Andrew Curry
@andrewcurry.com
Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com
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🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
Speaking as a dad, someone should update these lyrics – moms get a raw deal.
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Speaking as a dad, someone should update these lyrics – moms get a raw deal.
As someone with a mild needle phobia, I wish photo editors would come up with a way to illustrate stories about immunization without stock photos of big needles.
January 10, 2026 at 7:32 AM
As someone with a mild needle phobia, I wish photo editors would come up with a way to illustrate stories about immunization without stock photos of big needles.
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
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this is good whaling content
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil
Far from the icy Arctic, ancient South Americans hunted whales using whalebone tools
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
this is good whaling content
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Road builders in Brazil dismantle ancient coastal middens in the 1940s-'50s. Random bones and artifacts sent to local museum, boxes stored for decades without being studied. Now, researchers finally look and discover oldest-known whale harpoons, pointing to Indigenous open-sea whaling 5000 yrs ago!
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil
Far from the icy Arctic, ancient South Americans hunted whales using whalebone tools
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Road builders in Brazil dismantle ancient coastal middens in the 1940s-'50s. Random bones and artifacts sent to local museum, boxes stored for decades without being studied. Now, researchers finally look and discover oldest-known whale harpoons, pointing to Indigenous open-sea whaling 5000 yrs ago!
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
World’s oldest whale harpoons discovered in Brazil
Far from the icy Arctic, ancient South Americans hunted whales using whalebone tools
www.science.org
January 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM
In a new study, researchers from @uab.cat claim people have been whaling for almost 5,000 years – and that the earliest evidence comes from the warm coastal waters of Brazil, not the Arctic. www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
The blizzard forecast for Berlin today – schools even declared a snow day, a rare occurrence! – has turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger.
January 9, 2026 at 10:39 AM
The blizzard forecast for Berlin today – schools even declared a snow day, a rare occurrence! – has turned out to be a bit of a nothingburger.
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good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
The New York Times states it plainly in display type:
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM
good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
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Last year I wrote about the sudden, sometimes violent end of Europe's first farmers and a ditch in Slovakia filled with almost 100 headless bodies. @science.org put together a cool video about @neolithicbodies.bsky.social's finds, narrated by me: www.youtube.com/shorts/3obLg... #lbk
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
YouTube video by Science Magazine
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January 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Last year I wrote about the sudden, sometimes violent end of Europe's first farmers and a ditch in Slovakia filled with almost 100 headless bodies. @science.org put together a cool video about @neolithicbodies.bsky.social's finds, narrated by me: www.youtube.com/shorts/3obLg... #lbk
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The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. https://scim.ag/49G7Zwe
Congress set to reject Trump’s major budget cuts to NSF, NASA, and energy science
Appropriators agree instead to keep this year’s spending nearly level
www.science.org
January 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
The U.S. Congress has delivered another rebuke of President Donald Trump’s plans to slash this year’s budgets of several science agencies. https://scim.ag/49G7Zwe
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Wow! This is probably the closest we are ever going to get to finding something equivalent to Excalibur!
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social !! I know you said there was a spectacular Iron Age fund, but you could have warned us!!!
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
@theduncanmackay.bsky.social and me are going to be fit for nowt today!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Wow! This is probably the closest we are ever going to get to finding something equivalent to Excalibur!
Watching this from Germany was so scary and surreal. I think all the time about the US Capitol Police who served that day and still have to show up and guard the politicians who deny it ever happened.
January 6, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Watching this from Germany was so scary and surreal. I think all the time about the US Capitol Police who served that day and still have to show up and guard the politicians who deny it ever happened.
"Ritual"
January 5, 2026 at 8:38 AM
"Ritual"
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You want an Iron Age cartoon about cooperation and environment? Heh. You've come to me on a good day. I so happen to have a link here to watch Cartoon Saloon's new short, Eiru.
Free.
But the link will only last for 3 days,so hurry!
watch.animationshowcase.com/landing/Eiru...
Free.
But the link will only last for 3 days,so hurry!
watch.animationshowcase.com/landing/Eiru...
On-Demand Viewing Portal
watch.animationshowcase.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:42 PM
You want an Iron Age cartoon about cooperation and environment? Heh. You've come to me on a good day. I so happen to have a link here to watch Cartoon Saloon's new short, Eiru.
Free.
But the link will only last for 3 days,so hurry!
watch.animationshowcase.com/landing/Eiru...
Free.
But the link will only last for 3 days,so hurry!
watch.animationshowcase.com/landing/Eiru...
This year I read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, all 20 books full of British naval intrigue and adventure and odd foods. (Spotted dog, anyone?) I finished yesterday. Retreating into the early 19th century helped me avoid doomscrolling my way through 2026. Strongly recommend. #aubreymaturin
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This year I read Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, all 20 books full of British naval intrigue and adventure and odd foods. (Spotted dog, anyone?) I finished yesterday. Retreating into the early 19th century helped me avoid doomscrolling my way through 2026. Strongly recommend. #aubreymaturin
Niche #cycling content: It's been quite icy in Berlin the last two days and I am tapping out of the #festive500. The math doesn't work without some monster rides in the next few days, and it's not worth the risk of starting the year with a broken wrist. There will be other years to try.
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Niche #cycling content: It's been quite icy in Berlin the last two days and I am tapping out of the #festive500. The math doesn't work without some monster rides in the next few days, and it's not worth the risk of starting the year with a broken wrist. There will be other years to try.
Watched "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" last night for the first time in many years and it was immediately obvious it was shot in Germany (Munich, it turns out) – they don't even bother to take the @spiegel.de off the newsstand in the opening scenes. I never noticed before.
December 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Watched "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" last night for the first time in many years and it was immediately obvious it was shot in Germany (Munich, it turns out) – they don't even bother to take the @spiegel.de off the newsstand in the opening scenes. I never noticed before.
Crunch time: I have just hours left to remember if I bought presents months ago and hid them somewhere I have now forgotten, and then find those possible presents.
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Crunch time: I have just hours left to remember if I bought presents months ago and hid them somewhere I have now forgotten, and then find those possible presents.
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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And this is exactly the reason why there should be a professional ethics framework agreed with urgency for #gen-AI, in particular photo-realistic stuff : archaeologists and heritage orgs who use it for general outreach & #SciComm are contributing to this problem.
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
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December 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Apostolic Letter of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV on the importance of Archaeology on the occasion of the Centenary of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (11 December 2025)
APOSTOLIC LETTER OF THE HOLY FATHER POPE LEO XIV ON THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE OCCASION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
www.vatican.va
December 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
And now, the #Pope, in an apostolic letter on … the importance of #archaeology:
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
"It teaches us to respect matter, memory & history. Archaeologists do not throw things away, they preserve them. They do not consume, but contemplate. They do not destroy, but decipher."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Really good piece on the real world challenges of restitutions and a new museum in Benin City
Violent protests marred the opening of the first exhibition at Museum of West African Art in Benin City last month. Hopes for the institution have been high, but too many people seem to have ignored the warning signs that have been there all along, writes @barnabyphillips.bsky.social
What has gone wrong at the Museum of West African Art?
With protests marring the opening of the first exhibition at the new museum in Benin City, Barnaby Phillips asks what went wrong
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December 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Really good piece on the real world challenges of restitutions and a new museum in Benin City