts about Rosalind Franklin that themselves ignore her publication record on DNA!
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
In fact Franklin and Gosling's paper, including the famous Photograph #51, was published, along with Wilkins's paper, back-to-back with the Watson and Crick paper in Nature in 1953.
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Oh this is interesting. The Nature paper on her was interesting tho didn’t quite get into the old boys’ club thing. But this is really interesting - good to learn more about her and her record. Thank you!
Just finished watching this. It’s excellent and I hope there’s another series.
So I’m watching Empire by @davidolusoga.bsky.social and I made the mistake of checking it out on Twitter. Noped out of there so fast. Anyways cracking first episode so far. Definitely worth a watch.
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Just finished watching this. It’s excellent and I hope there’s another series.
We must keep talking about this.
Here’s the Nature paper: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We must keep talking about this.
So I’m watching Empire by @davidolusoga.bsky.social and I made the mistake of checking it out on Twitter. Noped out of there so fast. Anyways cracking first episode so far. Definitely worth a watch.
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
So I’m watching Empire by @davidolusoga.bsky.social and I made the mistake of checking it out on Twitter. Noped out of there so fast. Anyways cracking first episode so far. Definitely worth a watch.
Reposted by Isabelle Vella Gregory
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
Reposted by Isabelle Vella Gregory
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November 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Watching the world burn from fires you’ve started is at the heart of British policy. Colonialism - it never goes away. Ever. #Sudan
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Watching the world burn from fires you’ve started is at the heart of British policy. Colonialism - it never goes away. Ever. #Sudan
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Never ever have I felt so seen. #archaeology #cats
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Never ever have I felt so seen. #archaeology #cats
Here’s the bones, l-għadam tal-mejtin, the bones of the dead. On All Souls’ Day we remember our departed. Some people like a thick coat of icing on these but I hate icing. And anyway this looks more like buried bones 🙂
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Here’s the bones, l-għadam tal-mejtin, the bones of the dead. On All Souls’ Day we remember our departed. Some people like a thick coat of icing on these but I hate icing. And anyway this looks more like buried bones 🙂
Spent a lovely Sunday afternoon making a terrarium :-)
October 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Spent a lovely Sunday afternoon making a terrarium :-)
Hold up hold up hold up. Tell me we are getting season 2 of Riot Women??? I need it NOW.
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hold up hold up hold up. Tell me we are getting season 2 of Riot Women??? I need it NOW.
I’ve often said that editors need to do better and be better (and got flack for it). But you do. It’s your job. This is a masterclass of a reply btw.
"The strength of language that Jones and Collinson used, which includes referring to our work as ‘naïve’, ‘bizarre’, ‘damagingly serious’, ‘reckless’, ‘not defensible’ and ‘crude’, would be considered by many to be unacceptable in modern scientific discourse." 🤯
This Discussion-Reply is WILD
As pointed out in the Reply, the language used in the Discussion is 100% inappropriate and in my view, a failure of the editorial process
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
As pointed out in the Reply, the language used in the Discussion is 100% inappropriate and in my view, a failure of the editorial process
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....
October 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’ve often said that editors need to do better and be better (and got flack for it). But you do. It’s your job. This is a masterclass of a reply btw.
Did anyone else watch and fall in love with Riot Women on BBC?
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Did anyone else watch and fall in love with Riot Women on BBC?
Folks. Can you point me towards published work on women in archaeology/ academia being trolled/ harassed online for their research? I appreciate it’s mega hard 2 write abt & most of us stay silent. I know we all have war stories. I wonder about published research on this.
October 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Folks. Can you point me towards published work on women in archaeology/ academia being trolled/ harassed online for their research? I appreciate it’s mega hard 2 write abt & most of us stay silent. I know we all have war stories. I wonder about published research on this.
Already loving the Celebrity Traitors 😂
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Already loving the Celebrity Traitors 😂