Oh thank god someone said it. Like you say, it’s a minor point but most aggRAvating

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

Close-up image of a sand coloured stone, with a diagonal crack. The sand rock has a textured surface, and small spots of blue can be seen towards the centre of the stone. The background is grey.

Microscopic photo of the blue spots, that are irregular in shape and size and positioned diagonally across the image. The rest of the photo shows the rough sand coloured texture of the stone.

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵

Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Treasonous greedy piece of shit

Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.

Mahmood will say people seeking indefinite leave to remain will have to demonstrate they have integrated and contributed to society.

Deplorable. Forcing people who want to live and work in the UK to undertake compulsory unpaid labour.

This is a dark path Labour is taking down. But there IS an alternative.

Join me in building a welcoming country.

join.greenparty.org.uk

It's almost as if they could easily dispell common myths about migration if they wanted to, but choose to lean into people's xenophobia 🤔

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.

The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).

Apology? The fine’s gone up to twenty grand with the interest!

Is the ‘stod’ part in any way etymologically related to English ‘stud’, as in support strut (timber etc)?

Just to note that to geneticists this is not a surprise, and the latest data confirms all the other data that has been building since the time of Darwin. We're all amazing mongrels, and this planet belongs to us all, to share and nurture.

Two elongated wooden figurines with white stone eyes stand upright on a boat carved with a serpent-shaped head, displayed against a dark background.

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836.
Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3

📷 me

#archaeology 🏺

A hand holding the small, slightly broken bowl of a clay pipe. It’s made of smooth kaolin clay which has taken a few knocks and abrasions so it’s not quite smooth, and the colour is mottled grey rather than its former white

#findsfriday offering: a dinky 1600-1640 clay tobacco pipe with milling around the rim, and a flat foot

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
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#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation

This is reassuring to hear, as someone who, during the application process, convinced myself Oxford wasn’t for me. Basically, I bottled it.
The path I took worked out pretty satisfying and successful, but I occasionally wonder what might have been

Cautionary Tales - A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do
timharford.com/2025/09/caut...

I didn’t think the statistical probability was high of a CT episode where you shout ‘dickheads!’ - seems I was wrong

The linked paper is quite a cool archaeogeophysics thing, they drove a magnetometer all over Karakorum and put the data together into a map of the city.

The photo shows an Acheulean biface handaxe knapped from dark grey flint with a creamy-white cortical layer, shown against a black background. The handaxe is roughly tear-drop shaped with a pointed tip and rounded bottom. There is a fossil shell centrally displayed on one face, identified as the Cretaceous bivalve mollusc Spondylus spinosus. Above the shell to the right is a small rectangular museum label. The toolmaker has knapped the flint in such a way as to retain the shell in a central position. Measurements 79mm x 35mm x 132mm Weight 0.375kg. Collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

Something beautiful for the weekend!

An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!

The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.

West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University

#Archaeology

Ceramology (POTTERY) with Potted History’s Graham Taylor & Sarah Lord Taylor — alie ward Porcelain. Earthenware. China. Archaeology. Stoneware. Anthropology. Amphora. Throwing wheels. We got it all. Master potters, history aficionados and Potted History’s icons Sarah Lord Taylor and Graha...

🏺Sarah and I recently appeared on the award-winning podcast Ologies, hosted by the amazing Alie Ward, and the episode is now live! Alie invited us to dive deep into the world of clay, ceramics, archaeology and history, and what a conversation it was! www.alieward.com/ologies/cera...

You’ll be unsurprised to know I have a couple of marble stashes that I could present on demand, plus one rogue giant green one that’s nestled in with a pot plant

BIG STUCK SHIP KLAXON

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

4 ornate metal plaques decorated in the Celtic style, in a museum case

Is it #FindsFriday already? 😮

Spectacular La Tene bi-metal plaques unearthed by picnickers in 1963 from under a boulder on the slopes of Cader Idris mountain in north Wales. Pretty lucky!

Part of the spectacular Late Iron Age Talyllyn hoard 🤩. Now on display in National Museum St Fagans

📷 My own

Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them

As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava.

But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking.

My take @science.org

www.science.org/content/arti...

A British Guide to terrorism -
Terrorism:
- picking up a flag
- putting paint on a war plane
Not terrorism:
- executing 250 journalists
- murdering 20,000 children
- bombing 37 hospitals
- starving 2million people
- shoot people queuing for food"
via Irish Unity

A stylized gold fibula shaped like an eagle, decorated with red cloisonné enamel in geometric patterns; the bird features outstretched wings, a circular chest detail, and a curved beak facing right, set against a plain light background.

An early medieval fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) in the form of an eagle, made of gold and silver inlaid with garnets and lapis lazuli. It's part of the so-called Domagnano Hoard consisting of 21 pieces. They belonged to an Ostrogothic...🧵1/3

🏺 #archaeology

The fact that Starmer goes all out to defend Peter Mandleson but is happy to throw Angela Rayner to the wolves tells you everything you need to know about his administration.