iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 31m

Work on the assumption that your institutional website will either (a) delete you without trace the day you leave or (b) somehow keep implying you work there forever, give people a non-functional email address to contact you on, and never update your achievements past 2015.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17h

3/ publications where it’s usually a close run thing and a game of inches. It’s completely normal, fair and understandable that publications charge for some of even all of their content. Where do you think the money comes from? You don’t expect to go to a restaurant and expect to eat without …

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 12h

I used to get school schedule updates for the kids of a dentist in Texas. Eventually I reached out to the school directly to tell them to get it straight, those kids were missing some important updates.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 16h

When the Nobels get it wrong, Physics Edition. (Someone should do this for the Peace Prize but it might be a longer list.)

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🧪🏺 #Archaeology is about the past, but it's also about now and what's to come cc @hannahfluck.bsky.social

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology

A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 28/09/2026

Sometimes researchers send me unpublished proofs of forthcoming papers so I can report on the findings and prepare stories in advance. When Adobe Reader "helpfully" asks if I want an AI summary I always say no. No one should be using AI to transcribe off-the-record interviews, for the same reasons.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 28/09/2026

The little tubes feel remarkably similar when you're fumbling around in a windstorm in the dark.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 28/09/2026

I was there 12+ years ago for @archaeologymag.bsky.social. It was quite an adventure. My tent blew down and at one point I accidentally brushed my teeth with sunscreen in the dark. I know there are more extreme places to do archaeology, but not many. archaeology.org/issues/septe...

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Letter from Norway - The Big Melt - Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2013

The race to find, and save, ancient artifacts emerging from glaciers and ice patches in a warming world

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 25/09/2026

Luxury problems, AKA Northern California weather: "Bay Area weather week ahead awfully similar to previous one," @mercurynews.com push notification informs me.

Mercury News push notification reading "Bay Area weather week ahead awfully similar to previous one"

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 23/09/2026

10,000-year-old #GobekliTepe has it all: Massive stone pillars, elaborate carved reliefs and hundreds of fragmented human bones. Now @dai-weltweit.bsky.social researchers have uncovered burials, too – and they point to a new, natural explanation for the scattered remains at the site. @science.org

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Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’

Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site

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Meertext @meertext.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neues aus #GöbekliTepe Diese ätesten Siedlungen der Welt sind absolut faszinierend!

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 23/09/2026

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Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’

Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 23/09/2026

I'm no math whiz but how do you have a 99 point shift in net approval? Doesn't that mean at one point he had a 99% approval rating? Likewise, how can you have an approval rating of -77%? Something is not mathing for me. Doesn't sound good for Trump, though.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We just today got a talk about exactly how bad these tools are bsky.app/profile/hert...

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 22/09/2026

I have interacted recently with an editor at a major publication who kept recommending Gemini as a research tool – with the caveat that "you can't trust anything it says," which makes me question why anyone in the journalism space would recommend it in the first place.

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National Center for Science Education @ncse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A fresh new perspective on the human story, Early Man was a Woman by Ulli Lust is a nonfiction graphic novel that highlights women in prehistory. Originally published in German, the English translation has now hit bookshelves. www.science.org/content/arti... #booksky #nonfiction #paleo

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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Robin Peters @robinpeters85.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Instantly Ulli Lusts @ullilust.literatur.social.ap.brid.gy graphic novel "Early Man was a Woman" (Die Frau als Mensch) springs to mind. You can find an interview with her by @andrewcurry.com here: www.science.org/content/arti...

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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 21/09/2026

12-y-old says I might have a future as a @bsky.app influencer because "it's like Facebook for nerds."

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 21/09/2026

For me Giffey epitomized the SPD's "stay in government at all costs" wishy-washyness on policy. What did they actually stand for?

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 21/09/2026

Schadenfreude pur around here

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 20/09/2026

I haven't seen them drink but it would be a weird prop choice! And the Linke surge is definitely noted.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 20/09/2026

Deep into today's election coverage on German national TV and someone is serving red wine on the news desk. So European!

Green politician Werner Graf speaking with TV reporter, with a glass of red wine on the desk in between them.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 20/09/2026

75% voter turnout so far in Berlin, up from 62% last time!

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 20/09/2026

I voted in Berlin for the first time!

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 16/09/2026

Ulli Lust's #archaeological #GraphicNovel about Ice Age gender myths and #Paleolithic society is finally being published in English! And @andrewcurry.com used the opportunity for a nice little @science.org interview: www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10/09/2026

Comic artist Ulli Lust won Germany's biggest non-fiction prize for her book "Early Man was a Woman," out now in English. "The idea of an egalitarian society which didn’t diminish women is a wonderful realization for many people," she told me in an interview for @science.org. "We need that."

science.org

This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10/09/2026

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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory

Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 10/09/2026

Tell me you're a former German colony without telling me etc. etc.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/09/2026

Comic book artist Ulli Lust is drawing women into prehistory. Science spoke with Lust about the challenges of accurately capturing the archaeological record in a comic book and why the Stone Age is synonymous with cave men and not cave women. scim.ag/4A2feK6

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This comic is drawing women into prehistory

Comic book artist Ulli Lust counters myths about the roles of ice age women

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 07/09/2026

Artist Ulli Lust wants to redraw women's role in prehistory. "The 'manosphere' is always referring to the past as a place where men were strong and superior and women were weak and submissive. Archaeological evidence shows us that’s a myth, and I felt I had to deconstruct it," she told @science.org

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This comic is drawing women into prehistory

Comic book artist Ulli Lust counters myths about the roles of ice age women

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This comic is drawing women into prehistory

Comic book artist Ulli Lust counters myths about the roles of ice age women

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 06/09/2026

The viruses themselves are long dead, all that's left is their (very fragmented) genetic material, which is harmless. Sort of like finding the ripped-up instruction manual to a car – you'd be able to determine the make and model, but not reconstruct something you could drive.

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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it's like Wild Sheep Chase and The Name of the Rose had a baby

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The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

VIRUS ALERT! Sheeppox virus found in our parchment! Luckily, it is the ancient kind, so no extra precautions needed 😅 What a multidisciplinary effort - congrats to everyone involved! (Incidentally, the culprit MS is currently on display in our exhibition) www.science.org/content/arti...

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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

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Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Excellent to see this ground-breaking work published. Congrats to @gingerhowley.bsky.social and team. Medieval MSS as sources for genomic discoveries.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Now this is cool!

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Science Magazine @science.org · 03/09/2026

Researchers have pinned the emergence of sheeppox to about 5000 years ago. The peek into the pathogen’s past came from an unusual source: dozens of medieval books and legal documents written on parchment, which is made from specially treated animal skins. Learn more: scim.ag/4iaLx30

Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment

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