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Iain Davidson AU

@archaeoiain.bsky.social

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Father, husband, grandfather, archaeologist, Emeritus Professor, Australian, aficionado of Iberia, archaeology of Aboriginal Australia, writer "Art or Scribbles? ..." w/ Springer (now published). I take photos. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578 .. more

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · Aug 30

My book on art was published on 14 August 2025. Here is a flyer which offers 20% reduction. I hope you enjoy it. The publisher has left the AI AlT text on the Figures, but they say that they will replace it. Let us hope so.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 6h

That's the point

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7h

Assuming it was a fair election. I suspect the evidence could show that he had fixes in in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 7h

Which country has a press that does "patient and rigorous work" and can the billionaires buy it to put an end to such dangerous information?😜

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

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Pipa @pipapipia.bsky.social · 21h

With this beautiful rose I wish you a good day and that the absurd wars end.😘❤️💔

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a training base for ICE. Or am I being too logical.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

My only worry is that such is the nature of the regime in your country that there might be an edict to kill all frogs so people will not know what they are. That would be sad.
On the other hand there will always be this picture to show the world how ridiculous your regime is.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

I was sitting over a beer with two very distinguished people when the Google Car drove past us. Not visible on the Google Street Map of that square.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 1d

"Why were Palestinians forced to negotiate an end to their own genocide?

It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate
an end to their genocide.

It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide."

-Diana Buttu (Palestinian rights lawyer)

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Stuart L. Riley @slriley.com · 1d

It's a fact

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

And can I say how much I hate what Nature and their stable do with figures. First, they all look the same, second they cram half a dozen figures into one, and third, they use far too many acronyms for easy comprehension. Fail, Nature. This is one that needs really good figures.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 1d

I saw that, glanced at it and decided that even I cannot pretend that I understand it. But it seems to be the sort of study that will set a new benchmark.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

We must do everything possible to rid Australia of the scourge of gambling.

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Bob Patalano @robertpatalano.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting new publication on the genomes of living apes, suggesting the split between humans and chimps is more recent than previously thought.

“Our analyses dated the human–chimpanzee split between 5.5 and 6.3 million years ago (Ma; minimum to maximum estimate of divergence)”
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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature

Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evolutionary comparisons.

www.nature.com

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

Not just "Americ First" but have ICE expressed a view about the likely employees. This is arse-about

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): This is a species in the Cardinal family. The bright coloured plumage of the male of this 14cm (5.5in) bird only develops in its second year. These North American birds feed on seed. Gorgeous photo taken by Stacey Rich Bergman in the United States. #bunting #usa

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 2d

THIS IS THE COOLEST WAR ZONE EVER‼️
Portland’s strategy …maybe if we act weird enough they’ll leave‼️

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

Every now and then Australia produces a politician of real quality--Brown, Windsor, Pocock--yet we have ways of bringing them down. We have to find ways of getting rid of the curse of gambling.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

PM criticises Pocock’s ban from parliamentary sports club but dismisses concerns about betting lobby

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 2d

Svanto Paabo on the possibility of using DNA to de-extinct a mammoth (or a dire wolf or a thylacine or ...)
"you can make an elephant have hair, with some mutation taken perhaps from a mammoth or maybe another animal. But that won’t be a mammoth: it’ll be an elephant masquerading as a mammoth."

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

Be careful what you wish for. If they replaced Albanese (which would be a good idea) we could end up with Marles (frying pan...fire). Chalmers would be better. Actually it is a pretty talentless lot. In the last parliament the ALP had some stated ideas. None implemented. Maybe go back to them.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 3d

Australian newspapers are reporting only the ceasefire, not Israel’s violation of it. The bombing hasn’t stopped but that’s an inconvenient truth.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 3d

The greatest relief must be for the people of Palestine, if the Zionists can accept that they should not continue to obliterate them.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 4d

No rabid environmentalists!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 4d

From The Guardian. Never forget the atrocity.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 4d

For once you can believe AI. But it is more than that. The continuous occupation goes back much longer than that for over 100000 years. And certainly much longer than any particular set of beliefs or the writing down of them.

Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 4d

From The Guardian:

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

This powerful JB Pritzker response to Trump's lawless threats is another reminder of what I tried to argue this morning: Pritzker understands Stephen Miller's theory of this moment, and he's responding accordingly:

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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