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Adam R. Hemmings
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Archaeologist ~ Producer ~ Community Builder

Founder of Citizen State | Archaeology & Heritage Law Academic | Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society | Editor of Studies of Biblical Interest | Sometimes a bass-baritone

https://www.adamrhemmings.com/
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Adam R. Hemmings @adamrhemmings.bsky.social · Nov 15
Well, I made it! Who’s over here already? Interested in following:

🌟 #CommunityBuilders
🌈 #Utopians
🏠 #Housing and #Homelessness #Activists
⚒️ #Archaeologists
🔬 #Scientists
📜 #Historians
🎭 #TheatreMakers
👽 #Scifi and 🎃 #Horror Makers
🎓 #Academics
🌍 And anyone building a #betterworld
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COVER REVEAL! My #microfiction #fantasy available next week for preorder from @lemonjellypress.bsky.social--coming out 21 October! #IndiePublishing #Flashfiction #WritingCommunity #wipsnips #writesky #author #writer #fairytale #womenwriters
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Red roses against a red background--The title "Rose Red" at the top.
September 20, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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No #WIPSnips "payment" today. So here is a dragonfly who looks like it has turquoise inlaid in its tail.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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A dragonfly who looks like it has turquoise inlaid in its tail.
September 18, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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With little formal education, Bate became a fossil hunter and one of the first women employed by the Natural History Museum. Now, more than a century later, her remarkable contribution to palaeontology has been recognised with a national blue plaque.

#Palaeontology

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carmarthen fossil hunter Dorothea Bate recognised with blue plaque
Dorothea Bate discovered the dwarf elephant and the myotragus, an extinct goat-like antelope.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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With little formal education, Bate became a fossil hunter and one of the first women employed by the Natural History Museum. Now, more than a century later, her remarkable contribution to palaeontology has been recognised with a national blue plaque.

#Palaeontology

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Carmarthen fossil hunter Dorothea Bate recognised with blue plaque
Dorothea Bate discovered the dwarf elephant and the myotragus, an extinct goat-like antelope.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "sigh."
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Aya starts work in the Mars Habitat:
September 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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Happy Saturday!
Today's #WIPSnips is "panel."
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Aya describes her quarters in the Mars habitat:
September 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Genuine Londoners know you have to come together to make a life that works. Tuesday's community lunch @ourmoh.bsky.social with @citizenstate.bsky.social founder @adamrhemmings.bsky.social discuss replacing broken welfare system with #UniversalBasicIncome. #LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife4
September 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "album." I've gone with "logs" and "journals."
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Aya searches for an explanation of what is happening to her:
August 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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“If the Grand Egyptian Museum is Egypt’s gateway to the future, then the Tahrir museum is the memory of the museum itself and the memory of #Egyptology.”

Outstanding ideas for the future of the #EgyptianMuseum. How exciting!

www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
Beyond King Tut: Cairo’s Egyptian Museum looks to reinvent itself
With Cairo's Egyptian Museum approaching its 125th anniversary, efforts are underway to reposition it on the cultural map in light of competition from newer, glitzier museums.
www.al-monitor.com
August 23, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "fresh."
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Aya lands on Mars:
August 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "press."
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Julia writes to her daughter:
August 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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This just greeted me when I got home… #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #SFF #speculativefiction
Rainbow over foothills and ponderosa pines.
August 16, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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I'm enjoying the buzz around the #eclipse. It's so rare that we see entire peoples come together to stand in awe of the universe (even though, I will say at least from London, the view was not like 1999!). Have to wait until 2090 for the next total one!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Millions in UK and Europe left wowed by once-in-a-generation solar eclipse
More than 95% of the Sun was covered by the Moon in Cornwall, while parts of Spain experienced the magic of a total eclipse.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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Dr. Dan Hicks, Oxford archaeologist and Pitt Rivers curator, challenges colonial myths in museums. His latest book, Every Monument Will Fall, probes how monuments shape memory (and what it means to rewrite those stories). #MuseumEthics #DecolonizeMuseums #DanHicks peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/27/p...
Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks
In today’s episode of the Peopling the Past podcast, we are joined by Dr. Dan Hicks, professor of contemporary archaeology at the University of Oxford and the curator of World Archaeology at …
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June 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A further 2 care homes owned by Blue Ribbon Healthcare Group have had their quality ratings suspended by the CQC.

It comes after we uncovered multiple allegations of abuse and neglect at the care company. 4 Blue Ribbon homes are now under investigation.

www.itv.com/news/2026-08...
August 11, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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Archaeologists in Colchester have uncovered the earliest known acquisition of an ichthyosaur fossil. A vertebra was deposited in a 2nd-century Roman pit. Was it a mythological relic, ritual object, or ancient curio?

#Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

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The Earliest Known Purposefully Collected Ichthyosaurian Fossil: A Vertebral Centrum from a Second-century a.d. Roman Pit in Colchester, Essex | Britannia | Cambridge Core
The Earliest Known Purposefully Collected Ichthyosaurian Fossil: A Vertebral Centrum from a Second-century a.d. Roman Pit in Colchester, Essex
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August 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "thorn." I went for vibes.
I will be off the grid next week: see you the week after!
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Julia holos with her mother:
August 2, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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This feels like exactly the sort of problem AI's built for. Researchers at #SantaClaraUniversity have developed an #AI tool to sift through fragmented archives and multilingual records to help identify #Nazilooted artworks and reunite them with their rightful owners.

www.scu.edu/news-and-eve...
A team from Santa Clara University’s business school is working to use AI to uncover Nazi-looted art
Using AI’s power to translate, decipher, and reveal data to restore stolen art to its rightful owners
www.scu.edu
August 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII.

Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
July 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Less than a month until #GDIF! Time Out ranks the Festival as the #2 new theatre opening in London (after Cats!), so get yourself over there for some spectacle. Particularly looking forward to Efectos Especiales...lights, camera, action!

#Theatre #London #NewOpening

www.timeout.com/london/news/...
The 10 best new London theatre openings in August 2026
From the return of ‘Cats’ to the spectacular free Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, it’s a thrilling month for London theatre
www.timeout.com
July 30, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "defuse." I went for vibes: Aya is called to defuse a tense situation in Systems.
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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July 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Just received this stunning new memoir by @piuskamau.bsky.social
#RunningWithLions #booksky #writingcommunity #memoir #autobiography #Writesky
book cover--young Kenyan boy running in front of a lion
July 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Today's #WIPSnips is "dash."
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Aya is unravelling:
July 23, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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A disabled pregnant woman and her child were left in an unsuitable B&B by Ealing for over a year in breach of the law. The £6,150 compensation package is paltry given the harm caused, and unlikely to prevent councils repeating such failures in future.

#SocialHousing

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
London council left child and disabled mum in B&B for over a year
Ealing Council is criticised for placing a disabled pregnant mother and child in unsuitable accommodation for over a year.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 15, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Only one #WIPSnips "attack" so far....
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #speculativefiction #SFF #womenwriters #speculative
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Doing psychotherapy in a small community:
July 11, 2026 at 12:52 PM