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Human evolutionary genetics, University of Cambridge; Darwin College. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช

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Maybe this has been fixed then in Tahoe because what you describe doesn't work in Sequoia. Will try after an upgrade.

04.03.2026 11:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Literally does not work though, for me at least. When you navigate to other/new directories, does the setting apply? If so, what OS version?

03.03.2026 18:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Currently required to use MacOS, which I'm told by fans is a great experience.

So: is it possible to force the Finder program to display all directories in list view by default? Because apparently whatever the fuck the 'Use as Defaults' button in the View/Options dialog does, it's not this.

03.03.2026 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assessing the Potential of Latent Class Modelling for Classifying Stone Artefacts and the Quantification of Technological Diversity - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology - Archaeological typologies are used to determine the number and diversity of artefact forms within a prehistoric toolkit. However, objective classification is...

With @elliescerri.bsky.social and Matt Grove, we explore latent class modelling for quantifying stone tool assemblages in our new paper published in the Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology ๐Ÿ˜Š link.springer.com/article/10.1...

01.03.2026 09:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Either way I think Chinese lady sauce is definitely something else.

02.03.2026 22:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Gist: UK Labour's FG mastermind The UK Labour Party is being run into the ground, thanks to adopting FG's election tactics. This is the Gist.

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...

27.02.2026 14:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AIs canโ€™t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

I guess they haven't tried running it on WOPR yet..

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

26.02.2026 08:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Charles I catching a lot of strays in the UK media today.

19.02.2026 19:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940โ€“1538 | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940โ€“1538

My first proper first-author paper has been published in Antiquity! The article is fully open access, so itโ€™s free for anyone to read and share. The research came out of my PhD and uses a โ€œwhole-townโ€ isotopic analysis approach to explore diet in Medieval Cambridge๐Ÿบ 1/4

tinyurl.com/mu8a38zb

18.02.2026 14:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 49 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Aspergillus fumigatus - 29.9 crossovers per homologous chromosome pair! That makes about 1500 recombination map units per chromosome....

16.02.2026 19:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even people who never went to his island got cash for themselves and their work, and sold him their influence and reputation. You can be sure that is happening with all these billionaires, corrupting democratic society as a whole, not just the obvious assholes. 'Meritocracy' is a total shit show.

16.02.2026 12:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think there's much more to it though. If it was all just supremacists and sex that would be one thing, but the only reason we are even hearing about this is because of the paedophilia and trafficking. Epstein is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the corruption of big money.

16.02.2026 12:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Honestly even before the sex trafficking, people demeaned themselves by hanging out with this guy.

16.02.2026 11:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Re Pinker's description of Epstein, I'm not sure he even rose to the level of kibitzer or dilettante. Total spoofer would be the Irish idiom. And yet supposedly smart people devoted all that time to him, and Harvard gave him an office.

16.02.2026 11:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If so, proof that god is Jewish.

10.02.2026 23:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And so demonstrates once again that the vain boasts of men are false and their works transient.

10.02.2026 12:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up.

TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no.

It's not that hard to just say no.

09.02.2026 15:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2182 ๐Ÿ” 291 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

Looks like Palantir's fee to Mandelson's company was good value for money for them. How corruption works.

08.02.2026 12:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborneโ€™s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right

๐Ÿ”ดThe End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff

As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborneโ€™s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-end-of...

08.02.2026 14:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 313 ๐Ÿ” 160 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
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The Essay - Almost Famous - 3. Re-classifying Gwen Raverat - BBC Sounds Ian Sansom reflects on changing cultural values through five almost-famous reputations.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

05.02.2026 22:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But even focusing on stoves, it would be interesting to know what proportion of them are used only a few days a year vs all winter as a primary source of household heating, and how this varies by rural/urban setting. A blanket ban seems to make as much sense as banning BBQs.

04.02.2026 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They note that other studies at different sites have found much lower wood-burning proportions. Equally the fact that vehicle emissions also include highly toxic gases, seems to be ignored in reports. This study does not indicate that traffic is less harmful overall than wood burning stoves.

04.02.2026 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Clearly, reducing any source of emissions will improve air quality. But the fact that both sample sites were distant from major roads, where traffic and diesel emissions in particular might be more prevalent, and which most of us have to encounter regularly in our lives, is important context.

04.02.2026 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The authors used a matrix factorisation approach to infer source contributions based on chemical composition, and found a contribution of 19% for signatures associated with seasonal softwood burning, 6% for year-round burning (e.g BBQs, garden waste), & 22% for traffic-related sources.

04.02.2026 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Comparative receptor modelling for the sources of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at urban sites in the UK The concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the UK has been decreasing in the last few decades but remains the leading environmental healtโ€ฆ

I've seen the claim many times recently that wood-burning stoves and fires produce more pollution than road traffic. It seems to be based on this paper, which studied particulate matter in air at two Birmingham locations in 2021/22.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

04.02.2026 12:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An important and tragic find. The events on Wandlebury Hill, close to the Iron Age Hillfort in the Gogmagog Hills (with optional hill figures), tells you something about how the high prehistoric places were used in 9th century ๐Ÿบ
#HillfortsWednesday
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04.02.2026 09:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 41 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Google Disables Search for Book Previews Google has disabled search functionality for preview books on Google Books, leaving users unable to search through pages that remain visible on the platform.

This is a good explainer of Google's latest theft of the commons. THE COMMONS: Not private property. Most of the books and documents are public domain. They could have written a few lines of code and just limited to those. They did not. The long game is to own us.

winbuzzer.com/2026/01/28/g...

03.02.2026 19:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 61 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Yeah, that's not how it works. Long way to go yet.

03.02.2026 23:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Most won't be able to read this as it's paywalled, which is a shame because it's a savage and accurate indictment of Blair and Mandelson, and by extension a whole shower of New Labour types, many of whom can now be found as advisers and backers of Keir Starmer.

03.02.2026 17:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In Anglo-Saxon architecture, Roman stone meets a timber way of thinking: stone becomes articulated into the Saxon timber-centric world view. I suppose, in this way, it is also a memory as well as a material. Here at All Saints', Earls Barton. ๐Ÿ“ธ my own.

03.02.2026 07:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 310 ๐Ÿ” 47 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5