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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes

@lemoustier.bsky.social

Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy πŸ“š KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art πŸ–‹οΈ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined πŸ›οΈ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool 1/4 TrowelBlazers Rep: PEW Literary

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Amazing work, all of it, Christina

11.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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& harvest all but over, warmth of the dry in colour of stubble, in the lightness of bales that will inform the winter of what has passed; skies brood but do not break, corvids rustle themselves in groups to glean aftermath

11.08.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I also remember those CGI plans they released of a supposed multi-level Hamas base beneath a hospital...

11.08.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your beans are looking lush, mine have gone over already 😭

10.08.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes! I like it in winter, when I can bring my slippers πŸ§‘πŸΌβ€πŸ¦³

10.08.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I love it! And v Sapphic to have such a resonant fragment

10.08.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hah if only!

10.08.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for clarifying!

10.08.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just to confirm, they wanted you to publish a piece under your name that they'd written, without paying you anything?

10.08.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

When I finally renovate my office I know what paper I'm using 😍

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@fossilhistory.bsky.social you need this

10.08.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

1. It has no visible indicators it was knapped. Flint fracture mechanics create distinctive, consistent 'landmarks', none are present in the photos.
2. Fitting in hand is irrelevant.
3. Worn surfaces look natural; fingers don't wear down flint.
4. Flint in broader region is glacially-transported.

10.08.2025 12:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Decades ago, historians of domestic technology showed how the devices that were supposedly going to save time created more work for housewives.

This is absolutely the trajectory of AI in education.

10.08.2025 07:08 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

giant handaxe innit

10.08.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A PR company working for Colossal Biosciences is sending AI generated pieces to respected science journalists & asking them to publish the articles under their own names. This is so dodgy & just goes to show our critical expert scientific commentary is working. Sci comm failure 101 for Colossal.

10.08.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 238    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
Is Colossal a threat to Science or Is it Science's Last Hope for the Next Generation?

Is Colossal a threat to Science or Is it Science's Last Hope for the Next Generation?

Just got a πŸ§ͺpitch from a PR claiming to work with Colossal (de-extinction chancers). It was a pre-written article claiming the science sector is carrying out "coordinated attacks" on the co. Spy the headline. They asked if I'd publish it on my Forbes column.

Not enough eye rolls on Earth for this πŸ™„

10.08.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 382    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 18

Is this a sub-post?

10.08.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is a long, very confused article

08.08.2025 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One week til I'm on my way up here again!

08.08.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry but I don't see this is humanly worked.

08.08.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Also how interesting to see the "invasion" theme conveniently being kept foremost in people's minds

08.08.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🏺 Unsurprisingly, a lot of archaeology and history mixed into this awful cocktail

08.08.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

where are these from? I'm not seeing any evidence of working on the first two objects

08.08.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would think that trans men en masse have a clear case now for discrimination against them, being effectively unable to use ANY public single sex space?

08.08.2025 08:56 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I want to see this reported with β€œWe asked an AI Professor for comment but she was laughing too hard.”

08.08.2025 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

🏺

08.08.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mullins' substack conclusion pulls back the curtain from this little legal do-si-do. The question at hand isn't about what biological sex is, or what constitutes in/direct discrimination on the basis of sex or gender.

The question, very simply, is: where do trans people belong in society? /7

08.08.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow can't you block him

08.08.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds familiar

08.08.2025 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just in case you were excited for GPT5. It's still a sophisticated bullshit machine.

08.08.2025 06:43 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Phucking Dumb more like

"PhD-level" perfectly encapsulates the nonsense of AI LLM spin - it's not a measure of glib regurgitation, it's a qualification you earn after years of *original research*

08.08.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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