Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology.
Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
Adam Markham
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#Orkney
Brilliant!!
The scale of the Megaloceros horns is incredible (Zoology museum of the Jagellonian University). They grown them in a single year and then shed it, and repeated the cycle next year. How on Earth they acquired sufficient amount of minerals and nutrients?
🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
🧊🔥 New paper out! 🔥🧊
Several intervals of smaller-than-present glacier extent have been documented to date during the Holocene, but the earliest of these was previously unreported...
It's finally done, thanks to these incredible subfossil trees! 🌲💍
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
For those attending the #JuneClimateMeetings in Bonn this week, please join us at noon tomorrow (11 Jun) in room BONN for the IPCC side event launching the report of the #IPCC Workshop on Engaging Diverse Knowledge Systems held at University of Reading in February this year.
"When a site like the Beaufort becomes a symbol of either side in a conflict, it comes to be seen as legitimate target in the conflict. This is exactly why international law forbids turning cultural properties into military locations.”
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/06/10/i...
Wooden remains of a later prehistoric trackway at Lisheen, Ireland, damaged during industrial peat extraction.
Peatlands preserve organic archaeological remains but face many threats. We need to act now to save this fragile heritage.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
Life in the Last Ice Age, as Told by Squirrel Scat
Ancient DNA, preserved for 700,000 years in ground squirrel poop, offers a new view of Pleistocene ecology
by @moiradonovan.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/life-in-the-...
Lynn Campbell, Lecturer and Programme lead for the BA (Hons) in Culture and Heritage at UHI Institute for Northern Studies, exploring the social history of 18th-century #Orkney
tinyurl.com/4j8tmcyc
The festival founded by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies hits its 50th edition this midsummer and continues to connect culture and community. Also this week – is 432Hz the magic number?
Lynn Campbell, Lecturer and Programme lead for the BA (Hons) in Culture and Heritage at the UHI Institute for Northern Studies, is diving deep into 18th-century Orkney for her PhD research. By exam…
