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NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 1h

Hardy hippos! 🧪🦛#quaternary www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hippos still roamed Europe during the last ice age

DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.

www.nature.com

NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 1h

Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary

Ancient DNA and dating evidence for the dispersal of hippos into central Europe during the last glacial

Late Pleistocene hippo fossils (Hippopotamus amphibius) from Europe have generally been associated with the last interglacial period (Eemian, 129–115 …

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225012059🧪🦛#quaternary

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 1h

One for those in the Uk: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Climate Question - What do ice cores tells us about climate change? - BBC Sounds

Uncovering the secrets of ice cores and our changing climate with two world experts

www.bbc.co.uk

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 19h

Dr Liz Thomas joins The Climate Question on the BBC World Service to talk about ice cores. These frozen time capsules are unlocking Earth's climate history and helping predict its future.

Listen now on BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct702g

#ClimateScience #IceCores

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Lukas Käll @lukaskall.bsky.social · 21h

There is a position open in our lab, within this network. Our project deals with assessing identification and quantification errors for MS-based proteomics. www.protaiomics.eu/project/dc13...
Please check out all the project descriptions at the site below:

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 23h

The @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social climate monitoring application #Climate Pulse has been updated. Same climate monitoring data with new features and better layout. 🌏🌊⚒️🧪

User feedback always welcome so let us know what you would like to see updated in the next version:

pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d

Monitoring changes in UK temperature

To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...

Monitoring changes in UK temperature

Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends

climatelabbook.substack.com

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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 23h

Reposting with the correct link :)

archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/writing...

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York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) @yesiuoy.bsky.social · 1d

🤖🌿 NERC AI for Environmental Science Workshop - New date + venue

Open to York PIs + Co-Is looking to develop/collaborate on a bid. Explore AI/data science sols for:

🌪 Environmental hazards + human health
🌳 Terrestrial ecology
🌊 Oceans + climate

💡Build ideas, meet collaborators: buff.ly/t47tBUF

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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 1d

The #TaungChild has been silent for over 2 million years — until now.

Our new podcast takes you back to 1924 #SouthAfrica, where one fossil would upend colonial narratives to centre human origins #Africa.

🌍Unburied Season 2: The Taung Child
🔗 Listen: linktr.ee/arcdocs

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🌊 Marine heatwaves and the carbon cycle

A new study shows that marine heatwaves can disrupt food webs and carbon transport in the NE Pacific.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Nature Communications

A decade of BGC-Argo and plankton records shows North Pacific heatwaves reshape food webs and trap small particles in midwater, slowing deep-ocean carbon export. Impacts vary by event, underscoring the need for sustained ocean monitoring.

www.nature.com

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livlumlab.bsky.social @livlumlab.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out using portable luminescence assessment to diagnose tsunami signatures and impacts. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

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livlumlab.bsky.social @livlumlab.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out dating the Naisuisui type section at Olduvai Gorge! Covers the transition from Middle to Later Stone Age & an environmental context for human evolution at this time. Includes new drilling approach. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh....

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 1d

A remarkable transformation in @rsc.org prizes.
30% of prizes recognise teams rather than individuals (up from 5%).
36% of prize-winners are early-career (up from 4%)
38% of prize winners are women (up from 25%)
Twice as many prizes for work outside universities.
www.rsc.org/policy-and-c...

Reshaping recognition: evolving how we celebrate excellence

A multi-year journey to transform our prizes

www.rsc.org

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Maria C. Codlin @mcodlin.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to share our new study in @natcomms.nature.com. It reveals surprising protein variability in birds 🐦, reshaping how we use ancient proteins to reconstruct the past. Curious about the implications? Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eJi3h. With @beademarch.bsky.social

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 7d

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Antarctic sea ice hits its third-lowest winter peak on record

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet...

phys.org

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HEAS @heasvienna.bsky.social · 7d

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

@univie.ac.at

More information and registration on our website 👇🔗

HEAS Seminar Series - Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic - HEAS

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic Bence Viola from the University of Toronto will give a talk on Teeth, Genes, and Taxonomy – fifteen years of Denisovan discov...

www.heas.at

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 7d

So excited to announce the lineup of speakers here @heasvienna.bsky.social for the 2025/6 academic year! We have some outstanding speakers for our three seminar series in Archaelogical Science, Ancient Genomics and Human Evolution & the Palaeolithic. All hybrid! Register now at HEAS.at

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 7d

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the UK’s Climate Change Act, a move so reckless it demands more scrutiny than polite debate. This matters not just for polar bears or coral reefs, but for our people, our economy, our very future.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 13d

📣 Calling all #ESHE2025 participants and hashtag followers!

Open Quaternary is looking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief as @mlaw.bsky.social, @suziebirch.bsky.social and I step down after 10 years of shared service.

Apply here: openquaternary.com/announcements

Announcements | Open Quaternary

openquaternary.com

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 13d

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

buff.ly

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 13d

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans

Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

www.science.org

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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · 14d

New paper by Tamsin O’Connell:

This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects.

“The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

#stableisotopes

Redirecting

doi.org

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 15d

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

Climate change: evidence and causes | Royal Society

Supplementary information for the project 'Climate Change: Evidence and causes'.

royalsociety.org

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 15d

What Trump said are the well-worn and often rebutted lies of the fossil fuel lobby, whose lies are the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.
If you hear such climate science denial tropes, the answers to all of those can be found at skepticalscience.com

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