Dave Norcott
@davidnorcott.bsky.social
Archaeologist, geoarchaeologist, dad, walker, dog lover, idiot. Interests include international submerged landscapes, messing around in the water, cocktails and fomenting revolution. And other stuff. All opinions my own.
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THIS 👇
(I haven't yet told @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that there's a new feature length documentary about it on C4 tomorrow night...
...he might cry!)
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Stinehenge
(I haven't yet told @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that there's a new feature length documentary about it on C4 tomorrow night...
...he might cry!)
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Stinehenge
I’ve just read this sequence of papers about the #Stonehenge Altar Stone. I have thoughts. Primarily being that as of now we have NO confirmed source location for the Altar Stone. Maybe hold off on the press release, hyperbole & grand unifying theory papers for now lads? NB all 12 authors are men.
January 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
THIS 👇
(I haven't yet told @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that there's a new feature length documentary about it on C4 tomorrow night...
...he might cry!)
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Stinehenge
(I haven't yet told @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social that there's a new feature length documentary about it on C4 tomorrow night...
...he might cry!)
#Archaeology #Prehistory #Stinehenge
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Chicken and eggs are about to be very expensive and hard to get. DO not say I didn't warn you guys months ago to get prepared. 🦤🦠🚨
January 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Chicken and eggs are about to be very expensive and hard to get. DO not say I didn't warn you guys months ago to get prepared. 🦤🦠🚨
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Workplaces require safety training for everything except the air we breathe.
Imagine a basic COVID awareness quiz:
Q1: Is COVID airborne?
Q2: Do masks work?
Q3: Can you get Long Covid?
Imagine a basic COVID awareness quiz:
Q1: Is COVID airborne?
Q2: Do masks work?
Q3: Can you get Long Covid?
January 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Workplaces require safety training for everything except the air we breathe.
Imagine a basic COVID awareness quiz:
Q1: Is COVID airborne?
Q2: Do masks work?
Q3: Can you get Long Covid?
Imagine a basic COVID awareness quiz:
Q1: Is COVID airborne?
Q2: Do masks work?
Q3: Can you get Long Covid?
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Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼♂️
January 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼♂️
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This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature
An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When I first became aware of this through #Watchmen, I (like many people I suspect) thought it was fiction. It beggars belief that the Tulsa massacre is still not included in US history classes.
More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”
DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review
DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
When I first became aware of this through #Watchmen, I (like many people I suspect) thought it was fiction. It beggars belief that the Tulsa massacre is still not included in US history classes.
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$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
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Getting increasingly irritated by publications without BlueSky as a sharing option, especially if X is there. I'm trying to promote your article on a site that actually allows people to see it. Help me help you man.
January 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Getting increasingly irritated by publications without BlueSky as a sharing option, especially if X is there. I'm trying to promote your article on a site that actually allows people to see it. Help me help you man.
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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID
Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.
www.pbs.org
January 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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Many don’t want to talk about COVID and it’s understandable. We all want the Pandemic to be over, no one wants to think about the possibility of organ damage and long covid. Hardly nice conversation to talk about. If we don’t talk and act we are condemning the children to a future of poor health. 🧵
January 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Many don’t want to talk about COVID and it’s understandable. We all want the Pandemic to be over, no one wants to think about the possibility of organ damage and long covid. Hardly nice conversation to talk about. If we don’t talk and act we are condemning the children to a future of poor health. 🧵
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This is ridiculous. Hospitals going back on mask mandates due to backlash and leaving it to “personal choice”
We know all too well what “choice” people will make.
It’s a hospital. People need to ask themselves why they’re SO unwilling to wear a mask in the place the sickest people are.
We know all too well what “choice” people will make.
It’s a hospital. People need to ask themselves why they’re SO unwilling to wear a mask in the place the sickest people are.
Not in Illinois. News came out today that after just a few short days of a health system (OSF) trying to require masks in their hospitals and facilities they went back on it due to backlash (so I’m told) and are now only recommending it leaving it to personal choice instead of requiring it.
January 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is ridiculous. Hospitals going back on mask mandates due to backlash and leaving it to “personal choice”
We know all too well what “choice” people will make.
It’s a hospital. People need to ask themselves why they’re SO unwilling to wear a mask in the place the sickest people are.
We know all too well what “choice” people will make.
It’s a hospital. People need to ask themselves why they’re SO unwilling to wear a mask in the place the sickest people are.
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I’d recommend everyone regardless of medical risk bring a mask on your airplane journey, a disinfectant wipe to clean the seat you’re in and hand sanitizer.
It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health.
Warning signs are everywhere.
It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health.
