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Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy 📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art 🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined 🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool 1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social Rep: PEW Literary
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@lemoustier.bsky.social🏺Was poison part of adaptive differences in weaponry between H. sapiens and #Neanderthals?
New paper arguing potential for its use in Danish Mesolithic projectile tech joins recent consideration of its role in MSA in Africa
@humanists.ukReposted by @lemoustier.bsky.socialWhat does the Odyssey value when the gods are no moral guide? Tim Whitmarsh and Andrew Copson explore the poem, and what Nolan's film left behind.
Online, 10 November, £5.50. Book your place now.
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@lemoustier.bsky.socialI whistled two complete songs from Phantom of the Opera in the bathroom this morning and that cheered me up
@lemoustier.bsky.socialSee also: the BBC
@lemoustier.bsky.socialReposted by @lemoustier.bsky.socialMy cohort of PhDs first had to deal with bottom falling out of academic job market post-2008, and now – whether they were lucky and got a job fast, or clung on through rolling postdocs – after ever-worsening conditions in employment, all are facing current sector collapse. Absolute betrayal
@lemoustier.bsky.social@lemoustier.bsky.socialI chose to shift sideways over a decade ago, jumping into the constant uncertainty of being self-employed, and am just so dreadfully angry for all my friends who DID stay having been told they just had to stick out a bit longer and the permanent jobs would come.
@lemoustier.bsky.socialMy cohort of PhDs first had to deal with bottom falling out of academic job market post-2008, and now – whether they were lucky and got a job fast, or clung on through rolling postdocs – after ever-worsening conditions in employment, all are facing current sector collapse. Absolute betrayal
@deadbovids.bsky.socialReposted by @lemoustier.bsky.socialDeciduous pemolar of a horse from 1.5 million years ago in Kenya for #FossilFriday
@lemoustier.bsky.socialI should say this is for work so not able to flit around hugely; need to stay near Kiasma
@lemoustier.bsky.socialsadly it's work so won't have time for Tallinn; another time maybe!
@lemoustier.bsky.socialooh thank you this is a great start! only there for a couple of nights but hoping to make the most of it
@lemoustier.bsky.socialHey travel crew, going to need some HELSINKI IN NOVEMBER tips... (yes a doubly-exciting trip is planned)
@lmesseri.bsky.socialReposted by @lemoustier.bsky.socialstrong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."
@lemoustier.bsky.socialperfect added value for your literary festival talks
@lmesseri.bsky.socialReposted by @lemoustier.bsky.social“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work,” she said." To me, this is the crux. Science is a human, community endeavor. They are destroying science.
@lemoustier.bsky.socialIf #AI companies really believed these models were conscious then they'd have to explain why it's ethical to keep them imprisoned and force them to answer inane questions and generate junk images 24/7 but they don't believe it so let's just move on
@lemoustier.bsky.socialWhile we're putting in orders, I'll have one of those lovely teapots with some gorgeous organic residue and plant macros still inside, please
