Andrew Christopher Knapp
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Stop-and-chat avoider. Lido afficionado. Was once world's youngest person, albeit briefly.
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Some exciting scenes in North Essex today - a raven mobbing a buzzard! I've never seen a raven in this part of the country before, and it looks like it's here to stay because it returned to its nest (and mate) in the top of a tall pine tree.
#birdsofbluesky
(photos
@samuraipizzakat.bsky.social
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cool calm and collected/@coolcalmcollected mastodon.social
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For most of my life I never imagined I'd see this sight in southern England 🦫
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Brycchan Carey
16 days ago
So far, Just 18,557 of the 69.86 million people in the UK have donated to help save the Rothbury Estate in
#Northumberland
. If £13.5 million can be raised by September, this will become the largest new nature reserve in the UK in a generation. Please donate!
www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/rothbury-estate-nature-and-nation
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Alice Roberts
16 days ago
I love this! The brilliant Holly Dunsworth is reviewing Sapiens, one page at a time, separating myth from fact… Let’s dive in!
ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sapi...
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"Sapiens": One page at a time
I've been co-teaching a course for several years in which we read Sapiens . I think I've read it eight times, now. That explains the gumband...
https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sapiens-one-page-at-time.html?m=1&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZnRzaAQ7IXBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAacknxncFjVWPpm6np1ASrV30vpnuWHJUKpX7S5g6_DJ4rYgv8c7kmIEnNaPSw_aem_SULqHhtc2aoS_3dt9b91DA
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New
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alert! This is a really cool project, working with a great team including the wonderful
@drphilcox.bsky.social
and
@toriherridge.bsky.social
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www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=17769&nPostingTargetId=43064&id=Q1KFK026203F3VBQBLO8M8M07&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&mask=ext
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Natalie Cooper
24 days ago
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here:
nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
https://nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
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Marion Segall
25 days ago
Vous voulez faire une thèse sur l'évolution de la tête des squamates au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle? C'est par ici:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
Interested in a PhD on the evolution of the head shape of squamates at the Museum of Natural History of Paris? Here you go:
adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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Brian Merchant
29 days ago
Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...
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Controversial(?) opinion, but dogs should not be let off their leads in the countryside at all.
www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/derbysh...
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Farm worker tells of heartache over dog shooting as part of campaign to crackdown on livestock worrying
A farm worker has described being faced with the agonising decision of having to shoot a dog which was repeatedly attacking his sheep as ‘one of my worst ever days in farming’.
https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/derbyshire/news/news/forcewide/2026/march/farm-worker-tells-of-heartache-over-dog-shooting-as-part-of-campaign-to-crackdown-on-livestock-worrying/
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Guy Shrubsole
30 days ago
My full quote to the Times on why it’s bananas to let landowners release 50m pheasants into the British countryside without proper regulations, given their ecological impacts and role as a vector for bird flu:
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Guy Shrubsole
about 1 month ago
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/18/government-to-lift-paywall-from-large-parts-of-land-registry
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Philip Ball
about 1 month ago
Otto Warburg's grant application: "I need 10,000 marks".
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
about 1 month ago
"The results are astonishingly clear. On rewilded land, biodiversity surged across the board, with the number of bird species up 261%. The variety of bumblebee and butterfly species more than doubled, their abundance increased over 10x." The cure for nature loss exists.
share.google/w30RUdw1902W...
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Rewilding linked to dramatic increases in birds across Scotland
New research across Scotland's Northwoods Rewilding Network has revealed striking biodiversity gains on rewilded land, with bird diversity increasing by more than 260% and pollinating insects rising m...
https://share.google/w30RUdw1902WbybD4
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Daniel Bolnick
about 1 month ago
In the last two weeks, 1% of new NSF awards were in biology. Just one grant of 97. One. Biology in the US is on hold until there’s a regime change.
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Rachel Warnock
about 1 month ago
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
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This
#FossilFriday
I've got a treat for the bird palaeontologists out there. Here are some specimens that we scanned for our recent paper on bird skull/brain skull evolution. All but one are extinct birds from the collections of the
@nhm-london.bsky.social
www.morphosource.org/media-lists/...
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Making sure you're not a bot!
https://www.morphosource.org/media-lists/000837590?locale=en
about 1 month ago
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This is not my fess, but it might as well be
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Terry McGlynn
about 1 month ago
Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
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This is excellent news! One to look out for in the coming months.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK
Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/09/large-tortoiseshell-butterfly-no-longer-extinct-uk
about 1 month ago
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There are clearly very severe penalties for rule breaking round here!
about 1 month ago
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Eric Champnella
2 months ago
Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.
