Jessie Slater @subbasegirl@qoto.org

Really not keen on framing of dispersals from Africa and expansion or contraction in hominin presence outside that continent as 'success/failure'.
We need more nuanced perspectives.
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RT @NatureEcoEvo
Success and failure in early human dispersals #OutOfAfrica. New Perspective from Ryan Rabett.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0436-8

Free to read link here: http://rdcu.be/E0Xi
https://twitter.com/NatureEcoEvo/status/954033695593324544

Are you a #youngresearcher with an outstanding #dissertation that was completed not more than two years ago? Does your dissertation deal with #socioenvironmental research or #landscape #archaeology? If this description fits you, you are a candidate for the #JohannaMestorfAward 2023. It is open to young resarchers of all scientific fields and it is endowed with a prize of 3000 Euro. How to apply and all further information: https://www.cluster-roots.uni-kiel.de/en/news/jma-award-for-socio-entvironmental-research-and-landscape-archaeology

“He didn’t want to just merely predict the future; he wanted to prevent that future.” Great story by Zack Savitsky about Kurt Vonnegut, who envisioned many modern-day debates about science and ethics.

https://www.science.org/content/article/100-years-after-his-birth-kurt-vonnegut-more-relevant-ever-science

Are you an undergrad and interested in starting your career in science journalism? Apply for the Diverse Voices Science Journalism internship at
@NewsfromScience@twitter.com, coordinated by @scchak@twitter.com! We're looking for 3 people to join us next summer! Link: https://bit.ly/3UNykhN

@billcaraher @cdwren @admin

I mean, I use social media to share not just #archaeology but how #archaeological knowledge is produced

That's impossible to do for human remains if they can't be shown. I think a blanket ban means that we relegate a fairly important component of archaeological research to academic journals

Which leaves the actual study of human remains on social media to racist craniometry types. I don't know a perfect solution, but I think too strict of a ban is a problem

@billcaraher @admin

I would be against an outright ban of human remains. They're an important component of #archaeology #research and #pedagogy. It's not possible to share how archaeologists research certain aspects of the past w/o visual evidence

That said, I fully support a content warning and images or other media marked as sensitive if they contain human remains. People can decide whether to engage with that aspect of archaeology or not, as suits their ethics and culture

Collected as a #gabbro by A. Geikie, South Point, #St.Kilda BGS sample S7186 #ThinSectionThursday Hi Res images at https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/britrocks/britrocks.cfc?method=viewSamples&sampleId=405214

Shadows in low, raking sunlight emphasise the substantial #earthwork boundaries (15m high x up to 10m wide) between 2-3 hectare #BronzeAge / #RomanoBritish #fields that extend up to 600m across the N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. The field system is overlain by a #PostMedieval earthwork enclosure - perhaps a #SheepFold. Today’s happiness.

#Landscape #Archaeology #History

Source: https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/burderop-down-wiltshire-3011

This week is "Forming & Exploring Habitable Worlds" #EdHW22 in Edinburgh! Valentina Erastova began by noting that finding a protein in a meteorite and shouting "ALIENS!" is WRONG. For example, clays on a planet may be needed to protect organic molecules & stop them falling apart.

piece of my dissertation in progress on prairie, fire, and people

On the mechanism of brain fog after a mild Covid infection
#LongCovid
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr2210069?query=featured_home
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00725-5

Just curious.

In a peer-review process, would you prefer having signed or anonymous reviewers?

Excellent board meeting this week. Topics discussed were Crossref’s role in the integrity of the scholarly record (ISR), adoption of Crossmark/retractions, a new global membership equity program was approved (watch this space!) and the 2023 budget was signed off. Thanks to our brilliant and dedicated board and staff! Here’s a relevant post on ISR (part 1 of 3 with 4 due soon): https://www.crossref.org/blog/isr-part-one-what-is-our-role-in-preserving-the-integrity-of-the-scholarly-record/

Gotta love a twist 😊

Are you working on materials for the energy transition?OxfordMaterials are hiring at Associate Professor level in this incredibly important area.

The post is part of the ZERO Institute which spans across Materials, Engineering Science and Geography will continue growth & coordination of our efforts towards zero carbon energy systems
The posit is in association with
St Edmund Hall

Full Details: http://shorturl.at/qKQS5

#MaterialsScience #AcademicJobs #Energy
#Oxford #Materials

Two articles about the capture programme

http://britgeopeople.blogspot.com/2013/03/100000-scottish-thin-sections-completed.html

http://britgeopeople.blogspot.com/2012/12/bgs-thin-sections-150000th-image-taken.html

Seroprevelance of SARS-CoV-2 in Virginia animals. "Human commensals like squirrels and raccoons had high seroprevalence, ranging between 62%-71%, and sites with high human use had three times higher seroprevalence than low human-use areas." [preprint] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.04.515237v1.abstract

#Introduction

Since 2017, I've been #Editor @ the #journal #Science handling #research in #immunology, #hematology, & #HostPathogen interactions!

Hailing from #Philadelphia, my undergrad was @ #UPenn &
PhD was @ #UChicago. This was followed by postdocs @ #MRC-LMB & #UManchester. After a decade in the #UK, I moved to the #Netherlands this past summer, where I continue to work remotely for Science.

If you happen to catch me at a conference, be sure to stop by & say hi!

France has just passed a law requiring all large car parks to be covered in solar panels. It's expected to generate 11GW, the equivalent of 10 nuclear power stations #renewableenergy https://electrek.co/2022/11/08/france-require-parking-lots-be-covered-in-solar-panels/

Still feeling a tinge of embarrassment from the start of term when I was invited to present my research in front of an audience of a few first year students and many more parents.

I ended up talking about the long history of science fiction and its relevance to a STEM college. In the process I happened to mention Johannes Kepler’s use of the figure of a witch in Astronomical Dream, his short story about lunar travel, to question Enlightenment science as the only valid form of knowledge. When I did, I could’ve sworn I heard the audience of STEM parents either audibly gasp or at least go very silent. And one of the senior admins, a natural scientist, turned to look at me.

I ended up saving face and redirecting my Q&A response. But now that I think about it, why *shouldn’t* we be talking about how the sciences have always relied on fiction, rhetoric, myth, and speculation in how they think and write about their work?

#ecr #proflife #humanist #litstudies #academicmastdon