@seethingmead.bsky.social lovely to meet you albeit briefly yesterday, and thank you for excellent chairing! Sorry I didn’t get a chance for a longer chat but had to get back for mum
We are in a perpetual cycle of “right-sizing” and ‘building efficiencies’, like do many others. HE is quicksand
Researchers sampled 20,000 total stories from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, using five prompts and found that the same 11 words—names like Elias and occupations like lighthouse keeper and clockmaker—appear in more than 88% of generated stories. @samleecole.bsky.social
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Giving a short paper this after to our Democracy and Activism Research Group about the connections between the extreme Right/Restore/Reform’s “white indigenous English” rhetoric & archaeology/ancient DNA. This paper practically wrote itself over the past few weeks
In our first blog post we present a model of how the far right appropriates archaeology and how we can fight it! We use the recent 'looksmaxxing' trend as a case study to explore this. Give it a read and feed back what you think! 🏺
#AntiExtremistResearch
Rupert Lowe says Restore not far right but "he won't have woke creeps telling us we're racist"
Restore Britain has a conscious "no boundaries" policy that invites + defends the most openly racist people in Britain to be party members + champions + donors
Unprecedented for a party with an MP.
I found one of this group's flyers in my local supermarket (it's in the bin now). I hadn't heard of them before but a friend sent me this piece (which is too sympathetic in my view). Be warned.
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Anti-Muslim hate & anti-Semitism deemed fine by Reform UK. That’s the true headline.
Reform councillor back in party after suspension
archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com
Daniel Brown and Jacob Blewett Design, editing, and formatting by Melina Katsoulakis At the end of 2025, a trend exploded across far-right and mainstream internet spaces; young men were smacking th…
Grief, sadness, anger - I’m currently experiencing ain’t eh things Glen O’Hara describes, as my department find waits to find out who of us will be sacked (60%) and who retained.
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Lorna Richardson
Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
Reform UK says Ben Rowe has been given a final written warning.