Warning signs are everywhere.
December 27, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I’d recommend everyone regardless of medical risk bring a mask on your airplane journey, a disinfectant wipe to clean the seat you’re in and hand sanitizer.
It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health.
Warning signs are everywhere.
It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health.
Warning signs are everywhere.
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"They showed videos of systems they built to hydrate hundreds of cattle at once. In 14-hour shifts, dairy workers pumped gallons of electrolyte-rich fluids into ailing cows through metal tubes inserted into the esophagus."
If you read one article on H5N1 this week, make it this one.
If you read one article on H5N1 this week, make it this one.
How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic kffhealthnews.org/news/article... @amymaxmen.bsky.social
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
December 21, 2024 at 4:29 PM
"They showed videos of systems they built to hydrate hundreds of cattle at once. In 14-hour shifts, dairy workers pumped gallons of electrolyte-rich fluids into ailing cows through metal tubes inserted into the esophagus."
If you read one article on H5N1 this week, make it this one.
If you read one article on H5N1 this week, make it this one.
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Two new studies paint a comprehensive picture of current long COVID U.S. cases.
Both suggest the condition limits daily activities for a significant proportion of those affected ...
Both suggest the condition limits daily activities for a significant proportion of those affected ...
#Covid #Covid19 #RSV #Flu #Vaccine #LongCovid #RespiratorySyncytialVirus
Two new studies paint a comprehensive picture of current long COVID U.S. cases.
Both suggest the condition limits daily activities for a significant proportion of those affected.
Abridged (shortened) article thread ⬇️ 3 min
Two new studies paint a comprehensive picture of current long COVID U.S. cases.
Both suggest the condition limits daily activities for a significant proportion of those affected.
Abridged (shortened) article thread ⬇️ 3 min
Study: 6% of US adults have long COVID, and many have reduced quality of life
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 21, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Two new studies paint a comprehensive picture of current long COVID U.S. cases.
Both suggest the condition limits daily activities for a significant proportion of those affected ...
Both suggest the condition limits daily activities for a significant proportion of those affected ...
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“We want her to have something which is linked to the 60,000 years of history — that unbroken connection with the human spirit which we want her to feel nurtured by."
Gisèle Pelicot story is amazing
Amazing for her strength, courage and capacity to wrest dignity from the horror
Gisèle Pelicot story is amazing
Amazing for her strength, courage and capacity to wrest dignity from the horror
In one of the most horrific cases I’ve heard of, there was a glimmer of beauty and strength.
It was surreal': The story behind Gisèle Pelicot's First Nations-made scarf
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
It was surreal': The story behind Gisèle Pelicot's First Nations-made scarf
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
'It was surreal': The story behind Gisèle Pelicot's First Nations-made scarf
Gisèle Pelicot became a feminist hero after a trial that horrified the world. Throughout it, she's been wearing a symbol of strength and resilience made by Martu artist Mulyatingki Marney.
www.sbs.com.au
December 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
“We want her to have something which is linked to the 60,000 years of history — that unbroken connection with the human spirit which we want her to feel nurtured by."
Gisèle Pelicot story is amazing
Amazing for her strength, courage and capacity to wrest dignity from the horror
Gisèle Pelicot story is amazing
Amazing for her strength, courage and capacity to wrest dignity from the horror
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Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips
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December 19, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips
theonion.com/clarence-tho...
theonion.com/clarence-tho...
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The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
MADISON, WI—In the hours following a violent rampage in Wisconsin in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured six others, citizens living in the only country where this kind o...
theonion.com
December 16, 2024 at 9:48 PM
The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.
Ladies and gentlemen: I present to you the embodiment of Christmas itself, Mr Jeremy Lion.
@jeremylion.bsky.social
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@jeremylion.bsky.social
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Jeremy Lion 12 days of Christmas
YouTube video by YOUAGETUBE
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December 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Ladies and gentlemen: I present to you the embodiment of Christmas itself, Mr Jeremy Lion.
@jeremylion.bsky.social
youtu.be/ugv1Ug4U-zs?...
@jeremylion.bsky.social
youtu.be/ugv1Ug4U-zs?...
Well, this is a read.
December 15, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Well, this is a read.
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We are still in a Pandemic
It’s year five, we are still in a Pandemic because of long covid risk.
It’s year five, we are still in a Pandemic because of long covid risk.
December 11, 2024 at 1:47 PM
We are still in a Pandemic
It’s year five, we are still in a Pandemic because of long covid risk.
It’s year five, we are still in a Pandemic because of long covid risk.
I could not love this more.
December 10, 2024 at 3:53 PM
I could not love this more.