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Ellie Nelson

@ellienelson12.bsky.social
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I am an early career researcher working in the Neaar Lab at the Uni of York. Interested in geochronology, Quaternary climate, and biomineralisation.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Good morning, @lornalinch.bsky.social and the rest of us are here in Brighton ready to welcome you to the Quaternary Research Association conference. Follow the hashtag #QRA2026ADM for Ice Age and recent environments and people. @quaternaryra.bsky.social 🏺🦣❄️
Quaternary scientist on stage in front of a big beautiful slide of mountains and the QRA logo
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 17/12/2025
The Trump Administration's plan to dismantle the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is senseless & dangerous. It would weaken weather forecasting, climate research, & the science that keeps people safe. We urge that this plan be abandoned. Call Congress to #SaveNCAR today. buff.ly/7ka1BQA
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Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
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Annemieke Milks @annemiekemilks.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear..... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Neanderthals made mysterious horse-hunting spears, new dates reveal | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Neanderthals made mysterious horse-hunting spears, new dates reveal
Ancient amino acids suggest German weapons are some 100,000 years younger than once thought
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Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We're ready for the #makingwaves Discovery Zone on Sunday! Come join @neaarlab.bsky.social to find out how we're investigating the oceans of the past @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social @seachange-erc.bsky.social
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NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
We’re really privileged to be part of this study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/..., working on the exceptional Schöningen site to try to narrow down its age. We analysed Bithynia opercula from excavation blocks taken from the spear horizon, looking at their intra-crystalline amino acids. 🧵 1/5
Alejandro García-Moreno excavating one of the sediment blocks from the Schöningen “Spear Horizon” in which the opercula were found. Photo: Aritza Villaluenga. Courtesy: Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie.
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SEACHANGE ERC @seachange-erc.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Read all about our recent fieldwork campaign in Brazil here: seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S...
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NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New blogpost from the @seachange-erc.bsky.social project about their (sometimes muddy!) fieldwork in Brazil to track ocean environmental change seachange-erc.eu/news/20/37/S... including @york.ac.uk researchers @ellienelson12.bsky.social @york-bioarch.bsky.social 🧪🐚
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News - Seachange
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament. Sign here 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
A screenshot of the government petitions website that says:

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We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
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Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A successful day of coring in the lagoon of Parque Estadual Arcaraí @seachange-erc.bsky.social @neaarlab.bsky.social
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.
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Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol
Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget
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Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Food for thought on ECRs and non-permanent contracts wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...
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Research flexibility doesn't have to mean researcher precarity
James Coe and David Kernohan look for the balance between flexibility and predictability that can allow researchers, research, and the wider economy to thrive
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Katie @scarlettstitches.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is a friendly reminder that library cards are free, and your local public library will never make you pay extra so you don't have to watch ads.
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Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
as kemi badenoch describes the UK's net zero goal as 'impossible', it's worth noting that the country's emissions are the lowest they've been since 1872
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout
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Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago - Nature
The identification of tools dated to the time of Homo sapiens associated with microfloral evidence of wet tropical forests indicates that West African forests were occupied by humans much earlier...
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ctrebaul.bsky.social @ctrebaul.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten? www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
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NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A virtual Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social talking at the #QRA2025 about the time/temp complexities when AA dating across such a large region over the #Pleistocene - thanks to the @quaternaryra.bsky.social audience for the helpful ideas :-)
Slide showing study sites in Ellie Nelson's presentation
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Renewables (wind, solar, hydro) will overtake fossil fuels in UK electricity generation this year “Wind is well on its way to overtaking gas as the largest single power source" according to Ember, authors of the analysis www.ft.com/content/2878...
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SEACHANGE ERC @seachange-erc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We'd like to announce that our Work Package 3 will now be focusing on the analysis of transitions during the last 7,000 years in the Babitonga Bay area of Southern Brazil. For more information visit the SEACHANGE website: seachange-erc.eu/research/wp3...
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Ellie Nelson @ellienelson12.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
First paper from my PhD is out. Building an aminostratigrapy for the Pannonian Basin using bithniid opercula from deep core material. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
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