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Dr Lia Betti
@liabetti.bsky.social
Lecturer in Quantitative Anthropology at UCL. Research interests in human diversity, health inequalities, bioarchaeology, and the evolution of the pelvis and childbirth.
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Worrying the degree of microplastics accumulation in a variety of tissues and why so much in the brain? We do need to get a handle on health/immune impacts as well as tackling the volume of plastic usage and waste 🧪

Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’
Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’

Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight

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We're hiring a permanent Lecturer in #QuantitativeSocialScience@ioe.bsky.socialwww.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...#Sociology#SocialScience#Academia#QuantitativeResearch#MachineLearning#BigData

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🎓🚨 Job opportunity with us at UCL Anthropology - 9 months contract from Jan 2025 - Human Behavioural Ecology: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London
UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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RSrebeccasear.bsky.social

LSHTM is making some of its MSc level demography courses available as stand alone modules - on demographic methods & population studies. I am obviously biased but they’re great modules for those who want training in demography without signing up for a degree 😊 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

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Bbsky.app

Welcome to all of our new users, and a special welcome to the UK, which had the most Bluesky signups of any country for 5 out of the last 7 days! What makes Bluesky different? Some key features: 🧵

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Will the Mystery of the #Voynich#Manuscriptwww.theatlantic.com/...#medieval@lisafdavis.bsky.social#BookHistory

Will the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript Ever Be Solved? - The Atlantic
Will the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript Ever Be Solved? - The Atlantic

The Voynich Manuscript has long baffled scholars—and attracted cranks and conspiracy theorists. Now a prominent medievalist is taking a new approach to unlocking its secrets.

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PSsheencr.bsky.social

Still a lot of Covid about in the UK with the summer surge being driven by the FLIRT variants. Take care when planning travel/events and do read this latest data summary from the ever excellent @chrischirp.bsky.social 🧪

And the Covid wave in England continues...
And the Covid wave in England continues...

The Covid summer goes on.

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PTpwgtennant.bsky.social

↙️ Data scientist vs statistician ↘️

Popular shooting meme from the Paris Olympics 2024, showing Choe Dae-han, all geared up on the left (as the data scientist) and Yusuf Dikec, gearless with hand in pocket (as the statistician) on the right.
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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.

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Uhhhh… this is probably bad 😬😬

Screenshot of tweet from "stilloranged": weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... chat gpt
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here". the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in 10th grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct.. because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption… it's something they think they LEARNED
this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things… were wrong, and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
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"The electorate votes based on how they understand the situation and evaluate the candidates. That is, of course, in large part shaped by the media [...] and the media is right now campaigning hard for a Democratic party loss" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit
Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit

Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Dr Lia Betti
@liabetti.bsky.social
Lecturer in Quantitative Anthropology at UCL. Research interests in human diversity, health inequalities, bioarchaeology, and the evolution of the pelvis and childbirth.
171 followers135 following22 posts
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