💢REPORT | Since the ceasefire was announced in Gaza last Oct., Israeli forces have killed 1,250 Palestinians, including 270 children, 134 women, & 38 elderly people, & wounded 4,110, including 1,147 children, 700 women, & 175 elderly people. The report shared by the Palestinian side w/ mediators...

Israel is not happy about this. #UNESCO #Heritage sites in danger

UNESCO lists Tyre, Beaufort Castle, Sebastia as World Heritage sites in danger | The Jerusalem Post

According to UNESCO, the World Heritage Sites in Danger list includes sites that are part of their country’s cultural and natural heritage and are under threat by “serious and specific dangers."

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Report and block. Nasty list abuser.

Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal@mistyswoman.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is a troll @grace2002.bsky.social continuing to add me to lists - latest "supposedly zen but very thin skin" - this is targeted harassment.

Spain's Pedro Sánchez with a firm, confident response to especially Italy's Ceuta reaction (closing the Schengen border).

Daniël Boomsma@danielboomsma.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pedro Sanchez veegt in brief volledig de vloer aan met die laffe Meloni.

Tongue tied: Humans once spoke tens of thousands of languages, so what happened? A new study has found that linguistic diversity in human history peaked much later than previously thought and then rapidly declined with the rise of empires. #Language

Lost for words: How modern languages were formed from ancient dialects

According to a study published in the journal Science, today's spoken languages are the legacy of a handful that survived a major "language bottleneck" in the past.

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"this mysterious human lineage had split from the evolutionary line leading to modern humans around 800,000 years ago, roughly at the time when Neanderthals and Denisovans also diverged from one another."

Mysterious DNA: two unknown ancestors found in human genome

The human family tree is gaining new branches. Researchers have found in modern humans' DNA signs of two previously unknown ancestors – extinct human forms with no fossils or decoded DNA, yet they hav...

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I am pissed off with #Wsocial. I'm registered and verified but cannot post or create a profile. I cannot link to my #Widentity app and so nothing works. Not good, Wsocial, not good at all.

The answer is 'yes' and 'no'. Understanding #Language and #Meaning

Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?

AI can help move analysis forward, but human ingenuity is still essential in this field.

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Paul Baker@paulari.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have funding for a 2027 PhD position at Hong Kong Polytechnic University to examine HK newspaper discourse. You will have experience of corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and be able to work with written Chinese. The closing date for applications is August 31. Contact me if interested.

Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics at MMU (p/t; fixed term). Deadline August 16. The role would suit people with interests and expertise in issues concerning critical language pedagogies, language and social justice, and educational linguistics. manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Anyone on W social yet?

I am normally the first to defend civil servants. However, if this reporting is true then there should be mass firings and if at all legally feasible, criminal charges. To butcher a West Wing quote: everyone who did it, everyone who ordered it, and everyone who knew about it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Israel expands 'yellow zone', forcing thousands more Gazans to flee again "We are taking our belongings out ​and going to leave the place because the occupation (Israel) has moved the yellow line all the way to Salah al-Din Street," www.reuters.com/3fec1b0a85a0...

Israel's yellow line, a shifting edge of war pushing Gazans from home

On a road in Gaza City's Zeitoun district, Palestinian resident Assem Dawla loaded mattresses and bags onto a truck as concrete yellow blocks marking the edge of Israel's expanding military zone ​stoo...

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"Rather than viewing each language as relying on its own grammatical processing system, the field is moving toward models in which grammar is supported by a shared, flexible mechanism that operates across languages" #Language #Linguistics

Erik Hansson@erikhansson.bsky.social · last wk.

How Does a #Bilingual Speaker’s Brain Process Two Languages? New Research Suggests That Both Rely on the Same Neural Wiring www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h... #neurolinguistics #langsky

Unveiled this evening in Palma, Mallorca. Remembering the civilian victims of republican bombardment during the Spanish Civil War, my great aunt and her son among them (names marked). My cousins attended. I wish I could have gone.

