Trevor Wiley

@mearcsteppende.bsky.social

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History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.

A screenshot of a list of twenty questions about books and reading: 1. book you’ve reread the most times? 2. top 5 books of all time? 3. what is your favourite genre? 4. what sections of a bookstore do you browse? 5. where do you buy books? 6. what books have you read in the last month? 7. is there a series/book that got you into reading? 8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself? 9. when do you tend to read most? 10. do you have a guilty fav? 11. what non-fiction books do you like if any? 12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings? 13. do you have a goodreads? 14. do you ever mark/dog ear books you own? 15. recommend and review a book. 16. how many books have you read this year? 17. top 5 children’s books? 18. do you like historical books? which time period? 19. most disliked popular books? 20. what are things you look for in a book?
A printed paper article with a pen in the foreground atop a table with a book on top of them. A mostly empty beer glass sits behind them in a sunny beer garden.
A view of hills in the distance with trees in the foreground and sky above
A view of the Tay in Newburgh at low tide with green grass in the foreground.
A view of the river Tay in the middle with hills and fields on both sides. A variety of labels indicate the position of early medieval sites, reading, from left to right: St Madoes, Inchyra, Clatchard Craig, Mugdrum, Carpow, Abernethy, East Lomond
A view of the River Tay with green and yellow fields on both sides and hills in the background.
A display of carved stones, several with crosses, in a museum
A wide plain with trees in the foreground and mountains fading into rain and clouds in the background
A slab of sandstone with carvings of two riders with spears and shields within bordered squares.
A rough stone path amidst rust colored brush looking down to a green valley with a town in it and clouds beyond.
A wide view of a bay with a harbor and blue cloudy sky overhead, with cliffs around, at Stonehaven.
A stone with Pictish carvings and ogham, cemented together, sits in some gravel with buildings behind.
A view of the Tay Firth with clouds above.
The grey Firth of Forth with two bridges spanning it and a quay with buildings on the right.
A view of the River Liffey with grey skies overhead and a line of buildings alongside.
A two-panel meme using the format from ICarly. The top panel has two girls, with the lead one (labeled "my advisor") asking "Um...whatcha got there?". The second panel shows a man (labeled "me") holding a smoothie in the foreground with the text "thirty pages of solid work" over it. In the background he is holding an ostrich labelled "the worst footnotes you've ever seen". He is saying "A smoothie."
A baseball park partially shaded with a blue sky with clouds above. A sign with the field name, Fluor Field, is to the right.
A full bookshelf with several items and books on display including a drinking horn and a box of tea. Maps and photos in the right background.
A waterfall framed by trees with a large mossy boulder in the foreground and a cloudy blue sky above.
The front cover of the book Carved in Stone atop a desk.
A stack of four book spines on a table: Parker's The Common Stream, Haldane's The Drove Roads of Scotland, Fudge's Quick Cattle and Dying Wishes, and the edited volume Appalachian Reckoning
A view of a snowy wood with a line of prayer flags at the top of the frame.
A steaming bowl of oatmeal perched atop a book in the sun.
A meme from the format of several armored warriors putting their swords into the center of a table, with the three visible figures labeled "tollund man," "me," and "the picts." In the center of the table is the label "yum oatmeal."
A distribution map of Bluesky users grouping together by similar subject and post material. A pink circle marks out my username, @mearcsteppende, at the edge of Classical Study Scholars and within range of Academic Archaeologists.
A screenshot of a crowded QGIS map with many different overlapping symbols and points, clustered around the Firth of Forth.
Another natural boulder with a stone inscription to Kelly Bennett.
A large boulder with a metal plate atop it serving as the grave of Horace Kephart, with a sunlit inscription.
A sun-dappled trail with trees and green mountain laurel around it.
A partially paved road with a worn wooden guardrail surrounded by trees.
A dark stone tunnel built into the mountain with a faint light on the far end.
A small stream trickles down mossy rocks under rhododendron.
A blue sky with clouds among the trees and mountains with a snow covered railing in the foreground.
A copy of the book Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman Cantor in front of a Christmas tree lit with multicolor lights.
A variety of medieval history and archaeology books tightly stacked on a bookshelf
A lap of used books including Before France and Germany, From Memory to Written Record, and Communities of Violence.
A view of the University of Miami campus with lush tropical greenery and paths.
A selfie of a man (me) with a blue sweater and "I Voted" sticker smiling in front of an autumnal New England sky
A concrete barrier marking the causeway to the tidal island at Cramond in the Firth of Forth, with grey water around it, and the land of Fife visible in the distance along with the island itself.
A rocky island (the Isle of May) sits in the middle of the water on the Firth of Forth with several small white seabirds, a cloudy sky above and a white foghorn building in the middle back.
A view of the Charles River through various small green trees with the bike path in the foreground.
A large and worn stone with lichen sits on a green mowed piece of grass with tan fields behind it, a cloudy sky, and a distant stone caim tomb in the background.
Textile looms behind green fencing at the Lowell National Historical Park.
Classic meme format with a smiling and happy girl on the left looking up and a sad and stressed girl on the right coloring with a crayon
Several cattle graze near an ancient standing stone in rural Co. Roscommon, Ireland. A grey sky looms over them, and a bit of fencing keeps them away from the featureless stone.
A lighthouse with a red light sits amidst fir trees on a rocky headland with the ocean and the dusk sky behind it at Acadia National Park.
A view across the Somes Sound in Acadia National Park. The sky is full of clouds and the green trees crowd around the blue water, with islands visible in the distance.
An orange sun rising over the waves on a Cape Cod beach looking out over the water.
An aerial picture of a set of rivers in the edge of an estuary.
A bit of aged driftwood with many branches covered in many seashells woven in and out of the branches and hollows.
The surf of the Atlantic coming in on the sand with a mix of dark and light clouds behind it.
The Robert MacFarlane book "Is a River Alive?" next to a bookmark for Books to be Red on Ocracoke Island, NC.
Six miniatures of various D&D heroes on a background of a sepia world map.
The cover of the book Landscaping Patagonia by Maria de los Angeles Picone
A photo of Boston from the BU bridge, with a blue sky and buildings surrounding the Charles River in the foreground
The poster for the movie "Harlan County USA"
Cliffs stained with bird poop jut out into the Firth of Forth on the Isle of May, with a slice of green grass in the foreground. A variety of small sea-birds of various species are perched in and around the cliff and rocks.
A screenshot of the outer Firth of Forth with seagull images placed atop several important sites: Craig Rock, the Isle of May, North Berwick, Auldhame, Castle Park Dunbar, and Broxmouth
A view of protestors with signs marching through downtown Boston in the rain