Dr Beccy Spook

If I could go back and take the perfect MSc, this would be it

Teenager managed to pretend to be a normal teenage girl for 1/2 a day shopping in London, then asked to be taken to the Wellcome Gallery of Medicine at the Science Museum

I mean, he IS a good boy, and I love him very much, but I can't help but think this is placing a bit too much faith in his abilities

On 18th Nov the QRA will be celebrating the first #QuaternaryPride following on from the success of #PolarPride. But we need your help to cheer up our mammoth mascot by giving them a name! Comment or email postgrad@qra.org.uk with your ideas by 18th October for the chance to WIN some QRA swag.

Good old reviewer 2, conforming exactly to type

A historic watercolour has been unearthed on the back of a Dryburgh geological field map🗺️ The beautiful painting, believed to have been made by geologist Benjamin Neeve Peach while on fieldwork in the early 1870s has been discovered in the BGS archives. Learn more: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/histori...

When time reflects, we encounter, ripples of disruption ... Hundred Year Stone (1995) by Peter Randall-Page celebrating 100 years of @nationaltrust.org.uk located on Derwent Water. #scupture #Landscape #change #Keswick #lakedistrict

Home for the next few days. Huge thanks to @butserancientfarm.co.uk for welcoming all of us from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social and @archsoutheast.bsky.social back for another year. Today our new first years start their journey with us on the Experimental Archaeology Course. #ArchaeoTech26 🏺🛖

First quarter final match of the #BiscuitWorldCup today - chocolate digestives v. Jezyki. Obviously chocolate digestives rolled it home, but what a match! Some inspired play from Jezyki - weak on the dip, but intriguingly, a little bit like a lion bar. At the end of the day, not quite biscuit enough

Our new paper out now in QSA models the Storegga tusnami wave using more realistic palaeobathymetry based on the most recent glacio-isostatic modelling outputs for the North Sea, and shows that significant wave propagation south of Dogger Bank is extremely unlikely.

Mummer badger!

I mean, just look at this, and tell me it's not a work of art.

Really enjoying a beautiful series of posts from @cambridgearch.bsky.social from the Over Needingworth excavations; not just for the snapshots of a changing landscape, but for some beautiful examples of the craft of excavation.

Three residencies. Six communities. Three languages: Gàidhlig, Scots and English. We're commissioning storytellers to help communities capture and share the community owners' stories of land and identity. £3,500 fee. Apply by 9 Oct, 1pm. buff.ly/TUT3YUA

Beach ridge complex and dunes at Pointe aux Chenes, Michigan. I've got it in my slides for a case study on post-glacial rebound and other causes of lake level change on the Great Lakes, and I had to post it here again.

Wazzing giant, as sketched by the brilliant Eric Ravilious. Literally the most English thing ever

Private Eye gets it.

This Saturday, 12th September, Freya is joining 127 other Scouts walking the 20 Bridges Of London (22miles!) to raise funds for the 2027 World Scout Jamboree; please consider sponsoring her epic effort! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

For a project by the University of Manchester, poet Dr Abbi Flint wrote a poem inspired by the fox fur armlet buried with Lindow Man. During this year’s Festival, we were lucky to hear Abbi recite the poem as we explored Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss National Nature Reserve with Natural England

Well, they'd better be practicing The Time Warp for tomorrow

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Oh Dolly: you absolutely made the world a better place. What an absolute legend.

I'm particularly ginger, and I spend a lot of time outdoors. In summer, that means we go through bottles every week in our house. I also volunteer in Scouting, and for some families it's a huge expense and a barrier to spending time outdoors safely c.org/xpRGBjftsB

Did I ever mention just how much of my life was spent PDFing enormous documents?

It's where it all went wrong

Petition to rename Must Farm to Mustn't Farm so we can apocryphally avoid the agricultural revolution

This is why museum collections - and collection history - matter

Bullying, especially when led by right wing newspapers, has horrible human consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

NT's Senior National Archaeologist Hannah Fluck was recently interviewed for Radio 4's Artworks series "Above and Below: The Battle to Save Britain's Prehistoric Art". Listen here: bit.ly/3SpgENM

Digging these submerged landscapes would not be possible without the brick pits. Must Farm Quarry is the largest aperture in the fens. In this window we get to explore Fenland in microcosm. Delve beneath metres of peat & silt and explore land surfaces contemporary with the creation of the North Sea.

These PhD opportunities sound AMAZING; please share

Never noticed this weird plant in my garden before

Last time I watched an eclipse was in a field near Royston with that @theduncanmackay.bsky.social; I remember you were worried the horses we were working near would panic and stampede

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists