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Andrew Curry
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Journalist covering archaeology, science, culture, politics, business, and cycling. When not on my bike, I'm found most often in Science, National Geographic & Archaeology. WahlBerliner, on Signal at andrewcurry.01 More at andrewcurry.com .. more

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Andrew Curry is an Australian producer and actor who has appeared in many television drama and comedy series, and in feature films.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 23m
This sounds awesome, is it open to the public?

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 1h
Germany tied with Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Luxembourg at #4
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h
The U.S. passport has fallen out of the top 10 most powerful passports globally for the first time in 20 years.

The American passport is now in 12th spot, tied with Malaysia. A decade ago, the U.S. passport topped the index.
U.S. falls out of top 10 on list of the world’s most powerful passports
The U.S. is now in the 12th spot — it was first a decade ago. The index ranks how many destinations a passport holder can visit without needing a visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h
The U.S. passport has fallen out of the top 10 most powerful passports globally for the first time in 20 years.

The American passport is now in 12th spot, tied with Malaysia. A decade ago, the U.S. passport topped the index.
U.S. falls out of top 10 on list of the world’s most powerful passports
The U.S. is now in the 12th spot — it was first a decade ago. The index ranks how many destinations a passport holder can visit without needing a visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 5h
Analysis of ancient birch bark tar from Neolithic settlements shows it was used for toolmaking, pottery repair, and chewing, preserving DNA that offers insights into daily life and diet. doi.org/g96xtk
Sticky secrets: What ancient chewing gum is telling us about Neolithic communities
Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people chewed on and spat out long ago.
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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 1d
A powerful personal testament from Tom Bowman of NPR about the Pentagon attempt to exert complete control over all information. Protecting classified is of course fine. But when neither Fox News nor NY Times sign up to your policy, you should ask yourself if you are getting something very wrong.
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d
Wow.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump points at UAE official during photo op and says, "A lot of cash. Unlimited cash."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump points at UAE official during photo op and says, "A lot of cash. Unlimited cash."
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d
That's almost exactly 5 kilos, maybe they want to harmonise with the Europeans?
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 2d
Don't forget @sallyjenx.bsky.social publicly defended Lance Armstrong long after it was clear he is a vindictive liar, and has such dull journalistic instincts she co-authored his whole autobiography without spotting any red flags at the height of his doping campaign.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d
And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d
And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?
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Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d
This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d
Just astonishing – first to serve more than 4 decades for a crime you didn't commit, then to be deported for something you didn't do? I can't imagine.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d
The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 3d
Brave souls jumped into the 13 C #Spree today to pressure the #CDU-led city government to allow swimming in the river. (No one's quite sure why they're against, except that it doesn't have to do with cars or the suburbs.) As someone prone to hypothermia I stayed dry–aber im Frühling bin ich dabei!
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d
The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 5d
Talk about being in the right place at the right time -- this @apnews.com photographer was the one to tell a Nobel prize winner she won: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
What’s it like to tell someone she won a Nobel Prize?
Science chats with photographer Lindsey Wasson, who captured how Nobel winner Mary Brunkow reacted to life-changing news
www.science.org
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d
"Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. [Waymo] proudly proclaims that its cars do around 250k trips a week. Yet in NYC alone that number of trips is made every three days using the city’s bikeshare scheme."
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
www.economist.com
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d
Just checking: If you're anti-anti-fascist, what does that make you?

Opposing Nazis & Hitler in Weimar-era Germany was a good thing, right?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 6d
This seems like the precise definition of "penny wise, pound foolish."
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 7d
This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 7d
This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 7d
That's a pretty core!
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 7d
I wrote about the recovery of the Bronze Age Peebles Hoard a few years ago, which from the outside at least seemed like a best-case scenario. Maybe because the guy who found it (and then spent two weeks sleeping next to it in the rain) was Polish? www.popsci.com/science/scot...
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists
When amateur treasure hunters uncovered a Bronze Age bounty in Scotland, what they did next sets an example for conservationists everywhere.
www.popsci.com
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 7d
And, in Germany's case at least, that's a few decades with a booming post-war economy and high government spending, neither of which are guaranteed for the U.S. in the decades to come.
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 7d
The Trump administration has restricted drone and model aircraft flights over 935 square miles of Chicago, likely in an effort to prevent journalists from documenting ICE activity: www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage | ACLU
We can’t let government block drone photography of newsworthy events simply by claiming a need to fly their own aircraft in an area or claiming the existence of vague “security threats”
www.aclu.org
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 8d
As a resident of a non-North American continent, I regret not being eligible to receive squid facts via text message.
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 8d
Powerful @maxkozlov.bsky.social interview with Susan Monarez, who was fired from the CDC for standing up to Robert Kennedy's demands. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired
“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.
www.nature.com
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 8d
Just got my absentee ballot for Prop. 50 here in Berlin (California likes to make it easy for all Californians to vote, so weird and small-d democratic). Will definitely be sending this one home ASAP.
Absentee ballot for California's Proposition 50.
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 9d
I mean, it's a mosaic, so they're probably quite "puzzled" as well.
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Andrew Curry @spoke32.bsky.social · 9d
If you cut the top off a mountain, is it still the top of the mountain? Or is it just a rock with an interesting back story?
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 9d
If you want to see the top of the Mont Blanc, you have to come to the Netherlands, we have it in a museum here.
Horace Bénédict de Saussure cut it off in 1787 and his son sold it to the cloggies in 1802.
It's at the Teylers Museum, one of the most gorgeous museums ever.
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