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Humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, far earlier than believed – new research

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Hey people working on marine CO₂ removal (mCDR), post your preprints to CDRXIV (pronounced C-D Archive). 🌊

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Adding alkalinity to the ocean might enable it to take up more atmospheric CO₂, but much more research in laboratories, mesocosms, and field studies is needed before considering full-scale deployment. I have some thoughts in this piece. 🌊

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Heartwarming details. wapo.st/3YC6Akj

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Caitlyn Eberle, lead author of a new 'Deep Change' report: "Re-imagining values means understanding that consumerism is causing certain risks, like inequalities, like waste, like the destruction of nature, and it’s not serving us well anymore."

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“Productivity in construction is not just a US problem, according to the McKinsey Global Institute, which has tracked the issue for nearly a decade. Not all countries are faring as badly as the US, but worldwide construction productivity has been flat over the last few decades,”

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A geographic history of human genetic ancestry 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Findings demonstrate the importance of defining the spatiotemporal context of genetic ancestry when describing human genetic variation.

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Mapping a complex evolutionary history 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Tracking the geographic origins of genetic ancestors reveals past human migrations This approach can help to identify the complex relationships between ancestral populations that shaped the genetic diversity of humans today

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Origins of Humankind 🏺🧪 On Humans and @cartaucsd.bsky.social Where do we come from? How did we get here? What kind of creatures are we? with Johannes Krause (Max Planck IEA), Tim Coulson @timcoulson.bsky.social (Oxford), and Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social (NHM @nhm-london.bsky.social)

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Capitalism can't solve the problems capitalism creates, thus the violence, the destruction, the capture of collective governance.

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We need more fiction about revolution. ❤️‍🔥 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Resistance

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New wastewater treatment plant uses sewage to produce climate-friendly shipping fuel Via @cleanenergywire.bsky.social theprogressplaybook.com/2025/03/25/n...

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🌊🧪 In the absence of additional phosphate and nitrate, plants have no use for this remaining dissolved carbon. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea

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With perfect timing for our Island Legacies conference in Malta in June. www.um.edu.mt/events/islan...

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Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique theconversation.com/humans-arent...

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🏺🧪🦣 #Neanderthals eating some insects makes sense (here in #Kindred I write about reindeer parasites), but we should also consider that some studies show early H. sapiens in same environments have equivalent high nitrogen levels

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A humanized NOVA1 splicing factor alters mouse vocal communications 🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Suggests that this human-specific NOVA1 substitution may have been part of an ancient evolutionary selective sweep in a common ancestral population of Homo sapiens.

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This P. robustus is smaller than “Lucy” and the “hobbits”. 🧪🏺

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Everyone who is vaguely familiar with African cultures and the rhythm of life along the Nile could have predicted this.

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A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

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There is not just one socialism.

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A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer youtu.be/eC4T-dD9C6o?...

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Exploring menstruation in the past

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My art My thoughts on Mound origins, in seeming Shell Mounds, and likely religious beliefs in Primordial Waters, Earth Diver Myths, and Mound of Creation, centering on Siberia: Golden Mountains of Altai and Lake Baikal areas www.academia.edu/123321101/My...

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No, I have not seen their art. My art and a pic of me, with art of a mound in Florida.

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My art Green Sahara: attracted “Back to Africa” migrations and culminated in the dispersals of “New” African cultures, including Ancient Egypt www.academia.edu/122692197/Gr...

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My art Khoi-San peoples of southern Africa: The Khoekhoen people have an “Indigenous nomadic pastoralist culture,” and the San people have an “Indigenous hunter-gatherer culture,” which is one of the oldest surviving cultures of the region www.academia.edu/123085617/Kh...

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Join our wonderful community and help us advocate for mothers & caregivers in STEMM. Check our website to learn the many benefits of becoming a member 👇 shorturl.at/lDX19 #WomeninSTEM

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Defining an Anarchist-Sociology: A Long Anticipated Marriage Williams and Shantz #anarchism transformativestudies.org/wp-content/u...

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🌊🏡 NOAA-supported research teams, including experts from #URIGSO, are advancing predictions of coastal flooding and shoreline changes caused by storms. These dynamic flood maps go beyond static models, integrating real-time user feedback to provide actionable insights for local decision-makers.

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How Marine Carbon Removal Is Governed in the High Seas 🌊

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A confusing mystery... Evidence of primates using stone tools raises some interesting questions The 50,000 year old mystery of stone tools: Were they made by monkeys? 🏺🧪 www.sciencefocus.com/news/are-we-...

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#ArchaeologyNews from one of my favourite countries! A new project in #Tunisia is looking for the start of the Middle Stone Age (supposedly the origins of Homo sapiens) in little-known North Africa. And they've already got chunky new lithics! #FlintFriday #HumanEvolutionNews 🏺 tinyurl.com/ycx4upan

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Hard to go past the newly revealed fresco from Pompeii this #FrescoFriday. The lifesize scene shows a procession of Dionysius and this photo glorious frames a dancing maenad between two columns. The stunning scene is a feast of red hues! #AncientBluesky🏺

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Certainty is the drug and the emotion we search for. Religion is the needle.

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My art 24,000 Years Old Proto-North Eurasian Language (Ancient North Eurasian) migrations? Became: Proto-Afroasiatic, Proto-Sino-Tibetan, Proto-Transeurasian, Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Yeniseian, Proto-Na-Dene, Proto-Caucasian, Sumerian damienmarieathope.com/2024/09/2400...

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Curious about speculative fiction? Perhaps you’re already a fan but would like a refresh on where to begin writing your own spec fic. Writing NSW in Oz has launched my new cost-effective, self-paced, on-demand course. You can do it in 3 hours! writingnsw.teachable.com/p/writing-sp...

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🌊 Great work from @pmonreal.bsky.social & @rmbundy.bsky.social on metal rich #whale poop high in copper and iron and what that means for ocean biogeochemistry. Whales are microbe mediated metal factories 💩

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Well, it was nice meeting you. "Countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sudan, Nigeria, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador would be at risk." -> This is Where Asteroid 2024YR4 Could Strike www.wired.com/story/astero...

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Narratives which blame the M23 conflict in DR Congo solely on mineral exploitation are grounded in a colonial worldview that sees Western producers and consumers as the ultimate arbiters of Congolese suffering: ⬇️

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"Until the lion tells the story, the hunter will always be the hero." — African proverb

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