These giant, finger-sized Carolina sphinx moth larvae are doing a number on my tomatoes!! I guess it’s good to share. 🐛🐛🐛
Adam Markham
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Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology. Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
Becky Wallower@bwallower.bsky.social · yesterday#OwlAwarenessDay 🏺 Greeks + Daunians were very aware of owls, symbol of Athena, and feature of any posh tomb. Set of red figured skyphoi 'a civetta' (owl drinking cups) are from male tomb 669, full to brim w objects for the journey, in Lavello, ancient Forentum, conquered end C4 BC by Samnites.
Today @ucs.org, along with colleagues @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @rbrulle.bsky.social, @geoffreysupran.bsky.social, @lewan.uk, filed an amicus brief with #SCOTUS in support of a climate deception lawsuit against #BigOil brought by the city and county of Boulder, CO.
Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Suncor v Boulder Documenting Companies’ Climate Deception
Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Supreme Court Case Documenting Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil Decades of Climate Deception
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The Arkadiko or Kazarma Bridge is a Mycenaean bridge near the modern road from Tiryns to Epidauros in the Peloponnese 🇬🇷. The stone crossing, which is dated to the Greek Bronze Age, is one of the oldest crossable arch bridges still in existence. It is the oldest preserved bridge in Europe. 📷mine
A must for any Viking specialist travelling in Shetland: Viking shield biscuits!
Fascinating paper (Carter et al) on a BA pigeon assemblage in Cyprus. Suggests rock doves were at least semi-domesticated by 1400 BCE & here eaten in association with rituals & mortuary practices. Isotopes put pigeons in same trophic level as urban humans not scavengers. #archaeobirds 🏺🪶 @rug.nl
Uncovering the lives of rock doves (Columba livia) in Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Uncovering the lives of rock doves (Columba livia) in Late Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus
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25 years after bottom trawling ended, Chile's seamounts remain damaged. A single trawl can cause irreversible harm – prevention is the most effective strategy. The @fao.org GFCM must learn from this lesson: extend the deep-sea trawl ban to at least 800m. #DefendTheDeep oceana.org/press-releas...
Bottom Trawling Impacts Still Visible Today on Chilean Seamounts
New research shows that deep-sea biodiversity has not fully recovered despite more than two decades without bottom trawling, reinforcing the case for protecting vulnerable ecosystems before damage bec...
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"If thousands of vessels leave carrying barnacles, algae, mussels and other organisms, they could introduce invasive species that outcompete with native wildlife, spread disease and permanently alter marine ecosystems." 🌏 🌊🪸
Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn
Biologists say cargo ships stranded in Gulf may carry highly potent invasive species around the world as trade resumes
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I love this manifestation of #archaeobirds. Diggers on the @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social at a Neolithic house site took time out to go see a vagrant blue-cheeked beeeater. I wonder what Neolithic people felt when they saw a bird totally out of the ordinary? #zooarchaeology 🏺🪶@archaeoholz.bsky.social
Spurness 2026 - day eight - Archaeology Orkney
An exceptional day, but not entirely for the expected reasons.
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We've got a massive measles outbreak. We've got leprosy cases. We've got flesh-eating bacteria. And now #Florida has a dengue fever case. Come on down, you tourists! www.tampabay.com/news/health/... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social
Hillsborough County reports case of mosquito-borne dengue
Dengue is a viral infection caused by mosquito bites. Symptoms include fever, severe headache and joint pain.
