Lorna Richardson
@lornarichardson.bsky.social
Norwich-based academic/public archaeologist/lecturer in digital media/multimedia storytelling/cultural heritage/UCU member/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
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Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🚗BEEP BEEP🚗
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
Reminder that next Tuesday (18 Nov) Dr Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social will be giving the annual Carantes Samain talk online, this time on the extreme right and medievalism! See the link below about how to RSVP. All are welcome! Fáilte roimh chách!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
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Haven't posted much about OGS Crawford for a while, so here's something from Crawford's WW1 days. He saw out the war as a PoW in Holzminden alongside the likes of James Whale, director of two of my all-time favourites "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House". Sadly, OGSC never mentioned...
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Haven't posted much about OGS Crawford for a while, so here's something from Crawford's WW1 days. He saw out the war as a PoW in Holzminden alongside the likes of James Whale, director of two of my all-time favourites "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Old Dark House". Sadly, OGSC never mentioned...
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My book with Andy Bartlett - an STS analysis of Bigfooting - is now out and available to order at www.routledge.com/Bigfooters-a... If this is of interest, I would really appreciate it being shared. Thank you.
Bigfooters and Scientific Inquiry: On the Borderlands of Legitimate Science
Bigfoot exists. Not necessarily as a biological creature, but certainly as an object around which thousands of Americans organise their lives, analysing evidence, and making knowledge. This book exami...
www.routledge.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My book with Andy Bartlett - an STS analysis of Bigfooting - is now out and available to order at www.routledge.com/Bigfooters-a... If this is of interest, I would really appreciate it being shared. Thank you.
One of the many side effects of so many university redundancies across the UK is that we are all hyper-vigilant every time a Big Announcement or Big Meeting drops. Academia = Anxiety
Doing a little bit of cardio e.g. checking my emails where my big boss and grand-big boss have suddenly dropped a calendar invite for a meeting with no explanation what it’s about hahaha my favourite. Sure it’s nothing bad ha ha 👍
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
One of the many side effects of so many university redundancies across the UK is that we are all hyper-vigilant every time a Big Announcement or Big Meeting drops. Academia = Anxiety
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From the 1st web page to today’s sprawling internet, the web has reshaped how we live. 🌐
Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discuss the web’s rapid growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come.
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discuss the web’s rapid growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come.
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
November 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
From the 1st web page to today’s sprawling internet, the web has reshaped how we live. 🌐
Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discuss the web’s rapid growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come.
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
Hear Sir Tim Berners-Lee & Brewster Kahle on the Future Knowledge #podcast discuss the web’s rapid growth & why preserving it matters for generations to come.
🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/bui...
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
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Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Just been invited to the launch event of a report considering the 'future of the UK's research system' where they will be considering the creation of disruption labs named after Ada Lovelace and the report will be introduced by a panel of five men
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We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
COP websites emit 10 times more carbon than average webpages - Energy Live News
COP conference websites emit more carbon per page view than typical webpages
www.energylivenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
It is the most glorious autumn morning in the Waveney Valley, with red kites and buzzards screeching above the marshes. I’ve trod in far too much cow shit for a woman with brand new boots on, chased a truculent chicken and made friends with a Suffolk Punch called Gifford. Life is wonderful today
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It is the most glorious autumn morning in the Waveney Valley, with red kites and buzzards screeching above the marshes. I’ve trod in far too much cow shit for a woman with brand new boots on, chased a truculent chicken and made friends with a Suffolk Punch called Gifford. Life is wonderful today
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If you’re anywhere near #chester after work on Tuesday, come and have a wander around our Experts Pub Trail. Seven of the ppl who know most about our history and archaeology waiting for you to join them for a cosy chat! #rowvember www.heritagechester.co.uk/event-detail...
The Heritage Experts Pub Trail | Heritage Chester
Embark on a self-guided heritage trail through the heart of Chester, with three special pub stops where you can meet local experts and discover the city's fascinating past.
www.heritagechester.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you’re anywhere near #chester after work on Tuesday, come and have a wander around our Experts Pub Trail. Seven of the ppl who know most about our history and archaeology waiting for you to join them for a cosy chat! #rowvember www.heritagechester.co.uk/event-detail...
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"Now on ITV: 'Peer Review' - hosted by Mary Beard. 15 senior academics locked in Piddleston College, Bantshire University seek to find which of them is actually Reviewer Number 2"
Now do the show but only with senior academics.
The Traitors is a very different game when the players are either friends already or in an industry where, if you’re making a project together, you are used to quickly bonding and making fast friends for the duration.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Now on ITV: 'Peer Review' - hosted by Mary Beard. 15 senior academics locked in Piddleston College, Bantshire University seek to find which of them is actually Reviewer Number 2"
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Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
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Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
This is quite the introduction to AI & the notion of creativity, worth watching this trailer if you want to give yourself a nervous twitch. Post Truth is the first feature-length completely AI-generated documentary, directed by gen-AI artist Alkan Avcıoğlu from Türkiye. youtu.be/hvKgCCynmXA?...
