#alison macintosh

[walkthegale]

"Originally based on award-winning novels by crime writer Ann Cleeves, the new series sees Calder and Tosh travel to the isolated hamlet of Lunniswick to investigate the sinister killing of an elderly woman.

The team discover that the body of the retired social worker has been out in the elements for a number of days. The case will see Tosh and Calder excavate the victim’s life, past and present, as well as the lives of those who knew her. They soon begin to uncover dark secrets and terrible deeds at the heart of this closeknit community."

[novemberhush]

In honour of International Women's Day, list eight of your favourite fictional women from eight different fandoms, in no particular order.

Thanks for tagging me, @littleblackraincloudofcourse ! We’re a little late, but we’ve got the spirit!❤️

1) Melinda May (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

2) Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)

3) Tina Belcher (Bob’s Burgers)

4) Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)

5) Dana Scully (The X Files)

6) Samar Navabi (The Blacklist)

7) Alison ‘Tosh’ MacIntosh (Shetland)

8) Abbie Mills (Sleepy Hollow)

I tag @chaoticfandomgirly @dontcallpanic @sassenach-on-the-rocks @sara1002sm @all-or-nothing-baby @zerokrox-blog @portlandwithyou @argylepiratewd @thesongofsoleil and anyone else who wants to play (doesn’t matter if we’re mutuals or not). No pressure on anyone who doesn’t! (Also, I added gifs to mine, but it’s fine to just list them if you’d rather.)❤️

(And before anyone comes at me about the spelling of Tosh’s surname, I personally would spell it ‘Mackintosh’, but in series one the credits spell it as ‘MacIntosh’ and then from series 2 they spell it ‘McIntosh’, so go figure.)

[drjohnweston]

[allmysmolbirbs]

So I was looking at Earth 11 stuff and was trying to think of what Batwoman’s alter ego might be named

A. Bryce. But that’s cursed so no

B. Other names that start with B. That’s another obvious choice, but I don’t think that most parents go “I like the letter B. Let’s do Bruce for a boy and Brooke for a girl.” (or maybe they do idk)

C. Bruce was a popular name back when Batman was first released. It was the 64th most popular boy’s name to be exact. Unfortunately, the 64th most popular girl’s name that year was Marlene. No. Other popular names from 1939 that I like Helen, Joanne, Jaqueline

D. Bruce is a Scottish name (via the Normans). Scottish girls’ names I’ve heard in the States Alison, Nora, Blair

E. Bruce like Robert the Bruce? Rebels- Christina (Christina of the Isles), Flora (like Flora Macdonald), Anne (Lady MacIntosh) or Royalty- Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria

F. The most roundabout way probably: Bruce means willowland and Leanna means willow

Idk man I just had fun thinking about this. Anyone have any opinions?

[bumblebeetrading]

NEW AUDIOS

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1/10/2020

Hamilton - 05/24/2019 - San Francisco, CA - Julius Thomas III (Alexander Hamilton), Julia K. Harriman (Eliza Hamilton), Darnell Abraham (u/s Aaron Burr), Sabrina Sloan (Angelica Schuyler), Isaiah Johnson (George Washington), Simon Longnight (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Brandon Louis Armstrong (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Rubén J. Carbajal (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Darilyn Castillo (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rick Negron (King George III), Vincent J. Hooper (Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), Andrew Wojtal (Samuel Seabury), Christopher Campbell (Charles Lee), Brendon Chan (George Eacker), Tiffany Mellard, Emily Tate, Brion Marquis Watson, Sheridan Mouawad, Jennifer Locke, Morgan Anita Wood, Elijah Reyes. 

11/29/2019 - Madison, WI - M4a (Untracked) - RoseRedTrading's Master - Nick Sanchez (u/s Alexander Hamilton), Emily Jenda (s/b Eliza Hamilton), Nik Walker (Aaron Burr), Jen Sese (s/w Angelica Schuyler), Marcus Choi (George Washington), Warren Egypt Franklin (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Desmond Sean Ellington (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Elijah Malcomb (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Nyla Sostre (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Neil Haskell (King George III), Julian Ramos (u/s James Reynolds/Philip Schuyler/Doctor), Aaron J Albano (Samuel Seabury), Gabriel Hyman (Charles Lee), Trevor Miles (George Eacker), Demarius R Copes (Ensemble), Julia Estrada (Ensemble), Kristen Hoagland (Ensemble), Lili Froehlich (Ensemble), Marcus John (Ensemble), Quiantae Thomas (Ensemble), Samantha Pollino (Ensemble) notes: Rare capture of these three understudies performing together! First recording of Jen Sese as Angelica for a full show. 

