These are visual notes captured by our creative director, @iancooketapia.bsky.social, during the 2023 conference for the International Union for Quarternary Research, taking place in Rome, Italy.

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

Are they your ñeques, or are you their human?

We believe this particular case study is thanks to the research of @barnaclebarclay.bsky.social who combines coastal archaeology and conservation paleobiology to look at human-animal-environment relations.

When all you have to do is stay silent and let the other people dig their own holes.

Recently read the whole of Icon. While very tropey, it is an artefact that stands the test of time while being very of its time. A comic that had something to say.