☘️🧉🎨 Maria O'Connor 💙
@mariaoconnor.bsky.social
Avid reader captivated by human evolution, art, anthropology & sciences in general. Interested in fighting poverty & pseudo-science. I don't answer messages, except if I know the person. I BLOCK PORN/ADULT CONTENT/NUDITY bc I share my laptop with children
The Inca Empire, known as Tawantinsuyu ("Realm of the Four Parts"), was the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas Stretching 2,500 miles along western South America.
The Inca Empire, known as Tawantinsuyu ("Realm of the Four Parts"), was the largest pre-Columbian empire in the Americas Stretching 2,500 miles along western South America.
A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer youtu.be/eC4T-dD9C6o?...
A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer
YouTube video by History Hit
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Nature research paper: A global view of human centromere variation and evolution go.nature.com/4fpD0aI
A global view of human centromere variation and evolution - Nature
Complete sequencing of more than 2,000 centromeres from diverse humans reveals structures and elevated mutation rates that shape the evolution of these critically important regions.
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A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
A skull unearthed in China challenges the timeline of human evolution, scientists say
A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis.
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Today’s Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Memories: bird captures you have reason to remember set by @alan678.bsky.social ~ took three years searching for the Dartford Warbler & still one of my favourite birds to photograph - See ALT😍😍 🪶🦉 #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #naturephotography #naturetherapy
#PlumeScrolling Daggerstrike Murderbeak, a Grey Heron I photographed at Forest Farm, Cardiff, back in May. So glad I decided to prioritise #NaturePhotography earlier this year, before my thyroid condition began to limit what I could do! #Birds 🦉 🌿
For all the fans of Australia’s amazingly diverse native wildflowers, vote now for your favourite 🌿🌸🌺 #ozflora #wildoz #abc #scienceweek #nativeplants #bloomscrolling www.abc.net.au/news/science...
These 10 Aussie wildflowers have superpowers. Pick your favourite
Move over waratahs and banksias! These 10 flowers from the unsung understorey are not just pretty faces, they have surprising tricks up their sleeves.
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Eleven years ago today 🌿 Castilleja miniata, our Giant Red Indian Paintbrush, blooming below the Needle's Eye Tunnel #nativeplants
#Oscillations #ENSO #ElNiño #OceanHeat #ExtremeHeat #Drought #Fire #Precipitation #ExtremeWeather #Acidification #Hypoxia #CoralReefs #TippingPoints #BiodiversityLoss #Extinction #Food #ThermalExpansion #SeaLevelRise #HumanDisplacement #Oil #Coal #Gas #FossilFuelPollution #AnthropogenicGlobalWarming
Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 10h ago*2026 El Niño Ahead by a Mile* It’s remarkable for us scientists to witness El Niño’s evolution. If you had asked us if something like this was possible a year ago, it would have been a definitive no. But here we are… already more than 1C (& 3 months) ahead of the next strongest episode in 1997… 1/
astrobiology.com/2026/08/05/h... #astrobiology #astrogeology
High Solubility Of Water In Post-perovskite And Bridgmanite In The Earth's Deep Lower Mantle
Water in the Earth's mantle induces melting, giving rise to strong chemical heterogeneity, and alters its rheological and transport properties
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I keep getting emails advertising services that will use AI to do your literature review for you. This completely misunderstands the purpose of a literature review. And literature. 1/
Another successful set of tours. Unusually high amounts of #coprolites this time. Lots of #ammonites too. #geology #paleontolgy
Geology Johnson@geologyjohnson.bsky.social · 13h ago2 back to back tours today at #Whitby. What will we find? Here's a lovely Peronoceras #ammonite some one found last time. #Geology #Paleontology
#Diversity is a foundational human condition. “The discovery reinforces the idea that human evolution in Europe was not a linear process, but rather a complex scenario in which different populations with distinct evolutionary histories coexisted” www.sci.news/otherscience...
224,000-Year-Old Homo Skull Fragment Adds New Mystery to Human Origins | Sci.News
A fossilized skull fragment of Homo sp. unearthed in central Spain offers paleoanthropologists a fresh window into the story of ancient humans who lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.
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BONOBO LANGUAGE DISCOVERY REVEALS EVOLUTIONARY LINK TO HUMAN SPEECH Scientists discovered bonobos use composite vocalizations with syntactic structure to communicate, offering key insights into the evolutionary origins of human language.
Early humans weren’t conquerors but wanderers who mingled with other human species. The new view of human migration is much friendlier, less vicious & competitive. It's important to update pop culture notions human of evolution 🧪 by @danvergano.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...
Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters
Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals
scientificamerican.com
It’s hard to believe that it was 17 years ago when, as a young palaeoanthropologist, I set out to discover the story of the origins and spread of our species around the globe - it was an Incredible Human Journey. #bbc #human #journey www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Incredible Human Journey
Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world.
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Modern human origins cannot be traced back to a single point in time (2021) www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Modern human origins cannot be traced back to a single point in time
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It brings me some solace to know that whatever's happening down here, there are still some absolutely incredible human-made and human-driven robots wandering around Mars, looking at cool rocks and dirt and sending us pictures just because we're curious about planets and our own origins in the cosmos
Kevin M. Gill@kevinmgill.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following it's Sol 4834 drive this week. flic.kr/p/2s2afe1
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Jumping in the bandwagon happily! Currently enjoying The Iliad, or as I call it, the Ancient Avengers 🗡️🏺
I used to see the future but now I see nothing. Used to tell the future but they cut out my tongue. 🎵 Cassandra: Florence + The Machine Cassandra’s story is tragic but it’s also about resilience, to never stop speaking up even if no one listens. 🏛️🏺
