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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️

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Disruptive Digital Darwinist 💀#Neanderthal is in my DNA!🧬 #Evolution #PaleoAnth #EvoMed #OpenScience CBSA http://cbsaimtt.com

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · Mar 11

🔆 Good morning!

“Words may inspire, but only action creates change.”

— Simon Sinek

If protesting, occupying, picketing & striking changed anything, they'd try to make it illegal.
Oh, wait.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

JANE GOODALL'S FINAL INTERVIEW 🏺🧪

Recorded on September 23, 2025
(eight days before her passing on October 1, 2025)
for the Wallstreet Journal's "Journal Podcast"

JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4osh...

JANE GOODALL'S LAST INTERVIEW Recorded on 9/23/25

YouTube video by dreamlion

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Goodall obituary:
Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists 🏺🧪👩‍🔬
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
Photo Credit: Joel Saget/AFP via Getty

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Goodall reflects on hug from rescued chimpanzee 🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXKz...

Primatologist Jane Goodall about the remarkable moment when a rescued chimpanzee named Wounda hugged her farewell before returning to the wild.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

Jane Goodall (1934–2025)

Saying a grateful goodbye to a legend...

Jane Goodall and Wounda hug 🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/shorts/ihjrO...

Wildlife advocate and primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

YouTube video by The Week

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

🔆 Good morning!

A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall 🏺🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BZ0...

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for a deeply reflective conversation about her legacy and to immortalize her final words with the understanding that it would only be shared after she passed.

A Message From Dr. Jane Goodall | Famous Last Words | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is a great Idea. And of course, there should be more.

I also think if this were to be shown to Trump...
The concept would probably give him a brain aneurysm.

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 3d

It looks like MO is teaching you the imperial neck bow.

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 3d

Post someone who looks good in black.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

This was, unfortunately, foreseeable.

Trump's administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Nothing is impenetrable protection but...
Here are steps you can take to evade it.

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
www.wired.com/story/the-wi...

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert

Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago 🏺🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

This ancient camel engraving may have been a signpost indicating the presence of a seasonal water source.Maria Guagnin

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

11,000-year-old feast uncovered:
Why hunters hauled wild boars across mountains

Shows the effort invested by participating pre-agricultural communities.

Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Summary of the analyses carried out in this study.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

Tracking the Hunter:
A Study of the Personal Gear of a Gravettian Hunter-Gatherer from Milovice IV🏺🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Presents an analysis of a small cluster of blades/bladelets discovered during a rescue excavation at the Middle/Late Gravettian site of Milovice IV, Czech Republic.

a Blade cluster in situ; two phases of micro-excavation; schematic drawings on the left show the exact orientation of artefacts within the cluster (with west–east orientation, view from the top), artefacts with uncertain orientation are not depicted. b Blade cluster projected with other artefacts from AH I and AH II on eastern section of M IV.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Signs of artificial cranial modification in a Late Upper Palaeolithic individual (AC12) from Arene Candide Cave, Italy (ca. 12,620–12,190 Cal BP)

Virtual reconstruction of AC12 V1 with landmarks and semilandmarks. (a,b) frontal and left lateral views of full reconstruction of AC12 V1; (c–e) anterior oblique and inferior views of AC12 V1 showing landmarks (red dots) and semilandmarks (small green dots).

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition🏺🧪
Maria Guagnin, @mdpetraglia.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evidence that playas became established in the Nefud desert of northern Arabia between ~16 and ~13 kya.

Rock art panels at Jebel Arnaan.
Tracings highlight the layering of engravings, showing phase 1 in green, phase 2 in yellow, phase 3 in white and phase 4 in shades of blue. Rock art scale is 10 cm wide

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 4d

Fossil footprints at the late Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen (Germany): A new line of research to reconstruct animal and hominin paleoecology 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fossil tracks at the 300 ka Paleolithic sites of Schöningen (northern Germany) are described.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 5d

Renewed Archaeological Research in Singida Region, Central Tanzania 🏺🧪
Makarius Itambu, Robert Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social et al
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preliminary results from renewed research expeditions conducted in the Singida Region.

The cranium and mandible of Itramuka Hominin 01 recovered in 2021. A In situ cranium exposed during salvage excavations. B Freshly excavated cranium and mandible. C Lateral view of the left side of the cranium following sediment removal and preparation for osteological analysis. D The mandible with complete adult teeth

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 5d

Early humans and the balance of power:
Homo habilis as prey 🏺🧪
nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This has consequences for our understanding of the evolution of behaviors that led to a fully terrestrial adaptation and a shift in the balance of power between carnivorans and hominins.

OH 7 bones stored at the National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam. (A) Mandible. (B) Left and (C) right parietal bone. (D, E) Two skull fragments. (F) Three terminal phalanges. (G) A carpal bone (scaphoid). (H) Four middle phalanges. (I) The base of the second metacarpal. (J, K) Two proximal phalanges. (L) A carpal bone (trapezium). (M) A carpal bone (capitate). Note that the letters given to the OH 7 bones here do not match the ones given to the bones at the National Museum.

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 5d

‘Thrilled’ Indonesian scientists celebrate return of fossil trove from the Netherlands

The items to be returned, which include Java Man, were collected during the colonial era 🏺🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

The skullcap of Java Man, a Homo erectus fossil found by paleontologist Eugène Dubois in 1891.Naturalis

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

It's that damn duck lobby, isn't it?
They're also responsible for the quack medical advice from the CDC.

Cartoon duck in front of US Capitol building

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

😔 Dame Jane Morris Goodall 👩‍🔬🧪
3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025)

Among the many that Jane Goodall had, I believe one outstanding quality allowed her to accomplish so much in her life...
She cared.

Remembering Dr. Jane
Scientist. Conservationist. Humanitarian.
janegoodall.ca/RememberingJ...

"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
- Jane Goodall

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

IMHO, it should be called frogweed.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

It's reassuring to know that... (except for that guy)...
The kids are alright.

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

"And in that bright October sun,
we knew our childhood days were done

And I watched my friends go off to war,
what do they keep on fighting for?"

- Billy Joel, Leningrad

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you.
I will email you for more info.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 6d

Cool. That is indeed fortunate.