09/24/2019 - tjonc’s master - Austin Scott (Alexander Hamilton), Jennie Harney-Fleming (s/b Eliza Hamilton), Gregory Treco (s/b Aaron Burr), Mandy Gonzalez (Angelica Schuyler), Nicholas Christopher (George Washington), Kyle Scatliffe (s/b Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Wallace Smith (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Anthony Lee Medina (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Joanna A. Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Marc delaCruz (u/s King George), Roddy Kennedy (u/s Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), Thayne Jasperson (Samuel Seabury), Robert Walters (u/s Charles Lee), Terrance Spencer (George Eacker) 

1/8/2020 - 2nd UK Tour - musicalgifs's master - Lauren Drew (Catherine of Aragon), Maddison Bulleyment (Anne Boleyn), Lauren Byrne (Jane Seymour), Shekinah McFarlane (Anna of Cleves), Alicia Corrales-Connor (u/s Katherine Howard), Athena Collins (Catherine Parr)Notes: Alicia came from the Bliss cruise ship, where she was principal Howard, to understudy the role while alternate Howard Jen Caldwell is emergency covering in the West End production of the show. This is Alicia's tour debut. 

1/6/2020

12/13/2019 - Salford (Evening) - spicybelladonna's master - Cassandra Lee (u/s Catherine of Aragon), Maddison Bulleyment (Anne Boleyn), Lauren Byrne (Jane Seymour), Harriet Watson (u/s Anna of Cleves), Jennifer Caldwell (u/s Katherine Howard), Maiya Quansah-Breed (e/c Catherine Parr) Notes: Four of the principal actresses called out but there were only three alternates, so Maiya made an emergency return to the show to cover Catherine Parr. 

12/21/2019 - Salford (Matinee) - Lauren Drew (Catherine of Aragon), Maddison Bulleyment (Anne Boleyn), Lauren Byrne (Jane Seymour), Cassandra Lee (u/s Anna of Cleves), Jennifer Caldwell (u/s Katherine Howard), Athena Collins (Catherine Parr) Notes: Cuts out during megasix intro. File Type: M4A 

10/20/19 - West End - Zara MacIntosh as Catherine of Aragon (alt Aragon), Courtney Bowman as Anne Boleyn, Collette Guitart as Jane Seymour (u/s Seymour), Cherelle Jay as Anna of Cleves (alt Cleves), Vicki Manser as Katherine Howard, Hana Stewart as Catherine Parr (alt Parr) Notes: mp3 file

10/19/19 - West End - Matinee - Jarneia Richard-Noel as Catherine of Aragon, Cherelle Jay as Anne Boleyn (alt Boleyn), Hana Stewart as Jane Seymour (alt Seymour), Alexia McIntosh as Anna of Cleves, Collette Guitart as Katherine Howard (u/s Howard), Danielle Steers as Catherine Parr

Notes: mp3 file. Cherelle's Boleyn debut!

10/27/19 - West End - Jarneia Richard-Noel as Catherine of Aragon, Courtney Bowman as Anne Boleyn, Hana Stewart as Jane Seymour (alt Seymour), Alexia McIntosh as Anna of Cleves, Zara MacIntosh as Katherine Howard (alt Howard), Danielle Steers as Catherine Parr Notes: mp3 file

11/24/19 ~ West End ~ Jarneia Richard-Noel as Catherine of Aragon, Zara MacIntosh as Anne Boleyn (alt Boleyn), Natalie May Paris as Jane Seymour, Alexia McIntosh as Anna of Cleves, Vicki Manser as Katherine Howard, Collette Guitart as Catherine Parr (u/s Parr) Notes: zip files. Zara's Boleyn debut! This audio is 2 for 1 limited trading, it's worth 2 audios or 1 bootleg.