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Tom Cox
about 1 month ago
THREAD. 3 & 1/4 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he'd been living, in rural Cornwall, & decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st 2022
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Alessio Capobianco
about 1 month ago
New paper out from
@hoehna.bsky.social
Lab, led by the brilliant
@bjorntko.bsky.social
! We applied the Pesto software (Kopperud & Höhna, 2025) to look at lineage-specific shifts in diversification rate on large, densely-sampled phylogenies across the Tree of Life
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CharmaineScammell🩵🇬🇧 🇺🇦
about 2 months ago
If you see a snail crossing a path & grab its shell to move it out of the way, you might be injuring it while thinking you're helping but grabbing the shell is a problem ✅ How to move a snail safely:
#GardenWildlife
#GentleGardening
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DASSH
about 2 months ago
Exhausted - and in some cases dead - Atlantic puffins have been washing up around the UK recently after storms have left them weak and unable to feed. If you find a puffin: ✍️Log your sighting on iNaturalist:
buff.ly/sMJmnVF
🚑If it’s alive, contact a local veterinary practice who can advise you
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A reminder: today is the only day of the year when you can legally buy the ingredients for
#pancakes
about 2 months ago
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Krista Koeller
2 months ago
SVP Diversity Committee co-chair here. Feel free to dm me your thoughts. I’m working with DivComm and some other committees on an action plan and I’d love to know what you want to happen and what would make you feel safer, reassured, and welcome.
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Rob Knell
2 months ago
Speaking as someone who was involved in the sexual selection argument referred to here, along with
@tetzoo.bsky.social
and
@davehone.bsky.social
, I reckon Horner got thoroughly and convincingly panned. One of my main takeaways was how little actual biology some of these senior palaeo guys know... 🧪
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This might be a good opportunity to link to my first ever publication, in which we test Padian and Horner's 'species recognition' hypothesis (something they never bothered doing) in ceratopsians and found no evidence for it.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Mark Westneat 🐟
2 months ago
The new computational model for jaw mechanics in piranhas is called PiranhaLever, available for download on my GitHub
github.com/mwestneat/Pi...
. Along with various other models for biomechanics and morphometrics. All Mac apps, install the dmg and skirt your security demon 😎
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GitHub - mwestneat/PiranhaLever: Mac app for jaw biomechanics of piranhas
Mac app for jaw biomechanics of piranhas. Contribute to mwestneat/PiranhaLever development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/mwestneat/PiranhaLever
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Jerad Walker
2 months ago
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Greg
2 months ago
“Shawn the Prawn” is a fossilised prawn in the marble floor of Australia’s Parliament House.
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I found this fossil vertebra on the floor of a hotel spa in Egypt!
#urbangeology
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Matt Friedman
2 months ago
Study on the diversification of jaw shape in pelagiarian/scombriform fishes led by
@knapprew.bsky.social
out in Evolution Letters as Editor's Choice. Gorgeous trichiuroid render by co-author
@sternarchella.bsky.social
nabbed the cover! Open access:
academic.oup.com/evlett/artic...
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Delighted that our article on pelagiarian mandible evolution has made the cover of
@evolletters.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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The egrets are off to bed! Another perfect evening on the
#Egyptian
Red Sea coast.
2 months ago
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Brian Hiatt
2 months ago
Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me
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Ben
3 months ago
Lunchtime
#bittern
at London Wetland Centre and a better shot of a cousin.
@wwtworldwide.bsky.social
@everyheron.bsky.social
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As it's
#FossilFriday
, why not share this wonderful artwork of objectively the best group of
#dinosaurs
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3 months ago
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Lesley Marshall Photography
3 months ago
This shot of a heron passing across the aptly named Heron Pond in Bushy Park is one of my favourites from a magical early morning shoot last week. I love the silhouette effect and the mystical atmosphere created by the morning mist and reflections in the water.❤️
@theroyalparks.bsky.social
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Mike Galsworthy
3 months ago
🔥🇪🇺 “Europeans enjoy more free time than Americans, a higher life expectancy and lower levels of inequality – all with roughly comparable productivity. Whichever way you look at it, this is a significantly superior economic performance.”
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Decline, what decline? The myth of dying Europe
There is a widespread view that, by comparison with the USA, Europe is in economic and social decline. But, Zucman argues, it's not true
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/economics/decline-what-decline-the-myth-of-dying-europe/
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Dr Joanne Littlefair
3 months ago
🔍Home PhD opportunity with funding to start in October 2026: "Integrating environmental DNA into national biodiversity datasets to explain drivers of biodiversity loss" 🧬📊🐛🌳🪿supervised by me, Charlie Outhwaite (ZSL) and Eleni Matechou (School of Mathematical Sciences, QMUL).
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Peter Stefanovic
3 months ago
All Reform councils to raise taxes despite campaign pledges Who would have guessed
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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All Reform councils to raise taxes despite campaign pledges
Council leaders have found themselves hamstrung by social care costs, but party sources hope they will have the lowest average tax rises of any party
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-councils-raise-taxes-despite-campaign-pledges-kgrh0ssrb
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This tweet was deleted while he was in the press conference announcing he was defecting!
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Timothy
3 months ago
The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined
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