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MSCA applicants pre-call: we have a wide range of #archaeology and #classics skills and interests in the Dept. Get in touch if you have a good idea or new skills you’d like to learn! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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It’s almost exactly 5 years since we were notified #BoxOfficeBears was funded by AHRC @ukri.org . The project formally finishes today. We’ve had bones, bears, dogs, wrestlers, creative writing & performance & a lot of #archaeology & archives. Watch out for our many outputs still to come!

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It’s International Polar Bear Day! 🐻‍❄️ Keep an eye on our social channels today for more fun facts about moms & cubs & an inside look at our ongoing maternal den research, straight from our team that's currently in the field in Svalbard, Norway. Learn more: pbears.org/intlpolarbea...

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It's #InternationalPolarBear Day. It was established by Polar Bears International to help bring attention to the plight these bears face due to climate change. On Hudson Bay, bears have to come off the ice and fast for several months. This fast is getting longer, reducing the number of cubs born.

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Today (February 27) is #InternationalPolarBearDay! Did you know that #PolarBears inhabit five range states in the circumpolar Arctic? They exist in 20 subpopulations across Canada, the USA, Norway, Greenland, and Russia. 🦊🐻‍❄️ #Mammals #MarineMammals

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NEW Bear baiting (a blood-sport where dogs were pitted against bears for entertainment) was popular in Shakespearean England. Archaeologists have determined a way to identify this popular, if unpleasant, sport. #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵 Learn more 🆓 https://buff.ly/431MWS2

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Hudson Bay polar bears are still well spread out & south this year. Interannual variation in distribution is high but the causes are unknown. We'll know how the bears are doing when @ualbertascience.bsky.social polar bear crew heads out onto the sea ice.

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Is it a sign of procrastination or that of a curatorial mind…

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I wrote about the politics of who gets to be a (British) citizen, and who gets to be human, in a recent newsletter about Paddington Bear. And I wrote about the 1,000+ year history of immigration into the British Isles in HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY 1/2 buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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VINTAGE POSTCARD Bear Gruss aus Bern www.cpaphil.com/en/c... #Bear #GrussAusBern #VintagePostcard #History #Heritage #VintageArt #Animals #Memory #Illustration #HistoricalPostcard #BernSwitzerland #ArtisticDesign #VintageAnimals #Illustration #BearTheme #SwissTradition

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#Roman coffin as heavy as polar bear found in UK road #archaeology #BBC www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

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Excited that my first Bluesky post is the first major #BoxOfficeBears publication, Open Access and Open Fabulousness in @antiquityj.bsky.social. Learn about the bears and dogs of C16th Bankside from our team of ancient-DNA analysts, archaeologists and historians. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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📰 What was life like for the bears and dogs forced to fight in Elizabethan England's bear baiting entertainment? #AntiquityResearch in the news via @unisouthampton.bsky.social @archaeobears.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4166bXT

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For the last #MosaicMonday of 2024, a wider view of the Orpheus mosaic from Lyrbe, now in Antalya Archaeology Museum. The bear posted last week is in the centre and Orpheus is on the left, although he is in the centre of the original, now much damaged, mosaic. 1/2

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Investigation by scientists reveals oldest known human bones in Japan from 20,000 years ago are actually bones of a Japanese brown bear www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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🐻⚒️ Medieval pollution left its mark on wildlife A 1000-year-old bear tooth from the Carpathians shows lead, zinc, and lithium contamination - the earliest evidence of heavy metal pollution in European wildlife. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm 🧪 #Pollution #Archaeology

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Hudson Bay polar bears are south this winter. February is a lean month & most bears just maintain condition until April-June when they put on most of their fat in preparation for the summer fasting period. We'll have insights in April when @ualbertascience.bsky.social researchers are on the ice.

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IBA’s new website is live! Our website is a great resource for all things bears. From news updates to interactive species pages and URSUS articles dating back to 1968 - you're bound to learn something when you visit our website. bearbiology.org #bearbiology #bearconservation #bearresearch #bear

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It's time to reveal this week's #KnockKnockWhosBear contender! This trail camera photograph from Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada is of a... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... #PolarBear!

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Exciting to see our Box Office Bears paper on @antiquityj.bsky.social today! 🎉 How might one know whether an historical site hosted bear-baiting? We look at possibilities based off our work on Bankside & across early modern England, uniting archaeology & archives. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Are you ready for this week's #KnockKnockWhosBear? How good are you at identifying bear EARS?? How well have I taught you? Take a look at the photo below. Let me know what bear species you think it is and why. I'll post a location clue in 1 hr, and reveal/explain in 3 hr. GO!

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The Rose's history is entwined with the animal baiting arenas it stood next to. Its owner Philip Henslowe and lead actor Edward Alleyn even bought the Mastership of this brutal sport in 1604. This fascinating thread from Archaeobears reveals new research about the lives of the animals themselves.

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🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Well that was fun. Anyone else up for some interdisciplinary bear shenanigans? If so, get in touch!

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🐈The cat's out of the bag: our 2-week, online palaeography courses are returning from 31 March - 11 April 2025. Applications open 10 February - click here to find out more: imemsdurhamlearn.com/ourcourses/ (Harley MS 4751)

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