Dr Cynthia Larbey
@drcynthialarbey.bsky.social
Archaeobotanist investigating early human plant diet. Archaeologist. Passionate about Nature conservation in environmental change. Grandmother to 7! Explorer with wonderful and understanding husband and Labrador pup
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Were Australia's First Peoples fossil collectors? Giant echidnas, kangaroos & wombats once roamed Australia; ~50K years ago, First Peoples may have collected the animals' fossils, according to a new paper that also challenges the notion that Indigenous Australians hunted these giants to extinction🧪
A new analysis of cuts in bone rethinks theory of how Australia’s First Peoples used large game | CNN
Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, according to a new study.
www.cnn.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Were Australia's First Peoples fossil collectors? Giant echidnas, kangaroos & wombats once roamed Australia; ~50K years ago, First Peoples may have collected the animals' fossils, according to a new paper that also challenges the notion that Indigenous Australians hunted these giants to extinction🧪
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There are no expansive, glowing eyes in this Hubble image. This “face” is the result of two galaxies that collided head-on and have begun to intertwine. They will merge completely in 1-2 billion years. For now, they make up a ring galaxy, a rare classification. Credit: NASA/ESA 🔭 🧪 🎃
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There are no expansive, glowing eyes in this Hubble image. This “face” is the result of two galaxies that collided head-on and have begun to intertwine. They will merge completely in 1-2 billion years. For now, they make up a ring galaxy, a rare classification. Credit: NASA/ESA 🔭 🧪 🎃
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#TIL the mathematician #Fibonacci (b. 1170) was one of the early promoters of the Indo-Arabic numeral system in Europe in his 13th century book Liber Abaci where he also printed the now famous Fibonacci sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... as a solution to the "rabbit problem." #Science #MathSky 🧪🧮
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#TIL the mathematician #Fibonacci (b. 1170) was one of the early promoters of the Indo-Arabic numeral system in Europe in his 13th century book Liber Abaci where he also printed the now famous Fibonacci sequence 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... as a solution to the "rabbit problem." #Science #MathSky 🧪🧮
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Reject the politics of hate.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reject the politics of hate.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
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Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
The Latest: Hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE are rehired
The General Services Administration has given the employees — who managed government workspaces — until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement.
www.thestar.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.
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I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I guess we should thank Donald Trump for making the relationship between fossil fuels and fascism explicit.
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Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...
September 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Obama photographer Pete Souza posted this pic of Obama on that UN escalator… www.instagram.com/p/DO9GFjUEZi...
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Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄
September 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄
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All of the unions in Hollywood should immediately boycott Disney/ABC. They only care about money, so go after that.
September 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
All of the unions in Hollywood should immediately boycott Disney/ABC. They only care about money, so go after that.
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A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States.
Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans | CNN Politics
A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States.
www.cnn.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United States.
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September 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
September 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
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I'm never 100% convinced that anything is true until Donald denies it.
August 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm never 100% convinced that anything is true until Donald denies it.
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Ruth Sager: The Geneticist Who Discovered Life Outside the Nucleus
voxmeditantis.com/2025/08/27/r...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Genetics #Cancer #Chloroplast
voxmeditantis.com/2025/08/27/r...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Genetics #Cancer #Chloroplast
Ruth Sager: The Geneticist Who Discovered Life Outside the Nucleus
Ruth Sager revolutionised genetics by discovering cytoplasmic inheritance through chloroplast DNA, overturning established beliefs that all important genes resided in the nucleus. Despite fierce in…
voxmeditantis.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ruth Sager: The Geneticist Who Discovered Life Outside the Nucleus
voxmeditantis.com/2025/08/27/r...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Genetics #Cancer #Chloroplast
voxmeditantis.com/2025/08/27/r...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Genetics #Cancer #Chloroplast
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Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
August 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works:
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off.
2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
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I was honoured to speak at the vigil for Palestinian journalists killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza, organised by the London Freelance chapel of @NUJofficial. It was a shame a far right activist tried to disrupted the event. It matters not; hundreds of us turned out in solidarity.
August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was honoured to speak at the vigil for Palestinian journalists killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza, organised by the London Freelance chapel of @NUJofficial. It was a shame a far right activist tried to disrupted the event. It matters not; hundreds of us turned out in solidarity.
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76% of Brits support EU youth mobility scheme. 👏👏👏
Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
Abta study shows 76% of Brits support EU youth mobility plans
Travel bodies encourage ministers ‘to get on and do the deal’
travelweekly.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
76% of Brits support EU youth mobility scheme. 👏👏👏
Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
Time to remove the Brexit blockade on our youth.
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This is true everywhere. 🧪
August 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is true everywhere. 🧪
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Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101.
Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11)
Credit: Steve Breen
Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com
Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11)
Credit: Steve Breen
Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101.
Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11)
Credit: Steve Breen
Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com
Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11)
Credit: Steve Breen
Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com
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The Irish citizen is flying in from his home in Spain to kick off about his pride in being English?
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Irish citizen is flying in from his home in Spain to kick off about his pride in being English?
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Karen Spärck Jones UK "pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics & linguistics & an advocate for women in the field". Responsible for concept of inverse document frequency, tech underlying most modern search engines. b. #OTD 26 Aug 1935 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_S...
August 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Karen Spärck Jones UK "pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics & linguistics & an advocate for women in the field". Responsible for concept of inverse document frequency, tech underlying most modern search engines. b. #OTD 26 Aug 1935 #WomenInSTEM en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_S...
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The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again
August 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The snake oil salesman got his way once - the result was a disaster. Don’t let him do it again