Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

You're right! I've researched and written about these topics for years.

Nigeria's Iroro Tanshi wins Goldman Environmental Prize for trying to save bats Many Nigerians associate bats with witchcraft but that did not deter ecologist Iroro Tanshi.

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Accused Pennsylvania grave robber waives hearing ahead of grisly summer trial Jonathan Christian Gerlach is charged with stealing more than 100 human remains from historic Mount Moriah Cemetery in the Philadelphia area.

www.courthousenews.com/accused-penn... Latest developments in the Gerlach case.

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Trump offered several personal endorsements before the race — backed up by visits from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance — but could do nothing to swing a race that was shaped by growing public frustration over Hungary’s ailing economy, and the corruption and cronyism associated with Orbán. It is highly significant that Magyar’s Tisza party is now heading for a two-thirds supermajority. That would allow Tisza to deliver on the judicial reforms required to regain access to frozen EU funds and undo years of democratic backsliding under Orbán. The party would also be able to remove Fidesz loyalists from key positions, including the president and the chief of the Constitutional Court, which could otherwise torpedo the new government’s laws. With this two-thirds majority, the government could kill off the structures that keep 80 percent of media under Fidesz’s influence, reclaim state assets handed to Orbán-aligned foundations and think tanks, and rewrite election rules long skewed to make it difficult for any contender to remove a party from power, paving the way for a return to democratic pluralism.

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Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

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Why the phrase “Super El Nino” makes Australian climate scientists roll their eyes

Media reports have suggested a “super” El Niño is looming. The problem is, these autumn forecasts are notoriously unreliable.

Europe’s Museums Confront the (Literal) Skeletons in Their Closets

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/a... @museumofloot.bsky.social

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space.

Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Now with labels for iconic stars Mira, Tau Ceti, and 51 Pegasi

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

Because they know it would be the absolute end of them if they bent on this. If only they carried that attitude to everything else and used this latest batshit fuckery of harm from Trump to say no to everything. The US alliance is actively against our interests and the AUKUS Iran attack proves it

This is great! Happy to have been invited to contribute to this paper :)

Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game With college students less likely to read through a full textbook than they once were, video games can help keep them engaged.

This is inspirational and brilliant. Someday, I'd love to take my own educational game design experience and turn it towards heritage crime topics. Anyone on here interested in developing such a thing? Do DM me! theconversation.com/students-wer...

When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.

Take a look @museumbums.bsky.social @counteringcrime.bsky.social

Human Remains as ‘Conflict Antiquities’ and How Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Can Change the Narrative Today&#8217;s human remains trade is a global phenomenon operating primarily online across numerous platforms. Today, as in the colonial past, a significant portion of the private trade involves the r...

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... I've very glad this book chapter, within a massive new volume, is out in the world. Many thanks to my co-authors @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy and Dr. Katherine Davidson, as well as all the editors @ancientchildren.bsky.social et al.

Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse art among items stolen in Italian job The paintings were taken from a museum in Parma by four masked men in the middle of the night, police say.

In today's art crime news. @museumofloot.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

After 80 years, sleuths have unearthed a secret stash of early art and reunited them with family A stash of more than 800 mysterious drawings has been revealed for the first time, rewriting the timeline of Aboriginal art and reconnecting families with long-lost relatives.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... @museumofloot.bsky.social

Kenya's queen ants worth $220 each fuel booming global wildlife black market The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.

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Wishing everyone a joyous NO KINGS DAY 3.0- Thank you to everyone across the globe for your participation in the Resistance... an inspiration to us ALL!!! 🙏

The signs you're carrying are off-the-charts perfection. 👌

7 months until the Midterms! 🗓️

#NoKings2026 👎 👑 #AccountabilityIsComing

18 million-year-old fossils of ape found in Africa, but in an unexpected place The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.

www.livescience.com/archaeology/.... Today in acient ape news.

Meta hit with $375 million fine in child exploitation case While the New Mexico jury's landmark decision to hold Meta liable could be a bellwether, the penalty is only a fraction of what prosecutors sought.

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On the trail of South Africa’s ‘rhino baron’ John Hume bred 2,000 rhinos in captivity. Were they a cover for one of the most successful horn-trafficking networks in history?

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