POST TRUTH|OFFICIAL TRAILER (2025) DOCUMENTARY
YouTube video by Excitement Movie World
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November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This is quite the introduction to AI & the notion of creativity, worth watching this trailer if you want to give yourself a nervous twitch. Post Truth is the first feature-length completely AI-generated documentary, directed by gen-AI artist Alkan Avcıoğlu from Türkiye. youtu.be/hvKgCCynmXA?...
This looks like a really cool new journal: an "online and open-access platform for speculating about possible futures [...] encourages creative and interdisciplinary collaboration and non-traditional forms of knowledge production" #OpenAccess and no publication fees 👍
New journal - with cfp for inaugural issue
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Tomorrow I’ve been asked to deliver a session on ‘creativity and AI’ which currently consists of me screaming no into a black void. Wish me luck
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Tomorrow I’ve been asked to deliver a session on ‘creativity and AI’ which currently consists of me screaming no into a black void. Wish me luck
Today’s 3rd year module on critical digital media & AI is about algorithms & opacity, taking in global experiences of prejudice-built-in to media platforms. Drawing from this book, essential reading
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Today’s 3rd year module on critical digital media & AI is about algorithms & opacity, taking in global experiences of prejudice-built-in to media platforms. Drawing from this book, essential reading
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"Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. "
#Reform #politics #woke
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...
#Reform #politics #woke
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...
The financial backers of the war on woke
THERE is a professor on the TV telling you that Britain is run by a “new elite of radical, woke, middle-class liberals” who want to stop you from feeling “British” enough — and that it is the real pro...
morningstaronline.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Matthew Goodwin wants us to worry about a ‘new elite’ of media workers and academics, not the actual elite of billionaires — like his backers. "
#Reform #politics #woke
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...
#Reform #politics #woke
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/fi...
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Norwich Castle, c.13th Century graffiti of woman wearing a wimple.
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
#StoneHeadSunday
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
#StoneHeadSunday
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Norwich Castle, c.13th Century graffiti of woman wearing a wimple.
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
#StoneHeadSunday
Standing in front of this, you almost feel that nothing more than a blink separates you from the moment it was scored into the rock.
#StoneHeadSunday
The UUK briefing on the government White Paper includes "Plans to create a new market monitoring function, allowing government to consider capacity in both higher education and research". Cool, cool, sounds great
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The UUK briefing on the government White Paper includes "Plans to create a new market monitoring function, allowing government to consider capacity in both higher education and research". Cool, cool, sounds great
Returning to address Reviewer 2 & 3 comments this week after a hiatus of 5 months has me crying ‘what do you want from meeeee’ at my laptop. Reviewer 1 remains a mensch
October 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Returning to address Reviewer 2 & 3 comments this week after a hiatus of 5 months has me crying ‘what do you want from meeeee’ at my laptop. Reviewer 1 remains a mensch
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This week! Make sure to register online!
🚨THIS WEEK: Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine hybrid conference
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
co-organized w Noha Abou-Khatwa, @archaeologuest.bsky.social + @gmandreou.bsky.social
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/c...
Cities on the Edge Workshop: Program is Out!
The program for the workshop Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine is now out! The event will take place on Oct. 31 and N…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This week! Make sure to register online!
A question for historians of Labour history: found my great-grandads memoirs in my dad’s papers. GGD was a Barnsley miner but also apparently stood as Labour councillor & was heavily involved in regional politics & miners union before/after WWI. Where do I start to groundtruth these memories?
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A question for historians of Labour history: found my great-grandads memoirs in my dad’s papers. GGD was a Barnsley miner but also apparently stood as Labour councillor & was heavily involved in regional politics & miners union before/after WWI. Where do I start to groundtruth these memories?
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This is UK HE.
This is the Russell Group.
This is UUK.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
This is the Russell Group.
This is UUK.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers University is expanding internationally while cutting jobs in Wales
Cardiff University’s new Kazakhstan campus is officially registered under PwC lawyer’s email
Nothing says “world-class university” like outsourcing your integrity 😉
nation.cymru/news/new-con...
Cardiff University’s new Kazakhstan campus is officially registered under PwC lawyer’s email
Nothing says “world-class university” like outsourcing your integrity 😉
nation.cymru/news/new-con...
New concerns over Cardiff University's offshoot in Kazakhstan
Martin Shipton Fresh concerns have been raised about Cardiff University’s recently opened branch campus in Kazakhstan after details of its registration with the Kazakh equivalent of Companies House we...
nation.cymru
October 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This is UK HE.
This is the Russell Group.
This is UUK.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
This is the Russell Group.
This is UUK.
This is the tip of the iceberg.