Mickey Miller

Thanks for posting this, much appreciated!

#NewDIBLives As a geographer, Dr Anne Buttimer placed human lived experiences at the centre of geographical studies. Amongst many other honours and awards, in 2012 she won the Vautrin Lud prize, widely regarded as the discipline of geography’s equivalent of a Nobel prize. www.dib.ie/biography/bu...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My photo taken in 2023 shows a black and white mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus at Pompeii depicting a chained black dog crouching in front of an open door. The dog wears a red studded collar. It looks alert, with its mouth open to show a red tongue and teeth. The mosaic door to which the dog is chained is decorated with a spear and a shield, and the mosaic door which is ajar is decorated with a double axe head. A partial view of the atrium of the house can be seen from the entrance passage.

A very good boy guarding his family home for 2,000 years! 🐾

Roman mosaic in the entrance passage of the House of Paquius Proculus, Pompeii.

📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?

Spotted on cam today: one of Red Wolf Oak's pups decided their sibling’s tail looked like the perfect tug toy. 🐺👀 Sibling shenanigans at their finest — don’t miss moments like this on our live webcams! Link below.

nywolf.org/meet-our-wol...

5 Reasons NOAA and NASA Cuts Will Be Disastrous for Everyone in the US The Trump Administration plan to cut research on climate change and extreme weather events, including tornadoes and hurricanes, puts us in peril.

Insane self-crippling of the US research capacity which has saved the American taxpayer tens of billions of dollars annually.
blog.ucs.org/marc-alessi/...

From Sagan's last interview, May 1996.

If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.

Given that most, if not all MAGA merch is made in China, I'll be really curious to see what happens to their pricing and availability 😁

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books

This was posted as a full page paid advertisement in today’s New York Times

An oval hole 70cm wide and 50cm deep. Two red and white scale bars, one vertical, one horizontal

Digging a hole in the garden to take a Bay Tree, hoping I'm deep enough.
So far:
I. 1950s demolition layer
II. Holocene Colluvium incorporating derived Pleistocene gellifluction and fluvial gravel.
III. Pleistocene Calcareous Head comprising chalk pellets and angular flint.
No archaeology yet
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Hello from the Blackland Prairie.

One interesting group that you might not have heard of is Fanny, a female group from the 70's.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Wow…

Exactly

I'm sick of the misogyny, Linda McMahon is not just Vince McMahon's wife, she is a lying sack of shit in her own right! Give women credit 💅🏻

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

Looks like it's getting serious. 👍

Linear marks with human footprints from White Sands, interpreted as travois marks. Source: Bournemouth University

It is remarkably exciting to see these linear marks associated with human footprints from White Sands, with some as old as 22,000 years. The researchers interpret these as travois marks.

Bottom line: People have probably missed these at many other sites.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

i don’t trust people who aren’t overly caffeinated and don’t use “fuck” as a sentence enhancer.

A customer refused to buy the copy of the book they wanted from our shelves because they “don’t buy display copies.” Not sure they know how bookshops work. 🤷‍♂️

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Breaking: Second Royal Society fellow resigns over Musk’s membership

More than 750 scientists, including multiple fellows, criticise academy’s lack of action

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Outline of a mammoth facing left in red ochre on beig limestone rock surface, the trunk drags along for floor. in the middle of the thorax is a red heart-shaped solid are of red ochre

Say it with Megafauna on February 14th!
Cave art drawing of a mammoth, perhaps showing the position of the heart. From El Pindal Cave, Asturias, Spain.
Around 15,000 years old.
Photo: Berenguer (1994)
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Posted with alt text bc I fricking love this. No I couldn't find a pronunciation

That's some next level stitching and workmanship. I tried to build bows for almost a couple of years before I held a primitive style one in my hand. Nothing like seeing one in person for a sense of scale and robusticity.