Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

If anyone is in the vicinity of Newark (the UK one!!) on Saturday 14th January 2023, and fancies coming to hear myself and Roland talk about the Newark torc, then you can!!!

Booking details:

http://www.nationalcivilwarcentre.com/seedo/events/the-torc-talk.php

#Archaeology #Gold #Torc #Research #lecture #meeting #event

Paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277317

The German football team protesting against being silenced by FIFA ✊ #WorldCup2022

"In addition to the significant health burden of #LongCovid, the stigma and discrimination associated with the condition can lead to relationship breakdowns and problems at work" - Claire Hastie, Long Covid Support

"We were surprised to find that people with a clinical diagnosis of #LongCovid were more likely to report stigma than people without a formal diagnosis" - Prof. @nisreen Alwan, University of Southampton

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/covid-university-of-southampton-fear-hiv-b2231697.html

Months ago @VirusesImmunity@twitter.com and I laid out the strong case for nasal vaccines to achieve containment of the virus, breaking the chain of transmission at the individual and population level
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.add9947 @SciImmunology@twitter.com

Vaccine effectiveness vs reinfection, a Denmark nationwide study
The reduction of reinfection after primary vaccination was significant for the Alpha, Delta, and Omicron variant periods, ranging from 60-94%, lasting up to 9 months
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004037 @PLOSMedicine@twitter.com

Minor hobby of mine is to photograph Little Free Libraries as I find them.

As I don't come into the Internet Archive office often, I did not know we now have a Big Free Library of our own. Here it is—

#LittleFreeLibrary #InternetArchive

For ordinary people the pandemic was a tragedy. But for well-connected VIPs it was the chance of a lifetime – huge fortunes were up for grabs.

This is the cost of cronyism – good administration suffers, efficient buying of PPE suffers.

https://goodlawproject.org/ppe-urgent-hearing/

Not claiming any great artistic merit for this pic, just wanted to show the rough weather in Scotland today!

#scotland #photography #waves #aberdeen

Amazing what some positive social media interaction can do for your paper-writers' block!

Thank you lovely tootlers for being inspiring- the troublesome 'dating of Iron Age gold torcs' paper is underwayyyyyy! 2500 words done!! Woohoo!

And to say thank you, here's a photo from my recent research trip to the British Museum of the rather lovely Snettisham bracelet (except it's not, its an arm-ring, but more of that in the paper!! 😉)

#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #Writing

There's nowt new in archaeological woowoo.

Well worth watching these BBC Horizon programmes from 1999 & 2000 which shredded the same nonsense!!!

https://dai.ly/x223jd8
https://dai.ly/x33mfs5

#Archaeology #AncientApocalypse #WooWoo

If you don't do so yet, follow @auschwitzmuseum. It is important to remember, and to realize what should never happen again.

Another year, another increase in carbon dioxide emissions. ☹️

A few years ago, the IPCC issued a Special Report on keeping global warming below 1.5 °C (https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/).

All the scenarios for reaching that ambitious goal require emissions to fall sharply and soon.

Instead, we are continuing higher.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CarbonDioxide

Morning all, may a pigeon with a bug crap over Nigel Pharage today