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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Your astonishing artifact of the week is a Maya urn on which the deceased is depicted wearing a jaguar costume and flanked by skulls as he enters the underworld. 🧪🏺

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Urn with jaguars and skulls: A burial vessel depicting a dead ruler's arrival in the Maya underworld

This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.

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Dr Sally Le Page @sallylepage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Doing some swotting on embryonic development for a podcast I'm hosting and came across @profaliceroberts.bsky.social's hand drawn videos. Incredibly clear explanations, would recommend. (though I am very envious of her drawing skills!) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Lockdown Embryology - bite size videos exploring the amazing development of a human in the womb - more coming soon - YouTube

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So WHY CAN’t WE? I’d like some new teeth please. And new cartilage behind my patellae, while we’re at it. Whoever the creator* was, they were a bit sloppy. *Spoiler: there wasn’t one. Our bodies were assembled piecemeal over millions of years by a process (Natural Selection).

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Adam is my friend, so I'm biased. But he's a darned sight better than the rest of them. Which presumably is why Badenoch fears him. Which is presumably why he's banned.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a wrap! Goodbye Sri Lanka - what a wonderful country - with so many rich layers of history. Watch out for Ancient Sri Lanka by Train on @channel4.bsky.social in the New Year!

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gbrunstrom.bsky.social @gbrunstrom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading about Brittany when you notice out of the window that you're looking down on it. Thank you for the holiday company @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 22/09/2026

For millions, Terry Pratchett opened the door to a lifelong love of reading. The passage below, from Reaper Man, has always struck us as one of his most moving – a humanist meditation on death and legacy that continues to be read at humanist funerals today. #GNUTerryPratchett

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 18/09/2026

'By the time I finished it, I knew I'd left that faith behind.' Writing in the Guardian, our Vice President Alice Roberts on the book that ended her faith – Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker – and on becoming a humanist long before she knew the word for it. @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

When i picked up Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker. I was already beginning to seriously doubt the Anglican faith i'd been brought up in. By the time i finished it, I knew I'd left that faith behinds. biological diversity could be entirely explained through natural processes; there was no need - and no evidence of - a divine creator. I became a humanist although I didn't know the word for it back then.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s good to be back in India! New archaeological adventures await…

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’d forgotten about this demonstration - a blast from the past with the male reproductive system on my programme, Don’t Die Young, 20 years ago! youtu.be/iIMbsosjRXA?...

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Male Reproductive Organs - Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Beautiful #IndieBookshop editions of The Goddess Queen by Alice Roberts ✨ Sprayed edges ✨ Map design endpapers ✨ Indie exclusive edition Ancient history, high politics, sex and power collide in this dramatic story of Cleopatra and Antonius. www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hope this isn't a total "find and replace" on all official NHS documents - if I'm asked if I have "a warm hand over" in my pants next time I have thrush, I'm going to be very confused.

Story about NHS replacing "discharge" with "a warm handover"

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i'm thinking we, as a species, lost the plot. don't know where. but if we're talking about AI rights while the rights of trans people, pregnant people, immigrants, and Black and brown people are daily eroded, we messed up somewhere.

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Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My first novel for adults - has gone straight into the SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LIST! Thank you all my lovely readers!

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Beginning to think we might want to worry more about out of control tech bros as compared to out of control AI.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m having a lovely, lovely time editing my latest book, with the help of my very human editor Kat. AND NO AI! Tell me how you’ve avoided AI this week.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Just wanted to share what a trawl around Facebook for torc AI slop revealed... Brace yourselves - it's *so* very bad! 🤮 1/3 #Archaeology 🏺 #AI #Torcs #Gold

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I went back to listen to it and it’s genuinely quite shocking.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A third of nurses and a third of doctors were born overseas. Without immigrants the NHS would collapse. You are more likely to be treated by an immigrant than to be behind one in a queue. Massive underfunding of our NHS and lack of social housing were a political choice.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

2 years ago in a museum in Athens, I met a wonderful Jewish woman who told me, “With my right eye I cry for the Jews of Israel; with my left, for the Palestinians.” I’m pleased our government has finally taken some action. The violence needs to end, then a peace process can begin.

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Jim Leary @jimleary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s wonderful to see our research finally out. It shows that the amazing Devil’s Arrows in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire were transported 18km from Brimham Rocks (not Plumpton!) to the site. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/4…

Two tall tapering megaliths forming the Devil’s Arrows.

A massive grey megalith with blue sky behind.

One of the more squat megaliths with a sunburst behind it.

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

Sitting at a height of 262m OD, Barbury Castle hillfort has stunning 360° views South across #Wiltshire and #Hampshire, north to the Cotswolds and NE to the hillforts of Liddington and Uffington It's an amazing place 😍 Can't believe we haven't visited for 3 years 📷 Sept 2023 #HillfortsWednesday

The wind ruffled grass covering the earthen rampart and ditch of an Iron Age hillfort looking out at ploughed fields below

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/09/2026

There's a constant insinuation that Ed Miliband is not a 'real Jew', and it seems very bad

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fair play to Ed Miliband, who has broken the political consensus, spoken sense in the Commons and acknowledged our shared humanity. Of course, the government could and should go much further, especially in condemning the continuing horrors in Gaza and stopping ALL arms sales, but this is a start.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 08/09/2026

Two things: one, no, it won't, because cancer isn't one disease with a single cure that's just waiting to be found, and two, why is the economics editor writing about tech, and indeed health research, when he clearly knows fuck all about either subject? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Buried in this article is a key quote from Prof Chris Bakal, at the Institute of Cancer Research - about applying AI to medical challenges: "It does not need a giant data centre to run. The future of medical AI will not belong to whoever builds the biggest computer… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

having seen it in Sydney (!) i can confirm this is totally brilliant!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you enjoyed Chris Packham's Evolution series - you'll love this! 4 billion years of evolution in one evening - I'm live on tour across the UK this November... www.alice-roberts.co.uk/tour

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hearing these two amazing actors reading my book - bringing it to life! - is so wonderful! Pippa Bennet-Warner (who has starred in so many roles - Doctor Who, Gangs of London, Elden Ring) & Harry Lloyd (Robin Hood, Doctor Who and GoT - as Viserys Targaryen - as well as Viktor in Arcane!) Sound up!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m very sad that Bristol Zoo is gone. It was a great place for families, in the heart of the city. No doubt the larger animals needed rehoming in more suitable spaces, but it could have been kept as a botanical garden - rather than being sold off to developers. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...

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'Seeing our beloved Bristol Zoo in its current state of disrepair is a tragedy'

Tom Jones says Bristol has lost something "unique and irreplaceable" after the zoo's closure in 2022

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