#NHS DAILY WORKLOAD since 2022 111 - 55k calls a day - unchanged 999 - Ambulance 21k - up 1.6k Hospital - Urgent Admissions - 13k - unchanged - A&E - 48k Majors - up 2.5k - A&E - 28k Minors - up 2.5k - Treatment - up 8k - Outpatients - up 50k General Practice - 1.6m - up 230k

#TrilobiteTuesday From the public galleries of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide, a very fine fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Redlichia rex.

*This* is what the people of Pompeii, and Herculaneum, and many other hapless souls saw—this is what a pyroclastic density current looks coming RIGHT at you. Filmed from a CCTV camera during the Mount Semeru eruption on Java, Indonesia on 4 December 2022. Video credit: PT United Tractors Tbk

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: the giant Meganeuropsis hawks Dunbaria in Early Permian Kansas, reaching to trap it with long, spiny legs. This image is set at the coast to reflect the marine occurrences of Meganeuropsis and Dunbaria fossils - not all Carbo-Permian insects lived in swamps! #sciart

Outside Gideon Mantell’s house in Lewes after the #WealdenGeologicalAssembly. How he managed his patients, and some 250 home deliveries a year and still found time for the dinosaurs Iguanodon, Hylaeosaurus and much much more is hard to imagine. #FossilFriday

@bsky.app #FossilFriday Arborea arborea, one of many impressive enigmatic Ediacaran fossils from the Flinders Ranges on display at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.

In February 1790 a baby was born in Lewes, Sussex who went on to discover the dinosaur ‘Iguanodon’. A tremendous Saturday at the #WealdenGeologicalAssembly with the Moon and Saturn shining over Gideon Mantell’s birthplace on the way to the pub!

Late night birdcam bonus video from July 26th. Extreme closeup of Ms Finch eating safflower seeds. #birds

The back end of a really big and incredibly deep iguanodontian dentary. Sadly no teeth remain. Found at Sandown #IsleofWight. #FossilFriday.

📣 Hey PalAss participants! The 2025 Annual Meeting in Portsmouth is getting closer 🦕📍 Just a quick reminder: If you’re tagging us on social media, don’t forget to use our official hashtag #PalAss25 🙌✨ Happy #FossilFriday! 🐚🦴

Last weekend was my oldest's 21st birthday, and for her party we had to come as someone from the last 5021 years. Here's me as Mary Anning. You can tell I'm her because I'm holding vertebrae from a plesiosaur and an ichthyosaur. #FossilFriday

I'm just over 90% of the way through #365Minerals! The end is in sight! #minerals 🧪⚒️

What's behind anti-immigrant rhetoric in the UK: 'About one in five Britons refused to acknowledge that migration had fallen, even when presented with the official data' 'People choose to disregard statistics that do not correlate with their beliefs' www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...

In 30years I have never been this upset with the continued words coming out of Govt This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries I am not part of BMA leadership, just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct

I don't know why this idea is suddenly flaring up online so early, but yeah, this time next year, Voyager 1 will be one light-DAY away – meaning it will take light a whole 24 hours to travel between Earth and the spacecraft. For comparison: Mars is a few light MINUTES from Earth!

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Happy Origin Day! Published OTD in 1859

It's the end of the #2025SVP UK dinos field trip. We finished with a visit to Dewars Farm dinosaur track site (muddy), and the Oxford Uni Museum, where we were lucky enough to get a tour of the Buckland archives and collections. Home for sleep...

Sadly I can't be at #2025SVP, and thanks to all the tweeters for keeping us informed. Here are some 3D meshes of dinosaur skeletons I have created for research and outreach, based on 3D data from photogrammetry, lidar & first-hand observation. I hope to have prints of this available soon! #SciArt

For the 85th SVP Meeting 2025, we've assembled a collection of landmark vertebrate palaeontology papers. Next: The phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of armoured dinosaurs (Ornithischia). Raven 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2023) buff.ly/aEn5huc @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @tweetisaurus.bsky.social

One of my favorite 'Far Side' cartoons as a modern version of 'Jurassic Park,' with avian dinosaurs from an annelid perspective.

