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Stop-and-chat avoider. Lido afficionado. Was once world's youngest person, albeit briefly.
It's a frigid day in
#Colchester
today, and the pair of
#Peregrines
on Jumbo are doing a much better job of enduring the cold than I managed!
#birds
#birdsofbluesky
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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️
3 days ago
Annual reminder that the world didn't crash on Y2K because countless people put in countless hours of work to ensure computer systems were updated to handle the date switch from 1999 to 2000. It was a real problem that a huge group effort fixed.
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Colchester, site of the UK's only recorded earthquake fatality
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Marc Jones
7 days ago
#JAWS50
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Rebecca Gelernter
about 1 year ago
Hello
#PortfolioDay
! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪
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depths of wikipedia
10 days ago
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
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Russell Garwood
12 days ago
Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the
@thepalass.bsky.social
website:
palass.org/phd-opportun...
⚒️🧪🦀🦑
#evosky
(If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too:
palass.org/form/webform...
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PhD Opportunities | The Palaeontological Association
https://palass.org/phd-opportunities
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Josh Shepperd
15 days ago
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
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Led By Donkeys
15 days ago
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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Had a productive day yesterday and I'm now the proud owner of a substantial amount of ragù Knappolitana!
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David G Haskell
23 days ago
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
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RSPB
17 days ago
Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
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You wait ages for a paper, and two come along (almost) at once! This is the first publication from the project we're currently working on, where we're investigating the relationship between different regions of the avian head. 1/n
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Avian cranial evolution is influenced by shape interactions between hard and soft tissue traits
Abstract. Changes in the structure and relative size of the brain are thought to be key transformations in the evolution of birds, reflecting innovations a
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/292/2061/20250848/366140/Avian-cranial-evolution-is-influenced-by-shape
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Brian ☀️🌏🌘
23 days ago
Whose rock is it? A standoff between a Great Egret and a Snowy Egret.
#photography
#naturephotography
#wildlifephotography
#thelittlethings
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This is a wonderful thread. Years of working in retail has taught me that the customer is rarely, if ever, right.
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18 days ago
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈
18 days ago
🎉It's here!🎉 This year's annual roundup of new species described by
@nhm-london.bsky.social
's curators, researchers and scientific associates! We've got butterflies! We've got wasps! We've even got the odd dinosaur as I know people like those. Check it out! 🐝🧪🦕
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.chantal//RYAN
19 days ago
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about
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UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy
22 days ago
Great news! We can now publish full details of our timetable for our Annual
#Symposium
on Th 19Feb2026 in London, celebrating
#UCL200
and focusing on
#Anatomy
: Past, Present & Future. Please order your FREE ticket and obtain further info:
tinyurl.com/UCL200Anatom...
@ucllifesciences.bsky.social
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Evolution Letters
22 days ago
The K/Pg extinction created a buffet for open-ocean fishes. A new paper shows that Pelagiaria underwent an adaptive radiation following the extinction based on new jaw shapes to fill the vacuum
@knapprew.bsky.social
@evoswami.bsky.social
@sternarchella.bsky.social
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Quentin Martinez
25 days ago
Olfaction written in bones 👃🧠🦴🧬 Thrilled to see our latest study showing that the olfactory bulb endocast is a reliable proxy for mammalian olfaction, now published in
@pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary...
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Adaptive radiation of pelagiarian fishes at the K/Pg boundary led to rapid diversification of mandible morphology
Abstract. Mandibles represent a key evolutionary innovation that has enabled jawed vertebrates to adapt and diversify in response to a range of food source
https://academic.oup.com/evlett/advance-article/doi/10.1093/evlett/qraf046/8373725
25 days ago
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If I made something this bad, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night either!
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25 days ago
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Richard Butler
29 days ago
Jeremy is a wonderful person doing some great science.
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Nice article about Jeremy's (
@valdosaurus.bsky.social
) amazing work discovering new dinosaurs on the Isle of Wight.
#FossilFriday
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The GP turned Isle of Wight dinosaur hunter rewriting history
Retired doctor Jeremey Lockwood has used his medical skills to discover three new dinosaur species
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e05205pvgo
29 days ago
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Jacqueline Antonovich
30 days ago
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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A sky scragger, doing its job
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about 1 month ago
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Mike Brooks
about 1 month ago
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
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Annalee Newitz
about 1 month ago
AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
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Flint Dibble
about 1 month ago
ICYMI, it's got huge views (for me): 50k in first 24 hours. It's a real nice video, that we put a ton of effort into. So go check it out!
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I saw someone trying to tap into the building with their Oyster card earlier and getting very confused as to why the door wasn't opening. Very relieved it wasn't me this time.
about 1 month ago
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Rob Knell
about 1 month ago
Funded PhD studentship available on the way that mating system affects coevolutionary processes with natural enemies.
#ecoevo
#sexualselection
looking for a great candidate spread the word!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Mating systems, coevolution and resistance evolution. at University of Hull on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mating systems, coevolution and resistance evolution. at University of Hull, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/mating-systems-coevolution-and-resistance-evolution/?p191966
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Nice work, students!
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/20/university-of-staffordshire-course-taught-in-large-part-by-ai-artificial-intelligence
about 1 month ago
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ
4 months ago
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n
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Prof Susie Maidment
about 1 month ago
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition:
c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
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Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
https://c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
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I'm on my way home now after a very tiring but very, very fun week of science and catching up with old and new friends. Thanks so much to
@richardjbutler.bsky.social
and the team for an unforgettable
#SVP
!
#SVP2025
about 2 months ago
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Serjoscha Evers
about 2 months ago
#2025SVP
For people who missed my talk: I’m happy to give this or longer versions via zoom/in person for your seminars/colloquiums. Being based at a small museum w/ little daily exchange among peers, it’s a great opportunity for me to stay connected & for you to learn about our shelled overlords.
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Marc Jones
about 2 months ago
Can everyone who left their tote bag behind in Meeting Room Hall 3, or picked up the wrong one, please pop by the International Convention Centre this morning.
#2025SVP
#SVP2025
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It's banquet time at
#svp2025
#THERESNOWTWRONGWITHGALALUNCHEONSLAD
about 2 months ago
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It's
#caturday
so here's Emile, the star of my talk today at
#svp2025
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about 2 months ago
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Alice Leavey
about 2 months ago
Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in
@anatrecord.bsky.social
!
doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...
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3D anatomical atlas of the heads of male and female adult Chamaeleo calyptratus
The veiled chameleon is a model organism in reptile development research. Utilizing contrast-enhanced microCT and deep learning segmentation models, we have generated the first digital atlases of the...
http://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70077
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Ryan N. Felice
about 2 months ago
Good morning
#SVP2025
! Big day for the Felice Lab- three talks this morning from postdocs
@jwoyston.bsky.social
, Ryan Marek, and
@knapprew.bsky.social
, on bird diversity, theropod necks, and mammal brains, and the PhD student Kat Gregory presenting a poster on tradeoffs in the head of birds!
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Well, mum, I finally got one!
#palaeojokes
#svp2025
about 2 months ago
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Birmingham: more canals than Venice. But fewer gondolas.
#svp2025
about 2 months ago
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This isn't just A great hall, it's THE Great Hall
#svp2025
about 2 months ago
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@palaeo-jrule.bsky.social
bringing Simpsons gifs to his talk on filter feeding in seals.
#svp2025
about 2 months ago
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At least now we know what it'd look like if someone let off a firework in a bucket of Liberace's vomit
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about 2 months ago
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He's thinking of Super Mario Brothers, isn't he?
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about 2 months ago
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Lars Gamfeldt
about 2 months ago
Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)
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Guy Shrubsole
about 2 months ago
Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron. I dare
@timfarron.bsky.social
to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs Ignorant & scaremongering
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Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...
https://www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article/tim-farron-calls-for-rethink-over-plans-to-reintroduce-sea-eagles-to-cumbria
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
2 months ago
November is the peak month for wintering Woodcock arrivals. Unfortunately, Woodcock are prone to colliding with buildings during their noctural migration. If you find a dead or injured bird, please report it via the BirdTrack App, or email
[email protected]
. 📷 Woodcock by Liz Cutting / BTO
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