@daniellemilbank.bsky.social
Archaeology (esp buildings archaeology and piles of old bricks), music, miscellaneous
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Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Everyone’s favourite - the ‘Wolf and Twins’ mosaic from Roman Aldborough (Isurium Brigantum) depicting the legend of Romulus and Remus. Dating to the 4th century AD, the mosaic is now part of the collections at Leeds City Museum. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
When your content is so shite the tellytubby guys are after you, you know you’re over
Teletubbies creator warns parents over ‘empty’ YouTube programmes for children
Teletubbies creator warns parents over ‘empty’ YouTube programmes for children
Anne Wood says algorithms bypass ‘the responsibility of art’ and have failed to support high-quality children’s content
Lots of programmes for children on YouTube are “empty” and do “nothing to encourage the imaginative life of children”, the Teletubbies creator has cautioned parents.
Anne Wood, the veteran children’s producer who devised the popular TV show for preschool children, said children’s television had long been undervalued and she feared “we’re losing a tremendous amount and nobody can see it because it’s not considered important”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
When your content is so shite the tellytubby guys are after you, you know you’re over
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This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
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Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis
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Several minute piece on the BBC.
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Several minute piece on the BBC.
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.
😡
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
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This is fucking batshit evil bananas
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This is fucking batshit evil bananas
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Space Live: the new TV channel streaming absolutely spellbinding footage of Earth … forever
Space Live: the new TV channel streaming absolutely spellbinding footage of Earth … forever
ITVX’s perpetual real-time broadcast from the International Space Station is awe-inspiring … until it gets boring. But even though it’s hard to watch for long, it’s a humbling reminder of who we are
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Space Live: the new TV channel streaming absolutely spellbinding footage of Earth … forever
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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
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Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
October 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose
#r4today
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Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺
doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Treasonous greedy piece of shit
"The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to bribery charges relating to statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Treasonous greedy piece of shit
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Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.
Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.
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Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
September 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.
Join me in building a welcoming country.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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It's almost as if they could easily dispell common myths about migration if they wanted to, but choose to lean into people's xenophobia 🤔
September 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It's almost as if they could easily dispell common myths about migration if they wanted to, but choose to lean into people's xenophobia 🤔
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A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
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Just to note that to geneticists this is not a surprise, and the latest data confirms all the other data that has been building since the time of Darwin. We're all amazing mongrels, and this planet belongs to us all, to share and nurture.
“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Just to note that to geneticists this is not a surprise, and the latest data confirms all the other data that has been building since the time of Darwin. We're all amazing mongrels, and this planet belongs to us all, to share and nurture.
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The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836.
Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3
📷 me
#archaeology 🏺
Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3
📷 me
#archaeology 🏺
September 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836.
Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3
📷 me
#archaeology 🏺
Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3
📷 me
#archaeology 🏺
#findsfriday offering: a dinky 1600-1640 clay tobacco pipe with milling around the rim, and a flat foot
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#findsfriday offering: a dinky 1600-1640 clay tobacco pipe with milling around the rim, and a flat foot
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#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
September 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
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Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do
timharford.com/2025/09/caut...
timharford.com/2025/09/caut...
September 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do
timharford.com/2025/09/caut...
timharford.com/2025/09/caut...
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The linked paper is quite a cool archaeogeophysics thing, they drove a magnetometer all over Karakorum and put the data together into a map of the city.
September 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The linked paper is quite a cool archaeogeophysics thing, they drove a magnetometer all over Karakorum and put the data together into a map of the city.
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Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
September 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
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🏺Sarah and I recently appeared on the award-winning podcast Ologies, hosted by the amazing Alie Ward, and the episode is now live! Alie invited us to dive deep into the world of clay, ceramics, archaeology and history, and what a conversation it was! www.alieward.com/ologies/cera...
Ceramology (POTTERY) with Potted History’s Graham Taylor & Sarah Lord Taylor — alie ward
Porcelain. Earthenware. China. Archaeology. Stoneware. Anthropology. Amphora. Throwing wheels. We got it all. Master potters, history aficionados and Potted History’s icons Sarah Lord Taylor and Graha...
www.alieward.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🏺Sarah and I recently appeared on the award-winning podcast Ologies, hosted by the amazing Alie Ward, and the episode is now live! Alie invited us to dive deep into the world of clay, ceramics, archaeology and history, and what a conversation it was! www.alieward.com/ologies/cera...
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BIG STUCK SHIP KLAXON
Deeply embarrassed to realise that there's been a Big Stuck Ship in literally Franklin Strait for several days, and I've only just noticed.
Still, any excuse to trot out my Beechey Island/Ever Given shitpost.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
Still, any excuse to trot out my Beechey Island/Ever Given shitpost.
nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
BIG STUCK SHIP KLAXON