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Space archaeologist | Vice-chair, Global Expert Group for Sustainable Lunar Activity | Explorers Club 50, 2024 | Author, Dr Space Junk vs the Universe. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539654/dr-space-junk-vs-the-universe/
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Ask Me Anything (AMA) about pseudoarchaeology, Atlantis, and archaeology public engagement LIVE for next 7 hours on Reddit r/AskArchaeology www.reddit.com/r/AskArchaeo...

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#WednesdayWisdom is knowing that we have tons of brilliant archaeology, including free and #OpenAccess articles, in our bespoke online collections! Check them out 👇 buff.ly/H5QdN7p

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'Pyrrhon ended by believing in nothing, which can scarcely exonerate him for the fact that he knew nothing.' - 1859, source on request

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'According to Paracelsus, the blood lost at certain regular periods by the female sex and the nocturnal emissions to which male celibates are subject in dream people the air with phantoms.' What. - 1859, source on request

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Kimono design

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Mural, Halle Neustadt, East Germany

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'With the recent decision by the United States to freeze funding for the US Agency for Global Media, crippling media bodies including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, the ABC’s international media activities across the Indo-Pacific are needed more than ever' #auspol

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The Royal Society of NSW has published two new research guides: a bibliography linking scans of thousands of articles from the RSNSW archives published between 1821 and 2021, as well as portraits and biographies of their past presidents. Check it out: www.royalsoc.org.au/society-publ...

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'How can archaeology help shape decolonial futures?' Explore this question in our latest Guest Editorial, where five scholars critically examine what decolonising archaeology entails and its challenges 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @lemosrennan.bsky.social @abigailjmoffett.bsky.social

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I'm inventing a new concept: nepo-astronauts. 🧪🔭

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Avoiding the discourse on what constitutes an 'astronaut' based on different definitions, but I will absolutely add that slapping a 'feminism' sticker on the Blue Origin mission was not great. If Bezos and Blue Origin supported feminism, they'd pour billions of $ in breaking patriarchal systems.

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Everyone's talking about Katy Perry when we should be talking about Amanda Nguyễn who finally achieved her dream after putting her space career on hold to fight for sexual assault survivors. The first Vietnamese woman in space, she carried an experiment to study women's health in space. #WomenInSTEM

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How Australian poet Michael Dransfield described the landscape of Woomera, one of the earliest rocket launch sites in the world.

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Many thanks to everyone who responded - I have plenty to go on now!

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'The pyramids themselves stood like boundaries of the human intelligence, in the presence of which the colossal sphinx meditated age after age, sinking by insensible degrees into the desert sand.' - 1859, author supplied on request 🏺

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The Pansy Craze #LGBT

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Dutch, astronomer and physicist, Christiaan Huygens, was born 14 April 1629 #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/04/14/t...

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'Give therefore to mothers a monopoly in tales of faerie, in songs and household solicitudes.' I'll take the fairy tales and songs. - 1859 (unnamed author)

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'Nature has otherwise provided to this end by giving her a soft voice, not to be heard in large assemblies, unless raised to a ridiculously discordant pitch.' Women's voices have long been contentious! - 1859 (unnamed author)

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