Jane
@gnomesanctuary.bsky.social
Archaeologist
Clean air advocate/anti-viral vigilante
Dig holes and punch Nazis
🏴⛏🦴 😷
Clean air advocate/anti-viral vigilante
Dig holes and punch Nazis
🏴⛏🦴 😷
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Cleaner air 💨
Better focus 🧠
Improved attendance 📈
1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ Blast and Blast Mini air filters are already in London classrooms.
Is yours one?
⏳ It’s not too late to start the new term with cleaner air
Better focus 🧠
Improved attendance 📈
1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ Blast and Blast Mini air filters are already in London classrooms.
Is yours one?
⏳ It’s not too late to start the new term with cleaner air
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cleaner air 💨
Better focus 🧠
Improved attendance 📈
1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ Blast and Blast Mini air filters are already in London classrooms.
Is yours one?
⏳ It’s not too late to start the new term with cleaner air
Better focus 🧠
Improved attendance 📈
1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ Blast and Blast Mini air filters are already in London classrooms.
Is yours one?
⏳ It’s not too late to start the new term with cleaner air
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@jennysanders.bsky.social After our lovely chat, if there's anything you can do by re-posting my plea for help, this #LongCovid #Archaeologist still needs every penny to try survive the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic & chronic illness. Many have been wonderfully generous. www.gofundme.com/f/long-covid...
Donate to Long Covid victim year 6, Spence seeks help to stay afloat, organized by Spencer Carter
Who is Spence?
If you know me, or knew me, it would be as Sp… Spencer Carter needs your support for Long Covid victim year 6, Spence seeks help to stay afloat
www.gofundme.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
@jennysanders.bsky.social After our lovely chat, if there's anything you can do by re-posting my plea for help, this #LongCovid #Archaeologist still needs every penny to try survive the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic & chronic illness. Many have been wonderfully generous. www.gofundme.com/f/long-covid...
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BREAKING - @meassociation.org.uk awards £1.1million - its largest-ever research grant - to Prof @daltmann.bsky.social, Imperial College London, for landmark 3-year study to find shared pathways between #me/cfs and #LongCovid | 10 December 2025:
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
£1.1m awarded to investigate links between ME/CFS and Long Covid
A new landmark study funded by The ME Association will help scientists to uncover shared pathways between ME/CFS and Long Covid.
www.imperial.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
BREAKING - @meassociation.org.uk awards £1.1million - its largest-ever research grant - to Prof @daltmann.bsky.social, Imperial College London, for landmark 3-year study to find shared pathways between #me/cfs and #LongCovid | 10 December 2025:
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
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🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite.
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite.
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Gonna try this excimer lamp from @nukit.bsky.social (thanks for donating one to my cause!) to kill off agrobacterium after co-culture as a means of antibiotic-free plant bioengineering. Agrobacterium resurgence is a huge pain and often we use frontline antibiotics to clear it away.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Gonna try this excimer lamp from @nukit.bsky.social (thanks for donating one to my cause!) to kill off agrobacterium after co-culture as a means of antibiotic-free plant bioengineering. Agrobacterium resurgence is a huge pain and often we use frontline antibiotics to clear it away.
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A school study shows shared classroom time and poor air quality drive virus transmission more than close contact.
Prolonged exposure in poorly ventilated spaces is the main risk factor, suggesting ventilation improvements are key.
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #flu
#LongCOVID
nature.com/articles/s41...
Prolonged exposure in poorly ventilated spaces is the main risk factor, suggesting ventilation improvements are key.
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #flu
#LongCOVID
nature.com/articles/s41...
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A school study shows shared classroom time and poor air quality drive virus transmission more than close contact.
Prolonged exposure in poorly ventilated spaces is the main risk factor, suggesting ventilation improvements are key.
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #flu
#LongCOVID
nature.com/articles/s41...
Prolonged exposure in poorly ventilated spaces is the main risk factor, suggesting ventilation improvements are key.
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #flu
#LongCOVID
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
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Excellent resource for UK folk: A COVID prevalence map:
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
Covid PCR Test Positivity (7-day rolling average)
Heatmap showing the latest covid PCR test positivity (7-day rolling average) sourced from the UKHSA data.go.uk API.
jamestindall.info
December 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Excellent resource for UK folk: A COVID prevalence map:
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
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More good news about Covid this week, as infection levels in England fall slightly. For the first time since 2021, we have lowered the risk level to Moderate, as around 1 in every 499 people in England were infected as of 30 November.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 30 November 2025
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 30 November 2025
buds.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
More good news about Covid this week, as infection levels in England fall slightly. For the first time since 2021, we have lowered the risk level to Moderate, as around 1 in every 499 people in England were infected as of 30 November.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
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Pech-de-l’Azé I & Abri Peyrony (~51–48 ka): rib-bone lissoirs used to smooth hides—Europe’s earliest specialized bone tools, made by Neanderthals. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Neanderthals #Lissoir
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Pech-de-l’Azé I & Abri Peyrony (~51–48 ka): rib-bone lissoirs used to smooth hides—Europe’s earliest specialized bone tools, made by Neanderthals. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Neanderthals #Lissoir
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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We could easily house, feed & care for everyone
We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet
We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry
We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet
We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
We could easily house, feed & care for everyone
We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet
We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry
We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet
We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry
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Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
Don't talk to them
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
Don't talk to them
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The good news about Covid continues this week, as infection levels in England continue to fall to the lowest level seen so far this year. Around 1 in every 429 people in England were infected as of 23 November, and the risk level remains Moderately High.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 23 November 2025
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 23 November 2025
buds.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The good news about Covid continues this week, as infection levels in England continue to fall to the lowest level seen so far this year. Around 1 in every 429 people in England were infected as of 23 November, and the risk level remains Moderately High.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Tried a duckbill mask tonight, very good for singing, chin doesn't ride up. Also brought the CO2 monitor along tonight - levels were so good! (Doors and windows open with excellent crossbreeze). Plus two Samsung ax90 air purifiers AND a UV nukit that one participant brought along, see pics ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tried a duckbill mask tonight, very good for singing, chin doesn't ride up. Also brought the CO2 monitor along tonight - levels were so good! (Doors and windows open with excellent crossbreeze). Plus two Samsung ax90 air purifiers AND a UV nukit that one participant brought along, see pics ❤️
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Some rare good news about Covid in England, as infection levels fall back to ‘baseline’ levels last seen in early summer 2025. This doesn’t mean Covid has ceased to be a threat, as around 1 in every 296 people in England were still infected as of 16 November.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 16 November 2025
The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 16 November 2025
buds.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Some rare good news about Covid in England, as infection levels fall back to ‘baseline’ levels last seen in early summer 2025. This doesn’t mean Covid has ceased to be a threat, as around 1 in every 296 people in England were still infected as of 16 November.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
What should we call the next Ice Age?