01/04/20 - Australia - Evening - Chloe Zuel as Catherine of Aragon, Kala Gare as Anne Boleyn, Loren Hunter as Jane Seymour, Kiana Daniele as Anna of Cleves, Courtney Monsma as Katherine Howard, Vidya Makan as Catherine Parr. Notes: mp4. Second preview

07/17/19 - Chicago - Matinee - Miguel Cervantes as Alexander Hamilton, Keith Webb as Aaron Burr (u/s Burr), Alysha Delorieux as Eliza Schuyler, Nikki Renee Daniels as Angelica Schuyler, Tamar Greene as George Washington, Paris Nix as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Ebrin R. Stanley as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Jamaal Fields-Green as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Jared Howelton as King George (u/s King George)

09/15/19 - Broadway - Alison Luff as Jenna, Colleen Balliger as Dawn, Charity Angel Dawson as Becky, Todrick Hall as Ogie, Delaney Quinn as Lulu Notes: mp3 file. Gifted upon request. Alison Luff, Colleen Balliger, Charity Angel Dawson, Todrick Hall, and Delaney Quinn's last show. Many apologies, I'm not aware of the full cast. Notes: mp3 files. A slightly more detailed cast can be provided.

[kwebtv]

Shetland  -  BBC One  -  March 19, 2013 - Present

Crime Drama (26 episodes to date)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Douglas Henshall as DI Jimmy Perez (series 1–)

Alison O'Donnell as DS Alison 'Tosh' MacIntosh (series 1–)

Steven Robertson as DC Sandy Wilson  (series 1–)

Mark Bonnar as Duncan Hunter  (series 1–)

Julie Graham as PF Rhona Kelly  (series 2–)

Lewis Howden as Sgt Billy McCabe (series 4–, recurring series 1, 3)

Erin Armstrong as Cassie Perez  (series 4–, recurring series 1–3)

Anne Kidd as Cora McLean  (series 5–, recurring series 2–4)

Stewart Porter as Sgt Billy McBride  (recurring series 2; temporarily replacing Lewis Howden)

[architectuul]

The Women Housing Architects Of Britain

Although women contributed in many ways to British architecture before the twentieth century, they officially entered the architectural profession only after the First World War. The RIBA did not admit women until 1898, when Ethel Charles (1871-1962) became a member, opening the debate on women’s role in architecture and causing a legalistic and bureaucratic resistance. 

Elisabeth Scott’s competition design for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (1927) marked the beginning of a breakthrough for women architects. | Photo via Architecture.com - RIBA Collections

Since then, British women architects have fought to redefine their professional identity, gaining access to education and big projects and often demonstrating to be architecturally and socially innovative. Among them, a few remarkable figures worked for local authorities in London and contributed to the public good with bold, progressive and human buildings and their multidisciplinary skills. Mainly involved in housing projects and often collaborating with each other, Elisabeth Denby, Judith Ledeboer, Rosemary Stjernstedt, Kate Macintosh and Alison Smithson can be considered inspiring and unsung pioneers who played a crucial role in social architecture and in the formulation of housing policy. 

Elizabeth Denby, the England's Jane Jacobs, was an urban planner, housing consultant and social reformer. | Photo via Architects’ Journal

Elisabeth Denby soon became a champion of urban renewal and a fundamental figure for the development of British housing program. Collaborating with Maxwell Fry who defined her as the leading spirit in housing in the 1930s, she designed several inner city flats where she applied her innovative ideas to respond to residents’ needs. Their Sassoon House has been defined the first modernist workers’ dwellings in Britain.

Denby contributed to the discussion about residential planning with the book Europe Rehoused. 

Fry and Denby used Kensal House to put into practice Modernist ideas for social change starting at home, offering carefully-planned flats with generous kitchens, bikes storages, gardens, large balconies and nursery. | Photo by Edith Tudor Hart at RIBA Collections

Elizabeth Denby was on the RIBA Housing Group with Jane Drew, Judith Ledeboer and Jessica Albery. The result of their collaboration was a report published in 1944 where they expressed their views about the future of housing, inviting decision-makers and colleagues to opt for carefully-designed terraced houses and flats instead of inhuman high-density complexes.

Born Dutch-English, Judith Ledeboer was an architect who collaborated with David Booth and John Pickheard. She became another significant voice in housing policy. Astragal, the diarist in the Architects' Journal wrote in 1934: "In our little world Miss Denby and Miss Ledeboer wield more influence and get more work done than any six pompous and prating males". In 1941 was the first woman employed by the Ministry of Health responsible for housing. Ledeboer also advised local authorities on the reconstruction of post-war Britain and contributed to the establishment of those space standards that then became mandatory in all public housing.

