Lizzy (she/they)
@scottiius.bsky.social
Therapeutic radiographer ☢️
Former archaeology student 💀
Lover of science, justice and cats 🐈
Living with Long Covid induced ME/CFS 🫠
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Former archaeology student 💀
Lover of science, justice and cats 🐈
Living with Long Covid induced ME/CFS 🫠
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
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#SaxonSunday
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
December 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
#SaxonSunday
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
10th C monumental #StoneworkSunday cross shaft w elaborate decoration: eg acanthus top rt rare in S England but has parallels 8th C Jerusalem.
Found in East Stour Dorset chimney breast 1939 then used as garden ornament; BM acquired 1969.
Faith Museum, Auckland Project, Bishop Auckland.
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It's been a strange year for weather and wildlife in the UK...
December 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's been a strange year for weather and wildlife in the UK...
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Could you be our next Events & Development Co-ordinator? 🔥
We are looking for someone confident, organised & driven to execute our exciting events programme. ✨
Fancy working in a small, passionate team in the beautiful South Downs? We'd love to hear from you!
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies
We are looking for someone confident, organised & driven to execute our exciting events programme. ✨
Fancy working in a small, passionate team in the beautiful South Downs? We'd love to hear from you!
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies
December 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Could you be our next Events & Development Co-ordinator? 🔥
We are looking for someone confident, organised & driven to execute our exciting events programme. ✨
Fancy working in a small, passionate team in the beautiful South Downs? We'd love to hear from you!
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies
We are looking for someone confident, organised & driven to execute our exciting events programme. ✨
Fancy working in a small, passionate team in the beautiful South Downs? We'd love to hear from you!
www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/vacancies
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Terrible #PublicHealth and #poverty: can't tackle the first without dealing with the second
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Doctors urge government to fight poverty after rise in patients with Victorian diseases
Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Terrible #PublicHealth and #poverty: can't tackle the first without dealing with the second
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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🔴 Attacks on aid workers must end.
🔴 Perpetrators must be held accountable.
🔴 We cannot become numb to this violence.
Member States gathering today at the UN #SecurityCouncil must demand accountability, prevent more killing and act on resolution 2730.
#NotATarget
🔴 Perpetrators must be held accountable.
🔴 We cannot become numb to this violence.
Member States gathering today at the UN #SecurityCouncil must demand accountability, prevent more killing and act on resolution 2730.
#NotATarget
April 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
🔴 Attacks on aid workers must end.
🔴 Perpetrators must be held accountable.
🔴 We cannot become numb to this violence.
Member States gathering today at the UN #SecurityCouncil must demand accountability, prevent more killing and act on resolution 2730.
#NotATarget
🔴 Perpetrators must be held accountable.
🔴 We cannot become numb to this violence.
Member States gathering today at the UN #SecurityCouncil must demand accountability, prevent more killing and act on resolution 2730.
#NotATarget
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The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population
https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
Revealed: first DNA profiles of ancient people who roamed a lush Sahara
The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population.
go.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population
https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV
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Yet another reason why AI in healthcare needs to be used with great caution.
A new study finds one of the most cited #AI models used to scan chest x-rays doesn’t accurately detect potentially life-threatening diseases in marginalized groups, including women and Black people. scim.ag/42uhnPO
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients
Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Yet another reason why AI in healthcare needs to be used with great caution.
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I watched the last two hours and it was frankly epic. I’m not into that style of rhetoric in general but damn it was moving. And as a pragmatist I’m in awe at the physical and psychological endurance, and his intellect. Nice to have a bit of hope.
Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes.
“…after 72 days in which Democrats have appeared lame and leaderless, Booker stood up and did something. He said his constituents had challenged him to think differently and take risks and so he did.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“…after 72 days in which Democrats have appeared lame and leaderless, Booker stood up and did something. He said his constituents had challenged him to think differently and take risks and so he did.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I watched the last two hours and it was frankly epic. I’m not into that style of rhetoric in general but damn it was moving. And as a pragmatist I’m in awe at the physical and psychological endurance, and his intellect. Nice to have a bit of hope.
