Rob Bryn Taylor
@robbryntaylor.bsky.social
Science, music, nature. COVID aware. He/Him. Peace ☮️✌️😷
De Chelonian Mobile. Nil desperandum!
No DMs. Taking a small break. See you all soon.
De Chelonian Mobile. Nil desperandum!
No DMs. Taking a small break. See you all soon.
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One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
One of the half-human, half-deer headdresses found at the important Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Dating to around 9000 BC, this example is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #Mesolithic #StarrCarr #Archaeology
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An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
November 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
An ox-head Iron Age bowl handle from Llantrisant Fawr in Wales. Some 2000 years old and gloriously ’Celtic’ with incised tongue. Known (I believe) as ‘bovril’ the vessel was worked on by @archaedelle.bsky.social . Having seen it this week I thought it perfect for #findsfriday #archaeology #celts
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The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave in Germany’s Swabian Jura. It is on display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Tübingen.
Museum record:
www.emuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/objects/1862...
Museum record:
www.emuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/objects/1862...
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The ‘Vogelherd Horse’ was excavated in 1931, together with a number of other ivory animal figurines from the Vogelherd Cave in Germany’s Swabian Jura. It is on display at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Tübingen.
Museum record:
www.emuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/objects/1862...
Museum record:
www.emuseum.uni-tuebingen.de/objects/1862...
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Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Charlie Mingus - Love Chant
Love Chant
YouTube video by Charles Mingus - Topic
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Charlie Mingus - Love Chant
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El Deir fortress (El Munira monastery), Roman fortress in Kharga oasis, Egypt. It was built at the very end of the third century AD. It is surrounded by a Roman cemetery. #RomanFortThursday
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
El Deir fortress (El Munira monastery), Roman fortress in Kharga oasis, Egypt. It was built at the very end of the third century AD. It is surrounded by a Roman cemetery. #RomanFortThursday
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1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of Coh IV Gallorum (built 3rd C AD).
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of Coh IV Gallorum (built 3rd C AD).
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
2. Housesteads/Vercovicium fort on #HadriansWall, constructed between AD 122-130.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own
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A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180.
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A relief sculpture of a blacksmith at work in his workshop. He’s surrounded by the tools of his trade. It was found in Tomb 29 at the Necropolis of Portus on the Isola Sacra. AD 160-180.
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
‘What we do in life echoes in eternity.’ 😊
📸 my own, #OstiaAntica.
#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome #Archaeology
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It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It wasn't all wretched though. These documents record a religious festival (possibly the oldest written evidence for a midsummer celebration in England) at the fort, where beer, wine, pork, fish sauce and more was consumed!
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn how Roman fish sauce was made in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Already two more BA.3.2.2 from Ireland today, both closely related to the first (and both with the ORF1a:∆141-143 deletion also found in most European BA.3.2.1).
Only real change was N:T271S in one of the two. (A29086T was inherited, but C->G muts like this are very rare.)
Only real change was N:T271S in one of the two. (A29086T was inherited, but C->G muts like this are very rare.)
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Already two more BA.3.2.2 from Ireland today, both closely related to the first (and both with the ORF1a:∆141-143 deletion also found in most European BA.3.2.1).
Only real change was N:T271S in one of the two. (A29086T was inherited, but C->G muts like this are very rare.)
Only real change was N:T271S in one of the two. (A29086T was inherited, but C->G muts like this are very rare.)
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My work on SARS-CoV-2 variants informed a recent piece in The Lancet: "Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2".
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵
Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2
The constant emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants has driven the COVID-19 pandemic
and sustains the current endemic. Saltation variants, such as BA.2.86,1 encode highly
mutated spike (S) proteins th...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My work on SARS-CoV-2 variants informed a recent piece in The Lancet: "Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2".
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵
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When I smell cookies baking in the oven
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
When I smell cookies baking in the oven
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Absolutely gorgeous speckled wood #butterfly just chilling in the ivy 😍🦋
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Absolutely gorgeous speckled wood #butterfly just chilling in the ivy 😍🦋
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Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights.
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights
Bridget Phillipson told the BBC the climbdown would enable wider benefits to be delivered quickly.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Minister defends 'pragmatic' U-turn on workers' rights.
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
It was a manifesto pledge
Why no 'pragmatic' U-turn' on nationalising water, energy, rail rolling stock companies and freight; ending privatisation of the NHS and social care; taxing the super rich?
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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"Your body is not functioning, basically. [Crippling fatigue. Inability to think straight]"
Medical scientist Rebecca Broni on living with #LongCovid for five years
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Medical scientist Rebecca Broni on living with #LongCovid for five years
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Long Covid turned my life upside down, says scientist
Five years on from contracting Covid, medical scientist Rebecca Broni is still living with its effects and now faces a cut in financial support.
www.rte.ie
November 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"Your body is not functioning, basically. [Crippling fatigue. Inability to think straight]"
Medical scientist Rebecca Broni on living with #LongCovid for five years
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
Medical scientist Rebecca Broni on living with #LongCovid for five years
www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
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#OneHitHistory Jimi would’ve been 83 today… #BOTD in 1942, legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix became, possibly, the unlikeliest of US #OneHitWonder honorees in 1968. “All Along The Watchtower,” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, spent 8 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #20. #OneHitWondered
1968 HITS ARCHIVE: - All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience (mono 45)
YouTube video by AnotherProf
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
#OneHitHistory Jimi would’ve been 83 today… #BOTD in 1942, legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix became, possibly, the unlikeliest of US #OneHitWonder honorees in 1968. “All Along The Watchtower,” by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, spent 8 weeks on the US #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #20. #OneHitWondered
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6️⃣ IPPR : report estimating £8 bn/year lost productivity due to health issues including Long Covid. In 2022 they estimated 400K fewer workers, when 1.7 mill were affected.
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Long Covid and health problems in pandemic cost UK economy £8bn and 400,000 workers
Government urged to overhaul approach to public health after research reveals country has lost 400,000 workers to ill health
www.independent.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
6️⃣ IPPR : report estimating £8 bn/year lost productivity due to health issues including Long Covid. In 2022 they estimated 400K fewer workers, when 1.7 mill were affected.
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
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🧵1️⃣ It’s UK Budget Day - so here’s a budget #RachelReeves hasn’t announced: a proper Long Covid Budget. We've estimated the real economic burden of Long Covid at £12-15 BILLION A YEAR.
At a £ a minute that puts us back in 26,500 BC - the Late Upper Paleolithic 😳
#Budget2026
At a £ a minute that puts us back in 26,500 BC - the Late Upper Paleolithic 😳
#Budget2026
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🧵1️⃣ It’s UK Budget Day - so here’s a budget #RachelReeves hasn’t announced: a proper Long Covid Budget. We've estimated the real economic burden of Long Covid at £12-15 BILLION A YEAR.
At a £ a minute that puts us back in 26,500 BC - the Late Upper Paleolithic 😳
#Budget2026
At a £ a minute that puts us back in 26,500 BC - the Late Upper Paleolithic 😳
#Budget2026