"At the time of his death in the 2nd quarter of the 5th cent. CE, G265 was infected with M. leprae ... The reconstructed bacterial genome belongs to branch 4, whose earliest known representative dates to Egypt between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #aDNA

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🏺 I often say #archaeology matters, and here's a brilliant case of exceptional impacts from a workshop course held in a male adult prison. It's uplifting, but also 💔: "The tactile nature of archaeology appealed to participants, as touch is often absent in prison." doi.org/10.1080/1465...

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Great talk last night from Kim Stanley Robinson & Ted Chiang, the latter’s parting words echoed @tressiemcphd.bsky.social : Nothing is inevitable. Don’t believe anyone who tells you so because they are trying to take away your agency. We can choose to make our individual and collective worlds better

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Out now 😊🐦‍⬛

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Wearing shoes seems to affect the volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of previous research into the evolution of walking

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