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It is not a war. It is a genocidal land grab and Israel is now accelerating it. With each passing day our collective conscience drowns a little more in the blood of Palestinians through our inaction, our silence and our governments’ ongoing facilitation.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Israel announces plan to seize ‘large areas’ in Gaza – latest updates
Defence minister Israel Katz says large areas of the territory will be seized and added to the security zones of Israel
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
It is not a war. It is a genocidal land grab and Israel is now accelerating it. With each passing day our collective conscience drowns a little more in the blood of Palestinians through our inaction, our silence and our governments’ ongoing facilitation.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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The timeless beauty of ancient glass!
Roman glass scent bottle in the form of a shell. Mould-blown. AD 25-100.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Roman glass scent bottle in the form of a shell. Mould-blown. AD 25-100.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
March 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The timeless beauty of ancient glass!
Roman glass scent bottle in the form of a shell. Mould-blown. AD 25-100.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Roman glass scent bottle in the form of a shell. Mould-blown. AD 25-100.
British Museum 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Cooperation is the very foundation of human survival - we need to undo damaging 20th-century ideology about competition
scitechdaily.com/rewriting-hu...
scitechdaily.com/rewriting-hu...
Rewriting Human History: 110,000-Year-Old Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Worked Together
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared technology and customs in the Levant, shaping early human culture through cooperation. The first published study on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Ho...
scitechdaily.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Cooperation is the very foundation of human survival - we need to undo damaging 20th-century ideology about competition
scitechdaily.com/rewriting-hu...
scitechdaily.com/rewriting-hu...
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Apparently Apple Maps now shows indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand. I can’t pretend to understand the full context but this looks amazing! I wish we could have this for North America but clearly not in this political climate.
www.apple.com/au/newsroom/...
www.apple.com/au/newsroom/...
Apple deepens community initiatives in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Apple’s new initiatives in Australia and New Zealand help strengthen communities, and advance tech’s role in preserving culture and enhancing education.
www.apple.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Apparently Apple Maps now shows indigenous lands in Australia and New Zealand. I can’t pretend to understand the full context but this looks amazing! I wish we could have this for North America but clearly not in this political climate.
www.apple.com/au/newsroom/...
www.apple.com/au/newsroom/...
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Maggots were likely tasty treats for Neanderthals. scim.ag/3RoPylJ
Neanderthals may have eaten maggots as part of their diet
High nitrogen in Neanderthal bones doesn’t mean they were uber-carnivores
scim.ag
March 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Maggots were likely tasty treats for Neanderthals. scim.ag/3RoPylJ
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In West Yorkshire, a carving of Cocidius, the Romano-British "Red God" of war, hunting, and woodlands. He was likely to have been worshipped by lower rank Roman soldiers and Britons, for whom he was probably a tribal god. #RomanSiteSaturday #Yorkshire
March 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
In West Yorkshire, a carving of Cocidius, the Romano-British "Red God" of war, hunting, and woodlands. He was likely to have been worshipped by lower rank Roman soldiers and Britons, for whom he was probably a tribal god. #RomanSiteSaturday #Yorkshire
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We updated our 2023 story given the announcement today of new evidence and new peer reviews regarding purposeful burial in H. naledi. 🧪🏺
A 'landmark finding': Homo naledi buried their dead 250,000 years ago, according to newly updated research
Controversial claim that Homo naledi buried its dead gets new proof from 2025 research study.
www.livescience.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We updated our 2023 story given the announcement today of new evidence and new peer reviews regarding purposeful burial in H. naledi. 🧪🏺
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Why we need to stop talking about connections to prehistory in terms of ancestors and find a more inclusive narrative around ideas of dwelling and place. (And maybe one day I'll get round to revising my paper on the subject that the reviewers threw out...)
