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Jay Stock 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jaytstock.bsky.social · 16d

Why is there no acetaminophen in the UK? Because the parrots et em all. (Posted with apologies, I have studied Dad jokes on both sides of the Atlantic)

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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 22d

Nice coverage of our ongoing research timesofmalta.com/article/cave...

Cave dig expands to learn more about hunter-gatherers

Humans inhabited Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

timesofmalta.com

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · Aug 20

Gonna focus on terraforming Mars rather than not venusifying Earth.

futurism.com/the-byte/nas...

It's Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science

In a major blow to climate science, NASA is not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration.

futurism.com

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Western University @westernu.ca · Jul 8

To attract top global talent, #WesternU is doubling the number of Postdoctoral Fellowship Program awards and launching the new US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Awards. #CdnPSE #HigherEd

Western expands PhD and postdoc funding - Western News

Western is boosting funding for postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates from the U.S. and other countries with expanded and new award programs.

news.westernu.ca

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · Jun 27

Trump is changing direction on Canada again. The Digital Services Tax is critical to the protection of Canadian news media. Without our media, we are left naked to US digital news disinformation, including Elon Musk's far right X influence. This is a tech oligarch move against Canada's sovereignty.

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BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 7

Two PhD positions open! Deadline end of June! Apply now!

BonesLab @boneslab.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨 Two PhD Positions Available!
Join the ERC Last Neanderthal Project at BonesLab – University of Bologna (Ravenna) 🧬🧠

Apply now and become part of an international team exploring the final chapters of Neanderthal history.

www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

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Western University @westernu.ca · May 28

Aging isn’t a disease—it’s a journey. #WesternU researchers say we should focus on health span, not just lifespan, by optimizing how we age through connection, movement and mindset.

Read more in the @westernualumni.bsky.social Magazine: buff.ly/r2Ao3XI

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Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social · May 29

A permanent job here at @archsoton50.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social in #Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or #Palaeoanthropology 🏺🧪
Please share widely!
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · May 27

American senators coming cap in hand to Ottawa to say the "healing has begun" is simply not believable.
A convicted felon in Washington is still saying "never say never" about destroying our country.
We know what is at stake.
@meidastouch.bsky.social
www.nj.com/politics/202...

Ex-Canada MP scorches Trump: ‘A sexual predator’ doesn’t understand ‘no means no’

“You deal with the felon in charge from Mar-a-Lago and then we can talk about helping your farmers."

www.nj.com

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Jay Stock 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jaytstock.bsky.social · May 15

Here's a fantastic opportunity: A funded PhD in the comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx, with a tuition waiver! Even better, the supervisors, Jake Dunn, Emma Pomeroy, and Tom O'Mahoney are all awesome peeps (am I aging myself with that term?)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx at Anglia Ruskin University ARU on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx at Anglia Ruskin University ARU, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 28

Never forget, this is Jenni Byrne, the Conservative Party of Canada’s top political advisor and Pierre Poilievre’s campaign architect and closest ally.

They’re not “conservative.” They’re not “right-wing.”

They’re MAGA.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Apr 28

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 28

Think about this.

Pundits today are saying that Pierre Poilievre’s biggest chance to win tonight is thru the “enthusiasm of the motivated young male voters…”

…who have been the specific target, and the primary success, of the massive cultural disinformation campaign coming from the United States.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 26

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election

FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney

www.ft.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 26

Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 26

“A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.”

Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election

FT analysis finds network of social media accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney

www.ft.com

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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Apr 9

In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · Apr 9

A blog post from me about our discovery pushing back Maltese prehistory to the Mesolithic, and discovering that hunter-gatherers were making epic 100 km sea journeys!
communities.springernature.com/posts/discov...

Discovering Europe's Last Hunter-Gatherers

A chance discovery led to evidence of a vanished people - and the epic sea voyages they were never supposed to have undertaken.

communities.springernature.com

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Jon Marks @jontheanthroman.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Grey Lady isn't interested in this essay about race. Maybe you are.

This Is What The New York Times Doesn't Want You To See

Race and Science The race controversy engendered by the recent Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” represent...

anthropomics2.blogspot.com

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · Apr 3

📚 A decade on from my last job in academia, my current career is only possible because 1000s of people had faith in the power of human literature as a means to illuminate, connect, enchant.
Big AI companies stealing our work threatens that.
#DoTheWriteThing
#MetaBookThieves

Campaign poster from Society of Authors with green background and colourful drawn images of people with placards. Text: "Lisa Nandy #DoTheWriteThing and protect authors livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in Al Training.
#MetaBookThieves"

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Mar 31

How far would you go to save space? Cutmarks on human bones from Neolithic Dingsishan 🇨🇳 suggest the bodies were intentionally disarticulated before burial. It may have been a way to transport the corpses, or to fit them into small burial spaces. 🏺

🔗 from 2024 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Diagram highlighting the distribution and directionality of cutmarks on the Dingsishan human skeletons.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · Mar 27

In which a do not lament the decline of 23andMe.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford

Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford

www.theguardian.com

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Mar 11

FWIW this is what Shapiro had to say about the US annexing Canada:

“I feel they will greet us as liberators”

“It’s a silly country”

“I’m not saying Canadians should vote in American elections. God forbid. We can annex it and just call it an outlying territory. Like Puerto Rico, but of the north.”

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Mar 26

All of this is utterly hollow and hypocritical when you retain the Fellowship of someone making the world less safe, less inclusive. Someone who performed a Nazi salute on the world stage, someone destabilising western democracies. Where is your line? How far will you enable fascism?

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Mar 22

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the first women elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, Marjory Stephenson FRS and Kathleen Lonsdale FRS. On Monday and Tuesday we will release two short documentaries to celebrate these trailblazing women. Watch the trailer and stay tuned to see the full films:

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · Mar 24

Car advocates are right to worry that once you build cities for people instead of cars, those people will stop voting for the interests of the car industry.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 24

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian

Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

www.reuters.com

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · Mar 21

Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited. Barry Bogin & Holly Smith onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jay Stock 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jaytstock.bsky.social · Mar 21

A good amount of my work has also been stolen by Meta to fuel their AI development and democracy crushing disinformation micro-targetting platforms.

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