@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
‘Yeah. Sorry I’m running late for work. It’s taken me ages to find number 10 on my advent calendar. Cheers.’
10.12.2025 07:47 — 👍 123 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0Yes, but why are they using their FINGERS?!
10.12.2025 08:15 — 👍 77 🔁 2 💬 13 📌 0Argh! Why are they using their FINGERS?!
10.12.2025 08:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I once overheard someone in a garden centre talking about one particular statue as a “buff Venus”. In a Bristolian accent, that is indistinguishable from a Botticelli-inspired figurine.
10.12.2025 08:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I once coloured in blue all the areas below 5m on an orange OS map of Somerset - in order to recreate the lost islands of the Bronze Age. All the villages & towns are still on these islands!
10.12.2025 08:10 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0As fake as the Turin shroud!
10.12.2025 08:07 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0"there's a new serif in town"
10.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 11754 🔁 2047 💬 879 📌 200I love — an em dash!
10.12.2025 07:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Today’s must listen: Kinship, Culture, and Death in Neolithic Ireland.
On the value of integrating aDNA science and archaeology to better understand the nature of prehistoric groups.
That’s the dog walk sorted - thank you! ☺️
10.12.2025 07:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Isn’t it wonderful to think that you could bring someone from 2000 years ago to visit their home today - and while so much has changed, to topography - and the very reason for its location - are still the same!
10.12.2025 07:40 — 👍 175 🔁 21 💬 8 📌 1the brexit referendum remains one of the craziest fucking things a country has ever done
10.12.2025 00:35 — 👍 304 🔁 55 💬 8 📌 2Higher education, if done right, will transform you into a LIFELONG learner. I am curious about so many things because my curiosity was cultivated in college. A BA/BS is only the beginning. You should be reading, visiting museums, going to concerts, debating and discussing things for LIFE.
10.12.2025 00:07 — 👍 273 🔁 39 💬 7 📌 3Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE!
09.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 186 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 1
Brilliant book - and has reminded me there's further, fascinating viewing in the form of Lockdown Embryology:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBw4...
Dorian.
09.12.2025 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From the archives - a drawing I did of Haeckel's comparison of vertebrate embryos - for my book on human evolution & development, the Incredible Unlikeliness of Being.
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Delighted to have the wonderful @profaliceroberts.bsky.social back at #NineLessons this year. She'll be on stage for the Dec 19th show at Kings Place. Tickets here - www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin... CC @robinince.bsky.social
07.12.2025 14:39 — 👍 100 🔁 13 💬 5 📌 1I look like I've lost a tooth!
08.12.2025 11:10 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0I'm delighted to be joining the line-up for Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People this year!
Come along for an evening of science, comedy and music - raising funds for the UNICEF Gaza Appeal.
cosmicshambles.com/ninelessons/
2020 was when I realised that, for some politicians, staying popular in some weird way trumped saving lives.
And that they were prepared to sacrifice an undetermined number of people on the altar of the “economy”. (As long as they & their friends were still alive to reap the benefits, of course).
We must never forget: it wasn’t just the kooky Great Barrington Declaration dudes who promoted RFK Jr & his anti-vaxx BS—it was also some magazines, like The New Yorker, which celebrated him as a “maverick” who would take on “the establishment”
RFK Jr’s hype men will have dead kids as their legacy
David Lammy, "Leaving the EU has badly damaged our economy"
"Untruths were peddled by Brexiters"
"We should work to be closer to EU"
Labour should have said this 16 months ago when they came into office. Better late than never
Always a joy to be part of such an exuberant festival!
05.12.2025 23:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The stuff that's on for the NI Science Festival is brilliant, including @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Currently working out how not to bankrupt myself buying tickets for things
nisciencefestival.com/events/?ct=t...)
Price list for arrow heads, axes and torc terminal
Price list for axe, shields and brooch decorations.
Hello folks. I've been making plaster of paris artefacts/decorations for friends.
I'm opening it up here now - all items incl. postage (UK only, sadly) & gift packaging. I can send things within a week, usually faster.
Anyway, if there's anything you fancy, message/email me! 😊
#Archaeology 🏺
No, actually my painting trousers.
04.12.2025 23:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I thought I’d put something nice on… my old painting trousers!!!
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