Poster for a new housing estate in Poplar, which is being advertised as a paid attraction during the 1951 Festival of Britain. | Photo by Festival of Britain

Also other women architects worked for the public sector and took crucial roles in Britain’s era of social housing provision with major schemes in the 1960-70s. AA-trained, Rosemary Stjernstedt moved to Sweden to work as town planner and returned to England after Second World War, joining the London County Council in the Housing Division. There, she was the first female architect to achieve Grade I status and she became the first woman to reach senior grade I status in any British council county division in 1950.

Rosemary Stjernstedt with her fellow architects in the LCC Housing Division (1950). | Image via Guardian

Her best-known project was the Alton Estate, which she designed in the role of the team leader in 1951-55, described by Pevsner as architecture at ease. When London County Council was dissolved in 1964, Stjernstedt started working for Lambeth Borough Council under the guidance of Ted Hollamby, a committed socialist architect and planner. 

Alton Estate has over 13,000 residents with the brutalist architecture inspired by Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation. | Photo via The Modern House  

Under Hollamby, Lambeth's architects produced several housing and welfare buildings, making the borough now nationally known for the ambition and quality of its output. In 1968, Kate Macintosh also joined Lambeth's Architects' Department where she embarked on 269 Leigham Court Road, a sheltered housing for the elderly. Responsible for some of the most innovative housing schemes commissioned by several local authorities, Macintosh believed that one of the generators of our work was the search for social justice. She was only 26 when she began designing Dawson’s Heights. 

Leigham Court Road Robin London. | Photo © Kate Macintosh Archive 

Among architects who contributed to London’s social housing, Alison Smithson, born Alison Gills, gave life with Peter Smithson to the New Brutalism and its interest in accommodating and adapting to the real experiences and desires of ordinary people. She worked in the architecture department of the London County Council before starting a practice with her husband in 1950.  

Alison Smithson at Hunstanton Secondary Modern School, Norfolk, during its construction. | Photo © Nigel Henderson Estate If Rosemary Stjernstedt’s Alton Estate was clearly inspired by Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, Alison and Peter Smithson brought to light new theories in antagonism to the Swiss-French master’s principles. As the only woman in Team X, a radical group formed to replace the CIAM philosophies of high modernism, Alison stressed the importance of the real social architecture needs and housing design solutions becoming internationally influential with numerous theoretical writings. Recently, the western block of their famous Robin Hood Gardens complex has been demolished opening a large debate so that now part of the building has been preserved by the Victoria and Albert Museum and was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018.

In the Robin Hood Gardens the street-in-the-sky concept took form as broad aerial walkways into the long concrete blocks. | Photo © Lorenzo Zandri 2018

These five women are a most representative example of the extraordinary female contribution to social architecture in the United Kingdom in the post-war period when, despite the high pressure of housing needs, they proposed high quality projects designed for people. At a moment when the number of social homes being built in England is at its lowes and local authorities struggle in providing quality housing, we can learn from their experiences, projects and theories, recognising them as best practices and monitors for the current and future challenges.

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Pioneer Architects XV by Giorgia Scognamiglio and Lorenzo Zandri

[howaboutcultura-blog]

Prehistoria

Como bien sabemos, tanto la historia como la prehistoria tienen de personaje principal al hombre, al macho joven, con fuerza y líder de todas las acciones, pero ¿cómo esos hombres han llegado a ser tan robustos, altos, vencedores, etc.?

Efectivamente, las sociedades están compuestas por ancianos, hombres, niños y mujeres.

Dado que la representación iconográfica por excelencia no refleja fielmente los roles sociales y de género de la prehistoria y nuestro trabajo desea descubrir un poco más el funcionamiento de los hombres y mujeres en las distintas épocas de la humanidad, nuestra protagonista será la mujer, porque los logros de los hombres ya nos los conocemos muy bien.

 Comenzando por la prehistoria, aquella en la que ya el homo sapiens está consolidado, en principio nómada y posteriormente sedentario, vamos a descubrir su sociedad.

