Michael Harris

ChatGPT-5 prompt: Create an accurate anatomical diagram of a great white shark with clear labels of all major organs.

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Prompt: Create an accurate anatomical diagram of a great white shark with clear labels of all major organs.

How did it do @whysharksmatter.bsky.social?

🧪#NASAcuts

This season at #NASA isn’t marked by weather, but by loss—civil servants leaving, knowledge being lost.

As we approach the end of the fiscal year (with its expected drastic cuts), here’s what it feels like to be at work now—a personal take based on what I see around me:

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Stand up for people speaking out on Gaza What is happening in Gaza is a state-sponsored atrocity – and one of the states sponsoring it is the UK. Support people speaking up!

What is happening in Gaza is a state-sponsored atrocity – and one of the states sponsoring it is the UK.

Support people speaking out 👇
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The War Game: Still too real to broadcast? - Freedom News As we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film the BBC suppressed 20 years later is more relevant than ever ~ Bleart Thaqi ~ Sixty years have passed since Peter Watkins completed The War Game, a film s...

The film lays bare governments’ and militaries’ obscene confidence in their ability to manage annihilation. The BBC’s refusal to broadcast the film, combined with secret viewings for the Home Office and military, revealed their fear that the public might wake up.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/08/t...

Great to see our project written up in today's Guardian. Follow the link inside to our digital edition - more than one thousand pages of Thornton's writings transcribed and modernised. @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

Lisa Nandy, the UK culture secretary, claims that #PalestineAction "wishes harm on the British people."
That is simply false. It is yet another retrospective justification by this government for its unjustifiable ban on the group.

‘It Could Be Your Group Next Next’: Activists Call for Thousands to Join Campaign Against Palestine Action Ban  Over 500 people are expected to take part in a protest backing the banned direct action group outside Parliament this Saturday, all risking arrest

🔴 ‘It Could Be Your Group Next Next’: Activists Call for Thousands to Join Campaign Against Palestine Action Ban

Over 500 people are expected to take part in a protest backing the banned direct action group outside Parliament this Saturday, all risking arrest

Red writing on white background reads: Week of action for Palestine 1. Read and sign the open letter to EAA 2. Share the link, publicly on your socials, and directly to your colleagues 3. Engage with posts on social media (insta, FB, Bluesky, Twitter): like, comment, tag people, save, and share share share 4. Discuss the campaign with colleagues 5. If you are an EAA member, write directly

If we want our representative orgs to take action to protect Palestinians, to stop the genocide and end apartheid, so must we. With 1 week until the deadline for this open letter to the EAA, take action now!
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Climate breakdown 'an injustice multiplier' Simon Pirani reviews 'Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change', by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025)

Thanks @theecologist.org for publishing my review of Climate Injustice by @frediotto.bsky.social. It's a great contribution to desperately-needed dialogue between climate scientists and social movements. theecologist.org/2025/aug/06/...

Who Gets to Feel Good in Archaeology? Over the past decade, there has been a lot of attention drawn to the benefits of archaeological fieldwork on the mental health of participants (e.g., Finnegan 2016, Rathouse 2019, Everill et al. 20…

🏺 My latest blog post is about mental health in archaeology - with so many wonderful projects illustrating the positive impact of archaeological fieldwork, how come so many archaeologists continue to struggle with mental health and well-being in the sector?

animalarchaeology.com/2025/08/05/w...

What the world can learn from Korea’s 15th-century rain gauge As floods and droughts grow deadlier, ancient wisdom from Korea’s rain gauge and India’s harvesting traditions reminds us why the world needs a UN Rain Day.

As floods and droughts grow deadlier, ancient wisdom from Korea’s rain gauge and India’s harvesting traditions reminds us why the world needs a UN Rain Day.

FoEI condemns the assault on Palestine's national seed bank The Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committee (UAWC)´s Seed Bank in Hebron is the only national seed bank in Palestine.

🚨FoEI condemns the military assault on Palestine’s only national seed bank in Hebron — a direct attack on food sovereignty. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian farmers #FreePalestine #UAWC

Burial features and finds (lithic projectile points and stone beads) from 5300–3000 BP monumental burials at Kaillachuro in the Titicaca Basin.

Why did early Andean civilisations build monuments? #MonumentsMonday 🏺

Radiocarbon dating finds some monuments pre-date sedentism, agriculture and social inequality, indicating they were built purely to memorialise ancestors, not display elite power.

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

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Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China - Nature Analysis of ancient DNA, stable isotope data and archaeological evidence from the Fujia archaeological site in eastern China suggests it was populated by a matrilineal Neolithic community between 2750...

Ancient DNA reveals a two-clanned matrilineal community in Neolithic China www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At the 9th #MaputoWorkshop on corporate impunity and human rights, we gather to build a movement, led by those on the frontlines of corporate power, to build a system that centres life.

#LifeOverProfit

AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Crisis of Confidence on TikTok People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.

I’ve seen several videos of animals bouncing on garden trampolines, and of course they’re all AI. But these vids are harder to spot because security footage is famously grainy and has static background
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Over 50% of Scots worry about climate change every day | NatureScot NatureScot Opinion Survey shows that most Scots want to do more to help nature, with strong public concern when it comes to the immediate threat of the climate crisis.

🌿 NatureScot Opinion Survey: Over 50% of Scots worry about climate change daily - affecting our cultural heritage, flood risks & communities! 71% see biodiversity loss as immediate issue. 🔗www.nature.scot/over...

#Climate #Heritage #Scotland

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

Cammo, 28/7/25, pt.2.

Cammo, 28/7/25, pt.1.

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

Nearly 4k NASA employees - about 20% of the agency - are announced to be leaving under the Trump admin’s deferred resignation program.

This comes days after hundreds of #NASA workers signed the #VoyagerDeclaration.

Sign your support for #NASA workers here ➡️zurl.co/vHTrh

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Edinburgh University had ‘outsized’ role in creating racist scientific theories, inquiry finds Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories

“The inquiry found that Edinburgh University became a “haven” for professors who developed theories of white supremacism in the 18th and 19th centuries, and who played a pivotal role in the creation of discredited “racial pseudo-sciences” that placed Africans at the bottom of a racial hierarchy”

A young man in a black football tracksuit stands on a pitch with houses in the background. Overlaid text says: “Campaigners say citizenship ban risks turning refugees into ‘second-class’ residents,” in bold white and red lettering.

"If the government really follows through with blocking refugees from getting citizenship, the UK will be taking a huge step backwards"
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Israel continues to seize civilian ships in international water. Where's the condemnation from the UK govt?

Ron Cobb, 1968.

Authoritarianism with a LinkedIn profile - Freedom News The arrest of Audrey White starkly illustrates the bankruptcy of mainstream politics in Britain ~ punkacademic ~ Many people on Merseyside know Audrey White: a veteran left-wing activist of decades’ s...

The arrest of Audrey White starkly illustrates the bankruptcy of mainstream politics in Britain. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/25/a...