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
What should we call the next Ice Age?
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One day we will think about the fact that we don't filter indoor air the same way we react to this.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
One day we will think about the fact that we don't filter indoor air the same way we react to this.
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#pwME #LongCovidME please help Rob Wüst with establishing a clincial definition of #PEM.
"= Minimum age of 18 years
= Physician-confirmed diagnosis of ME/CFS
= Ability to read and answer the questionnaire in German or English
= Voluntary consent to participate"
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
"= Minimum age of 18 years
= Physician-confirmed diagnosis of ME/CFS
= Ability to read and answer the questionnaire in German or English
= Voluntary consent to participate"
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
Questionnaire | page 1
www.soscisurvey.de
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#pwME #LongCovidME please help Rob Wüst with establishing a clincial definition of #PEM.
"= Minimum age of 18 years
= Physician-confirmed diagnosis of ME/CFS
= Ability to read and answer the questionnaire in German or English
= Voluntary consent to participate"
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
"= Minimum age of 18 years
= Physician-confirmed diagnosis of ME/CFS
= Ability to read and answer the questionnaire in German or English
= Voluntary consent to participate"
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
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Cross post:
I really didn’t want to do this, but I’m in a tough spot. I don’t know when my next build is going to be and I need help. (1/2)
I really didn’t want to do this, but I’m in a tough spot. I don’t know when my next build is going to be and I need help. (1/2)
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Cross post:
I really didn’t want to do this, but I’m in a tough spot. I don’t know when my next build is going to be and I need help. (1/2)
I really didn’t want to do this, but I’m in a tough spot. I don’t know when my next build is going to be and I need help. (1/2)
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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In the past day, Nukit posted this interesting update about the Torch2 design...
"...Not only is 50mW of defused (wide) UV light more effective than 50mW of focused (narrow) UV light at activating bioaerosols in a room, reflectors are lossy..."
OP: x.com/NukitToBeSur...
"...Not only is 50mW of defused (wide) UV light more effective than 50mW of focused (narrow) UV light at activating bioaerosols in a room, reflectors are lossy..."
OP: x.com/NukitToBeSur...
October 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In the past day, Nukit posted this interesting update about the Torch2 design...
"...Not only is 50mW of defused (wide) UV light more effective than 50mW of focused (narrow) UV light at activating bioaerosols in a room, reflectors are lossy..."
OP: x.com/NukitToBeSur...
"...Not only is 50mW of defused (wide) UV light more effective than 50mW of focused (narrow) UV light at activating bioaerosols in a room, reflectors are lossy..."
OP: x.com/NukitToBeSur...
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The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
c.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The geology department at the University of Leicester, where myself and countless others did our palaeontology PhDs, is at serious risk of closure
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
Please show your support by signing the below!
c.org/KtYyZB8dHk
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You can travel Europe on a budget without hopping on a plane: cheap coach routes, £50 rail-and-sail tickets, low-fare Eurostar options, even sleeper trains that save you a hotel night. flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-...
#EuropeTravel #RailEurope #Interrail
#EuropeTravel #RailEurope #Interrail
How to travel on a budget
Flight-free travel doesn't have to be more expensive. We take a look at how to keep the cost down when it comes to travelling overland.
flightfree.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You can travel Europe on a budget without hopping on a plane: cheap coach routes, £50 rail-and-sail tickets, low-fare Eurostar options, even sleeper trains that save you a hotel night. flightfree.co.uk/post/how-to-...
#EuropeTravel #RailEurope #Interrail
#EuropeTravel #RailEurope #Interrail
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NEW: A study from @biology.ox.ac.uk has found kissing first evolved around 21 million years ago in the common ancestor of humans and other great apes – and even Neanderthals probably kissed too.
The research also suggests that humans and Neanderthals likely kissed each other.
The research also suggests that humans and Neanderthals likely kissed each other.
Ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely kissed, new analysis finds |
A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago, and that Neanderthals likely
www.ox.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
NEW: A study from @biology.ox.ac.uk has found kissing first evolved around 21 million years ago in the common ancestor of humans and other great apes – and even Neanderthals probably kissed too.
The research also suggests that humans and Neanderthals likely kissed each other.
The research also suggests that humans and Neanderthals likely kissed each other.