Archaeology prof at @SFU. BA from Sheffield Archaeology (since destroyed by the management). PhD from Liverpool Anatomy. Trainee Canadian. From Essex, UK.
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Upper Palaeolithic mariners? Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring | Antiquity cup.org/4yUT0sF
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“An academic who criticised universities’ marketing efforts as ‘bad’ is under investigation by his institution after fellow staff members raised complaints.”
As reported in Times Higher Education, CAF is currently supporting the academic in question, Dr Mike Ryder, following Lancaster University's decision to investigate him over criticism of its marketing practices.
We have secured specialist external legal counsel to advise on the case, and a formal letter challenging the basis for the investigation will be sent to the University on Dr Ryder’s behalf early next week.
Full story in @timeshigher:
timeshighereducation.com/new…
If you’re an academic facing an investigation or disciplinary action over your lawful speech, please get in touch: [email protected]
What on earth are the senior admin of @LancasterUni doing? Criticising universities’ marketing efforts would clearly be covered by academic freedom even if Dr. Ryder were, say, a lecturer in microbiology or nuclear physics. That he’s a lecturer in MARKETING makes the academic freedom case so obvious that even a primary school kid could understand it.
Some road-testing of the new uni-focused free speech/academic freedom law about to happen, by the look of it.
This thread links to a THE article on this stupid incident and the ‘offending’ blogpost.
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In 2021, workmen digging a rainwater cistern in Hazeweidestraat, St Juliaan, Belgium spotted human remains in their trench. A few days later an archaeological excavation was undertaken by the Flanders Heritage Agency. Artefacts recovered alongside the remains showed them to be those of a soldier who had served in the 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
The Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), launched an investigation to name him. Research identified twenty men from the regiment missing in the area, all of whom died in the Spring of 1915.
Following genealogical investigation, living descendants of the missing men were traced one by one until eventually DNA testing proved that the remains were those of Lance Corporal Claude Stanley Dell. He was laid to rest last week at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium.
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Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat. 3-D skulls reveal biomechanics of ceratopsians’ headgear, giving new insight into combat methods sciencenews.org/article/horn…
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🧵Arif Ahmed, Director for #FreeSpeech and #AcademicFreedom at @officestudents , gave the Keynote at the Conflict on Campus event organised by @SimonFanshawe & @Sparemu today.
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Professor Tim Coulson explores why humans remove body hair, examining cultural anxieties and evolutionary theories behind our unusual hair patterns. the-european.eu/story-67923/…
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The MindCORE Research Fellowship at UPenn is now accepting applications!
🧠 Topic: Human intelligence & behavior
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2026
hbes.com/mindcore-research-f…
#Postdoc #CognitiveScience
This is a useful interview with the historian Sir Antony Beevor about Putin’s attack on Ukraine and related issues.
youtu.be/VtIMuznQdOA?si=nXRu…
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Only in London! 😂
Hundreds of people gathered at London Fields on Saturday evening to watch two men dressed as medieval knights jousting on e-bikes.
The event was organised by east London artists Jack Carden and Camtholomew the First, who reportedly advertised it as a joke before it unexpectedly took off.
#London #LondonFields #EastLondon
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Glacials favored simple learning; interglacials complex teaching, but after ~200 ka culture increasingly escaped climate | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - cup.org/4itN5Vu
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A breed apart: Inuit bring their own special sled dogs to their expansion across Arctic. royalsocietypublishing.org/r…
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As of 1300hr, the BBC TV News correspondent on the streets in France is still going with: "largely the protests were peaceful" [verbatim quote], which tells you where on the political spectrum the rioters stand.
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Constancy of Sexual Dimorphism in the Infracranial Skeleton onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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A mosaic of technologies: Chronological and lithic evidence for late Middle Pleistocene population dynamics in Sudanese Nubia (Northeast Africa) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Why Anthropologists Should Study Dogs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
