Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering
Assoc. Professor University of Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 Co-director Human Evolution Research Institute | geology, isotopes, U-Pb dating carbonates, human evolution, southern African palaeoclimates | equitable fieldwork | decolonisation |she/her
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringI have nothing of substance to add re: the condemnation of paleo associations with Epstein, but as the initiator of one of the more recent high-profile SVP ethics cases who spent months going through their process, I have some thoughts re: SVP's handling of ethics cases/reports. A thread 🧵:
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringTHE WONDER OF LIFE ON EARTH - published today www.panmacmillan.com/authors/henr...
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand’ Blog on Anthropic’s site www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringReally SVP? You’re just going to ignore decades of sexual and academic misconduct, marrying a student AT one of your conferences, and every report I’ve filed (implying that’s what you do with reports) to defend famous Horner? You’d rather have pedophiles than students is your message?
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering#WomeninScience in #SouthAfrica ⚒️ HERI Master’s student Marang Keebine studies past #climate & environmental change using sediments from an ancient lake in the Karoo. Her work sheds light on how dry landscapes responded to drought and rainfall – and how we can respond today.
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering🧪🏺 WOWWWW New dates in SE Asia for rock paintings - major implications: - nature of early aesthetics, innovations - relationship to oldest known Australian settlement? - and (IMO) impacts claims that cave art in Europe >50 Ka is necessarily work of #Neanderthals www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringWant to help restore jobs and the integrity of our federal science workforce? Come join the fight! : www.standupforscience.net
- This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringBreaking news and congratulations to the team, Sulawesi preserves evidence for the oldest art yet recorded, and strengthens claims for the early colonisation of Australia. At 68k BP this art is almost 30k years earlier than the accepted record for Europe. Bravo🏺🦣🎨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering📢 ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT 🫣to submit your abstract for #EGU26! 👇 Your next steps? ✔️Your Copernicus.org login details ✔️ An EGU membership (www.egu.eu/0ZFO4P/) ✔️ Your abstract🥳! Submit NOW: www.egu26.eu 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026, 13.00CET 🎥: Lukas Hörtnagl on #imaggeo
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringHappy to have participated for years in the sedimentological study of Thomas Quarry I which is featured today in @nature.com for having yielded hominin fossils with traits reminiscent of Homo sapiens. rdcu.be/eX1Pm @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringTime for another science carol! 🎄 Some researchers stuck a duck to a rock, so we sang a song about it. As you do!
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering1. No. Not like this. 2. Some of us come from cultures where we have always spoken with our elders and ancestors. We certainly never needed the intervention of digital age technology to do so.
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringDoodles for Hong Kong 🇭🇰 In response to the tragic Tai Po fire, I'm doing charity commissions. Anyone who puts over £25/250HKD into "Feeding Hong Kong" or Hong Kong SPCA can request a coloured doodle of any prehistoric animal 🙏
- My group’s brutally competitive end of year quiz is featured in this lovely piece! We are busy gearing up for this year’s version…
- From sweets and mulled wine to quizzes and ice skating trips, many laboratories develop traditions to show appreciation to colleagues go.nature.com/4it9ZuK
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringI would die for pissfingers
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickeringone of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn PickeringYes, you CAN go back in time! This StoryMap allows readers to experience several hundred million years of Earth history in just minutes with a scroll-driven animation. Happy GIS Day too! ow.ly/ZjFV50XsVbc Want to know how the team did it? ow.ly/gC3k50XsVQY ⚒️ 🧪 #gischat #geogsky #geogchat 🌎 🌍 🌏
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- Reposted by Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe” www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
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