Professor Kate Giles.
08.03.2026 12:36
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Professor Kate Giles.
Phylogenetic and dating analysis of ancient and modern sheeppox virus. A. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of ancient and modern SPPV genomes with ≥5× coverage, rooted using LSDV and GTPV. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are indicated by blue circles; other bootstrap values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Clades composed exclusively of modern genomes are collapsed and shown as triangles, and branches corresponding to ancient genomes are highlighted in pink. The grey box delineates the SPPV clade. B. Maximum-likelihood phylogeny of SPPV genomes with placement of low-coverage ancient samples using PathPhynder (Martiniano et al., 2022). For clarity, only the SPPV portion of the phylogeny is shown. Samples are coloured by material type, and low-coverage genomes (<5×) placed using PathPhynder are indicated by red triangles. Nodes with bootstrap support of 100 are marked with blue circles; other values are shown at the corresponding nodes. Tip labels indicate sampling location and calibrated historical date. Host species, sequencing coverage, and sample age are shown as a heatmap adjacent to the tips. C. Time-calibrated Bayesian phylogeny of the SPPV clade, with samples coloured according to material type.
Biopathocodicology?? 🦠🧬🐑 (1/4)
Check out this groundbreaking new #aDNA #pathology paper by @louis-lhote.bsky.social @gingerhowley.bsky.social and colleagues!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
"Global warming alters the hydrological cycle, increasing heavy rainfall events worldwide". Valencia flash floods of Oct 2024, which killed 230, were 21% more intense, area of heavy rainfall ⬆️ 55% and volume of rain within catchment ⬆️ 19% bcs man-made climate change.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Photograph of a orange-red winter sunrise over Heslington and the University of York campus.
The 57 days of January are finally behind us, which means it's time for the first Borthwick Newsletter of 2026! This month we're bringing you not one, but TWO new entertainment archives, along with new podcasts and an exciting Steptoe & Son discovery...
www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
@casta5484.bsky.social Just like St Crux and other former churchyard in York.
OED has Widgeon as the principal entry, with wigeon secondary. Gilbert White used the d, but Grey of Falloden, Peter Scott and James Fisher, did not. OED has examples of each, more or less contemporary with each other from first citation in 1513, which was neither: wegyons. Pick your own version.
This is spelling, not naming.
Reedling. Bearded or moustached are anthropomorphic, something we should avoid in non-human names.
BBC News - Christmas Steptoe and Son script unearthed at York University - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I expect you know about this: archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archi...
No. You're just no longer working for money. Like me.
Stained glass sunshine on a window jamb at Stillingfleet this afternoon.
4 black and white photographs showing people seated in chairs with a partial and ghostly image of another person either beside or behind them. Below the photographs is recorded their name, whether their 'psychic extra' is recognised, and the photographer who took the picture.
Among the records of the York Spiritualist Centre we have a fascinating album of 'spirit photographs' taken at York by William Hope in 1930 & 1932. These ghostly images purported to capture local people with their 'psychic extras', some of whom were known to the sitters #WorldPhotographyDay
...for divining using Plato's sphere in the 1560s.
I know of 2 cases of a man, both clerics, accused of conjuring. Against John Minet for prophesying and sermonising around bone fires, late C15. And by the High Commission against a cleric (wrongly identified as a member of the gentry by a non- early modernist because if his 'sir' honorific ...
The church courts at York have many cases of witchcraft, nearly all of the defamation cases taken against a defamer by a woman defamed of being a witch, as Jim Sharpe discovered in his published study of defamation in the York courts.
I went past the castle last week. In a nice piece of synchronicity, it's crumbling and abandoned.
four black and white photographs of Yvonne Mitchell.
We have a brand new catalogue online to start a brand new week! The archive of multi-talented actress and writer Yvonne Mitchell is now available to search on Borthcat: borthcat.york.ac.uk/ymit
Yes, thank you! Stimulated by The Antiquary, we enjoyed a long-overdue return visit to Lastingham last week.
Glad to see you on Blue-sky.
Signed, it's important.
Extract from parish register with the words 'Elisabeth dau. of Boylling Knight & Ann his Wife'
When you work with parish records you get used to seeing a lot of interesting historical names, but we particularly enjoyed spotting 'Boylling Knight' in the register of St Michael le Belfrey. It seems especially apt given the mini heatwave we're having here in Yorkshire! 🌞🌞🥵
This is a super exhibition - like most exhibitions at Harewood.
A fundraising campaign has been launched by @york.ac.uk @uoyalumni.bsky.social @uoyborthwick.bsky.social to secure the archive of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson - the comedy script writing duo inventing the British sitcom.
Find out more & help us secure the archives: yustart.hubbub.net/p/galtonands...
There's a very good catalogue. But Harewood House and estate is as much an exhibit (or context) as the objects in the catalogue. It really is a must see, with tea on the terrace looking out over the Constable/Repton (there's a red book, too) landscape.
I can't comment on the validity of the claims made by Patrick Galbraith in his new book or the counter claims made by the campaign group @righttoroam.bsky.social but this rebuttal letter from them is a masterclass in how to stay objective, focused & rational.
www.righttoroam.org.uk/patrick-galb...
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The osteologists are not baffled about this one! Congrats to Malin and team at York Osteoarchaeology and Tim Thompson et al for finding absolutely mind blowing evidence suggesting this man was killed by a lion in #Roman #York
#archaeology #osteology www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc....
Montagu's Harrier. Now the rarest of the 4 harriers in #finland. A male Monty's is a hard bird to beat! #birds 🪶 #birding #birdwatching #raptors
