Dr Beccy Scott
@beccyscottuk.bsky.social
Woman of Kent | recovering Curator | Wessex Archaeology| Neanderthal-botherer | Akela | submerged landscapes, paths and tracks | #IceAgeIsland #archaeology #palaeolithic
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
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oh my goodness, I would watch the hell out of this: fingers crossed it heads south! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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
An historic moment - the arrival of the first £10 pint: Stephen Collins cartoon | Life and style | The Guardian share.google/KWmvFtp8Rhts...
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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...
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
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...
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...
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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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November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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Happy Halloween freshwater fiends! Do you believe in ghosts? Nope. How about ghost ponds?👻
Please allow us to introduce you to a the amazing #GhostPond aficionado @carlsayer.bsky.social for inspiring ponderings on the incredible power of ghost pond resurrections!
Check it out: youtu.be/bT1FLPCjEPw
Please allow us to introduce you to a the amazing #GhostPond aficionado @carlsayer.bsky.social for inspiring ponderings on the incredible power of ghost pond resurrections!
Check it out: youtu.be/bT1FLPCjEPw
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Happy Halloween freshwater fiends! Do you believe in ghosts? Nope. How about ghost ponds?👻
Please allow us to introduce you to a the amazing #GhostPond aficionado @carlsayer.bsky.social for inspiring ponderings on the incredible power of ghost pond resurrections!
Check it out: youtu.be/bT1FLPCjEPw
Please allow us to introduce you to a the amazing #GhostPond aficionado @carlsayer.bsky.social for inspiring ponderings on the incredible power of ghost pond resurrections!
Check it out: youtu.be/bT1FLPCjEPw
My 14 year old daughter has set up an Etsy shop (account managed by me) to raise money to attend the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland: do take a look and support her www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Flic...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My 14 year old daughter has set up an Etsy shop (account managed by me) to raise money to attend the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland: do take a look and support her www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Flic...
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The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is now open for applications. ⏳
Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉
Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉
Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund
www.cardfund.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is now open for applications. ⏳
Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉
Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉
Freya has been offered a place at the World Scout Jamboree in Poland in 2027; we're really proud, but it's a big stretch.
She's got loads of fundraising ideas (FlickerAndFlowers.etsy.com), but if you feel able to donate to get her started, we'd be really grateful
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
She's got loads of fundraising ideas (FlickerAndFlowers.etsy.com), but if you feel able to donate to get her started, we'd be really grateful
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.
www.justgiving.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Freya has been offered a place at the World Scout Jamboree in Poland in 2027; we're really proud, but it's a big stretch.
She's got loads of fundraising ideas (FlickerAndFlowers.etsy.com), but if you feel able to donate to get her started, we'd be really grateful
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
She's got loads of fundraising ideas (FlickerAndFlowers.etsy.com), but if you feel able to donate to get her started, we'd be really grateful
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
We need to see more of these calculations: decoupling the price of electricity from gas would demonstrate more quickly to people the immediate savings to each of us of investing in wind power. It's really cheering to read share.google/YkbvWPvaizOq...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
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October 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
We need to see more of these calculations: decoupling the price of electricity from gas would demonstrate more quickly to people the immediate savings to each of us of investing in wind power. It's really cheering to read share.google/YkbvWPvaizOq...
*snigger*
WANKLE [wonk•l] adj. Sickly; generally applied to a child. A man said of his wife that she was 'a poor wankle creature.'
October 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
*snigger*
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Well deserved!
Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Well deserved!
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October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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This is a lovely story: neighbours working together and creating a shared community space share.google/sM5KMuI6uqVC...
Neighbours muck in to transform overgrown alley
An overgrown alleyway on Merseyside is transformed from an "overgrown mess" into a social space.
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September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is a lovely story: neighbours working together and creating a shared community space share.google/sM5KMuI6uqVC...
This is a really neat bit of work on Bankside as an entertainment space, based on years of painstaking professional excavation. A hard read for a dog-lover, but fascinating nonetheless www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ - Volume 99 Issue 404
www.cambridge.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is a really neat bit of work on Bankside as an entertainment space, based on years of painstaking professional excavation. A hard read for a dog-lover, but fascinating nonetheless www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on:
“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”
More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...
“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”
More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...
August 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on:
“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”
More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...
“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”
More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...
