Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data.
Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".
Hi this joke is for me
Don't let them steal your wonder. Says Skeltor feeling extra fab.
Two sea lions swamping a small boat
Only in Puget Sound, Olympia, Washington:
A pair of Stellar Sea Lions, weighing in at at least one ton total weight, commandeer a small sailboat
📸Dane
More on the *Swash Channel Wreck*, an armed Dutch merchant ship called the *Fame* (of Hoorn) which sank in 1631 off the coast of Poole #Dorset, further remains of which have been found in Studland Bay
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@buarchanth.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social
#Archaeology
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UKHE is in such a state that Cambridge has now made it onto the list, with dozens of redundancies already apparently. Still, not to worry, only in that merely ornamental discipline of, er, epidemiology. So many lessons learned - and already forgotten - about pandemic preparedness, I guess...
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
What function did ~100k-year-old engravings from Blombos Cave & Diepkloof serve? Decoration, identity marking, proto-writing? osf.io/preprints/ps... uses transmission chains + cognitive experiments to find out & help answering one of the hardest questions in cognitive archaeology. long thread! 1/
Our vacancy for a Vice Chair is still open. If you are interested or would like to know more, please get in touch via a DM or on our website: www.archaeologyinlondon.com/contact-8
I personally would now bet on wearable tech that somehow uses an electromagnetic field or something otherwise clever to disrupt this sort of nonsense. I want an art student to design a bracelet or otherwise lovely thing that projects an image of my choice whenever one of these things looks at me.
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THREAD. Now if anyone needs me I'll be off playing Half-Life in an inexplicable fit of nostalgia
From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks
4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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If youre a UK resident you have a prime opportunity to push back against the Online Safety Act and online surveillance. PLEASE take a moment to fill this out and share it around
Yeah, yeah. I know. America is important. But I'm so fucking sick of it absolutely dominating the UK news cycle. I get it. You voted in a turd and now you're swimming in fascist shit. But we have our own rightwing wanklord problems that need more national coverage. anon_opin GOLD from 9th October 2025
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
Four-year fully funded PhD! The project is based on Campus Gotland (Visby), and would be suitable for students in archaeology, bioarchaeology, forensic archaeology or palaeoanthropology who have the necessary technical background. Application window closes on 27th April.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Screenshot of a PDF of the published article. Title: "The tie that binds us? Challenging the primacy of DNA in kinship studies and re-centring community in defining human connections across time"
DNA is not the same as kinship.
Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:
• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research
Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Did you know that most of our #archaeology degrees can be undertaken from anywhere in the world – as long as you have internet access and a computer?
#studyarchaeology #ThinkUHI #postgraduate #undergraduate
In the study in the journal Antiquity, researchers analysed the DNA of 22 people from five tombs in Caithness and the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland. The tombs were used between 3800 and 3200 B.C., during transitions from foraging to farming.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
