Dr Susan Greaney
Archaeologist | Neolithic Britain & Ireland | Heritage interpretation | Lecturer at University of Exeter | Editor of Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
- This is a really useful guide if you're marking student submitted work that you suspect is at least partly AI generated - those ones that feel wrong but you can't put your finger on anything specific:
- My students added a top hat to the bear in that photo of V. Gordon Childe for their class presentation #proud
- Reposted by Dr Susan GreaneyResearch funding news! Our very own Prof Naomi Sykes will be spending the next three years working on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, providing important context on the value of archaeological archives. More details here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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- Niche question but my brain and a search of the literature is failing me - what examples do we have of cursus monuments with clusters of arrowheads at the terminus ends? I feel like this is an oft-repeated 'fact' but don't know any sites where this is the case.
- Reposted by Dr Susan GreaneyExcellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….
- Funny how so many people moan about potholes and then buy extremely heavy SUVs...
- Kids walking to school along my street are singing 'Its raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring...' which has cheered up this (very wet) morning.
- I feel like this should be a 'tag yourself' post but doing that would be too depressing 😞
- Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
- Visited the Bristol Aerospace Museum yesterday. Rather enjoyed this sign and left wishing I had worked there in the mid-20th century. Also got to see Concorde.
- Reposted by Dr Susan GreaneyGreat Bustard nests have been discovered at Cranborne Chase for the first time, providing further evidence of the species' gradual recovery and expansion in southern England:
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- This is a clever tool - enter your postcode to find out how retail and businesses on your local high street have changed: www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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- Just listened to Radio 3 news. GenAI training to be rolled out to every adult in the UK. Do to what? Make 'content' apparently. I'm not sure we need more 'content', let alone a tidal wave of AI slop.
- Our interns have been cataloguing our long-neglected drawers of artefact collections, and found these Stonehenge stone samples! Sent to the uni in 1956. Going to use these for teaching ASAP!
- I read this with megalithic monuments in mind:
- Really worth a read. An important issue but also admire the authors dedication to their acronym throughout, including the colour choices on their charts!
- We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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- Happy St Dwynwen's Day! Dydd Santes Dwynwen Hapus! 💘
- Just squeezed in a visit to @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social Downland exhibition before it closes. Rose Ferraby's collages are just lovely.
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