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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 6h

This sounds brilliant—you must know @ltbuck.bsky.social, but if not you have a fellow sinus fan nearby…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13h

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 14h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13h

All my comics have happy endings!

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 12h

The thumbnail pic made me think this must be about albatross… i suppose humans are alright though

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 23h

Jon Copley at Southampton has done sterling work in the octonauts/science field www.joncopley.com/blog_nov17b....

Prof Jon Copley

Prof Jon Copley - marine biologist & bathynaut

www.joncopley.com

Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

Was the lower amplitude climate shifts through MIS9-7 still too inclement for hippos? It looks like, except again we have some intriguing hints from our island data. Very much a more work needed situation, especially as hippo sometimes just assumed to be mis5…

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

Did MIS6 cause local extirpation, then new immigration event (?from Africa? The near east?) in MIS5?

stage 6 is especially interesting to me from island fauna turnover perspective as we have hints of presence…

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

The dating is tricky! And so is the taxonomy (antiquus vs amphibius). It looks like there are amphibius fossils ca400ka (also = LAD for antiquus in similar regions) in southern europe. But then a gap (w/ some uncertainty on ages)

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 1d

This was stupidly fun to record 😂🤘

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to say my new children’s audiobook is out today!

Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild is a wild, funny rampage through 34 million years of human evolution and global prehistory. Cowritten with archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social, it’s out now!

youtu.be/OULXpXL6Tek?...

Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild! by Greg Jenner | Book Trailer

YouTube video by Walker Books

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

I am currently very into ice age hippos, and it is actually pretty amazing how much we DON’T know about their chronology given that they are used as a kind of indicator for MIS5e.

Here they are, lolloping about Europe in stage 4, for example (but for me, stage 6 is where I want answers!)

NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 1d

Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary

Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial

Late Pleistocene hippo fossils (Hippopotamus amphibius) from Europe have generally been associated with the last interglacial period (Eemian, 129–115 …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012059🧪🦛#quaternary

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 1d

Hippos lollop, I think

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NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 1d

Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary

Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial

Late Pleistocene hippo fossils (Hippopotamus amphibius) from Europe have generally been associated with the last interglacial period (Eemian, 129–115 …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012059🧪🦛#quaternary

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 2d

Vote for us! We are up for BEST SCIENCE PODCAST at the Signal Listener's Choice awards, please vote for THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE AND US here: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 2d

We've finally made it to #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

Here's a reconstruction of Buckspool coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire, a craggy limestone headland defended by a set of intermittent banks & packed with house platforms 😮

Excavations in 2025 revealed a wealth of Roman finds 🏺

📷 My own

Drawing of a coastal fort seen from the air with many roundhouses inside & smoke rising

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 3d

Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 3d

Normal service joyfully imaging Pleistocene moonrise can recommence

Knu-hu-t Morå @knut.dundasmora.no · 3d

When the Moon was just formed, it was spinning more, while now it's tidally locked to earth to only show one side. However,.throughout, the axis of rotation stays constant (conservation of momentum) so the north and south directions would stay the same

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Knu-hu-t Morå @knut.dundasmora.no · 3d

When the Moon was just formed, it was spinning more, while now it's tidally locked to earth to only show one side. However,.throughout, the axis of rotation stays constant (conservation of momentum) so the north and south directions would stay the same

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! I don’t think i could have enjoyed imagining ice age scenes ever again if i hadn’t gotten that straight

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 3d

Hang on, though, was moon rotation the same through time….?

Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 3d

This is the commitment to detail I am here for.

Only appropriate for the cross-over we are all clamouring for, Ice Age: The Cave Lion King

Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 7d

Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 3d

This is the commitment to detail I am here for.

Only appropriate for the cross-over we are all clamouring for, Ice Age: The Cave Lion King

Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 7d

Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.

Screenshot of shot with the full moon rising in front of Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa. Below are three moon diagrams showing the proper orientation of the moon from the northern hemisphere, equator (Kenya) and southern hemisphere. The moon from the film is aligned to the northern hemisphere version because realism means nothing any longer.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 4d

Culture vultures!

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 6d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 4d

So very excited to be finally able to shout from the rooftops about my incredible friend Brenna’s new project.

Reflected glory is the best glory to bask in, like a soft warm glow that makes you smile and —even better— requires no effort except finding happiness in other people

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 4d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 4d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 7d

I'll bet someone thinks they are really funny