Alexis McBride

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Alexis McBride

Alexis McBride

@LexMcBride

Archaeologist. Museum educator @ROMToronto Public space aficionado. Fantasy lover. Tea drinker. She/her. @[email protected]

Toronto, ON Katılım Nisan 2009
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#WOMENSART
#WOMENSART@womensart1·
Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was placed in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #WomensArt One of the many true stories in the @womensart1 book
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Where have all the #museumed people gone? Trying to find my peeps elsewhere!
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Got setup for a new #museumed lesson @ROMtoronto today! Students will be exploring pairs are species to see if they can figure out what ties them together! (Hint: they evolved together!)
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John Hawks
John Hawks@johnhawks·
“What color were Neandertals?” For a hundred years, artists and scientists have depicted them basically like Europeans. Now genomes are providing new evidence about their pigmentation, but most is still unknown. A look at the developing science. johnhawks.net/weblog/what-co…
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@Pyropithecus Don’t apologize! I just didn’t see it until today and wanted to give it some love!
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New Scientist
New Scientist@newscientist·
Male cockroaches secrete a few drops of sugary fluid on their backs to entice females to mate with them. But since glucose is used in poison baits, some females have developed an aversion to the sweet stuff – forcing the males to change the formula for ... #Echobox=1680432280" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/236671…
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Sean Carleton
Sean Carleton@SeanCarleton·
For those interested in helping to identify and confront residential school denialism, please consider sharing/using this primer Daniel Heath Justice and I wrote - rather than giving denialists more attention (which is what they desperately want): theconversation.com/truth-before-r…
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Really interesting article about a researcher developing really profound and important relationships with Indigenous communities and truly incorporating TEK into the research. thefern.org/2023/02/the-fu…
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Did something new with my @romtoronto #museumed students today. I put a piece of paper in the middle of the table, between the #objectbasedlearning to encourage all students to contribute rather than one controlling the writing - it worked so well!
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Gary Younge
Gary Younge@garyyounge·
"People say “we won the war”, even if they didn’t fight and weren’t born. They say “we won the World Cup”, even if they didn’t play. But when you mention slavery, they say: “ It wasn't me. I wasn’t alive.” This contradiction is clearly unsustainable." bit.ly/3zdYxgq
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Interesting article about "domestication syndrome" and how some species might have self-domesticated, developing similar features to other domesticated species phys.org/news/2023-03-a…
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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY
AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY@AfricanArchives·
One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white. THREAD
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UM Paleontology
UM Paleontology@UMichPaleo·
Spring's softening ground reveals hidden treasures, like the mastodon tracks found by a farmer in Saline, Michigan in 1992. While dredging a pond, over 20 circular footprints were uncovered - the longest mastodon trackway discovered yet! Check them out at @UMMNH! #fossilfriday
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Paleontology term from native Siberians: Upon discovering tusks & body remains thawing from the permafrost in Khanty-Mansia region, local Ugric Mansi people gave them name mē̮ŋ-ońt (“earth-horn”), which evolved to become word MAMMOTH! 📷Sculpture in Khanty-Mansia
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