🏺🧪 Colour of signs in Palaeolithic painted caves alters art experiences: "Red signs are more quickly detected and sustain longer observation times than black signs. Moreover, when presented alongside figurative motifs, red signs continue to attract greater visual attention" doi.org/10.1080/1751...

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Favorite story on Moldovan TV today: a local guy from the village of Lopatna, where a drone crashed and exploded recently, told TVR Moldova that he found some drone pieces and is taking them home because some of the screws are nice and will be helpful for his tractor.

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I hate that the meme below captures such a huge fraction of human behavior, and that that behavior is overrepresented in people who have ascended to positions of petty authority.

Mer de Glace "would loose 80% of its surface area in 2100 under the intermediate emission scenario, while it would disappear before 2100 under the high emission scenario (RCP 8.5)" comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/geoscience/i... How it started ................…….................. How it's going

Introducing Edie, our new social media officer for #Durotriges26 www.instagram.com/reel/DZK4fvE... www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bq4... Catch videos of everyday life on this year's dig over on Instagram and Facebook @Durotrigesbigdig #Archaeology

Avery Mann, 14, insists that Sarah Mann, 47, walk six paces behind her in the street at all times. She tried dyeing her hair blue to distract from any family resemblance, but her mother had gotten there first.

Things are still in a downward spiral at Cardiff University. The requirement to work in Kazakhstan send particularly worrying. Well done to students and unions for resisting the closure of the humanities floor at the library. voice.cymru/diary-of-a-w...

Last week, I had a few days staying on Lundy - 23 years since I last visited as a Puffin-obsessed 8-year-old. Back then, there were just a handful of Puffins left (I managed to see one), and the island was in the midst of rat eradication. The recovery since becoming rat-free is just incredible!

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

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Could basic research income help fix a funding system in crisis? So-called “radical” solution gains attention as applications surge engulfs funders but lacks any serious experimentation.

This is god-tier university leadership spin www.dailycamera.com/2026/05/21/n...

The sexual division of labour regarding house construction shows a very consistent pattern cross-culturally: women usually construct the shelters in nomadic societies, while in sedentary societies men do it.

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I feel like feeding your students’ work into ChatGPT to generate evaluative comments is, among other things, a massive intellectual property violation.

📢📢 1/3 New Research Alert! Our latest paper in the Journal of Quaternary Science. Did Middle Paleolithic humans choose their prey, or were they just facing the same ecological pressures as other large predators? Open access in the Journal of Quaternary Science: doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

Go Meg, go @buarchanth.bsky.social!

🏺 Funded Archaeology Research Job in the UK! 🔬 Research Assistant/Associate at Newcastle University, UK, focusing on GIS, landscape archaeology, fieldwork & heritage research 🚀 Join the CLASS Project. 🔗 higherjobz.com/research-job... #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Nothing really special: just a bunch of piglets happily enjoying a water slide. Original post

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"rather than writing sentences from scratch" Sentences. From scratch.

I'm teaching an online workshop on ABM and model-based thinking through ICPSR next month. Details linked below in case you or someone you know is interested.

My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here. The one that I held on my lap While we looked at the light of the sun when we were alive, And that I still hold, now that we are both dead. - inscription on this c. 400 BCE Greek grave marker, carved with a grandmother holding a swaddled baby

“An analysis of 7.3 million journal articles from 2020 to 2025 reveals that by 2025, slightly over half show evidence of LLM influence, with usage varying markedly by world region, institutional prestige, publisher, and discipline”

Drop everything and vote for puff... I mean, the native animals you want on your UK banknotes* www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he... *Obviously puffins though, right

NEW Complex architecture at Mohenjo-Daro, a major city of the Indus Civilisation (c. 2600–1900 BC). As housing grew and the city expanded, inequality appears to have declined, indicating Mohenjo-Daro prospered as an example of egalitarian urbanism. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Really happy to get this chance to introduce my research in the University of Tübingen 🤩

Fiona Gibson, contemporary sculptor based in Llandeilo, West Wales. Her work is based on local mythology #WomensArt

JOB POST ALERT Role: Head of Stonehenge at English Heritage Location: Stonehenge Salary: Salary from £64,189 p.a. Find out more: https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/all-jobs/english-heritage-head-of-stonehenge/

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A moment of concentration immortalized in stone some 4,500 years ago! This scribe statue was skilfully sculpted from limestone. His lifelike eyes are made of rock crystal and calcite, outlined with copper. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5, from Saqqara. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

OMG it's WORLD CIDER DAY!!! How did I nearly miss this?! It would be rude not to then, and I'm sure it can only help tomorrow's dissertation marking

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👀 3 Cultural and Environmental Heritage PhD positions: Department of Cultural Heritage: ERC Synergy Grant “Last Neanderthals” 📅 Deadline: 15 June 2026 #phd #palaeoproteomics #dentalhistology #culturalheritage www.unibo.it/en/study/phd...

‘Universities are independent bodies and need to sort their own finances’ we hear ad infinitum. Yet another demonstration that they are not 👇

Another one for the “so obvious I didn’t think it needed a study” files 🧪

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

Good news, we noclipped through the wall in one of our strongrooms and found all this empty space ready for more archive storage! We'll be expanding our shelving capacity as soon as we've found a way back to the front desk.

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