YOUR GP - HERE FOR YOU - A NEW CONTRACT It’s time for a new contract between you, your GP & the Government For too long GP have been restricted in providing care by top down contracts with limited funding, which don’t put patients first GPs need your support in providing this

GPs up & down the country warned Wes Streeting, Department of Health and Social Care 6w ago that forcing the implementation of online forms without safeguards was a fools errand & raise false expectations Have now decided not to talk to @BMA_GP @doctor_katie @DavidGWrigley So here we are 🤷🏻‍♂️

After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries." THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

The Ward Scientific Company sold these Rhomaleosaurus casts to various museums starting in 1866 (for $150). The original at the National Museum of Ireland was broken up with sledgehammers during a move in the 1920s. #FossilFriday

Brain work bad thanks to some sort of flu, so you'll have to write your own amusing #FossilFriday post about this giant #azhdarchid #pterosaur #paleoart.

A 125 Ma old log provides a seat. Compton Bay #Isleofwight. Probably Pseudofrenelopsis, an extinct genus of conifer. #FossilFriday

Climate change doesn’t stop at borders, and neither should we. The UK and EU must work together to protect our planet. Watch One Earth, One Team and see why cooperation matters: bsky.app/profile/euro...

Some people may see this as a demonstration of the half-life of the errant teaspoon. Others may conclude "Australian scientists are thieves". These are the wonders of a multidisciplinary intellectual environment.

Our co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social was proud to speak at @weownit.org.uk protest against another round of disastrous PFI in the NHS. Effectively buying health centres on credit cards whilst giving money to shareholders, is not a sensible or responsible way to support our health service.

Yep. That'll happen when instead of funding emergency and social care, winter planning and fully settling pay disputes - govt ploughs ahead with costly and unnecessary reform and further investment in the private sector - all without an impact report. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

French palaeontologist and historian of geology (and Cuvier expert) Philippe Taquet who died yesterday aged 85. I recall that he cut a fine dash in his embroidered tailcoat and medals at the Geological Society's Bicentenary Dinner in 2007.

Happy #FossilFriday! This tooth plate is from a giant fossil lungfish called Ceratodus. This specimen is thought to be from the Mesozoic Era and is estimated to be up to 13 feet long! Lungfish have been around for nearly 400 million years, and are one of the closest living relatives to tetrapods!🦎

For #FossilFriday, here's a beautiful swirly Spirograptus. Graptolites are marine colonial animals which went extinct 320 million years ago, and their fossils often look like someone has been let loose with a pencil. On display in Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid ⚒🌏🔬✏

Excited to give my SVP talk on Camelotia, a interesting dinosaur from the Triassic of Somerset If you are at the meeting I'm talking at 3:30 this #fossilfriday afternoon in Hall 1 #SVP2025 #2025SVP

#FossilFriday at #SVP2025 today! Emma Bernard will be talking about dating the amazing @nhm-london.bsky.social chalk fish collections at 09:30 in Hall 4. Then check out posters by Twitchett/Underwood and Kaia Spence on new #chalk sharks & coelacanth size in Poster Session III, Hall 3 (4:30 - 6:30).

Breaking out the Mammoth tooth to lecture about megafaunal extinctions today for #FossilFriday

We are 2 for 2 with echinoderms for #fossilfriday! Here is an absolutely beautiful regular sea urchin known as Desoricidaris pouyannei. This specimen comes from the Lower Cretaceous (Cenomanian) rocks of Taouz, Morocco. The preservation of the test (body) is absolutely stunning even after 100 mya!

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

A pliosaur vertebra from the Etches Collection sporting a notochordal boss, an embryonic remnant. These are common in ankylosaur verts but not uncommon in #IsleofWight posterior dorsal and early caudal iguanodontian centra. Rarely reported elsewhere it seems. #FossilFriday

I'm really happy to welcome Pim to the Museum, and I'm looking forward to getting cracking with some cool geochemistry!

Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance

My students have set up a petition to persuade the University of Nottingham not to close our Plant Biology BSc course c.org/VPhzVVrHPS Please consider signing

Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays #OTD in 1895 when he noticed that emanations from a Crookes tube caused a platino-barium screen to fluoresce. The rays exposed photographic plates but were blocked by bone and metal. This early plate shows his wife's hand. 🧪 ⚛️ Image: Wellcome Trust

#FossilFriday A bonus fossil for #Halloween: the ghoulish ‘face’ of a sectioned Carboniferous brachiopod from a Winchester Cathedral gravestone.

For this #FossilFriday a Stegodon tooth from the Siwaliks of Nepal on display at the International Mountain Museum, Pokhara

Fossils in the fabric of the University of Nottingham: Carboniferous corals in the slabs outside the Trent Building, where Important People make decisions. A bad week: the University has announced it is suspending the Plant Biology BSc course I lead, along with many other courses. #FossilFriday