“We scientists are used to sticking to our knitting. But I began realizing that science needed defending,” says @samwang.bsky.social.
@nature.com talked to researchers running for office who say the "science is above politics" era is a failed business model.
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I did not know Epstein on a boat
I did not know Epstein with a goat
I did not know Epstein in the air
I did not know him anywhere!
Since 2019, HERI has run women-focused field camps for archaeology & geology students.
Female-led and hands-on, they provide field skills, mentorship, and safe spaces—building confident, resilient researchers ready to study #Africa’s rich heritage.
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Oooh!!! Congrats 🥳 I loooooved these. I tried to read every single one and was shook to discover that’s more or less impossible given how many there are 😆
forget looksmaxxing you need to be booksmaxxing
ai bros who advocate "just using it for ideas" are the worst, like genuinely creative people have 1000 years of ideas in them
I don't use any generative AI. A statistical word-string vending machine offers me nothing useful creatively and nothing trustworthy as research. The environmental impact is appalling and these companies stole copyright intellectual property knowing that's illegal. GenAI is dishonest at every level.
Climate models project a AMOC weakening, with the timing and magnitude of the weakening not yet certain. A transition to a substantially weaker state or collapse cannot be ruled out. This would have major implications for the climate, societies globally, but especially in Europe. It is time to act!
Not that either of the options is good or healthy but frankly I think using ai for inspirarion and reference is even worse than letting it render stuff out. I think the initial kernel is the most personal thing, what you choose to depict and how; fighting your improficiencies to get it out
Wambūi Karanja of Kenya is "one to watch," says the Alzheimer's Association. Coping with her dad's condition inspired her to develop a training program for families on the art of caregiving. n.pr/41sscAK
If you have missed the BG ECS webinar “How to get a European postdoctoral grant” you can still watch it online: youtu.be/avtI5s5u3so
Same! I shared this paper with colleagues just yesterday.
Unconscious bias is a bitch! Catches everyone at some stage. We all have blind spots, and to think we don’t is a major part of the problem 🥴
Calling out bias moves the needle on systemic issues.
The last 11 years have been the hottest years ever recorded. Earth’s energy imbalance has reached its highest than at any time in observed history, with heat reaching deeper into the ocean. This is the Global #StateOfClimate 2025.
📰 Press release: https://bit.ly/4ds4r2V
#WorldMetDay
Reminder: The GSSA Western Cape Branch Alex du Toit Lecture is coming up.
Presented by HERI’s Associate Professor @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social on early humans and hydrology in southern Africa.
RSVP by 25 March 2026.
30 years of MSCA 🎉 and what a journey for research across Europe and beyond🌍! As supervisor of 3, I've had a front-row seat to researchers pushing the boundaries of knowledge in human prehistory. Here's to the next 30 years of curiosity-driven science🔬 #MSCA30 #ICArEHB #EUResearch #Archaeology
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Are you a national of an African country? Looking to study birds of prey at one of three leading ornithological research university across the contient? This might be for you! raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-award...
@tashjoeza.bsky.social must follow account 😆👌🏽
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Wow!! This is amazing. Simple, clever and really makes you think!!
It’s important to remember the countries & communities attempting to repatriate their ancestors’ human remains from UK museums. I spoke to descendants of the first Chimurenga heroes, whose skulls were long believed to have been taken to the UK after they were executed by British colonial force.
Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:
Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
I'm going to add to this... A good and valuable literature review also makes an argument. It's not a summary of every paper ever, it's a selective discussion from a position of expertise that does specific field defining work
Open Access Comment on Nixon, A. L. et al. (2022) on Intracontinental Fault Reactivation in High Heat Production Areas of Central Australia: Insights From Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology A. L. Nixon, S. Glorie e2025GC012887 | First Published: 24 February 2026 Key Points We have identified an error in Imro values leading to values calculated as ~4% too high
More of this please; people commenting on and correcting mistakes *in their own papers from a few years back* 👏🏾
4/5 of these talented young researchers are in my group 🤩🤩🤩
It’s so rewarding to see all these projects making it to publication.
#brag #proudsupervisor
Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...
I’m honoured and excited to be the GSSA 2026 Du Toit lecturer!! Only the second woman since 1949 🥴
I’ll be doing 5 lectures all over South Africa 🇿🇦 and 1 in Botswana 🇧🇼
So save the date!!
