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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · 9d

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Gentle witness, fierce advocate: remembering Jane Goodall

Her studies in Tanzania reshaped primatology and how we view ourselves, while her advocacy connected animal behaviour, culture, and conservation.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · 10d

What a great tragedy. Jane Goodall. Thank you for the tireless work.

Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · 23d

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Heavy metals measured in Black mamba scales

Africa’s most feared snake can be used to identify pollution hotspots

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Jul 4

Today we have a Museum dedicated to her: The Story of Emily in Cornwall. Have a look at our website and Instagram.

Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Jun 29

True, a new Lancet study also shows how Africa lost years in childhood vaccination, and not so much due to antivaxx but access.

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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · Jun 29

Two researchers explain the disinformation tactics used by Christian fundamentalist groups to attack transgender and gender-diverse people.

HELL-BENT ON EXCLUSION: The why behind the surge in Christian fundamentalist hate against transgender people

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Jun 28

Two genes found to shed new light on breast cancer in Black women share.google/FIGdzaUGBETA...

Two genes found to shed new light on breast cancer in Black women

Genetic risk factors may account for up to 30% of all cases in African women.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Jun 21

Stone tools from a cave on South Africa’s coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age theconversation.com/stone-tools-...

Stone tools from a cave on South Africa’s coast speak of life at the end of the Ice Age

Stone tools from different sites suggest people long ago were connected over a huge region and shared ideas.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Fossilised reptile colony provides evidence of earliest communal living

Same-species skeletons in colony of burrows found in South Africa pushes origins of community

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · May 30

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · May 29

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Ancient protein from pre-human teeth reveals secrets of human evolutionary tree

Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · May 8

That will be pretty fast traveling to cover 133 light years by 2026....
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · May 8

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 21

A lot of excellent research is being done in South Africa, along with other African countries about Sickle Cell Disease.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 21

It was so well written, as always.

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Prof Lee R Berger @leerberger.bsky.social · Apr 21

On this sad news day, here is a blackback lowland gorilla from Gabon to cheer you up!

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 14

Come and visit us The Story of Emily Museum in St. Ive, near Liskeard, to hear about Emily Hobhouse and the War.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 13

True, erasure is violence. I am looking at improving this aspect of the design, etc.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 13

Thank you for visiting and following. Every two weeks, we also publish a blog if you are interested, it is on the web page, under: Stories of Emily.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Smallest hominin walked upright, fossils reveal

Hip, shin and thigh bones provide clues to life and death of young female Paranthropus robustus

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Apr 8

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Anglo-Boer war whistleblower Emily Hobhouse celebrated in Cornish home

Series of events mark 165th anniversary of birth of forgotten pacifist who exposed conditions in British concentration camps

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John Hawks @johnhawks.net · Mar 30

I took some time to write up my thoughts about the process of review and publication in @elife.bsky.social of our recent paper on Homo naledi burial evidence. It was a great process in many ways, that built up a strong interdisciplinary result.

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Research highlight: Burials by Homo naledi

After two years of intense reviews and revision, the work on burial evidence from this ancient hominin finds acceptance.

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Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social · Mar 18

Learn about our impacts and meet our team, in our 2023/2024 biennial report bit.ly/4bzL8lq Thank you to our partners and supporters for your contribution to realising a society where children are valued and nurtured, and can participate, develop and thrive. #EngagedScholarship #KnowledgeTranslation

The cover page of the Children's Institute Biennial Report 2023 - 2024, with a photograph of a little boy and his father playing together.

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Elsabe Brits @elsabebrits.bsky.social · Mar 12

The life of English humanitarian, whistleblower, and activist Emily Hobhouse in this week's History Extra podcast. Her work still rings true for women in war. #Herstory
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Emily Hobhouse: life of the week

Podcast Episode · History Extra podcast · 03/11/2025 · 36m

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