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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1h

"Turnips and radishes outraged"

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1h

not weird

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

🧪🏺🗃️ Did not know that the brilliant HERI does podcasts!
Series 1 also sounds excellent, on colonial anthropology in the Kalahari

Screengrab of page for Unburied Season One. Image shows a graphic of a hole dug into orange sandy sediment.
Text:
"Unburied Season 1: Built from Bones.

Season one of the Unburied series retraces the footsteps of Dr. Rudolf Pöch, an Austrian anthropologist who traveled through the Kalahari in the early 20th century.

The series investigates how Pöch dug up graves and took the remains from more than 170 indigenous people and used the bones for race science, to justify white supremacy.

Unburied seeks to understand what happened in the Kalahari and how those events have shaped the lives of the indigenous communities in the Kalahari and the world at large."

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

typo- Palaeolithic, not Neolithic :-)

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 4h

1. On political gaslighting. Yesterday Jenrick defended his comments on Handsworth by lashing out at 2 pieces of work I was centrally involved with to imply it's people like me who are divisive, not him...

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

Looks fab

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 4h

🏺 And of course, Anthropology including Archaeology is so powerful because we use all kinds of data and analytical methods which bring together humanities AND sciences.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 5h

Anthropology should replace RE as mandatory at state schools: faiths are just one facet of the extraordinary ways people have chosen past & present to organise their lives and express identity - from households to states, craft to economy, or dealing with death. Anthropology opens minds & hearts.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 5h

English, Anthropology, Sociology... removing these options for the majority would of course help the class war substantially, by preventing most people from learning more in understanding and appreciating the real diversity of humanity, culture and its communication

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 5h

yes, two separate questions, protecting those children whilst not causing harm to other children.
I suspect the majority of state funded Church of England or Church of Wales schools aren't actually doing the former, but certainly are risking the latter.

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 5h

not sure that's right, the Society of Authors is a trade union and many of its members including me are self-employed

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for this interesting perspective, I see the need within religious extremist contexts.
But massive number of state-funded faith schools is far beyond the amount needed to ensure such children's protection, and opens up other kids to proselytising and damaging experiences. How to balance this?

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

upon closer research apparently one can claim utilities installation and furnishings but not decoration and not structural stuff, and yes, capital gains would apply, although you can claim some relief as small business.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose that's true

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

hah!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

It's under business taxes, so I don't know

www.gov.uk/guidance/cla...

Claiming capital allowances for structures and buildings

If you build, buy or lease a structure and all construction contracts were signed on or after 29 October 2018, you may be able to claim tax relief.

www.gov.uk

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

looked up the pulsar, nice choice

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

This message brought to you from "yes I am lucky to have A Room Of My Own but also I would like more space and light and insulation and not to have piles of other stuff surrounding me like the landscape of forgotten things in Labyrinth"

Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

Tax grumble - as a self-employed person who works from home, if I build an office at the bottom of my garden I cannot claim any costs as business expenses, BUT if I built the same structure on land lacking a "residence" then I could.

How on earth is that fair or fit for modern working practices?

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

Tax grumble - as a self-employed person who works from home, if I build an office at the bottom of my garden I cannot claim any costs as business expenses, BUT if I built the same structure on land lacking a "residence" then I could.

How on earth is that fair or fit for modern working practices?

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky is still free to use but this storage & other costs must be getting expensive.
Once again hoping/asking that they avoid the temptation to put ads in, or at least give users the option to pay a subscription.

Bluesky @bsky.app · 1d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 2d

🏆

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 2d

🧪🏺
"My work takes up the theoretical challenge first posed fifty years ago that reliance on agriculture is responsible for a Neolithic increase in disease"

Brenna is one of the most modest AND most sharp scholars I know - this project will be fantastic!

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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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Turns out: Some of these T-pillars *do* have faces. 🙌

Iza Miszczak @izamiszczak.bsky.social · 2d

Türkiye’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced that archaeologists have uncovered a T-shaped pillar depicting a human face in Karahantepe—marking the first such discovery in history.

www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/1200...

12,000-year-old human-faced pillar unearthed in Karahantepe marks new chapter in archaeology - Türkiye Today

A human-faced T-shaped pillar found in Karahantepe marks a historic first, revealing early artistic expression from 12,000 years ago

www.turkiyetoday.com

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 4d

Great to see it!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 4d

Rowan!

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