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London's longest running evening class. We study what it means to be human at UCL Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by Camilla Power. Radical anthropologists include Chris Knight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan
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RAG International Women’s Week special lecture 🌒Tues March 4, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌓 Christine Binnie 'Neonaturist body painting: A red RAG to patriarchy' #art #anthropology #protest #bodypaint #neonaturist #womeninrevolt #evolution #revolution #femalecosmeticcoalitions

Well really BlueSky. Grow up. I mean you just can't deal with body paint?! This is the Origins of Art, actually, scientifically speaking. Come to Mastodon where you can appreciate great art and activism!

Nature Editorial Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere. US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sometimes I like reading Communist personnel files and pretend that they are dating ads

Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal. This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.

Interesting that even evangelical Trump cultists have objected. On the grounds that he’s advocating & sanitising ethnic cleansing? Oh no. Just that he’s guilty of idolatry. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mass deaths and displacement across the world to keep shareholders happy: BP will scrap its plan to cut its fossil fuel production and will instead grow production to 2.3m–2.5m barrels of oil a day by the end of the decade for "shareholder value". www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The evolving pigment palette of European skin, eyes and hair as seen through ancient DNA

Trouble is humans really DO want magic!

BlueSky made us sign up here instead of having open borders to Fediverse. We run both feeds in tandem. The one with our Icons is carrying posts from the Fediverse where we feel at home. Follows us on both feeds!

These #iphones growing quite #intelligent. Clever girls! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/26/apple-to-fix-iphone-dictation-bug-trump

Multidimensional plasticity of phenology: assessing the effects of population density on plastic responses of breeding time to temperature | doi.org/10.1111/oik.... | @oikosjournal.bsky.social | #ornithology 🪶

Environmental Variability Shapes Life History of the World's Birds | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

Jasmine Crockett speaks for me (and multitudes, and oy, WATCH THE VIDEO!)

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It’s #WorldGaelicWeek – Seachdain na Gàidhlig! 🌿✨ In Gaelic, ‘Dùthchas’ speaks to the deep bond between people, land, and nature - rooted in respect, responsibility, and community. 📖 Learn more 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/lets-re-embr...

Who wants to commission me to review these two

Please read, sign and share with your network this urgent letter, calling on the World Archaeological Congress to boycott Israel forms.gle/ZDfbYfDkrHQs... #archaeology #🏺

#Primates

Science advances our economic, physical, and social and cultural wellbeing, and is key to a sustainable future. However, we live in times of great change, and the values that have driven science for the benefit of humanity are under threat. Read our statement here: royalsociety.org/news/2025/02...

 This is an attack on Medicaid, & ANYONE who votes on this budget this week is voting to cut Medicaid in America, and voting to gut healthcare for Medicare recipients in America. As a recipient of Medicare and Medicaid, I PLEAD with you to call your member of Congress at 202-224-3121 & say NO CUTS!

At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

I wrote about the travois evidence from White Sands, which is still just amazing to me. Also, I took the chance to catch up on the simmering debate about the 22,000-year-old age of this trackway evidence. johnhawks.net/weblog/ancie...

14 children died in the Channel in 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/record-number-of-children-died-crossing-channel-last-year-says-un

TONIGHT 'On Anarchist Anthropology' with #EricaLagalisse Tues Feb 25, 18:30 (London) Details 👇

The #MilkyWay best seen at dark 🌑 which is Friday when we have a 🩸 🛖 We do this every dark moon and have Ngoku initiates teaching us polyphony this time. Get in touch if you would like to participate in the Menstrual Hut!

Artificial Stupidity 🤣

This is what Nazis did, then they started killing people... yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/t...

Very good Perspective piece by @bdanubius.bsky.social and colleagues in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social For nature-nurture fans: looking at neural circuit formation, and the role of development, learning + the complexities of the genotype-phenotype mappings www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Predators like wolves can subsist on diets with extremely high animal protein for a long time, but people cannot handle this without intake of substantial amounts of fat or carbohydrates. Neandertals had to be more selective in their prey choices than other hunters.” johnhawks.net/weblog/abric...

It is remarkably exciting to see these linear marks associated with human footprints from White Sands, with some as old as 22,000 years. The researchers interpret these as travois marks. Bottom line: People have probably missed these at many other sites. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hunting by Neandertals was not only subsistence. It was also a highly social activity that helps shed light on their ability to coordinate across groups, and to predict the social behaviors of prey species. johnhawks.net/weblog/what-...

“A menopause and hormone treatment conference in Sydney in March has ignited a passionate debate among medical doctors and researchers about women’s empowerment, social media advice, big business and even how doctors communicate with their patients” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Asian #elephants seriously digging the #didgeridoo #vibes #ultrasound #music #resonance https://youtu.be/FNpEwnofQcs?si=B9XlQhF9U5YkUOoR