Totally onboard for regular ethical self-reflection about how we handle and discuss ancient human remains in museum collections but for various reasons I would be uneasy with museums referring to human remains from Britain as 'ancestors' in this way.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
March 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Why we need to stop talking about connections to prehistory in terms of ancestors and find a more inclusive narrative around ideas of dwelling and place. (And maybe one day I'll get round to revising my paper on the subject that the reviewers threw out...)
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Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is not just unfair; it’s cruel. A million disabled people stand to lose vital support, while the wealthiest are protected. This isn’t necessity, it’s a choice—and it’s the wrong one. #SpringStatement
March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Balancing the books on the backs of disabled people is not just unfair; it’s cruel. A million disabled people stand to lose vital support, while the wealthiest are protected. This isn’t necessity, it’s a choice—and it’s the wrong one. #SpringStatement
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Just a reminder that you do have to comply with your nation's laws regarding nuclear materials even if you're just a collector
A “science nerd” in Australia who wanted to collect all the elements of the periodic table will have to wait to learn his sentence after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of plutonium to his parents’ suburban Sydney apartment.
Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect periodic table elements
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Just a reminder that you do have to comply with your nation's laws regarding nuclear materials even if you're just a collector
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Scientists have created the first map of the crucial structures called mitochondria throughout the entire brain
https://go.nature.com/4c2YMxw
https://go.nature.com/4c2YMxw
First map of human brain mitochondria is ‘groundbreaking’ achievement
Hundreds of cubes of human brain tissue help scientists to chart the energy-making capabilities of various brain regions.
go.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Scientists have created the first map of the crucial structures called mitochondria throughout the entire brain
https://go.nature.com/4c2YMxw
https://go.nature.com/4c2YMxw
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"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK"
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England
The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.
historicengland.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"Quite simply, this is one of the most important and exciting Iron Age period discoveries made in the UK"
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Historic England Press release on the Melsonby hoard 👇👇
historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
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This is the moment we've worked toward for a long time: First public disclosure of the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social pan-coronavirus antiviral aiming to help keep humanity safe from future pandemic threats like MERS-CoV and other bat coronaviruses.
📢Important announcement! Today, the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social consortium disclosed the structure of our preclinical candidate, ASAP-0017445, a promising broad-spectrum antiviral with potent activity against SARS-CoV2 and other viruses belonging to the same family. (1/10)
March 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is the moment we've worked toward for a long time: First public disclosure of the @asapdiscovery.bsky.social pan-coronavirus antiviral aiming to help keep humanity safe from future pandemic threats like MERS-CoV and other bat coronaviruses.
Another smashing Northern early Iron Age hill fort near Sheffield
The large 7.6ha hillfort of Mam Tor in England comprises a bank-ditch-counterscarp enclosure with the inner bank originally forming a box rampart. The ramparts surround a large settlement, which excavation suggests may have been used in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age #HillfortsWednesday
March 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Another smashing Northern early Iron Age hill fort near Sheffield
I feel like #Wincobank hillfort in #Sheffield does not get the attention deserved.
A trench in 1979 gave a RC date of 500BC and evidence of vitrification. Part of a wider network of northern forts inc. #CarlWark.
Can someone excavate this univallate Iron Age hill fort please? #hillfortswednesday
A trench in 1979 gave a RC date of 500BC and evidence of vitrification. Part of a wider network of northern forts inc. #CarlWark.
Can someone excavate this univallate Iron Age hill fort please? #hillfortswednesday
March 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I feel like #Wincobank hillfort in #Sheffield does not get the attention deserved.
A trench in 1979 gave a RC date of 500BC and evidence of vitrification. Part of a wider network of northern forts inc. #CarlWark.
Can someone excavate this univallate Iron Age hill fort please? #hillfortswednesday
A trench in 1979 gave a RC date of 500BC and evidence of vitrification. Part of a wider network of northern forts inc. #CarlWark.
Can someone excavate this univallate Iron Age hill fort please? #hillfortswednesday