Morning! INCREDIBLE 900 yr-old escape tunnels inside mountain near #Türkiye border never filmed before! 7pm ⁦Channel 4⁩ #Treasures of #Georgia - pls do join me and spread the word! X Prof Janina Ramirez⁩ ⁦Prof Alice Roberts💙⁩ #archaeology #history #travel #GameOfThrones

Wonderful interview by Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine with the late Daniel Dennett.

“Very recent visitors from Mars may not know of the regular attacks on the National Trust for being “woke” says⁩ today’s Guardian. There’s a former Prime Minister attacking the National Trust for “wokey ideology” in today’s Financial Times if they wish to catch up. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Oh! Has an election been called? Because I’ve received what definitely looks like a campaign letter from the Conservatives. Do we have a date?
Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer

Oh lord, Dan Dennett has died. That's a huge loss to the intellectosphere. He ruffled lots of feathers and often divided opinion, but he was a phenomenal thinker and always worth listening to. And a fabulous writer.

Happy #FindsFriday !

We found this funny little artefact on our dig at Earth Trust. We found it on a Roman part of the site, and it's made of metal. But what is it for?

Serious suggestions, silly guesses, and wild speculations, are all welcome!

Call me crazy but might it be better to treat the root causes & issues that keep people off work e.g. lack of GPs/docs/nurses, nhs backlog, inequalities, under resourced social services & mental health services, health inequalities & long Covid? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Humanist and naturalist, Charles Darwin, on the love of nature. Darwin remains one of history’s most notable scientists, whose work helped to usher in a radical new way of understanding of the world, our past, nature, and the essence of life itself. He died #OnThisDay 1882.

An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites.

Listen to the fascinating history of our #Ancestors by Prof Alice Roberts💙 now in Audible UK 🎧's 2 for 1 Sale!

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Now I see it and I'm really sorry. By having a heart attack I have let my country down. More importantly, I have let Rishi Sunak down

Imagine writing this.
Imagine publishing it.
Imagine being the woman in question, reading it.

This is me starting medical school in 1990 Trinity College Cambridge University - I've seen >30 years of amazing advances in medicine and tech, with skilled doctors and HCPs caring for patients and driving innovation.

For next 30 years we need to keep improving to provide better

It’s been wonderful seeing the enormous amount of interest in our giant ichthyosaur, Ichthyotitan severnensis.

The bones, along with other specimens (incl' the 'Aust giant'), will go on display Bristol Museum & Art Gallery in the coming weeks. #FossilFriday

🎨 Gabriel N. U. Sergey Krasovskiy

New jobs klaxon! Two new permanent jobs in our department! Lecturer in #Archaeology and #Sustainability : jobs.ac.uk/job/DHD875/lec…
Lecturer in Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence #AI :
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHD858/lec…
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Remember, tomorrow is the best #BoudicaFriday ever, I’ll be talking about Echolands and my journey in search of Boudica at Verulamium Museum on the very spot where these events happened! Link for tickets in replies, or just head to the museum website.

Abso-bloody-lutely... currently working on next bit of research about something that we've not really looking at fully yet - mineral resources: how they affected what the Romans did... and how the Iron Age responded to that!

This made me lose my mind trying to read it! 😂

'Would you sponsor me to run the marathon? I'm hoping to raise £5,000 for my MP to give to 'bad people''

My latest cartoon for tomorrow's The Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints

Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com

This is a good idea. Young people deserve the same opportunities so many of us benefitted from at the beginning of our adult lives, and UK industries like the arts and hospitality would benefit too.
EU proposes free movement deal for young people bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Albert Einstein died #OnThisDay in 1955. In addition to his scientific achievements, he was a passionate humanist, member of the the Ethical Culture movement in the US, & co-founded the First Humanist Society of New York.