@peat_ryan

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography and academic lead ITRAX @GeographyUoM, Palaeoecologist, Palynologist, Environmental Archaeologist: Plants, pollen, people

 London, England
bbc.co.uk
Joined July 2012
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Outstanding gig @DvdAdult at Gullivers NQ
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The Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene saw massive human-linked #extinctions among #megafauna - but what happened to survivors? Based on genomics data for 139 extant megafauna, we show they experienced severe parallel declines as well @NatureComms 🦬🐘🐫🦒🦁 nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associa...

Nature Communications - Extinction of megafauna is a defining trend of the last 50,000 years. Here, the authors use genomic data to infer population histories of 139 extant megafauna, suggesting...

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Absolutely amazing @prsnl_trnr @DeafInstitute in Manchester last night
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‼️Exciting News! Our latest research paper on the fascinating world of food plants and human indicators from fossil pollen records has just been published in @Nature Sci Data. 📜 Thread #HumanHistory #paleoecology @BioUiB @IBED_UvA @mohnfoundation Paper: rdcu.be/dqf1e
Khoury et al. 2016 showed the primary regions of diversity of major agricultural crops worldwide.

ALT Khoury et al. 2016 showed the primary regions of diversity of major agricultural crops worldwide.

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@natbrusgaard and me have written something about the nodal role of #beavers in earlier Holocene forager landscapes of Northern Europe: doi.org/10.1177/095968362312… #multispecies #archaeology

Human-beaver cohabitation in the Early and Mid-Holocene of Northern Europe: Re-visiting Mesolithic...

The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) was an important member of Early and Mid-Holocene landscapes and animal communities in Northern Europe. Previous zooarchaeolo...

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Thank you for the t-shirt @GeographyUOM. It was my top for the school day! 🌏🌍🌎 One of my team visited on Saturday with her daughter. Both were so inspired by your department. We will try to pass some of that on to our Geography students! #Geographyteacher
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Fabulous to meet so many visitors to the Geography Laboratories for the @OfficialUoM #openday Thanks to our brilliant students for being such great ambassadors.
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Ecological evaluation of the development of #Neanderthal niche exploitation sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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..:we’ve grown! Fabulous to have @Dael_Sassoon & @ben_sci joining the team. #Lavazza sales will be up!
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Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Human adaptation to diverse biomes over the past 3 million years

Earth system modeling shows how Pleistocene hominins spread across and selected different habitats.

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Finally! Here the TRIAL VERSION 2023.1 of THE MAP. Pls do comment, using either mail or reply function. We have tried to include all of the many comments that have reached us, but there is certainly room for more. @leizarchaeology @oeai_oeaw @BarbaraHorejs
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I’ll be running the Manchester Marathon today and then 4 weeks later the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon, all to raise money for the Leeds Hospitals charity, Rob Burrow MND Centre in Leeds. If you can give anything that would be much appreciated. justgiving.com/fundraising/P…

Running for Rob - I'm supporting Rob for a new MND Centre in Leeds

Help Peter Ryan raise money to support Leeds Hospitals Charity

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I'm marking undergraduate essays, and find myself giving a lot of feedback that sounds as though it comes straight from my "How to write essays..." textbook... Because it does! Here is some of my advice for student writing (see images).
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Dating of shell bead from Cumbrian cave puts earliest human remains in northern England to just after the end of the ice age around 11,000 years ago #MesolithicBritain phys.org/news/2023-01-earlie… – at Manchester, England
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Couch to 10 Mosses is BACK 🎉🥳 #CouchTo10Mosses (1/8) ⬇️
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…some fabulous #undergraduate #dissertation lab work going on this week! #diatoms #microplastics #soils #heavymetal #diss #ICPOES
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Pleased to finally be releasing our pollen models back to the wild. Our collection dating back to 2016 (67 plant species and counting) can now be downloaded from 3dprint.nih.gov/discover?uid… More to come in the future. #3dpollen #3Dprinting #palynology
Screenshot of pollen thumbnails from Hub's NIH 3Dprint exchange webpage

ALT Screenshot of pollen thumbnails from Hub's NIH 3Dprint exchange webpage

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Outstanding @fontainesdublin gig @O2VicWarehouse
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…..another brilliant first year #Keswick fieldcourse. #Newlands
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My thoughts on a modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories ~54,000 years ago at Grotte Mandrin, France
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