Social Media Manager and Volunteer Co-ordinator at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve; here for cats, crochet, jam and water buffaloes 😸🧶🐃
(Recovering academic and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at UCL, but none of that nonsense here)
Eleanor Robson
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Instead, as Iraqis like @observer46664.bsky.social are documenting, Baghdad is assailed with drones and bombs every night, a mostly hidden part of the relentless US/Israeli onslaught against the peoples of the Middle East.
A cancelled conference is nothing compared to death, fear and ecocide... 3/4
🙋 Hands up if you'd like the last two tickets for our next Dawn Chorus Walk!
🕠 5.30-7 am, Saturday 28 March
👀 Come with us into the Reserve for marsh harriers, lapwing, redshank, maybe bitterns, plus woodland birds, hare & deer
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Your Iraq update for today is that America?/Israel? is striking Iraqi Hashd posts across Iraq and Iraqi Shi'a militias are targeting US interests in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan. This has been happening every single day. You will read this and move on but this has been our life since the war started.
The conference represented a moment of hope and return to the international stage for Iraqi ancient historians and archaeologists, as the first time in 25 years that large numbers of scholars of ancient Iraq were to meet in Baghdad. (That 2001 conference was my first, mind-blowing trip to Iraq.) 2/4
but for me, it's symptomatic of the uncountably many ways in which this unforgivable, unjustifiable war inflicts damage, terror and exclusion on millions of people who just want to live in peace, collaboration and hope.
I despair and rage for all the lives and lost futures this war has ended 4/4
It should have been the first day of a wonderful conference in Baghdad today - the first time ever that the International Association of Assyriology assembled in Iraq for its annual meeting.
This conference was to be the culmination of 4 years of hard work by Iraqi and international colleagues. 1/4
🐣🪶 Getting ready for nesting season! So many birds!
🐃 🪺 Water buffalo are grazing the wader meadow to make it perfect for lapwing, redshank and avocet nests.
🐴🌼 Ponies are prepping the wildflower meadows for a brilliant summer display.
🥾👀Bring your wellies and binoculars to watch all the action!
It’s springtime and migratory birds are on the move! 🌍
Have you seen any of our fair-weather friends arriving? Stay tuned: we'll be shining a daily spotlight on our spring returnees.
Check out the Arrivals Board to see who's flying in and when... 👇
#SpringArrivalSpotlight
