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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · 3d

Oh wow, I didn't know this was coming up, but will definitely go!

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · 25d

Oh now this is adorable

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · Jun 21

Venn diagram

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is a lovely story: neighbours working together and creating a shared community space share.google/sM5KMuI6uqVC...

Neighbours muck in to transform overgrown alley

An overgrown alleyway on Merseyside is transformed from an "overgrown mess" into a social space.

share.google

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 29

Absolutely

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is a really neat bit of work on Bankside as an entertainment space, based on years of painstaking professional excavation. A hard read for a dog-lover, but fascinating nonetheless www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ - Volume 99 Issue 404

www.cambridge.org

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Lucy Timbrell @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us on Wednesday for our final webinar of series by @jcsvenning.bsky.social on:

“Deep-time, large-scale perspectives on biodiversity and ecosystems: implications for biosphere stewardship in the Anthropocene.”

More information and link to register here: www.gea.mpg.de/168423/deep-...

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Madly beautiful when it is though! August in the Cairngorms always seems to be weirdly good - cos the kids are back in school

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 25

I absolutely love this bit of Scotland: massive fieldwork envy

Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · Aug 24

Just finished a week of fieldwork on Late Glacial/Early Holocene landscapes/archaeology in Glen Dee, Mar Lodge Estate, Cairngorms, w/ colleagues Sam Kelly @arctic-glacial.bsky.social, Phillipe de Smedt & teams. Tx to @nts-archaeology.bsky.social, Mar Lodge Estate & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social 1/8

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wonder how people reacted to her past glow-ups, without the relentless 'before' of photography to compare her to?

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 18

I love these 'restorations' precisely because they're palimpsests: this is just one gloriously camp moment in this statue's life. The craftspeople who have given her her various makeovers will always brought different visions and levels of skill

Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · Aug 18

metro.co.uk/2025/08/18/w...

Work to fix 'botched' restoration of Virgin Mary statue leaves her 'even worse'

Churchgoers say the Macarena of Seville was given a heavy touch of modern glamour out of keeping with her biblical roots.

metro.co.uk

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Oh that's GLORIOUS

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 16

Oh now this is MARVELOUS. Absolute legend!

Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is a lovely read on why natural history museums matter, as a fragment of the ecosystems that once existed, but also as assemblages of human actions, impacts, and biases

Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · Aug 15

The last known Rodrigues parakeet died exactly 150 years ago. This story ticks a lot of natural history museum bingo boxes:
✔️Sex bias in natural history
✔️Colonial legacies
✔️Dodos
But also, how museum specimens act as irreplaceable records of lost biodiversity:
theconversation.com/the-rodrigue...

The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums

Two specimens at a museum in Cambridge are the only physical evidence this bird ever existed.

theconversation.com

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 13

Purely lithologically, I wouldn't have thought beach - I can see some more rounded and sub-rounded smaller clasts in there, but it's mostly sub-angular? Could you have a thin veneer of upcast pebbles (storm cast) overlying a glacio-fluvial lag, and the definition is lost through soil development?

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 13

ME TOO!!!!! An absolute classic

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 9

Oh now - I'm slightly obsessed with these sorts of video!

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 8

This is a brilliant infographic - fantastic communication tool!

Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 8

I'm absolutely mesmerized by this fantastic animated infographic: brilliant way of presenting processes

Sascha Brune @sasbrune.bsky.social · Nov 20

About me: I am interested in geodynamics, plate tectonics, natural hazards, georesources and the carbon cycle - using numerical models like the one below. 🧪⚒️

I co-organize and post about the monthly online #RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar. More infos here: tinyurl.com/RiftAndRiftedMarginsSeminar

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 7

Not well constrained: we need better models of actual sea level at specific points (sea level indicator points) to properly start to think about potential connection points?

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 7

CALIO!!!! Old eyes late at night 😂

Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 6

Neatly dated early hominin presence on Wallacea: securely excavated stone tools from site of Colio, on Sulawesi -between 1.04 Ma and 1.48 Ma.

Henry Gee @endofthepier.bsky.social · Aug 6

Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature

Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.

www.nature.com

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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yeah, my job on the fag kiosk at Somerfield paid less than a quid an hour!

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Aug 1

Here’s a tired parent 1-2-3
Sits by the bedside
What does she see?

She sees her baby sleeping
Finally
At last

Books piled on the table,
An empty water glass

Cinderella in the cellar,
A peach,
A pear,
A plum.

Thank you Allan Alhberg,
From this very grateful mum
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Allan Ahlberg obituary

Writer of books such as Each Peach Pear Plum and Peepo! capturing a child’s outlook with his illustrator wife Janet

www.theguardian.com

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