A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.
May this set a precedent.
Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.
It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.
Scientist: Cuttlefish are not fish.
Him: Wait.
Scientist: Silverfish are not fish.
Him: Oh come on.
Scientist: Phylogenetically, humans are fish.
Him: 🤯
A woman sitting between white and black Nukit Tempest Pro air purifiers that look a little like PC towers.
A woman sitting next to a white Nukit Tempest Pro air purifier that looks a little like a PC tower.
A close-up of the speed knob on a white Nukit Tempest Pro air purifier.
A man is sitting at a computer, below a black Nukit Tempest Pro air purifier that is mounted on the wall above his head.
The Buy-It-For-Life Nukit Tempest Pro is now available in white, in addition to the original black.
The PVC side panels can be replaced with a nice printed fabric gauze or mesh material for a more decorative look.
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I’m about as far left as you can get… but we do have problems with MAiD in Canada.
How do I know? It was “offered” to me in lieu of care.
I’m disabled, I was alone, my conditions expensive.
Yes I was allowed to say “No”, but no alternative care was offered.
That’s coercion.
New excavations at the Grotta Guattari, just south of Rome, have yielded beautiful new Neanderthal fossils. They may add a lot to our knowledge of how Neanderthals maintained their populations as they fled the advance of the ice sheets.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
🐘 Prehistoric tool made from elephant bone 🦴 is the oldest discovered in Europe
New paper from Simon Parfitt @ucl.ac.uk IoA & Scientific Associate @nhm.org & Silvia Bello
Merit Researcher at the NHM
Read more via the links:
📲 bit.ly/45JQp8r
📚 bit.ly/3ZqKAsG
#LocalAndGlobal
Nature research paper: Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
go.nature.com/4bJ5s5O
Breaking news and congratulations to the team, Sulawesi preserves evidence for the oldest art yet recorded, and strengthens claims for the early colonisation of Australia. At 68k BP this art is almost 30k years earlier than the accepted record for Europe. Bravo🏺🦣🎨
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oooh good question for historians and archaeologists... what's the oldest thing you've accidentally been injured by?
I've cut myself with numerous flint flakes and implements ranging from 6000-3500 years old) - I'm sure someone can outdo that...
We honor the courage of Manuel Teran, known to fellow forest defenders as Tortuguita, who sacrificed all in defense of Weelaunee Forest three years ago today. 🖤
And we give thanks for those who responded to Tortuguita's murder with a wave of fierce direct action. 🏴
crimethinc.com/LivinginanEa...
As daily goals, "stop fascism," "defeat evil," and "save the world" probably aren't going to get you anywhere, and might leave you feeling overwhelmed and helpless, but "work towards building something good" is always achievable, concrete, and useful.
Within a cave used by bird nest traders, archaeologists uncover a single tooth from an ancient group: the first evidence from an extinct hominin on the world’s third largest island. What group lived there in the millennia before modern people arrived?
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-possible...
My mind is seldom blown these days, but this 👇👇 homs on Sulawesi >1Ma is boggling at the very least.
Stone tools didn’t start with Homo.
At Lomekwi 3 (Kenya), deliberately flaked stone tools dated to ~3.3 million years ago push toolmaking deep into early hominin evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
#HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology #StoneTools
How early was #hunting with bow-and-arrow? Possibly right at the beginning of Upper Palaeolithic in #Eurasia, and earlier than that in #Africa.
#archaeology
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042%2825%2902531-3
Image shows an army of Blast and Blast Mini air filters from Smart Air UK in a school gym/hall, ready for installation. Text reads: 1664 clean air classrooms - is yours one?
Cleaner air 💨
Better focus 🧠
Improved attendance 📈
1️⃣6️⃣6️⃣4️⃣ Blast and Blast Mini air filters are already in London classrooms.
Is yours one?
⏳ It’s not too late to start the new term with cleaner air
@jennysanders.bsky.social After our lovely chat, if there's anything you can do by re-posting my plea for help, this #LongCovid #Archaeologist still needs every penny to try survive the ongoing Covid19 Pandemic & chronic illness. Many have been wonderfully generous. www.gofundme.com/f/long-covid...
BREAKING - @meassociation.org.uk awards £1.1million - its largest-ever research grant - to Prof @daltmann.bsky.social, Imperial College London, for landmark 3-year study to find shared pathways between #me/cfs and #LongCovid | 10 December 2025:
www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
Photosgraphs showing refitting lithic pieces of flint objects. CAPTION: Extended Data Fig. 2: Heat shattered handaxes from Barnham.a. Central part of heat-shattered handaxe with 25 refitting pieces excavated from within a small zone (35 cm across) in Area I East. b. Top part of heat-shattered handaxe from Area I East. c. Heat-altered handaxe from Area I East.
Images showing two pyrite pseudomorphs analysed with various methods. CAPTION: Figure 2.2. Pyrite pseudomorph specimen 3818. (a–e) Photographs and (f–g) focus variation microscope images of fracture surfaces; (h–k) textural features of the oxidised pyrite fragment observed under the scanning electron microscope.
Photos of heat-altered handaxe and two pieces of altered pyrite. CAPTION: a, Heat-altered handaxe from palaeosol in Area I East with close-up of fractured surface caused by fire. b, Fragment of pyrite found on the surface of palaeosol in Area IV(6). c, Fragment of pyrite from palaeosol in Area VI, found in association with concentrations of heated flint.
Photos showing excavation in Area 1 East, from different angles including a close-up of section. Reddened sediment layer is visible. CAPTION: a, Before excavation in 2022 from north–west, showing truncation by commercial excavation of RCS within palaeosol complex. Sections A–A′, B–B′ and position of sampling column are indicated. b, Adjacent area from north under excavation in 2024. c, Partly excavated RCS within palaeosol complex in 2023 from north-west showing sampling locations and column.
🧪🏺🦣 Strong case for *oldest fire-starting* 🔥 capacity, before 400 Ka, suggested by multi-stranded analysis: geochem, magnetic, sedimentary evidence of anthropogenic burning, + heated lithics + remains of iron pyrite.
Behaviourally heading towards #Neanderthals.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gonna try this excimer lamp from @nukit.bsky.social (thanks for donating one to my cause!) to kill off agrobacterium after co-culture as a means of antibiotic-free plant bioengineering. Agrobacterium resurgence is a huge pain and often we use frontline antibiotics to clear it away.
A school study shows shared classroom time and poor air quality drive virus transmission more than close contact.
Prolonged exposure in poorly ventilated spaces is the main risk factor, suggesting ventilation improvements are key.
#SARSCoV2 #COVID #flu
#LongCOVID
nature.com/articles/s41...
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
Excellent resource for UK folk: A COVID prevalence map:
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
More good news about Covid this week, as infection levels in England fall slightly. For the first time since 2021, we have lowered the risk level to Moderate, as around 1 in every 499 people in England were infected as of 30 November.
buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...
Pech-de-l’Azé I & Abri Peyrony (~51–48 ka): rib-bone lissoirs used to smooth hides—Europe’s earliest specialized bone tools, made by Neanderthals. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #Neanderthals #Lissoir
Paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We could easily house, feed & care for everyone
We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet
We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry
Police Liaison Officers aka "blue bibs" - police intelligence gatherers
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, the blue bibs - intelligence gatherers - are hovering around the Defend Our Juries protest.
Don't talk to them