I absolutely love this bit of Scotland: massive fieldwork envy
Just finished a week of fieldwork on Late Glacial/Early Holocene landscapes/archaeology in Glen Dee, Mar Lodge Estate, Cairngorms, w/ colleagues Sam Kelly @arctic-glacial.bsky.social, Phillipe de Smedt & teams. Tx to @nts-archaeology.bsky.social, Mar Lodge Estate & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social 1/8
August 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I absolutely love this bit of Scotland: massive fieldwork envy
I love these 'restorations' precisely because they're palimpsests: this is just one gloriously camp moment in this statue's life. The craftspeople who have given her her various makeovers will always brought different visions and levels of skill
August 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I love these 'restorations' precisely because they're palimpsests: this is just one gloriously camp moment in this statue's life. The craftspeople who have given her her various makeovers will always brought different visions and levels of skill
This is a lovely read on why natural history museums matter, as a fragment of the ecosystems that once existed, but also as assemblages of human actions, impacts, and biases
The last known Rodrigues parakeet died exactly 150 years ago. This story ticks a lot of natural history museum bingo boxes:
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...
The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums
Two specimens at a museum in Cambridge are the only physical evidence this bird ever existed.
theconversation.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This is a lovely read on why natural history museums matter, as a fragment of the ecosystems that once existed, but also as assemblages of human actions, impacts, and biases
I'm absolutely mesmerized by this fantastic animated infographic: brilliant way of presenting processes
About me: I am interested in geodynamics, plate tectonics, natural hazards, georesources and the carbon cycle - using numerical models like the one below. 🧪⚒️
I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar
August 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I'm absolutely mesmerized by this fantastic animated infographic: brilliant way of presenting processes
Neatly dated early hominin presence on Wallacea: securely excavated stone tools from site of Colio, on Sulawesi -between 1.04 Ma and 1.48 Ma.
Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature
Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.
www.nature.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Neatly dated early hominin presence on Wallacea: securely excavated stone tools from site of Colio, on Sulawesi -between 1.04 Ma and 1.48 Ma.
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Here’s a tired parent 1-2-3
Sits by the bedside
What does she see?
She sees her baby sleeping
Finally
At last
Books piled on the table,
An empty water glass
Cinderella in the cellar,
A peach,
A pear,
A plum.
Thank you Allan Alhberg,
From this very grateful mum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Sits by the bedside
What does she see?
She sees her baby sleeping
Finally
At last
Books piled on the table,
An empty water glass
Cinderella in the cellar,
A peach,
A pear,
A plum.
Thank you Allan Alhberg,
From this very grateful mum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Allan Ahlberg obituary
Writer of books such as Each Peach Pear Plum and Peepo! capturing a child’s outlook with his illustrator wife Janet
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Here’s a tired parent 1-2-3
Sits by the bedside
What does she see?
She sees her baby sleeping
Finally
At last
Books piled on the table,
An empty water glass
Cinderella in the cellar,
A peach,
A pear,
A plum.
Thank you Allan Alhberg,
From this very grateful mum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Sits by the bedside
What does she see?
She sees her baby sleeping
Finally
At last
Books piled on the table,
An empty water glass
Cinderella in the cellar,
A peach,
A pear,
A plum.
Thank you Allan Alhberg,
From this very grateful mum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
This is sad news: peepo was one of my favourite books to read with Small when she was proper small: share.google/888cPG5tgYO8...
Allan Ahlberg, beloved children's author, dies aged 87
Working first with his wife Janet, and later with illustrators including Raymond Briggs and Bruce Ingman, he wrote more than 150 books
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August 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This is sad news: peepo was one of my favourite books to read with Small when she was proper small: share.google/888cPG5tgYO8...
A more detailed look at coastlines after the LGM in the Middle East to consider where how people moved through now-submerged parts of their landscapes. I love these textured palaeo-DEMs for a different perspective on hunter-gatherer worlds. comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/a...
Alternative crossings into and out of Africa since 30,000 BP
comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A more detailed look at coastlines after the LGM in the Middle East to consider where how people moved through now-submerged parts of their landscapes. I love these textured palaeo-DEMs for a different perspective on hunter-gatherer worlds. comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/a...
Sent down a rabbit hole of these amazing creations of Dutch artist Theo Jansen: his strandbeests are made of electric cable pipe, and their evolution classified by him into different families and phases share.google/As55hTCBE909...
July 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Sent down a rabbit hole of these amazing creations of Dutch artist Theo Jansen: his strandbeests are made of electric cable pipe, and their evolution classified by him into different families and phases share.google/As55hTCBE909...