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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 38m

Yes! We have made a beautiful series on the Roman Empire - by Train - for your delectation!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 39m

@richardosman1.bsky.social Hey! I’m on tour too!

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Grievous Angel @grievousangel.net · 5h

Went to see @profaliceroberts.bsky.social last night. Very entertaining and I learned a lot. Recommended.

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m back on tour with my new book DOMINATION this week - travelling to Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull & Northampton. Expect plenty of monasteries, basilicas, hypocausts as I explore the end of the western Roman Empire and why it’s still relevant today!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you for coming!

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 9h

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 17h

Oh congratulations! On parenthood - and getting out!

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Jeremy @jeremycarter42.bsky.social · 18h

This was great, do go and see it if you have the chance. Fascinating parts woven together into a compelling narrative that's surprisingly relevant 1500 years later.

Plus a photo of a dig dog. What more do you need?

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m back on tour with my new book DOMINATION this week - travelling to Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull & Northampton. Expect plenty of monasteries, basilicas, hypocausts as I explore the end of the western Roman Empire and why it’s still relevant today!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks Jeremy! Glad you enjoyed it.

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Jane G @janeger.bsky.social · 21h

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social isn't due to start for a good 15 mins yet, but this hall already looks fuller than any at the Tory Party Conference.

Picture of theatre venue with the audience taking their seats

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 21h

8pm TODAY on @BBCTwo

Digging for Britain
s12 Ep 2 of 6, Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna

A quarryman makes the discovery of a set of very large footprints and a chance find reveals a Roman villa with mosaics & a sauna

#Archaeology @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

BBC Two - Digging for Britain, Series 12, Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna

The discovery of a set of large footprints, a Roman sauna and Iron Age innovations.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not dead yet.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Andy Street is spot on. Birmingham is a brilliant city. Vibrant, diverse, wonderful.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll put it bluntly, Robert is wrong… it’s actually a very integrated place... Not the definition of a slum.”

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands 2017-24, responds to Robert Jenrick's comments on Handsworth.

#Newsnight

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently he lives in a manor house in a village of 166 people, 165 of whom are white.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

This journalist is literally inviting Jenrick to share his views, while being accused of shutting down the debate! Astonishing.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 1d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful little carving! Where’s it from?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m back on tour with my new book DOMINATION this week - travelling to Bradford, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull & Northampton. Expect plenty of monasteries, basilicas, hypocausts as I explore the end of the western Roman Empire and why it’s still relevant today!

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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 3d

5:05pm to 8:55p. TODAY on @pbsamerica.bsky.social

All 3 episodes of the 2020 Documentary📺 “BRITAIN's BIGGEST DIG”

A look at the #Archaeology accompanying the construction of HS2.

Presented by Professor Yasmin Khan & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · Dec 15

As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.

This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

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Clifton Suspension Bridge @brunelsbridge.bsky.social · 5d

We're excited to announce that #CliftonSuspensionBridge Museum is up for an award at this year's Bristol, Bath & Somerset Tourism Awards! Our Underground Lantern Tour is a finalist in the Active & Learning Experience of the Year category. We couldn't be more proud of the our team of storytellers!

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 5d

How many FRSs interfere with overseas politics, finance right-wing groups, dismantle US scientific infrastructure, perform Nazi salutes on camera, and use the largest social media platform on earth to promote disinformation on vaccines, COVID, climate change...etc?

Naughty boy? Outright disgrace.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 6d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 5d

Please let this be true.

Have we passed peak social media? - on.ft.com/4pTb1Di via @FT

Have we passed peak social media?

As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

on.ft.com

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 6d

And we’re off! #Inktober

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