Merci à Thomas Jolly et son génie créatif pour cette cérémonie grandiose. Merci aux artistes pour ce moment unique et magique. Merci aux forces de l’ordre et de secours, aux agents et bénévoles. Merci à tous ceux qui y ont cru. On en reparlera dans 100 ans ! ON L’A FAIT !

So Gojira at the Paris Olympics. Why!? Don’t they know the standard formula of getting some old washed out has been to sing a washed out hit!? Well done Paris on trying something sonically & visually very different. l!👏👏 The winner was metal!

This part with Gojira just before Aya Nakamura at the #OpeningCeremony! Cool as!!!

This is rich - one of the primary reasons scientists don't have a lot of time to think is that @nature and its ilk have promoted a culture where the primary goal of science is to produce bloated Nature papers that require lots of time and money, but little thought, to produce.

Never even liked tennis anyway.

TERFs: "there is no room for ambiguity, you're either a man or a woman" Imane Khelif: "hi I'm a cis woman" TERFs: "changed my mind, I suddenly recognize the existence of complex sex biology but just long enough to exclude this one person from womanhood"

Do you know where the allegations that Algerian boxer Iman Khelif was trans started? Surprise, it was Russia. Let me explain in a short thread. 1/8

As a PhD social scientist, I gotta say that the whole Imane Khelif testosterone 'controversy' is based in misunderstandings of the actual science & is oblivious to the differences that create much larger advantages *within* men or women’s sports than even across the two 1/

i am so distraught that the most privileged people alive can start a global witch hunt against a woman for being insufficiently feminine. jk rowling, logan paul, elon musk. braindead, morally bankrupt people who traumatized someone 4 life and will wake up tomorrow and get coffee

Marie Curie did not have to fit 9 deliverabkes, 17 milestones and 44 tasks in a 24 months gantt chart as we, who got the grant in her name, have to do

Academia be like

GWAS for Nobel prize laureates.

Looking forward to co-host this session at TAG45 @ Bournemouth in December!

Happy International RSE Day! Share your achievements from the past year(ish) with hashtag #IntlRSEday - we want to celebrate you, your projects, collaborations, and successes! Today is all about recognizing your hard work!

Those of you coming along to the Theoretical Archaeology Group at Bournemouth today pop along & say hello - esp if you are in the ‘Is Heritage Archaeology a thing?’ Session. Some of our vets are there too & we hope for a link to Ukraine. TAG45 @ Bournemouth #archaeology #wellbeing #veterans

JOIN US!!

Getting it all started at TAG45 @ Bournemouth, I'm looking forward to meeting interesting people with interesting ideas. I'll be tweeting on and off, happy to talk to anyone :) #Archaeology #TheoreticalArchaeology #TAG45

Currently sitting in an enlightening session about heritage "therapy" (if we can talk about "therapy", according to one of the talks!) and it was so enriching to hear about this great work. TAG45 @ Bournemouth #TAG45