It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Brutalist Canberra

🍽️ @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social are walking the walk with sustainable local food #LocalFood

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

“The apes were particularly fond of figs, which contained some of the highest levels of alcohol the team recorded” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships. doi.org/10.1177/0278...

A database of archaeology Codes of Ethics. 🏺

🤯 The EU plans huge cuts to rules protecting workers, rights & the environment. We join 470+ groups warning von der Leyen: protections are being sold for profit! Laws must serve people & planet, not corporate gains. Full statement 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o... #RulestoProtect #SOTEU

Ramphastos dicolorus Linnaeus, 1766 | Tucano-de-bico-verde | Red-breasted Toucan . Trilha dos Tucanos, Tapiraí -SP, Brasil 📸 #Canon R7 + rf 100–400mm #wildlife #birds #photography #naturephotography #nature #Brazil #biodiversity

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Not all processed foods are bad for you. Here’s what you can tell from reading the label theconversation.com/not-all-proc...

Back when you could jump on/off a number 12 bus as it went around the roundabout.

Not seeing like a state is the only thing worse than seeing like a state, as we are about to find out

The Home Office's own (excellent) research summary says a) asylum seekers come to the UK primarily because of social networks/ties b) welfare and labour market policies are *not* a big "pull factor" c) safe routes would help freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Exactly. The most iconic food place for Palace fans in SE London is a Jamaican jerk hut.

Happy to share this new piece in @foodtank.bsky.social co-authored with my grad student Anastasia Papadopoulos on the need for a new approach to food policies in the face of the current trade wars - highlighting possibilities of cooperative self-reliance @ipes-food.org foodtank.com/news/2025/08...

I'm supervising a masters student who's writing their dissertation on representations of sustainability of oat and dairy on TikTok. Teaser: there are some pretty crazy politics and ideology at play in these communities. Obviously caveats of social media bias towards sensational content apply.

Very useful paper discussing different ways herbaria collections can be used and reimagined with new scientific techniques and approaches. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This might not be open access but it's a wild ride. Given a chance, humans can be a very eclectic and open minded bunch of animals. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A 3,700 year old recipe from Babylon.

Our new paper is out: Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory #stableisotopes journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Swamphen, pelicans, and cormorant at UQ Lakes.

Solar consistently underestimated by IEA and expected to be single greatest source of energy by 2033 🤯

NEW – Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power ✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson Read here: buff.ly/47kIjiZ

#Primates 🦧

New publication led by my colleague Dr Yuba Subedi. We explored the diverse ways food systems frameworks are deployed and operationalised. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

¡Ay, caramba!

The IPC data on famine in Gaza is utterly horrifying. Don't look away. www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-webs...

Interesting, though there is another side to this. AI, algorithms, and other digital tools are masks or fetish objects, imbued with power, that with denial of human agency provide detached means for simulated and real violence (see use of AI by IDF in Gaza). www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Wait until the hundreds of people dunking on this (not uninteresting) article hear where our dominant psychiatric theories of human suffering derive from

The totally objective experts from the Green Finance Institute surprisingly find that finance is the solution. This piece doesn't provide any alternative viewpoints on the matter so I guess this must be the only solution 👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The entire economy is built around the idea that exploiting nature or converting it into some form of manufactured capital is good for the economy In reality it's good for private profit, and terrible for everything else Including the economy

Did you know? #FoodHistory youtube.com/shorts/ZqvgW...

I work with a few scientists who are testing these collars. There is a dystopian aspect to it but the trade off is a reduction in physical fence. Life finds a way though, a PhD student told me last week that the cows worked out that if they walked backwards they could break the geofencing 🥲

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the other public health crisis defining the 21st century: microplastics

And here's our piece on @theconversation.com for our recent Current Biology paper on #teamwork in ants!

Erika Pathó analyses the challenges related to the adoption of a Western-designed dietary measure to manage IBS symptoms in India, focusing on patients’ accounts of their experiences of dietary change. thepolyphony.org/2025/08/14/m...

Once again, birds rocking the trans lifestyle in defiance of court orders.

In western Nepal’s Bardiya district, farmers from marginalized communities are replacing traditional crops with turmeric — a plant elephants avoid — dramatically reducing human-elephant conflict.

Their mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother) was northern European, but the autosomal DNA (from both parents) showed clear signs of non-European ancestry with affinity to present-day Yoruba, Mende, Mandenka, and Esan groups from sub-Saharan West Africa 6/10

NEW West African ancestry in #medieval England? 🏺 #Archaeology DNA analysis of two unrelated individuals from two seventh-century-AD cemeteries uncovers the first evidence for genetic connections between Britain and Africa during the Early Middle Ages. #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵 📷 Lilian Ladle

In the shadow of the imposing Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania lies Engaruka, a group of ruined settlements with a terraced irrigation system dating from the 15th to the 18th century. The site's abandonment remains a subject of ongoing debate. #Tanzniaheritage #Climateheritage #Africaheritage

‘The coast exerts an increasing pull on the collective cultural imagination as Greco-Macedonian ships enter new waters under Alexander and his successors.’ Josephine Quinn on the coast in the ancient world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tiny but mighty! 🐜 From farming to engineering, ants display remarkable feats. Part of their success as a species is due to their ability to form complex, cooperative societies. 🧪🌏 Read more in @theconversation.com 

The assumption here is that this ag produces food and spares land, but in a food regime intent on growing capital, these factory-inspired farms expand monocultures while not providing more food for hungry human consumption

More dogmatic prescriptions for African ag from OWiD. Reheated Modernisation theory ✅ Neo-malthusianism ✅ Land sparing ✅ 0 critique of industrial ag ✅ 0 critique of land enclosure ✅ 0 reference to diverse structures of African farming, culture, or labour forces ✅