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We fell in love with Sikkim cucumbers last year and planted more this year. Brought to Europe by Sir Joseph Hooker froman 1848 trip to the Himalayas. Their thick brown skin helps them keep longer once picked - which is good because we are entering a cucumber glut! 🌱 🥒
July 29, 2026 @1 pm RALLY TO PROTECT CHACO at Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in #SantaFe 301 Dinosaur Trail Diné - Pueblo Solidarity! #ProtectChaco #ChacoCanyon #NewMexico
Aboriginal rangers have wiped invasive fire ants off an Australian island. After 22 years, the Tiwi Rangers have eradicated tropical fire ants from Melville Island, hunting and baiting nests one by one. The ants had been eating turtle hatchlings and nesting birds. buff.ly/MYFv9ok #ShareGoodNewsToo
Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island
DERBY, Australia — While Spanish sailors packed in dirt to stabilize the bottom of ships sailing from the Americas in the 16th century, they were unaware that they were also helping tiny stowaways…
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Today is #WorldNatureConservationDay 🌳 🏺 Learn how ancient peoples interacted with nature and how #archaeology can help with conservation in the present day in our #NatureAndArchaeology collection, accessible completely 🆓 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Nature and Archaeology
Special collection from Antiquity on Nature and Archaeology
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Sadly it's not just #JodrellBank losing funding, with deep cuts across the board for UK astronomy. One example is the HiPERCAM project whose funding has been entirely cut to save £50K/yr - peanut-levels of £s. Spectacular fast transient science lost, for what? 🔭😡 www.zmescience.com/science/astr...
One of Astronomy’s Fastest Cameras May Stop Operating Over a $67,000 Funding Gap
The camera that checked JWST’s clock is losing its funding.
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Maltese Mesolithic mariners connected with each other across vast maritime distances, making journeys that are up there among the greatest feats of endeavour in human history, again and again. Thanks to @erc.europa.eu and all our co-authors, and reviewers!
Impact des feux sur les mesures de CO aux stations du réseau ICOS-France www.lsce.ipsl.fr/impact-des-f...
Impact des feux sur les mesures de CO aux stations du réseau ICOS-France - LSCE
Les mesures de monoxyde de carbone (CO) dans les stations du réseau de l'infrastructure de recherche ICOS reflètent l’intensité des feux en France en ce mois de juillet 2026. Successivement, l’Observa...
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🚨Call for Papers🚨 I’ve also got a session at ICAZ 2027 in Vancouver! “Session 6 - Finding the Wild: Zooarchaeology Beyond the Wild/Domestic Divide” is open for submissions with a deadline of August 25! DM me here or email at e.quinlan@exeter.ac.uk Abstract submissions: shorturl.at/oJEuB
It is worrying to hear of the threat to #JodrellBank. Apart from its scientific contribution, it is a cultural and physical reference point for generations, hereabouts. Less well known, the #LovellTelescope uses turret parts from #FirstWorldWar battleships HMS Revenge & HMS Royal Sovereign. 📷 mine
I immediately thought of the World Heritage status when I saw the news. The Lovell Telescope is mentioned by name in the Statement of OUV and it would be hard to imagine that this decision would not warrant “In Danger” listing or removal from the World Heritage List entirely.
This would be another big blow for UK science. It's also a threat to a #WorldHeritage site which was only listed by the UK in 2019 after nearly a decade of work by scientists, advocates & government. Now it should go on the World Heritage "in danger" list. @unesco.bsky.social @icomos.bsky.social 🧪🌏
Jodrell Bank Observatory facing closure after major funder cuts support
Scientists say decision is blow to UK astronomy as deep space observatory is home to world-leading facilities
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Least Auklet, the smallest alcid, coming ashore to inspect the nesting colony in a boulder field on St. Lawrence Island #Alaska 🪶
Come on, UNESCO! 🏛️ Also? All heritage is “political.” “Palestinian officials welcomed UNESCO's designation of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank as a World Heritage site, hoping it will prevent Israel extending its control at the ancient village, while Israel condemned it as a political decision.”
Palestinians hope UNESCO designation halts Israeli push at West Bank site
Palestinian officials welcomed UNESCO's designation of Sebastia in the occupied West Bank as a World Heritage site, hoping it will prevent Israel extending its control at the ancient village, while I...
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This is one of the dumbest & most bizarre Executive Orders we have ever read. This EO is a clear political overreach, driven by an ideological agenda to rewrite American history. Our Smithsonian institutions do not belong to the President, but to the American people & so does our nation’s history.
Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy. On
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📰 "It was a form of simple fish farming": Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Norway introduced fish into mountain lakes prior to the advent of agriculture 🐟️ 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via sciencenorway.no www.sciencenorway.no/stone-age-ar...
Introduced fish into mountain lakes 7,000 years ago: 'It was a form of simple fish farming'
People have always had the ability and capacity to influence and change their surroundings, says an archaeologist.
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