Ellie Nelson
@ellienelson12.bsky.social
I am an early career researcher working in the Neaar Lab at the Uni of York. Interested in geochronology, Quaternary climate, and biomineralisation.
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Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neanderthals made mysterious horse-hunting spears, new dates reveal | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Neanderthals made mysterious horse-hunting spears, new dates reveal
Ancient amino acids suggest German weapons are some 100,000 years younger than once thought
www.science.org
August 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Neanderthals made mysterious horse-hunting spears, new dates reveal | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
We're ready for the #makingwaves Discovery Zone on Sunday! Come join @neaarlab.bsky.social to find out how we're investigating the oceans of the past @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social @seachange-erc.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We're ready for the #makingwaves Discovery Zone on Sunday! Come join @neaarlab.bsky.social to find out how we're investigating the oceans of the past @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social @seachange-erc.bsky.social
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We’re really privileged to be part of this study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/..., working on the exceptional Schöningen site to try to narrow down its age. We analysed Bithynia opercula from excavation blocks taken from the spear horizon, looking at their intra-crystalline amino acids. 🧵 1/5
May 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We’re really privileged to be part of this study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/..., working on the exceptional Schöningen site to try to narrow down its age. We analysed Bithynia opercula from excavation blocks taken from the spear horizon, looking at their intra-crystalline amino acids. 🧵 1/5
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Read all about our recent fieldwork campaign in Brazil here:
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Read all about our recent fieldwork campaign in Brazil here:
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S...
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S...
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New blogpost from the @seachange-erc.bsky.social project about their (sometimes muddy!) fieldwork in Brazil to track ocean environmental change
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S... including @york.ac.uk researchers @ellienelson12.bsky.social @york-bioarch.bsky.social 🧪🐚
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S... including @york.ac.uk researchers @ellienelson12.bsky.social @york-bioarch.bsky.social 🧪🐚
News - Seachange
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May 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New blogpost from the @seachange-erc.bsky.social project about their (sometimes muddy!) fieldwork in Brazil to track ocean environmental change
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S... including @york.ac.uk researchers @ellienelson12.bsky.social @york-bioarch.bsky.social 🧪🐚
seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S... including @york.ac.uk researchers @ellienelson12.bsky.social @york-bioarch.bsky.social 🧪🐚
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Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament.
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament.
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
A successful day of coring in the lagoon of Parque Estadual Arcaraí @seachange-erc.bsky.social @neaarlab.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A successful day of coring in the lagoon of Parque Estadual Arcaraí @seachange-erc.bsky.social @neaarlab.bsky.social
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🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol
Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget
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March 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
Food for thought on ECRs and non-permanent contracts wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...
Research flexibility doesn't have to mean researcher precarity
James Coe and David Kernohan look for the balance between flexibility and predictability that can allow researchers, research, and the wider economy to thrive
wonkhe.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Food for thought on ECRs and non-permanent contracts wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...
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This is a friendly reminder that library cards are free, and your local public library will never make you pay extra so you don't have to watch ads.
March 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is a friendly reminder that library cards are free, and your local public library will never make you pay extra so you don't have to watch ads.
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as kemi badenoch describes the UK's net zero goal as 'impossible', it's worth noting that the country's emissions are the lowest they've been since 1872
March 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
as kemi badenoch describes the UK's net zero goal as 'impossible', it's worth noting that the country's emissions are the lowest they've been since 1872
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TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY!
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK!
Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore.
JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺
#24HourEconomicBlackout
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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
www.scientificamerican.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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A virtual Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social talking at the #QRA2025 about the time/temp complexities when AA dating across such a large region over the #Pleistocene - thanks to the @quaternaryra.bsky.social audience for the helpful ideas :-)
January 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A virtual Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social talking at the #QRA2025 about the time/temp complexities when AA dating across such a large region over the #Pleistocene - thanks to the @quaternaryra.bsky.social audience for the helpful ideas :-)
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Renewables (wind, solar, hydro) will overtake fossil fuels in UK electricity generation this year
“Wind is well on its way to overtaking gas as the largest single power source" according to Ember, authors of the analysis
www.ft.com/content/2878...
“Wind is well on its way to overtaking gas as the largest single power source" according to Ember, authors of the analysis
www.ft.com/content/2878...
December 10, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Renewables (wind, solar, hydro) will overtake fossil fuels in UK electricity generation this year
“Wind is well on its way to overtaking gas as the largest single power source" according to Ember, authors of the analysis
www.ft.com/content/2878...
“Wind is well on its way to overtaking gas as the largest single power source" according to Ember, authors of the analysis
www.ft.com/content/2878...
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We'd like to announce that our Work Package 3 will now be focusing on the analysis of transitions during the last 7,000 years in the Babitonga Bay area of Southern Brazil. For more information visit the SEACHANGE website: seachange-erc.eu/research/wp3...
November 19, 2024 at 9:58 AM
We'd like to announce that our Work Package 3 will now be focusing on the analysis of transitions during the last 7,000 years in the Babitonga Bay area of Southern Brazil. For more information visit the SEACHANGE website: seachange-erc.eu/research/wp3...
First paper from my PhD is out. Building an aminostratigrapy for the Pannonian Basin using bithniid opercula from deep core material. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
Redirecting
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November 22, 2024 at 8:44 AM
First paper from my PhD is out. Building an aminostratigrapy for the Pannonian Basin using bithniid opercula from deep core material. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...