Archaeologists do it in holes: Tales from the stratigraphy

[Sheilbh]

I suppose this is archaeology?

Scientists were able to find enough of the 1918 Spanish Flu to gene sequence it in some preserved lung tissue in German museums. I thought this was really interesting - but also, perilously close to the Jurassic Park slippery slope
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/human-tissue-preserved-world-war-i-yields-new-clues-about-1918-pandemic

[Tonitrus]

[Barrister]

I suppose this is archaeology?

Scientists were able to find enough of the 1918 Spanish Flu to gene sequence it in some preserved lung tissue in German museums. I thought this was really interesting - but also, perilously close to the Jurassic Park slippery slope
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/human-tissue-preserved-world-war-i-yields-new-clues-about-1918-pandemic

Article says they didn't sequence the entire virus so there was no risk.

[Malthus]

Curious that no one is actually working on the cock.

Allegedly, you are supposed to do that at night, if you are a young woman and want to get pregnant.

[Jacob]

Curious that no one is actually working on the cock.

Allegedly, you are supposed to do that at night, if you are a young woman and want to get pregnant.

I don't think time-of-day matters for getting pregnant.

[Valmy]

Curious that no one is actually working on the cock.

Allegedly, you are supposed to do that at night, if you are a young woman and want to get pregnant.

I don't think time-of-day matters for getting pregnant.

Yeah that is more of a social convention.

[crazy canuck]

Curious that no one is actually working on the cock.

Allegedly, you are supposed to do that at night, if you are a young woman and want to get pregnant.

That would be working off the clock.

[Malthus]

Curious that no one is actually working on the cock.

Allegedly, you are supposed to do that at night, if you are a young woman and want to get pregnant.

I don't think time-of-day matters for getting pregnant.

But seriously: it is (or was) a custom for young women who were having trouble conceiving to go out at night and have sex lying on the giant's cock, for fertility.

Presumably the sex would have something to do with it, but there was also folk magic involved!

[Sheilbh]

Yeah that is more of a social convention.

It's also the difference to a romantic, folk magical evening and dogging.

Article says they didn't sequence the entire virus so there was no risk.

I said perilously close

[Admiral Yi]

It came very close to being higher than 0 risk!

[Sheilbh]

A mere skip, jump and an amberised mosquito away

[jimmy olsen]

Disastrous decision for British Archaeology. Sheffield University has one of the world's leading Archaeology programs.

https://twitter.com/Hugh_Willmott/status/1397481270792310794

It is with great sadness and regret that I have to report the
@sheffielduni
executive board had decided to press ahead with their plan to close
@UniShefArch
and move only two small elements of our teaching into dispersed departments where they shall surely wither and quickly die

[Maladict]

Oh wow, I didn't think they would push through so fast, what with all the protests. 

[The Brain]

You have become that which you swore to study!

[Maladict]

and move only two small elements of our teaching into dispersed departments where they shall surely wither and quickly die

It belongs in a museum