Heather D. Baker<p>I've been here a couple of weeks now so I guess it's about time I posted an <a href="https://c.im/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a>. </p><p>I'm a British academic living in Canada. I teach Ancient Near Eastern History and I research ancient Mesopotamia based on cuneiform tablets and archaeological evidence.</p><p>My career brought me to Toronto via Cambridge, Oxford, Helsinki, and Vienna. Not to mention Iraq, where I worked on digs that first got me hooked on ancient Mesopotamia (and on Iraq).</p><p>I'm profoundly pro-EU and anti-Brexit, and well left of centre. I'm interested in UK and Canadian (especially Ontario) politics, and I try to follow covid science.</p><p>Last but not least, I am ruled by the cutest tabby cat called Major Tom.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mesopotamia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mesopotamia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cuneiform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuneiform</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ANE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ANE</span></a></p>