William Carruthers
@williamcarruthers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com
Pinned
In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Flooded Pasts by William Carruthers | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its...
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Going to re-post this occasionally, with added mention that I’m very happy to do more talks about it
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Get them, MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Get them, MacArthur Fellow Jeffrey Miller
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This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views
Horrifying and true
I don’t think it’s unrelated but I think the most significant shift is the Tories and Labour just offering absolutely no immune response. I don’t think Shabina Mahmood or Kemi Badenoch doubt for a second they themselves are British but they’re providing ample cover for those who do.
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Horrifying and true
The irony that world ‘cultural’ heritage wouldn’t exist without global environmental destruction and extraction
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The irony that world ‘cultural’ heritage wouldn’t exist without global environmental destruction and extraction
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
Annoyingly, does not require updating
For anyone in the market for an Italian castle. www.christiesrealestate.com/homes/italy/...
Acquapendente, Viterbo, Italy 01021 with ID 038189
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November 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Annoyingly, does not require updating
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Key points include:
High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.
High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.
New @creativepec.bsky.social report! “Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers” pec.ac.uk/state_of_the...
Who Stays and Who Leaves? Mapping Arts, Culture and Heritage Careers - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre
Read the latest State of the Nations research report from University of Sheffield on mapping arts, culture and heritage careers.
pec.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Key points include:
High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.
High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.
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If my group chats are anything to go by, Treasury briefing "we're going to end the cycle to work tax break that enables people to buy a large family-sized e-bike" has done more than any other advertising campaign to boost the uptake of family-sized e-bikes. Sales must be through the roof this week.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If my group chats are anything to go by, Treasury briefing "we're going to end the cycle to work tax break that enables people to buy a large family-sized e-bike" has done more than any other advertising campaign to boost the uptake of family-sized e-bikes. Sales must be through the roof this week.
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Postdoctoral Position in Science, Technology and Society (STS)
jobs.ethz.ch
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A 1940 issue of an Italian fascist magazine, dedicated to Germany in Africa. It advocates the overthrow of the Versailles treaty & the restoration of the German colonial empire; sings the praises of pre-1918 German colonialism; attacks the mandate system.
There is ... a lot going on here.
There is ... a lot going on here.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A 1940 issue of an Italian fascist magazine, dedicated to Germany in Africa. It advocates the overthrow of the Versailles treaty & the restoration of the German colonial empire; sings the praises of pre-1918 German colonialism; attacks the mandate system.
There is ... a lot going on here.
There is ... a lot going on here.
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The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
Details - Asst Professor U of M | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians
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Don't miss out on this super talk about scientific printing by our own @edwinrose.bsky.social later today - join us either online or in person.
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Don't miss out on this super talk about scientific printing by our own @edwinrose.bsky.social later today - join us either online or in person.
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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
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Seems like the West is full of folks who have spent their whole lives with central heating, never gone to bed hungry, strap on 2000 pounds of metal to pop around the block lest their feet touch the ground--and a lot of them are seething that people who have literally lost everything feel more joy...
Asylum seekers aren't crying and terrified all the time and that makes the Daily Express mad
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Seems like the West is full of folks who have spent their whole lives with central heating, never gone to bed hungry, strap on 2000 pounds of metal to pop around the block lest their feet touch the ground--and a lot of them are seething that people who have literally lost everything feel more joy...
Anyway, it has started to feel winter-y in quite a nice way?
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Anyway, it has started to feel winter-y in quite a nice way?
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Cannot adequately express to outsiders how insane it is to think the UK is characterised by "Islamoleftism". Just, absolutely, not a thing, not at all representative of our governing ideology, nor of the ideology of the left factions that exist as any serious presence within our politics.
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Cannot adequately express to outsiders how insane it is to think the UK is characterised by "Islamoleftism". Just, absolutely, not a thing, not at all representative of our governing ideology, nor of the ideology of the left factions that exist as any serious presence within our politics.
That is a horrifying inflation figure for food
📊 Latest figures out from the ONS this morning showed that inflation slowed to 3.6%.
But food inflation rose to 4.9%, up from 4.5% in the previous month.
The outlook for around 7 million households going without essentials in the UK remains extremely stark.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But food inflation rose to 4.9%, up from 4.5% in the previous month.
The outlook for around 7 million households going without essentials in the UK remains extremely stark.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK inflation rate falls to 3.6% in year to October
Prices have been rising more slowly in the twelve months to October.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
That is a horrifying inflation figure for food
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Happy Spacemen 3 day!
November 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Happy Spacemen 3 day!
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AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
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The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
Isis Focus Issue: "Is Deep History White?"
Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Focus issue I edited in Isis: "Is Deep History White?" is out. With contributions from Amy Way, Linda Andersson Burnett, Elise K. Burton, Emily Kern, and an Afterword by Alison Bashford
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Happy anniversary to all who celebrate!
The first episode of House of Cards was broadcast on this day in 1990.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Happy anniversary to all who celebrate!
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Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi
We actually have some AHRC PhD funding! www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
AHRC | University of Essex
Arts and Humanities Research Council
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November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We actually have some AHRC PhD funding! www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
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#HigherEd
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Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
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November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
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#HigherEd
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Someone recently expressed surprise that I’d moved to my current institution. I would’ve moved anyway, it’s dreamy, but also: THERE ARE NO JOBS. The only other job I was able to apply to in 2023-4 was a 1 year teaching job I wasn’t shortlisted for. I’ve been hugely lucky. There are literally no jobs
All of us from the post-2008 era (and before, no doubt) have traumatic memories of the academic job market, but I don't think the real problem was the hotel rooms (or the ballroom!), & I think it should be noticed that the real problem (no jobs, ridiculous power disparities) is now worse
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Someone recently expressed surprise that I’d moved to my current institution. I would’ve moved anyway, it’s dreamy, but also: THERE ARE NO JOBS. The only other job I was able to apply to in 2023-4 was a 1 year teaching job I wasn’t shortlisted for. I’ve been hugely lucky. There are literally no jobs