So depressing..
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So depressing..
Are there any funded PhD positions?
Time to boot these parasites off life support.
Thanks for the info. Excited to give it a bash today.
Can you switch off the AI tools in it?
South Africa’s mineral and petroleum resources minister - a science denier - continues to champion coal. This despite the fact that we are set to pass 2°C in the 2030’s, which will have catastrophic consequences for SA.
These people are a threat to all life on earth
Nikolai Kochergin (1897-1974)
Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
(1) Long 🧵 Time.
Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...
The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
Dark background, white drawings of antrhopods. Following (list): Limulus moluccanus (Clusius) = Tachypleus gigas (Müller, 1785), adult from above Limulus moluccanus (Clusius) = Tachypleus gigas (Müller, 1785), adult from below Limulus moluccanus (Clusius) = Tachypleus gigas (Müller, 1785), larva Eurypterus Fischeri (Eichwald) = Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer, 1839) / Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer, 1839), from above Pterygotus anglicus (Agassiz) = Pterygotus anglicus Agassiz, 1844, from above Trinucleus Goldfussi (Barrande) = Onnia goldfussi (Barrande, 1846), from above Deiphon Forbesi (Barrande) = Deiphon forbesi Barrande, 1850, from above Phacops latifrons (Bronn) = Phacops latifrons (Bronn, 1825), curled-up individual (8a: from forward, 8b: from the side) Dalmania punctata (Barrande) = Asteropyge punctata (Steininger, 1831), from above Ampyx Rouaulti (Barrande) = Raphiophorus rouaulti (Barrande, 1852), from above Paradoxides bohemicus (Boeck) = Paradoxides bohemicus (Boeck, 1828), from above Cheirurus insignis (Beyrich) = Cheirurus insignis Beyrich, 1845, from above Acidaspis Dufresnoyi (Barrande) = Selenopeltis buchi (Barrande 1846), from above Megalaspis extenuatus (Angelin) = Megistaspidella extenuata (Wahlenberg, 1821), from above Harpes ungula (Sternberg) = Bohemoharpes ungula (Sternberg, 1833) (15a: from above, 15b: from the side) Agnostus pisiformis (Linné) = Agnostus pisiformis (Linnaeus, 1757), from above Lichas palmata (Barrande) = Trochurus speciosus Beyrich, 1845, from above Hydrocephalus saturnoides (Barrande) = Eccaparadoxides pusillus (Barrande, 1846) / Phanoptes pusillus (Barrande, 1846), from above Sphaerexochus mirus (Beyrich) = Sphaerexochus mirus Beyrich, 1845, fron the side Triarthrus Becki (Beecher) = Triarthrus becki Green 1832 (20a: from above, 20b: from below) From: Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 47: Aspidonia
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), responsible for coining terms such as phylum, phylogeny, ontogeny. An advocate of scientific racism. Sporting proto-Nazi Social Darwinist views. Honorary invited member of the German Society for Racial Hygiene.
A new study on the Gaza genocide should shock you:
www.owenjones.news/p/dont-forge...
Anniversary of a trauma that echoes down the years.
What happens when you put government guns on the street, from Iran, to USA, to any number of massacres & atrocities against civilians down the years.
As the world moves on, the families of Bloody Sunday innocent victims have to endure, resist
Israel's apologists spent over 2 years sowing distrust in the official Gaza death toll.
Now the Israeli army quietly accepts that it is actually an underestimate.
Eternal shame for the atrocity deniers. They must never be absolved of their guilt.
Make sure to check out Young in Iran!
The project was successfully backed and stretch goals are active!
This is your chance to help the world get a window into a country where the dictatorship would rather you never see.
#YoungInIran #Iran #Comics #Comic #Kickstater
🦣🏺 Wow I did not realise Levallois appears so late in this region.
Interesting to consider in terms of potential interaction or not between East Eurasian hominins & #Neanderthals, out at their eastern-most range (which is often assumed to be Denisova based on skeletal remains, but need not be...)
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Excited to share that my first study on carnivoran brains is out! 🧠 We provide a unified framework for identifying neocortical sulci across 26 diverse carnivoran species, and discuss how regional variations in sulcal patterns may relate to their behaviour & ecology. elifesciences.org/articles/100...
So gross.
Iran’s Uprisings: Social Roots, Not Security Fantasies firenexttime.net/irans-uprisi...
Rojava, the largest actually-democratic project in the world, has entered what might (or might not) be a last desperate stand.
BLOOD ON THE STREETS AND FEARS FOR THE FUTURE – LAST WEEK IN KURDISTAN - in which I focus on the worrying developments in Syria
newsfromkurdistan.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/b...
cow scratches back with broom
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Wow!
A newly published H. habilis skeleton is just the fourth post-cranial skeleton ever found from the species. 🏺🧪
#Iran
· #AcademicSky ·
A scientist shares his story; an inspiring story: “I grew up in a large working class family…In high school, my teachers said I wouldn’t make it, not even in vocational training, and my school counselors gave up on me. So I left school at 19, disillusioned and without a diploma.”
Archaeologists discover that Neanderthals ate the women and children first. 🧪🏺
Staring contest.
