Feathers McGraw, the greatest villain in cinema, was introduced 30 years ago today.

Denmark's defence ministry said it would launch a review after an investigation by Airwars, Altinget and The Guardian uncovered evidence showing its air force participated in airstrikes on Libya that killed 14 civilians in 2011. theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

Thank you South Africa 🇿🇦❤️🇵🇸

The day after @ICJ concluded that Israel is plausibly committing Genocide in Gaza, some states decided to defund UNRWA, collectively punishing millions of Palestinians at the most critical time, and most likely violating their obligations under the Genocide Convention.

Oss vantar ekki menn, sem hugsa og breyta eins og allir aðrir. Borgaralegar hversdagssálir eru hér nógar. Oss vantar frumleik, hugrekki og hreinskilni. En sérstaklega vantar oss frumlega hreinskilni.

This year we trialled the applicability of the OSL profiling and dating methodology to the Icelandic soils with Tim Kinnaird. Although the results were disappointing, samples from two sites had promising results for future applications for other sites in Iceland! 1/2

This thread is very indicative of how the political establishments of the North Atlantic think about/view Iran's actions (everything is already pre-determined) rather than the actuality of what happened or how the action is viewed elsewhere.

A great training opportunity here for anyone with an interest in the archaeology of Iceland. rif.hi.is/is/afsh

UN General Assembly determines that the State of Palestine is qualified and should be admitted as a member to the United Nations. UNGA further recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter. un.org/en/ga/

But this obsession with the Russell Group and the brightest and the best needs a bit of challenge.

Magnað og ógeðslegt að þrátt fyrir að Ísrael sé bókstaflega að fremja stríðsglæpi gegn íbúum Palestínu og sé að fara gegn alþjóðlegum fyrirmælum um að hætta að fremja stríðsglæpi, hef ég ekki séð einn stjórnmálamann fordæma Ísrael með jafn skýrum hætti og þau fordæmdu Rússland.

The team at #LAC2024 in Spain!

An exciting new article is out, examining archaeological and ethnoarchaeological evidence where five case studies, from Iceland, Spain, UK and the Italian Alps are compared! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Interested in #Archaeogaming? Check out our latest blog post from the Landscapes of Glencoe and Rannoch Project here: …encoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2024/10/10/gam… and an amazing shieling landscape reconstructed by @ArchaeoPlays here: youtu.be/yl_R50x0tNg?si…

Ótrúlega spennandi efni um fátækt á árnýöld frá sjónarhorni sögulegrar fornleifafræði- algjörar akademískar bombur sem koma að þessari bók, frá HÍ og annars staðar.

Every so often a colleague writes to tell me #TheDawnOfEverything is now a core teaching text for students taking archaeology/anthropology - even entire courses designed around the book. A great legacy for David Graeber: he’d have been so pleased!

the way time passes the week between Christmas and New Year's feels like this shot from The Fellowship of the Ring:

🇪🇺 “A greater share of the European budget needs to be devoted to advanced science and breakthrough innovations,” Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize winning economist and ERC grantee Read his topical interview in Le Point ⬇️ lepoint.fr/economie/jean-… 🖊️Beatrice Parrino