I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Job alert! jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Beautiful day for a visit to Down House, followed by a drink in Darwin's local

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

Open Quaternary is looking for a new Editor in Chief! openquaternary.com/announcements If you have any questions about OQ, or the role, I am very happy to answer Qs >> [email protected]

Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

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Archeology friends, are you aware of rock art depicting headbutting sheep in Asia or Africa? I have examples in Europe and N. America but want to add more globally. (I'll also take any other headbutting references including other forms of art and other species if you have em). Please share! 🏺 🧪

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

Anti-trans rhetoric doesn’t protect women. It causes harm. It masquerades as feminism while stripping away solidarity and compassion. Real feminism is about justice and equality for all women, including trans women. #NIONWomen #NotInOurName #HumanRights #WomensRights #TransRights #JoinUs

Attendees of #SVP2025 #2025SVP: registration now open for two special events: Friday night authors’ event & book signing with @elsa-panciroli.bsky.social @endofthepier.bsky.social & @tjdhalliday.bsky.social chaired by Tom Holland! Spaces limited - check your email for how to register! (2/2)

When I was 10, I wrote to Mark with my ideas about dinosaur digestion. His response was encouraging, gracious, and part of what kept my interest in paleontology alive, and likely led in part to my path into education with high schoolers. Thank you, Mark. 2/2

Feeling the incalculable loss of Mark Norell (1957-2025): wonderful scientist and cherished friend. His influence will continue through his many mentees and the science he did and inspired.

the duality of hating the uk but also loving it at the same time because this wouldn’t happen anywhere else

I never dreamed I would see this in my lifetime!

Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ?? 🦑 🌊 🌿

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

On the same day in the Telegraph:

How's that for a bit of street art?

There's one good reason why you might not want to walk past a migrant hotel, and it's these fuckwits.

Trump's very first example of the Smithsonian's "corrosive ideology" was an exhibit that correctly stated "Race is a human invention." How is scientific consensus (that biological races don't exist in humans) corrosive? We are asking scientists to co-sign our statement: forms.gle/kqKQF9CZ3jPB...

I've got plenty of capacity so if you, your clients and or institution need any scientific visualisation, graphic design or motion graphic work then get in touch!

Please sign and share!

If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍 From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

Are you a palaeontologist doing exciting, novel research on the systematics of extinct organisms? Consider submitting to @journalsystpal.bsky.social. UNLIKE SOME OTHER VERTEBRATE PALAEO JOURNALS, initial submission is format-free and we accept manuscripts of any length. We are also Q1....

The trouble with discoveries is that they're not discoveries if they're bullshit!

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34

Fantastic BOPH Osprey cruise today (15/08/25). Two Osprey and a mugging by a White tailed Eagle. Pictures are Osprey CJ7 and WTE 463, which successfully pushed CJ7 to drop the fish but failed to catch it. ‬ #DorsetBirds #Harbourbirds @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Beautiful! I thought this was Ediacaran palaeoart at first glance!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Please help our friends help our furry friends www.justgiving.com/campaign/rob...

I'm assuming they mean PhD-level expertise in whatever Jordan Peterson has a PhD in

Want to do a PhD on White Sharks using high-powered imaging to analyse form and function of their teeth and jaws? You will work with me and the dream team @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social @meyer-sci.bsky.social @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social & #SARDI at Flinders Uni 🦈🦷🦴 Interested? Get in touch!

This sounds like a very cool PhD project for anyone interested in museums!

"Yippee-kai-yay, outdoor pigs."

There are plenty of 'PhD level experts' out there who you could ask, and who would be happy to talk to you. And they're generally less likely to just make shit up!

'An urban rewilding group is seeking the public’s views on the potential return of white storks to London as part of a project to see if the birds could make a home in the capital.' Survey link here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/brighton/t...

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Some excellent citizen science! 🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSSa...

It turns out that change can be pretty easy!

New Comparative Anatomy Textbook! Completely free to read and open access! doi.org/10.59319/YHF...

This is absolutely fantastic news, and it's great to see all the hard work paying off!