En primer lugar, las sociedades prehistóricas eran muchísimo más igualitarias que la sociedad de nuestros tiempos, debido a que le rendían un gran respeto a la naturaleza y mantenían un contacto directo con ella. Cosa que sociedades amazónicas que perduran en la actualidad también practican.

En esta sociedad, la mujer mantenía un papel igual de importante que el hombre o incluso mayor, que veremos a continuación.

Francisca Martín-Cano Abreu señala que “la mujer gozaba de un gran poder social y económico […] aportaba los dos tercios de las calorías necesarias para la supervivencia del grupo, tenía autonomía para moverse e ir a cazar o recolectar, y su doble aportación económica y reproductiva le permitía tener poder político y religioso”.

Desmond Morris añade “La muerte del macho no era tan desastrosa como la de la hembra, cuya presencia era necesaria para las crías. Por eso se la adoraba y divinizaba”.

Estudios como el de la Universidad de Cambridge, liderado por la antropóloga Alison Macintosh y publicado en Science Advances demuestran que las mujeres de la prehistoria eran entre un 5 y 10% más fuertes que las atletas más destacables de hoy en día.

Esto demuestra que las mujeres prehistóricas realizaban labores como arar la tierra, cavar, cazar, pescar, recolectar y cargar con mucho peso. Además de realizar sus labores biológicas (por los cuales era una deidad), como el parto, la lactancia y la maternidad en general.

Todo esto no quita que no hubiese una división en la sociedad, pero la que había se establecía por edad, se podría decir que por experiencia.

 En segundo lugar, podríamos hablar de las “profesiones” e innovaciones que introdujeron las mujeres a su sociedad. En el paleolítico, sus aportaciones fueron ser maestra-nodriza, curandera y sacerdotisa y en el neolítico, ofrecieron descubrimientos como herramientas, artesanías del tejido, curtido de pieles, cerámica, técnicas de modificación de alimentos, fármacos y minerales. Se da un mayor control sobre la naturaleza.

En tercer lugar, debemos comentar las creencias de la época, en la que predominaba el culto a la mujer, ya que se la adoraba como una deidad que la propia tierra ha ofrecido a la sociedad para dar vida a lo que les rodea.

Las madres eran las que dirigían la humanidad y tenían su progreso biológico: de joven a madre a anciana.

En el paleolítico predominaban las Esculturas de Venus, de entre 2 y 25 centímetros, en los que se exaltaba los pechos, el vientre y las partes femeninas, que eran las principales partes del cuerpo de una mujer que daban vida y la mantenían, por ello no se le daba tanta importancia a los rasgos faciales, aunque vemos que las extremidades anchas también nos dicen que en cuanto más rellena la mujer, mejor porque así tenía más posibilidad de sobrevivir y dar qué alimentar a sus hijos. Todo ello nos dice que las esculturas eran un imán, un amuleto para la fertilidad de la tribu.

En el neolítico ya se da culto a la diosa madre, ésta daba protección a la agricultura y el ganado de la sociedad, representada en figuras pequeñas de arcilla.

 Finalmente, debemos reflexionar sobre cómo hemos construido la historia para dar lugar a un presente más igualitario, para ello, hay que posicionar a la mujer en los actos y acciones en los que ha participado. La mujer debe ser reconocida por su trabajo y la importancia social que ha desarrollado y sobre todo, erradicar la imposición e idea esencialista y biológica que le hemos dado a los trabajos que se le asocian a las mujeres. Debemos representarlas en la historia y por tanto en los museos para que futuras generaciones puedan tomar un buen ejemplo de nuestro pasado.

[novemberhush]

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms

I was tagged by the lovely @zerokrox-blog (thanks, hon!😘) to name 10 of my favourite characters from 10 different fandoms, so, in no particular order, here we go.

1) Christopher Diaz (9-1-1)

2) Melinda May (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

3) Rafael Barba (Law and Order: SVU)

4) Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)

5) Kathryn Janeway (Star Trek: Voyager)

6) Aaron Thorsen (The Rookie)

7) Alison ‘Tosh’ MacIntosh (Shetland)

8) Harvey Specter (Suits)

9) George Crabtree (Murdoch Mysteries)

10) Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)

I tag @mistmarauder @smowkie @katries @fireladybuckley @foreverthemomfriend @firemedicdiaz @all-or-nothing-baby @portlandwithyou @tulipfromtheinternet @caroandcats and anyone else who wants to play. No pressure on anyone who doesn’t!❤️

(And before anyone comes at me about the spelling of Tosh’s surname, I personally would spell it ‘Mackintosh’, but in series one the credits spell it as ‘MacIntosh’ and then from series 2 they spell it ‘McIntosh’, so go figure.)

