The Knowth Macehead • c.3300-2800 BC It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe. All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

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Excoriating from George Will, and excruciating.

The Everglades just south of Tamiami trail. #WorldHeritage

Climate change is already reshaping the Hudson River. 🌊 Riverkeeper’s new interactive map visualizes sea level rise, heavier rain, and rising temperatures from NYC to the Adirondacks, giving you the information you need to plan for what’s ahead. 👉Learn more at data.riverkeeper.org/climate

Applications are open for the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Fellowship (2026–27). The selected Fellow will advance climate and biodiversity action and represent ASLA at a UN Climate or Biodiversity COP. Apply by February 16: https://bit.ly/3NtW5wR

Our volume on Stone Age clothing is now online and completely open access: Jöris, O., Dietrich, O., Risch, R., & Meller, H. (Hrsg.). (2026). A Stone Age History of Clothing: Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 26. bis 28. September 2024 in Halle (Saale). doi.org/10.11588/pro...

Can seagulls be trained too?

Nice job (Prof in Animal Ecology) in a nice (unesco) city, in a great department: www.uni-regensburg.de/fileadmin/us...

Join CES as Dr. Savage examines the coloniality of gardening in 20th century Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), through representations in contemporary cultural production, as part of our 2026 Spring Colloquia. #europeanstudies #ubc

📣 It’s time to #MakePollutersPay! For too long, fossil fuel companies have put profits over people, making billions while communities suffer from climate disasters. 🌎 Join the Week of Action to demand accountability & climate justice. Find an event near you! actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

#archaeobirds 🏺

Shameful continuing erasure of climate facts and US history at National Parks.

Published an interesting new analysis by author @monicakidd.bsky.social to Mongabay: Vanuatu communities are reinvigorating taro as it’s more resilient to #climate shocks Recent big storms have cut the islands off from food shipments but ones w/ healthy taro crops could feed themselves & others:

#archaeobirds 🏺

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Researchers are now using proteomics analysis on historical books, discovering all sorts of proteins people left on them centuries ago. 🏺🧪

Remarkable photo illustrating (American) Woodcock visual field macaulaylibrary.org/asset/616675...

Some inspiration for a cold day during bleak times. Half million year old handaxes from Boxgrove, Sussex, laid out for a photoshoot with Dr Claire Harris at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social #MondayMotivation 🦣🏺

Factcheck: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive Read here: buff.ly/SjC9yQm

It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#StandingStoneSunday Mk II 🥰🥳 After 54 years, and a failed attempt last week, I finally made it to the famous Bryn Cader Faner cairn circle in Eryri/Snowdonia this morning 😮 It didn't disappoint 🤩. What an incredible Bronze Age locale! 📷 Today

For those of us who involved in running long-term studies, our work's value can be increased by synthetic studies like this one, which included Wytham Great Tit data, and suggests that plasticity in timing in response to temperatures buffers against population change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tracking has revolutionized the study of migratory birds - shorebirds included! 🐦 In this paper, we explore the global and historical patterns of tracking effort on these birds, and suggests some species that would benefit from future tracking efforts conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you love horses, think they are best of all the animals and are you friends then this book on horse domestication by the gee gee genome genie Ludovic Orlando will be essential. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

Have any of the supposed Second Amendment absolutists on Capitol Hill weighed in on the new “lawfully carrying a gun merits summary execution” standard?

Literally all of this is a lie. We are about to find out who is state media, because they will be the ones to parrot a justification for state-sanctioned murder.

Not one more cent for DHS and ICE. We have the power to end this.

NYT analysis confirms Pretti’s gun was gone by the time they shot him to death. 10 shots. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

US citizen. Public servant. Licensed to carry a firearm but had no weapon in hand when killed. Attacked by ICE agents with chemical munitions for no reason, then shot. The time for talking is over. If you are an elected leader you have to tell us *now* what you are doing to end this nightmare ASAP.

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Alex Pretti, who is identified as the man fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, was an intensive care nurse dedicated to treating veterans. Read more about him here: https://wapo.st/3M62eyV

ICE are indistinguishable from a terrorist organization

Another hero.

I’d like to think that President Trump is incandescent with anger about this botched execution. Is he?

World Health Organization says it regrets US decision to withdraw reut.rs/3NMEBfc

That's how you headline coverage of authoritarianism 👏

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Seth Moulton is nobody's idea of a left-wing Dem. (Four-tour USMC veteran of Iraq; multi-term Congressman from MA; now running against Ed Markey for Senate this year.) The righteous fury in this message is how decent Americans should feel.

Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there.

#ClimateChange is proving to be a challenge to the survival of the #JoshuaTree of #California, as well as the #ecosystem to which it is key. #environment #ecology @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Agree. No one outside the US, who has a choice, should be enabling a lawless and lying regime. Which has become a threat to its own people and the entire world. (Speaking as an American patriot.)

He did NOT reach for his gun (which he had a licence to carry) An ICE agent took it from his waistband, and moved away with it. An ICE agent then shot him as he was helpless. An ICE agent then continued to shoot him, executing him, as he lay on the ground This is men doing evil

This is a small immediate action you can take to support the businesses where the murder this morning happened. They were closed yesterday. Now they’re going to have to close today. Few of them can take multiple days without business.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here. I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.