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Dr Beccy Scott
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Woman of Kent | recovering Curator | Wessex Archaeology| Neanderthal-botherer | Akela | submerged landscapes, paths and tracks | #IceAgeIsland #archaeology #palaeolithic
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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Dec 4
Come work with me! It's the most fun I've had in years - lovely team, and an exceptional opportunity to explore submerged human landscapes
Marine Geoarchaeologist | Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB...
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Marine Geoarchaeology
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House looks very empty now Christmas has come down, but at least I have the @quaternaryra.bsky.social discussion meeting to look forward to tomorrow, rather than a Hard Return to the office
January 4, 2026 at 1:53 PM
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Rate the paleo diet? Then try these other prehistoric wellness tips: the Becky Barnicoat cartoon
Survival of the fittest …
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January 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Let the inundation of #Doggerland commence! We received this boardgame as a Christmas present LAST year, and have been too busy to attempt it up until now....
A complex boardgame, with two herds of animal meeples migrating onto the board. There are mammoths top left, and woolly rhinos bottom left - don't worry about it. The remaining third of a pint of Flower Pots bitter sits in the foreground in a spitfire glass
December 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Every year, about this time, somewhere deep in the Perigord, it happens. Magdalenian spirit-reindeer awake from their deep, cavern-dark slumber, and take flight.
🦣🦌🎄
Five cave art reindeer, drawn in black pigment heads raised to the sky on a beige limestone background. The lead deer has a red nose.
December 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Proof that Santa exists www.theguardian.com/science/2000...
Proof that Santa exists
How does Father Christmas get everywhere in one night? Henry Gee explains
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December 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Here's to Chip Friday (like Christmas every week!)
Bag of chips in the landscape Bag of chips in the landscape Chips on site Friday chips on a car bonnet
December 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A student's paper just described the interaction between Homo sapiens and Neandertals as "a situationship rather than a relationship" and I'm still laughing ten minutes later 💀🏺
December 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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So NOW I'm obsessed with Dance your PhD videos.....
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We had a winner from anu a couple years ago!
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
‘Joyful madness’: ANU scientist wins global prize for ‘dancing his PhD’ about kangaroos
Four-minute video features drag queens, twerking, ballerinas, a classical Indian dancer and a bunch of friends from Canberra
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December 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
beccyscottuk.bsky.social
Oh my goodness, YES! Why don't more people write musical covers of their papers??!
nickpetrichowe.bsky.social Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 17d
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.

If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Merry Geoarchaeological Christmas from Wessex Archaeology: out of office is ON youtube.com/shorts/vD7aW...
Season's Greetings 2025
YouTube video by wessexarchaeology
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December 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Secrets of the Thames | Mudlarking exhibition | Open now | London Museum share.google/sA3ANTXfEHxP...

#intertidalarchaeology #coastalhistory #Coastalchange #coastsinmind #London #Mudlarking
Secrets of the Thames
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December 3, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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This is a lovely animation to accompany BBC coverage of controlled production of fire at Barnham
mattpope.bsky.social Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 25d
BBC coverage of breaking news announcing the earliest evidence for humanly made fire. From Barnham, UK.
Quite probably early Neanderthal people with a late Acheulean culture 🦣🏺🔥
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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
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December 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
beccyscottuk.bsky.social
Come work with me! It's the most fun I've had in years - lovely team, and an exceptional opportunity to explore submerged human landscapes
Marine Geoarchaeologist | Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB...
Marine Geoarchaeologist
Marine Geoarchaeology
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December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Oh now, this looks like an amazing project, with a fantastic supervisor
nannonstevens.bsky.social Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · Dec 3
Interested in applying for this funded PhD with me
at UCL Institute of Archaeology? Get in touch to discuss this project or to develop your own idea!

Human or Animal? Biomolecular Analysis of Upper Palaeolithic Bone Artefacts to Explore Raw Material Selection.
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/hum...
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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If anyone is feeling generous this payday, my small is fundraising for the World Scout Jamboree: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £3590 to Attend the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Attend the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland . Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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JOB ALERT! Historic England is looking for a Marine Archaeological Project Officer (Marine Planner). Closing date 7 December 2025 app.beapplied.com/apply/ddfvme... #Maritime #Underwater #Archaeology
Photograph of a flat calm sea, with the turbines of an offshore wind farm on the horizon, underneath a blue but cloudy sky
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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An entire #Stir-upSunday episode of #TheArchers, and yet not a mention! If it doesn't get cranked into tonights episode, we'll know the end times have come
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Am totally going to be working this into conversation wherever I can!
kentishwordbot.bsky.social A Kentish Word-bot @kentishwordbot.bsky.social · Nov 20
POLRUMPTIOUS [polrum•shus] adj. Rude; obstreperous.
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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@markknight63.bsky.social who knew??!!
In its early series, Knightmare lacked a single major antagonist or 'baddie'. Originally, Treguard was specifically a neutral character, neither on the side of good nor evil. The closest there was to a main villain was Mogdred (portrayed by John Woodnutt), but his primary duty was (according to wizard Merlin in the penultimate episode of Series 2) to "scare you into making a mistake", though he did kill two dungeoneers, one in Series 2 and another early in Series 4. In Series 5 (1991), however, changes were made. The majority of the characters were split into two sides: the righteous "Powers that Be", and the villainous "Opposition", the leader of which was Lord Fear played by Mark Knight. By this time, Treguard's stance had now fully evolved into that of a strictly good character. The words 'Lord Fear played by Mark Knight' are highlighted
November 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Oh my goodness, I would watch the hell out of this: fingers crossed it heads south! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
The Devil’s Den review – folk horror opera with morris dancing and a sinister rabbit is an eccentric delight
Isabella Gellis’s first full-length stage work has the feel of a modern mystery play as it unpacks the legends surrounding an ancient Wiltshire monument
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November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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An historic moment - the arrival of the first £10 pint: Stephen Collins cartoon | Life and style | The Guardian share.google/KWmvFtp8Rhts...
An historic moment - the arrival of the first £10 pint: Stephen Collins cartoon
The Peronis, Madris, Buds are all jealous of my achievement
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November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Origen múltiple de Levallois: Nor Geghi-1, Armenia, y Purfleet, R.U.
The shape of technology to come: An examination of evolutionary relationships between bifacial and core technologies at the Lower-Middle Palaeolithic boundary across regions in Eurasia doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
November 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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Picture of 6 postgrad students sat at a table in a lab studying bones. Text says: The UCL Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic (PaPa) MSc programme is an established, pioneering course in human origins delivered by a world-leading university. It will bring you a deep and expert understanding of the scientific record of human evolution which powerfully combines opportunities for the study of palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and wider scientific approaches to the early human story. Coordinated by UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology departments and drawing on expertise from across the University and other institutions, it will provide you with training in the specialisms of your choice, while also ensuring you are introduced to the wider scope of approaches to the study of human evolution.  Having run now for over 15 years, we have PaPa alumni actively leading a new generation of human origins research across the world. Our programme is a proven springboard to PhD programmes, careers in academia, archaeological science, specialist archaeological fieldwork, science media and much more.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM