🚨New publication alert! 🚨 Now that it's up on the journal's website, I am very pleased to announce new open access research by myself, Dr. Kirsty Squires, Dr. Piombino-Mascali, and Dr. Clara Urzi.
Damien Huffer
@damienhuffer.bsky.social
Working at the nexus of heritage and wildlife crime, w/a hefty dash of human remains trafficking research and advocacy | Res. Fellow Adelaide U. |🔎💵💀🖥️ | Taiko drummer, Home cook, Husband | Co-founder of @counteringcrime 🏳️🌈⚣ he/him
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
Oh this is rather interesting. Silk worm farming in Uzbekistan 4000 years ago. archaeologymag.com/2026/07/silk...
4,000-year-old silkworm cocoons suggest silk farming reached Central Asia before the Silk Road | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Ancient silkworm cocoons from Uzbekistan show silk production reached Central Asia nearly 2,000 years earlier than believed.
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Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.
Chaco Canyon is sacred—and a living landscape! Make your voice heard. Chaco Canyon is not for sale. And, we’re fighting like hell to protect it. Join us! Submit your public comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...
One of the most horrifying proposals in the by now infinitely long list! #chacocanyon
Anna Anthro@annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3w agoThe opening up of #Chaco Canyon to drilling by the #Trump admin is utterly horrifying to me. The sacred kivas and town sites…so many UNESCO heritage areas. Awful villainous decision. #arizona #archeology […]
www.livescience.com/animals/dino.... So infuriating. So unsurprising.
'Another dinosaur has entered the luxury collectibles market': Gus the T. rex just sold for $50 million. Here's what its loss means to science.
Gus, a Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in South Dakota, just sold for $50 million at auction. But it's unknown if the specimen will ever be made available to science.
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As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
Although I don't speak French, let alone Swiss French, I wanted to share this link to what seems like a thorough and hard-hitting investigative journalism piece by the program Vraiment, of RTS news. www.rts.ch/play/tv/vrai...
Enquête sur le commerce des restes humains en Suisse - Vraiment - Play RTS
Crânes, squelettes et même fœtus en vente libre : Vraiment révèle l'ampleur du commerce de restes humains en Suisse. Ricardo, Vinted, Instagram… Des dizaines de petites annonces ont été repérées. Entr...
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We can all stand behind the #UNESCOWorldHeritage candidature for the #FlindersRanges!
62K views · 754 reactions | The state's outback tourism industry is in for a major boost if the Flinders Ranges receives world heritage listing next year. Approval from Paris will be a gamechanger, rewarding the efforts of scientists who have studied the area's rich fossil record since the legendary Sir Douglas Mawson. | 7NEWS Adelaide
The state's outback tourism industry is in for a major boost if the Flinders Ranges receives world heritage listing next year. Approval from Paris will be a gamechanger, rewarding the efforts of...
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www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u... A powerful new report led by some @counteringcrime.bsky.social partners!
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Australia finally has something like the US's Environmental Protection Agency. www.miragenews.com/australia-la...
Australia Launches National Environmental Agency
Australia's new independent National Environmental Protection Agency will launch into action on Wednesday, beginning a new era of protection for
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The Australian Academy of Science is running a letter-writing campaign to MPs to support science funding in Australia. I just sent mine off and you can too!
Australian Academy of Science@science.org.au · 2mo agoSend a message to your MP at restorescience.com.au?utm_source=i...
Can think of much worse places to start another trip around the sun :)
If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.
A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money
No one man should have all that power.
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Last week, my daughter asked why there were two people in the cockpit of the plane and I told her that the co-pilot helps to fly the plane. Today she asked if the person who helps the captain steer the ship is the 'co-pirate' and I'm stealing that
Scientists discover 149 new marine species off Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands
New species found in Australia's most 'pristine' marine parks
Researchers have catalogued dozens of new marine species found in the depths of Australia's most remote waters. The result is a window into a rarely glimpsed world.
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BABAO Sale of human remains task force members are quoted in this BBC article about an attempted auction in Glasgow. @noddinggoth.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anita Manning's auction house criticised for offering human remains
Human bones, including a skull, were to go under the hammer on Friday, but Great Western Auctions has now withdrawn the item.
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![Comic. [Article titled “Evidence for liquid water on the surface of a terrestrial planet in the habitable zone,” with unreadable text but including pictures of a beach and of people playing on a beach.] [caption] Planetary science journals have asked astronomers to please stop submitting their vacation photos.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiabfmtaoraxvc6vm3kblaozbl3lla473bvzruovdodt5arv7ttjha)
Him: Do you think any of our neighbours play board games? Me: We can ask. Him: They come over - "Why is Nathan wrapped in tin foil and smelling of booze?" Me: ? Him: "I thought we were gonna play gin mummy!!" 0_o ❤️🧡💛
Me: Back from the grocery shop. It was around $100. Him: I spend more than that on my porcupine lessons. Me: ??? Him: They're working. You have called me prickly before. @latentcharon.bsky.social ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
🚨🚨Project milestone alert! 🚨🚨 I am very happy to announce something that's been a long time coming (months in the making). My co-editors Ryan Seidemann and Christine Halling have just submitted to @floridapress.bsky.social the 1st full draft of our new edited volume!