[drjohnweston]

Shetland Series 7 filming caught on the webcam at Eshaness Lighthouse

Via @onafi on Twitter

[honeybadgerradio]

JMac and the Misogynerds - Rant 93

Join Karen, Alison, Brian and Dr. Randomercam as they take on Jonathan Macintosh and his fantabulist display of being "the one good man."

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Check out the latest Honeybadgers episode.

[bitchesbrewcomedy]

Friday, July 5th!

8:30PM NO COVER Halyard’s Bar Backroom 406 3rd Ave Brooklyn, NY 11215

RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE

Reserved seats: If you do not arrive on time, you will lose your seat. Standing room available in the back!

Music By: Big Willy Nelson 

Comedy By:

Nathan Macintosh (Tonight Show)

Petey Deabreu (Comedy Central)

Liz Miele (Comedy Central)

Jeff Scheen (JFL)

Lisa Curry (Comedy Knockout) 

Hosted By: Alison Leiby (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

(Along with fellow Bitches Erica Spera, Naomi Karavani & Shelby Taylor)

[tesaonews]

Pesquisadores contam a coisa mais estranha que já fizeram pela ciência

Nem toda pesquisa científica é glamurosa. Na verdade, diversos experimentos exigem que os estudiosos por trás da empreitada se submetam a situações cômicas ou até bizarras. Todo pesquisador tem um bom causo científico para contar no almoço com colegas ou na pausa para o cafézinho. Nos últimos dias, essas histórias maravilhosas tomaram o Twitter, quando centenas de cientistas soltaram o verbo e abriram o jogo em uma thread genial: qual foi a coisa mais estranha que você já fez pela ciência?

Quem começou a brincadeira foi Jason Rasgon, da Universidade Estadual da Pensilvânia, que abriu os trabalhos em grande estilo. “Fiz enemas [introdução de solução no ânus] de nicotina em lagartas no meu pós-doc”, postou. O que se seguiu foi uma surpreendente avalanche de tuítes que escancaram o tipo de coisa às vezes degradante, mas sempre muito engraçada, que os pesquisadores fazem em nome da ciência.

What's the weirdest thing you've done for science? For me, it was giving nicotine enemas to caterpillars when I was a postdoc.

I'm certain this isn't the weirdest thing compared to what y'all have done

— Jason Rasgon (@vectorgen) January 24, 2019

Biólogos estão entre os que contaram as melhores histórias. Boa parte delas envolve sexo animal ou então interações inusitadas com alguma parte anatômica de animais (vivos ou mortos). São perfeitas para mostrar que a vida de um cientista nem sempre é entediante como muita gente pensa, e que grandes descobertas às vezes se escondem nos lugares mais improváveis. Confira abaixo alguns dos tuítes mais engraçados.

“Eu fiz uma boneca sexual para drosófilas e pintei ela todinha com feromônios” Dr. Orchid @BioShannon

Signed a sheet saying I would not purposely infect colleagues with Gonorrhea ….

— Estelle Caine (@caine_estelle) January 25, 2019

“Aprendi a apalpar galinhas com meu dedo indicador enluvado. Eu posso te dizer há quanto tempo ela ovulou” Dr. Stephanie Correa @Profa_Correa

I learned to palpate chickens with my gloved index finger. I could tell you how long since she had ovulated.

— Dr. Stephanie Correa (@Profa_Correa) January 25, 2019

“Uma amiga minha costumava masturbar coelhos para coletar sêmen. Eu amava tirar sarro dela por isso” Joseph Simko @Bamfurlough

A friend of mine used to masturbate rabbits to collect semen. I loved making fun of her for that, but she doesn't even rate in this thread.

— Joseph Simko (@Bamfurlough) January 26, 2019

“Fervi, higienizei e preparei na cozinha de casa cabeças de rato para determinar a melhor forma de preservar e expor seus pequenos crânios” Kimberly Moynahan @Kim_Moynahan

Boiled, bleached, and otherwise processed mouse heads in my kitchen to determine best way to preserve and display their little skulls.

