With the Bayeux Tapestry back in England for the first time in almost a thousand years, Dr Emily Winkler looks at what its embroidered scenes still tell us about kings, comets and a cross-Channel world older than either nation ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3TiqEsC

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Great autobiographical review from Jocelyn Bell Burnell, although some of the things she has had to put up with will make your blood boil. Hero. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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If Ron cared so much about the streets of Tottenham, maybe the first time he visited in 56 fucking years wouldn’t be with a massive racist

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Global medieval trade alert 🚨 “Archaeologists digging in the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe have discovered pieces of jade-green Chinese pottery, suggesting that the enigmatic empire had long-distance connections with East Asia more than 1,000 years ago.” Fab article by Dr. @killgrove.bsky.social

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Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯

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