Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory

@ivg.bsky.social Archaeologist. Cambridge. Malta. Sudan. Find me on Bluesky.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

You can now find us on Facebook https://t.co/lJxbTsVjiz

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

And now you can take a look Behind the Paper - with additional information and commentary :) https://t.co/54NkV8mO9G #Sudan

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

And it’s finally out - our paper on #photography #Sudan and #JebelMoya. It’s open access :-) It’s a collab between archaeologists and colleague from @ExploreWellcome

https://t.co/RvCMLd9cLy

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

@BesenyoJ @ExploreWellcome Thank you so much. It is one of my favourite papers so far - we learnt a lot along the way.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

And it’s finally out - our paper on #photography #Sudan and #JebelMoya. It’s open access :-) It’s a collab between archaeologists and colleague from @ExploreWellcome

https://t.co/RvCMLd9cLy

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

@SAfAarchaeology @ICArEHB Folks. 250 euros registration fee. Thats bananas.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

Today marks Independence Day for #Sudan. These are my reflections and a call to #archaeology and #archaeologists

https://t.co/n7ElSG8c2r

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

So very saddened to hear of the passing of Colin Renfrew. He was kind to me and generous with his time and knowledge.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

Sudan remains invisible because people are unwilling to see. Same with Palestine. It’s right here in front of our eyes.

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

Nowhere else on the planet are so many lives at stake as in Sudan today.
In large parts of the country there is far too little aid, and far too little protection for civilians.
The international community needs to recognise and react to the scale of this crisis:

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

#Sudan 🇸🇩: in what is the biggest government victory to date, #SAF troops have recaptured the city of #Singa in #Sennar state.

Singa is the first regional capital to be retaken from the #RSF.

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

I’m back in Sudan, which suffers the worst displacement crisis in the world:  14 million people have been driven from their homes by armed groups acting with impunity.

Millions receive no real aid nor protection. The few remaining safe areas are bursting at the seams.

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[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

For context, a sack of rice in Omdurman is about 64 US dollars - a university lecturer's salary is 70 dollars. Let that sink in. Now consider what they're demanding at Al Fasher. For a sack of rice.

[Mohanad @MohanadElbalal]

This RSF militiamen threatens traders bringing in food and fuel supplies in to Al Fashir. Saying if we catch you we will tie you up to the steering wheels of your vehicles and burn you in your car alive. Al Fashir is being starved and not enough people are talking about it
#Sudan

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

There is so much desire for an education, I’ve witnessed this time and again. We are failing so many generations in Sudan.

[Munchkin @BSonblast]

Students in West Kordofan have started taking their high school qualification exams.

Children in Sudan have been through so much, and still expected (and striving) to excel academically.

Millions others remain out of school.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

DMs currently closed because… ugh.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

Got myself an early Xmas present. Counting down the days until teaching is all done so I can read this in peace. As always, book suggestions are very welcome :-)

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

New study on the death toll from #Sudan's conflict estimates over 61,000 deaths in Khartoum state alone, with over 90% of deaths there since the war began having gone unrecorded.

[Selamawit Tezera| ሰላማዊት @selamtez4]

An often sidelined issue during wartime is the protection of women’s rights, particularly in areas like SRH, which tends to be neglected both during and after wartime.
Andariya is hosting this Facebook Live tomorrow evening to bring much needed attention to spotlight this issue.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

Hello new followers - sorry just catching up. I’m mostly a bit quieter on social media in general these days - partly bc work and life are hard, but also for mental health reasons. Usually, I rabbit on about archaeology. And cats :-)

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

@ISASaxonists @erik_kaars @DrJeffreyWilson I’m going to sit in the corner of shame. It was wrong of me to only thank the journal editor on Twitter.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

Pleased to say that my piece is now available online. See here https://t.co/QNbElhOpDI #Sudan

[Jeffrey R. Wilson @DrJeffreyWilson]

@LizAngeli @carolatack @profbate @FtE_editor @sayandey89 @DrJajuan @RobertDNewman @PeterHerman4 @joemoransblog @devoneylooser @DRosvally @LilMissHotMess @dmkramp @Afrah202122 @roopikarisam @I_VG @zoebulaitis @ISASaxonists @GeorgetownMAEPH @manuelapicq @ProfDarryl @YolandaMackey6 @Neil_W_Williams @TimLanzen @ananya_jahanara @RBeunel @DrJonathanFloyd @DrGeorgeBoss @KwabenaOA The #PublicHumanities Of the Moment section is our channel for open submissions that:

✅ Show the humanities at work in public life
✅ Offer new readings of old texts
✅ Gloss current events or public holidays
✅ Profile practitioners or public figures

https://t.co/ZNHYtrRU99

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

@erik_kaars @DrJeffreyWilson @ISASaxonists She’s beyond amazing (and obvs in the acknowledgements)

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

@KateVasey @FaatiTheStreet In the meantime is there anything I can help with or questions I can answer?@FaatiTheStreet thank you for doing this.

[Dr Isabelle Vella Gregory @I_VG]

@FaatiTheStreet For me it’s absolutely no problem x