Stuart Dunn

Many thanks to @dhandlib.bsky.social for the shout out on my recent Equal Earth/Mercator blog post. More on this soon. dhandlib.org/post-project...

We are just out of a summer with five record breaking heatwaves which literally killed thousands and bought climate change up close and personal for millions for the first time. This should be the Greens' big moment in history. But instead they're doing this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

One feels a little sorry for BBC journalists reporting "live from the scene" for an insatiable rolling live news feed, when there is in fact nothing to report.

Excited to have this study of the Hellenistic sculpture from the Villa of Herodes Atticus published in the JRA. Ft Homeric heroes, an eccentric billionaire, a few murders & a special eagle helmet, this is not classical sculpture for the faint-hearted! Available open access: doi.org/10.1017/S104...

It's a whole day of ghosts, magic and old gods @conwayhall.bsky.social and online on 21 November. forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... @strangeattractor.bsky.social

A Dartmoor throwback for #StandingStoneSunday

🥾 110 miles, eight days and one of Britain’s oldest roads. Sarah Pryor sets out along the Icknield Way, through the Chilterns, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire – with glorious views, hidden paths and the occasional wrong turn. Part one of her summer adventure. @eastangliabylines.co.uk

You would have been in your element here @palaeofuturist.bsky.social!

Spent this afternoon at the Sherfield on Loddon beer festival in Hampshire.

Editors’ Choice: Projecting emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth

Many thanks to @dhnow.bsky.social for highlighting my recent blog post on the Mercator/Equal Earth question, and for the very thoughtful framing/introduction. #cartography #projection #Mercator digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2026/09/proj...

Oof. By Buckingham Palace standards this is bicycle chain in the car park stuff.

Walk the Dartmoor Lych Way they said. You get sweeping views of the Dart Valley and can see all the way to Cornwall they said. FFS.

Pleiades in the Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/pl... @sarahebond.bsky.social @catherinebouras.bsky.social @stuartdunn.bsky.social @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

What a line! 😂

We have outgrown the idea that one single projection works for all purposes. We probably did that about 200 years ago in fact. stuartdunn.blog/2026/09/07/p...

A (possibly slightly predictable) blog post on the Mercator projection and the recent UN vote): stuartdunn.blog/2026/09/07/p...

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"It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we always have some material basis on which to start our speculations". Sherlock Holmes, in the Hound of the Baskervilles. Applies also to archaeology.

Me when I queue for 20 minutes at the Post Office to get my passport renewed, have my photos taken and verified, and it can't be submitted because the Home Office's servers are down.

A new blog post reflecting on what recent shenanigans in North American topynmy mean for the "stability" of place names. stuartdunn.blog/2026/08/31/g...

There has to be one of those long composite German words for when a call centre tells you something you absolutely know not to be true, but won't back down. Help me someone?

Happy Wayzgoose en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayzgoose

Group of graves in Tower Hamlets cemetery. Pencil and tinted charcoal on paper.

Been getting to know the locals at Tower Hamlets cemetery today #MagnificentSeven

We have a fantastic and rare opportunity for a senior academic in Theology and the Visual Arts at King's: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/155325-....

The Earthly relatives are sending all good luck to @countbinface.bsky.social.

A suitably corpse roady vibe at St Aiden's Church, Holy Island. Lindisfarne monks bearing St Cuthbert to his final resting place in Durham Cathedral around AD 875. 1999 sculpture by Fenwick Lawson, carved from seven elm trees.

Old anchors on the Northumberland coast. Tinted charcoal on paper.

Part of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. Pencil and graphite sticks.

St George's Church, Jesmond.

Very happy (and spooked) to be returning for the London Month of the Dead, speaking about haunted highways in Highgate Cemetery on 15th October, 7pm #folklore #hauntology #corpseroads ☠️💀👻 londonmonthofthedead.com

Genuine question. Why, 20+ years after the introduction of widespread WiFi, is it still so unutterably crap on trains?

Nice one, @gwr.com

"The people versus the Establishment".

I'm not a serial signer of petitions, but this one is important c.org/vzhLzkZnzD

"The humanities are not a supplement to, but a foundational component of, undergraduate education, especially in a technology-driven institution". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another foray into gouache on paper.

Happy to share that this short commentary reflecting on advanced digitalisation and art history is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm no expert, but am I right in thinking that banning teenagers from doing things isn't always vastly effective?

A fantastic talk, testing the boundaries (pun intended) between fictional, imagined, and physical place, "Santa Claus, c/o Oslo" from @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social.

Fascinating panel on death rituals this morning @folkloresociety.bsky.social conference - thank you @stuartdunn.bsky.social, Helen Frisby & Eira Betthell for some really thought-provoking talks

First session, Rituals of Death! @stuartdunn.bsky.social on corpse paths, Helen Frisby on funeral processions, and Eira Betthell on musical psychopomps.

Night falling over the Caledonian Sleeper to Aberdeen, which also seems to be the @folkloresociety.bsky.social Express.

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

I've wanted to try using gouache (opaque watercolour) for a while. First attenpt here - you get a much better range of heavy/dark and light tones. But it's too hot, the paint kept going runny!

🌳 Preserving the uncanny(?): Digital Folklore in the Age of AI with @stuartdunn.bsky.social: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist... 📘 Social Science Fiction with Genevieve Lively: www.tickettailor.com/events/dfist...

"Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clan" ❤️ 👏