— Kimberly Moynahan

(@Kim_Moynahan) January 25, 2019

“Medi as pélvis de humanos medievais durante meu doutorado e meu colar comprido entalou no canal de nascimento de alguém” Alison Macintosh @ali__macintosh

Measured Medieval human pelvises during my PhD and got my long dangly necklace caught in someone’s birth canal

— Alison Macintosh (@ali__macintosh) January 25, 2019

“Assinei um formulário dizendo que não infectaria propositalmente meus colegas com gonorreia” Estelle Caine @caine_estelle

Signed a sheet saying I would not purposely infect colleagues with Gonorrhea ….

— Estelle Caine (@caine_estelle) January 25, 2019

“Transportei 500 retos de raposa em decomposição na minha bagagem de mão em um voo da Ryanair” Charlie Evans @charlie_sci

Transported 500 decomposing fox rectums in my hand luggage on a Ryanair flight. https://t.co/9EVE7fIqn4

— Charlie Evans (@charlie_sci) January 27, 2019

“Fiz snorkel na água de refrigeração de uma usina de energia nuclear. No aguardo do desabrochar dos meus superpoderes” Fernando Mateos-González @Bioblogo

Snorkel in the refrigeration water of a nuclear power plant. Waiting for my super powers to blossom. pic.twitter.com/7X8KXjAvTF

— Fernando Mateos-González (@Bioblogo) January 28, 2019

“Uma vez deixei um rato muito doidão de óxido nitroso e cutuquei a bunda dele várias vezes com um alfinete para demonstrar inalação de anestesia” Ted Sweeney @MrFriendlyWalk

I once got a rat very high on nitrous oxide and poked its ass with a pin several times to demonstrate inhalation anesthesia.

— Ted Sweeney (@MrFriendlyWalk) January 25, 2019

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[atlanticcanada]

Macdonald Bridge closed for repairs on busy weekend in HRM

Halifax's Angus L. Macdonald Bridge is going to be closed for what promises to be a very busy weekend in the city.

It's not part of the “Big Lift,” though; instead, it’s routine maintenance as workers will be replacing a support bearing under the bridge.

“This one requires a full weekend closure because of its size and location on the bridge,” said Halifax Harbour Bridges spokeswoman Alison MacDonald.

This weekend, the Halifax Mooseheads are having their home opener and Hal-Con, Atlantic Canada’s largest science fiction and gaming convention, which will be held downtown.

The Mooseheads are close to sold out for their home opener.

“We’re going to have 9,000 plus in the building on Saturday night, so make sure you leave a little extra early and get here on time,” said Halifax Mooseheads manager of media relations and communications Scott Macintosh.

Jennifer Lambe, the executive director of Hal-Con, expects 9,000 people to attend this weekend.

“It's actually going to cause a bunch of delays with getting our actors to and from the airport, or guests who are in the comic or author world to the airport who have to fly home on Sunday,” Lambe said.

About a third of the attendees are expected to be coming from out of town.

“It's a little inconvenient, but certainly the bridge does need fixing and finishing, which I'm sure we'll all be thrilled about when it's done, so we support that, but we wouldn't have been upset if it had been a different weekend,” Lambe said.

On the Dartmouth side, the Dartmouth Sportsplex will host its annual Christmas craft show.

This is their 43rd year, so organizers aren't worried, even though they’re expecting more than 7,000 people this weekend.

“Two years ago, the Macdonald Bridge closed on the same weekend we were here and it didn't affect us,” said Frank Rickets, president of the Dartmouth Handcrafters Guild.

Halifax Harbour Bridges says the A. Murray MacKay will be open all weekend, and able to handle the increased traffic.

“Having one bridge closed, it is an inconvenience and we certainly understand that and hope that nobody cancels their plans as a result of it,” said MacDonald.

The work being done this weekend has to be done before it gets too cold.

Because it's getting colder and late into the construction season, they say they couldn't wait any longer to replace this bearing, which dates to the 1950s and is due for replacement.

With files from CTV Atlantic’s Emily Baron Cadloff.

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Wait, though, this leaves out the best part, namely how they figured this out. See, for years and years, anthropologists had been looking at prehistoric skeletons for signs of physical activity, and had concluded that while the men were generally super athletic, the women were not. The problem was, the standards they were using were based on male skeletons, and women’s bones react to stress put on them differently than men’s. 

So Alison Macintosh and her colleagues decided to compare the prehistoric women’s bones to those of modern female athletes (as well as some relatively sedentary women), and lo and behold, the prehistoric women's upper arms were the most similar to rowers, except they showed even more signs of physical activity. Not surprising, considering that twp of the major bits of “women’s work” consisted of grinding grain, which at that point in time consisted of manually crushing it between two rocks, and farming, which was done with hoes and digging sticks in the pre-plow era.

You can read the full National Geographic article here, or the actual scientific paper, which is blessedly open-source, here.

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Prehistoric Women Had Stronger Arms Than Competitive Rowers Today

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This article originally appeared on Time.com.

Today’s athletes may be strong, but they’ve got nothing on prehistoric women who spent their days harvesting crops and grinding grain. According to a new study in the journal Science Advances, the average woman who lived during the first 6,000 years of farming had stronger upper arms than modern-day female rowing champions.

The study “highlights the scale of women’s labor in prehistoric agricultural communities, and the hidden history of women’s work across thousands of years of farming,” says study author Alison Macintosh, a postdoctoral anthropology researcher at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Previous research has compared women’s bones to men’s of the same era, the authors write in their study. But male bones respond to strain in a more visibly dramatic way than female bones, they explain, which has caused scientists to underestimate the true nature and scale of the physical work done by women in prehistoric societies.

In this study, researchers used a CT scanner to analyze the arm and leg bones of living women, and compared them to those of Central European women who lived between 7,400 and 3,500 years ago—a time period that included early Neolithic agricultural eras into the Middle Ages. The living women were selected to represent a range of physical activity levels and included runners, rowers, soccer players and people with more sedentary lifestyles.

The researchers found that the early Neolithic skeletons (women who lived between 7,400 and 7,000 years ago) had leg bones of similar strength to today’s female athletes. But even when compared with women on Cambridge’s championship rowing team, the prehistoric women’s arms were 11-16% stronger for their size. They were also 30% stronger than the arms of the non-athletes analyzed in the study.

Women from the Bronze Age (4,300 to 3,500 years ago) had 9-13% stronger arm bones than today’s rowers, but they also had 12% weaker leg bones.

The researchers suspect that the early women’s superior arm strength came from the daily work they likely put in tilling soil, harvesting crops by hand and grinding grain to make flour. “For millennia, grain would have been ground by hand between two large stones called a saddle quern,” says Macintosh. “In the few remaining societies that still use saddle querns, women grind grain for up to five hours a day.”

Women were also likely involved in fetching food and water for livestock, processing milk and meat and converting animal hides and wool into textiles—evidenced by the variety of different behavior patterns reflected in their bones. Prior to the invention of the plough, the authors say, they also spent time manually planting, tilling and harvesting crops.

“By interpreting women’s bones in a female-specific context, we can start to see how intensive, variable and laborious their behaviors were,” says Macintosh. Comparing their bone characteristics to living people—whose exercise levels are known—also provides a better understanding of the real amount of physical activity these women got on a regular basis. (The Cambridge rowers, for example, trained twice a day and rowed an average of 75 miles a week.)

“It can be easy to forget that bone is a living tissue, one that responds to the rigors we put our bodies through,” Macintosh adds. Bone reacts and adapts to strain—like physical impact and muscle activity—by changing in shape, curvature, thickness and density.

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Bone strength is affected by factors other than behavior, Macintosh says, including genetics, nutrition and overall health. These differences between prehistoric and modern women could affect some of the results, she says, although behavior “is still likely to be responsible for the bulk of these differences that we’re seeing.”

“Our study suggests that this labor was likely more rigorous and intensive than what is required of most living rowers in their sport,” says Macintosh. “Our work also highlights the huge variability in the daily activities of women, giving us a wider appreciation of the scale and variability of things that women were likely doing in their daily lives.”

In today’s industrialized societies, strenuous physical activity is less common and easier to avoid, Macintosh adds—and for the human species as a whole, bone strength and mobility have suffered because of it. The study serves as an important reminder, she says, about the importance of exercise—recreational or otherwise, and for men and women alike—for building and maintaining healthy bones.

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