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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

Me too??? 😱😱😱😱😅😘

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

🙌🙌🙌🙌

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

Well thank you Professor ;)

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I def feel the heat lol

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

lol modest ☺️

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

😘😘😘

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

Bahhh 🥰

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

I should have gotten party hats! Maybe crane masks???

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!! Maybe now I’ll be in country long enough to cross over with you irl 🤪

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 12d

I should also perhaps mention, in the context of h longi or is it really, that I’ve just reviewed a book about denisovans for science, and am in fact entirely academically serious about can we just call everything erectus and that includes us because i just really CANT

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