"Sometimes major discoveries begin with small objects. In this case it was a small copper tube which, once cleaned, revealed a marking pointing to British aviation technology."

Poland: goes berry picking, finds traces of Allied plane wreck

An unexpected find while picking berries may shed new light on Świnoujście’s wartime past: debris and RAF-marked parts suggest a WWII aircraft lies buried. #EuropeNews

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News travels fast...🔥☀️🛩️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heatwave reveals lost archaeological sites across Wales

The Royal Commission of Wales said some of these known sites have not been seen clearly in decades.

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On Monday, 27 July, the Balearic government will unveil a monument honouring the victims of Republican bombardment in Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War. My great aunt and her youngest son were among them. I cannot attend but was asked to write a short eulogy to be read out during the ceremony.

Prohens pondrá el lunes un monumento a las víctimas civiles de los bombardeos republicanos en Palma

Acto solemne y un monumento: Prohens honrará el lunes a las víctimas de los bombardeos republicanos en Palma de Mallorca

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Reframe debate: ‘we should be thinking about (AI) effects. It concentrates power; it obfuscates accountability; it further despoils nature & climate; it is a means of the wholesale expropriation of cultures, languages & lands for massive profit; & it will probably make us lonelier & stupider’

Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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Another one of those weekends 🥵 Stay cool, folks. #Cafster your #CaffeinatedHamster

This is the only life we have. So what we do with it matters. #Humanism

Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 2w ago

Hey, you've got a message from Janet Ellis.

What an immense joy and satisfaction to see the fragments of the ceiling fresco from Region IX excavations reassembled. The vibrant colours and the intricate details of the highest quality are mesmerising. Currently on display in the Large Palaestra, #Pompeii

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero...

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

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IPI is honoured to name Patricia Evangelista a 2026 World Press Freedom Hero for her reporting on the human impact of the Philippines’ drug war. In conversation with IPI, Patricia reflects on her work memorialising those her government would prefer be forgotten. buff.ly/dzj46WI

Spotlight: Filipino journalist Patricia Evangelista named 2026 World Press Freedom Hero

For two decades, Patricia Evangelista has challenged official narratives and put a human face to the victims of state-sanctioned killings, memorialising those her government would prefer be forgotten

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Required reading: the blatant corruption of politics and the extent of its dirty fingers in British government, policing, and journalism. #MoneyLaundering

Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Why would Nigel Farage & George Cottrell share the same lawyer? In @thenerve_news we revealed that the Reform donor under investigation by the NCA & the Reform leader under investigation by Parliamentary Standards share the same Carter Ruck lawyers. Why? 1/l

Feeling prehistory A new tactile exhibition on Iron Age and Roman burial #Durotriges #Wareham #Dorset #Archaeology #Archeology 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Iron Age burials 3D-printed for tactile Wareham Museum display

The 2000-year-old bones were found at Winterborne Kingston by Bournemouth University archaeologists.

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Finally, the Balearic government will recognise civilian victims of the Republican bombardments of Mallorca during the Civil War with a monument, to be dedicated on 27th July. My great aunt, Maria Ana Picornell Mayol, her 15 yr old son Alfonsito, and all those who died with them on 31 May 1937 1/2

La madre gano a la hija pero la Hispanidad ganó al mundo. ¡Viva la #Hispanidad!

It is a revelation to my students that the cultural phenomenon of "male celebrity that teenage girls love because he's sexy but coded as a bit effeminate, and that their dads hate for the same reason, which makes the girls love him even more" is literally a century old.

100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3w ago

July 18, 1926: An editorial in the Chicago Tribune calls into question Rudolph Valentino’s masculinity, just as his latest film “The Son of the Sheik” is about to go into wide release. The piece somehow draws a link from “pink powder puffs” dispensed in a men’s bathroom to the romantic hero. 1/4