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Lizzy (she/they)
@scottiius.bsky.social
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Therapeutic radiographer ☢️
Former archaeology student 💀
Lover of science, justice and cats 🐈
Living with Long Covid induced ME/CFS 🫠
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Terrible #PublicHealth and #poverty: can't tackle the first without dealing with the second

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
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unocha.org
🔴 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
April 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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nature.com
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
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
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nataliehaynes.bsky.social
I can’t wait to see these!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Two near lifesize sculptures found during excavations of Pompeii tomb
The detailed relics were found in a necropolis and experts believe the woman depicted could have been an important priestess
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
scottiius.bsky.social
Yet another reason why AI in healthcare needs to be used with great caution.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 2
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
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tracyking.bsky.social
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.
moudhy.bsky.social Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Apr 2
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...
Screenshot of two paragraphs from an article that read: “It had all begun at 7pm on Monday when, wearing a US flag pin on a dark suit, white shirt and black tie as if dressed for the funeral of the republic, Booker vowed: "I rise tonight with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. "I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis ... These are not normal times in America and they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them.”
April 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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fold.fm
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...
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
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
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
My photo shows a Roman cobalt blue mould-blown glass scent bottle in the form of a (scallop?) shell. It has a cylindrical neck with a folded rim. There is a round sectioned handle at either side of the neck. Dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. It was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.
March 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Cooperation is the very foundation of human survival - we need to undo damaging 20th-century ideology about competition

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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...
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March 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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h.olysh.it
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/...
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
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science.org
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
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benjaminsteven.bsky.social
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
A crude, faded stone carving of a warrior figure, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. Moss covered stone boulders set amongst woodland. A view of a sunset through silhouetted beech trees. A drawing of Cocidious, a warrior figure holding sword and shield. Credit: Roman Inscriptions of Britain.
March 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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killgrove.bsky.social
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
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johnnythin.bsky.social
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...)
boothicus.bsky.social Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Mar 27
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.

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March 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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elliechowns.bsky.social
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
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nuclearkatie.com
Just a reminder that you do have to comply with your nation's laws regarding nuclear materials even if you're just a collector
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Mar 21
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
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nature.com
Scientists have created the first map of the crucial structures called mitochondria throughout the entire brain

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
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durotrigesdig.bsky.social
"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...
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
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jchodera.bsky.social
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.
dndi.org Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) @dndi.org · Mar 25
📢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
scottiius.bsky.social
Another smashing Northern early Iron Age hill fort near Sheffield
jodarchaeology.bsky.social James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · Mar 19
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
scottiius.bsky.social
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
March 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
scottiius.bsky.social
Whilst appreciating @yorkshirewater.bsky.social ‘s commitment to the brand (Yorkshire accents and brass bands), not thrilled by having to wait 30 mins on hold to request a water meter that will take months to be installed. In the meantime I’m faced with paying a 35% bill increase!
March 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome | British Museum
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Mary Beard's top five powerful women in ancient Greece and Rome
Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge gives us a countdown of five notable female figures from the ancient world.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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mu-peter.bsky.social
Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and speciation complexity in palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪
Andra Meneganzin & Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
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Discusses evidence about species-level differentiation of H. sapiens and Neanderthals and sources of taxonomic disagreement.
Homo sapiens and Neanderthal divergence along the speciation continuum. A, a selection of fossils, together with their lineage attributions and major events. Grey dots indicate fossils suggested to belong to the H. sapiens lineage, but their attribution is still currently being debated. Redrawn after information reviewed in Bergström et al. (2021). Below, Allmon and Sampson’s four-stage framework for studying animal speciation mapping the ‘speciation continuum’ (redrawn after Nosil et al. 2009). The isolate persistence and differentiation phase are drawn in parallel as these can occur together and the latter requires the former, though the reverse is not true. B, location of a selection of H. sapiens and Neanderthal fossils from the past 500 kyr.
March 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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workingclassicists.bsky.social
Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words

#IdesofMarch 🗡️
a picture of a book text. The text says "Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek 'Kai su, teknon' (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin 'Et tu, Brute'. It literally means 'You too, child', but what Caesar may have intended by the words isnt clear. Tempest cites 'an important article' by James Russell (1980) 'that has often been overlooked'. Russel points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggest that Caesar's putative last words were not 'the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son' but more along the lines of 'See you in hell, punk'.
March 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM