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andydnunn.bsky.social
More moth highlights from Wits Rural Facility at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa: Comibaena leucospilata, Heterorachis devocata, Problepsis digammata and Cometaster pyrula. #teammoth
September 23, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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#CNRSinternational 🌏 Le CNRS lance son 7ᵉ Centre International de Recherche avec l’université du Witwatersrand, en Afrique du Sud. Premier IRC sur le continent africain, il vise à relever des défis majeurs du XXIᵉ siècle : jeunesse, IA, climat, santé et innovation scientifique.
Le CNRS lance un nouveau centre international de recherche avec l’université du Witwatersrand | CNRS
Le CNRS lance son septième Centre International de recherche, cette fois avec l’université du Witwatersrand en Afrique du Sud.
www.cnrs.fr
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
cisneros.bsky.social
Passando aqui pra lembrar que o dicinodonte Cistecephalus era fofinho.
#FossilFriday
O esqueleto completo de um pequeno dicinodonte dentro de uma vitrine, visto de costas, sobre um fundo amarelo. Fotografia tirada na Universidade de Witwatersrand, Joanesburgo.
March 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
First stepped onto this campus more than 30 years ago as a young academic in his second job. This is the seventh annual weeklong return since the pre-pandemic years and since quitting the academic's life in 2013. Midwinter on the ridge of the geological Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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The physics building of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, on a foggy winter morning. The Great Hall of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, under a blue sky with a few patchy clouds seen across the library lawns with deciduous and evergreen trees at the edges of the lawns on the left and right sides of the frame. The library lawns with the Cullen Africana Library on their western edge on the East Campus of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; blue sky and clouds can be seen to the west. The Wartenweiler Library on the eastern edge of the library lawns on the East Campus of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, under blue skies with a few white clouds. Deciduous and evergreen trees can be seen between the lawns and the buildings.
June 23, 2026 at 12:35 PM
richardjbutler.bsky.social
Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University:

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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
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September 8, 2026 at 6:35 AM
ithacanexile.bsky.social
There is a twisted irony in Usha Vance, descendent of Indian ancestry, visiting Greenland as a representative of a now empire with an eye to colonizing and destroying it, like the Witwatersrand of South Africa and the open cast mines of Australia. #DemVoice1
March 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
hildegunnink.bsky.social
Day 3: presented some of my research at the Witwatersrand University linguistics seminar.
June 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
lhr-sa.bsky.social
📍 Chalsty Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
📩 pilgathering@gmail.com

Not presenting? Registration to attend remains open until 16 October 2026.

Submit your proposal today!
September 28, 2026 at 6:45 PM
allochthonous.bsky.social
Supercool!

And now I’m wondering about what this means for the Witwatersrand gold deposits (formed around 3 billion years ago) and the eternal debate about when plate tectonics started)…
jascha.bsky.social Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · Sep 2
“Seismic waves from earthquakes produce strong enough electric voltages in quartz to extract dissolved gold from fluids infiltrating the mineral.
This mechanism can help explain the creation of large nuggets and observed highly interconnected gold networks within quartz vein fractures.”
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Scientists find seismic role in formation of large gold nuggets
Forces unleashed by quakes squeeze quartz enough to generate electric fields, driving formation of deposits
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2024 at 8:39 PM
masterhinkel.bsky.social
Witwatersrand - Das ist dort, wo das meiste Gold gefunden wurde.
October 1, 2026 at 4:58 AM
prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Latest Global Past lecture by Dr Sam Challis (Director, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand) now on YouTube:

‘Prehistoric’ peoples’ history: colonisation as seen through indigenous eyes in the rock art of southern Africa.

#Archaeology

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Dr Sam Challis (Director, Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand)
YouTube video by The Prehistoric Society
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March 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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University of Witwatersrand [OC] /r/brutalism
September 26, 2023 at 2:03 AM
Full article: Catalogue of immature hominin fossils from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Catalogue of immature hominin fossils from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Background: This study evaluates the fossil remains of South African hominins curated at the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (Wits University), the largest repository of human evolution as...
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July 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
butcallmenate.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky, I’m a #queer #historian PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand where I am studying the #Gay and #Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand #GLOW and their role in the #anti-apartheid movement. Stay tuned for queer leftist politics.
November 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM
acfick72.bsky.social
The end of this Monday in #NorthJozi.

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Sunset over rooftops in Johannesburg, north of the ridge of the Witwatersrand. The horizon is yellow-orange, and grey thunder clouds are rolling in from the southeast. Clouds tinted pink by refracted sunlight at sunset. A seven storeys tall plane tree can be seen in the bottom left corner. The ridge of the Witwatersrand just north of the Johannesburg city centre; along the bottom of the frame, from left to right, the Ponte Tower, the Hillbrow Tower, the chimney of the hospital crematorium, and the wards of the Charlotte Maxeke public hospital. The setting sun colours the horizon yellow-orange as grey clouds roll in from the southeast. Satellite dishes and mobile network relay consoles can be seen in this view of the Northcliff of the Witwatersrand ridge north of Johannesburg's city centre.
March 30, 2026 at 5:21 PM
callanbentley.bsky.social
#FridayFold: banded iron formation from the Contorted Bed outcrop across the street from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. ⚒️
Rock sample of a fold, sectioned perpendicular to the fold axis, then ground and polished. It is held in a geologist's left hand. The rock consists of brown and white layers between 1mm and 1cm thick.
December 6, 2024 at 6:49 PM
cobbo3.bsky.social
South Africa’s Witwatersrand (Wits) University last week launched its first dedicated AI institute to help drive the technology’s development across the continent
November 27, 2024 at 5:51 PM
roofbezuidenhout.bsky.social
Playlist with songs about Johannesburg - mostly Afrikaans.
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Met Main Reef Road Langs: Songs oor Johannesburg en die Witwatersrand - YouTube
Mostly Afrikaans songs about Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand. Main Reef Road links Springs in the east to Mogale City (Krugersdorp) in the west.
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May 21, 2026 at 9:41 AM
theguardian.com
Rhino horns made radioactive to foil traffickers in South African project
Rhino horns made radioactive to foil traffickers in South African project
Isotopes can be detected at airports and borders even in large containers and are harmless to the animals A South African university has launched an anti-poaching campaign to inject the horns of rhinoceroses with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents. Under the collaborative project involving the University of the Witwatersrand, nuclear energy officials and conservationists, five rhinos were injected in what the university hopes will be the start of a mass injection of the declining rhino population, which they are calling the Rhisotope Project. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
journalphp.bsky.social
Meet our new editorial team! Here is new associate editor Mary Carman from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa marycarman.com #philsky #philpsych #philsci
Photo of Mary smiling Mary’s interests
November 19, 2024 at 7:29 AM
callanbentley.bsky.social
A #FridayFold in the Contorted Bed of the Witwatersrand Group in South Africa. ⚒️
More photos of this outcrop in this 2012 blog post: mountainbeltway.all-geo.org/2012/01/06/f...
13 years ago, Callan sits on an outcrop of banded iron formation with tight to isoclinal folds of various shapes. He wears a baseball cap with sunglasses perched on top. The rock layers are red, white, and black.
October 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
acfick72.bsky.social
Storm brewing and rolling across the crest of the Witwatersrand north of the Johannesburg city centre.

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Dark clouds rolling in a northwesterly direction over the ridge of the Witwatersrand; the Hillbrow tower can be seen rising just above the crest.
December 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
barbarahorejs.bsky.social
We're celebrating the 'Austrian Archaeology in South Africa day' tomorrow, 2.12. at Witwatersrand University in Joburg! 🥳 Spoiler: new data from #RoseCottageCave excavations - come around! #ViolaSchmid @fwf-at.bsky.social
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Austrian Archaeology in South Africa
Symposium | Johannesburg
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December 1, 2024 at 11:52 AM
acfick72.bsky.social
Midafternoon, winter on the Witwatersrand ridge in #NorthJozi.

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The view into the Western Garden in the afternoon sun. The canopy to the west with the southern crest of the Westcliff of the Witwatersrand ridge running from left to right in the middle the frame. The view of the canopy southwards. The blue sky and canopy looking northwards, with the treeline on the southern crest of the Westcliff of the Witwatersrand running from left to right along the bottom quarter of the frame.
June 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM