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

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.

Colchester, site of the UK's only recorded earthquake fatality

Hello #PortfolioDay! I'm Rebecca, a science and medical illustrator who loves birds and other feathered creatures 🐡🪶🧪

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

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... )

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Had a productive day yesterday and I'm now the proud owner of a substantial amount of ragù Knappolitana!

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

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.

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 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Whose rock is it? A standoff between a Great Egret and a Snowy Egret. #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

This is a wonderful thread. Years of working in retail has taught me that the customer is rarely, if ever, right.

🎉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! 🐝🧪🦕

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

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

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 academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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/... Thread 👇

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... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

If I made something this bad, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night either!

Jeremy is a wonderful person doing some great science.

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...

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🧵

A sky scragger, doing its job

AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated

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!

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.

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... 🧪

Nice work, students! www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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

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

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

#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.

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

It's banquet time at #svp2025 #THERESNOWTWRONGWITHGALALUNCHEONSLAD

It's #caturday so here's Emile, the star of my talk today at #svp2025.

Full chameleon cranial atlas article out now in @anatrecord.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/ar.7... 🦎✨️

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!

Well, mum, I finally got one! #palaeojokes #svp2025

Birmingham: more canals than Venice. But fewer gondolas. #svp2025

This isn't just A great hall, it's THE Great Hall #svp2025

@palaeo-jrule.bsky.social bringing Simpsons gifs to his talk on filter feeding in seals. #svp2025

At least now we know what it'd look like if someone let off a firework in a bucket of Liberace's vomit

He's thinking of Super Mario Brothers, isn't he?

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)

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 www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...

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