Please go beyond the macabre and read this whole article. It so elegantly touches on bat conservation, disease ecology, and the concept of One Health.

By passing off Rosalind Franklin’s work as his own and taking the credit for the intellectual output of her labour, in many ways Watson was one of the pioneers of AI. In this thread I will… 🧵

Birders: why do you insist on describing any thicc piece of bird anatomy as being like a boat, and how many of you have described yourself as boat-butted? Be honest

This looks absolutely fantastic

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

This is correct, with one important caveat - most decisions on funding, admin, publishing, career, are made (and can be derailed) by people who by definition benefited the most from these metrics and incentives, and stand to lose the most by changing them.

The number of people between 16 and 34 who died or were injured in a work-related incident increased by 76% between 1939 and 1946

Just did my 30th blood donation 💪 😎 www.blood.co.uk

One of my favourite things with my toddler is watching her using trial and error to attempt to understand what sentences really *mean*: “No, don’t throw wooden blocks at daddy’s crotch.” “No, PLEASE don’t throw wooden blocks at daddy’s crotch.” “NO, don’t throw dump trucks at daddy’s crotch either”

happy #fossilfriday and halloween 🎃 in celebration of spooky season, i give to you the phorusrhacids, more popularly (and aptly) known as the terror birds. they were some of the most formidable land predators of the cenozoic, and in my opinion, are vastly underappreciated (art by rudolf hima)

Reducing the amount of particle pollution alone may not reduce its toxicity, unless we also focus on traffic and wood burning. Piece by me on European-wide oxidative potential measurements by Cécile Tassel, Gaëlle Uzu et al - @igegrenoble.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photography: playing with light and shadow

The Wikipedia article on bat bombs is full of crazy details. My favorite is the section euphemistically labeled “Setbacks” with a photo of a towering inferno caused by an errant bat carrying an incendiary bomb that escaped, parked itself under a fuel tank, and blew everything up.

Really cannot wait to talk about #PrehistoricPlanetaIceAge. You're just gonna be blown away, it is spectacular in scope and quality. Yes, some teasers out there already, but there's SO much more that hasn't been outed yet. Coming to AppleTV next month!

Elon Musk continues to try to socialise civil war, political & inter-ethnic violence in Britain. He combines an argument that violence is inevitable with his call at the Tommy Robinson rally for pre-emptive violence, on grounds of an existential threat & the inevitability of violence

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

BEHOLD the GARgantuan Alligator Gar!!! This is the largest Alligator Gar I’ve encountered; at over 7 feet 10 inches (240 cm) and approximately 55 inches in girth, its weight is estimated at 300 pounds (136 kg)! A true river monster, among the largest caught, tagged and safely released! #GarWeek

You know how sometimes you watch a sci fi movie and they’re on an alien planet and it’s got like the Big Wall of Storm advancing rapidly and messing with your sense of Euclidean geometry? I just think we should all remember that’s also this planet, and we keep choosing to piss it off for some reason

I just had my toddler sit on my back while I did a press-up because I thought she would find it funny. She did. Team, I forgot the major rule of toddlers: IF YOU DO SOMETHING FUNNY THEY WILL INSIST YOU DO IT FIFTY MORE TIMES

Homage to Xavier Bou: little swifts at the Olifants River high-water bridge, Kruger National Park. Unstacked from video taken with an Iphone 14. #birds #photography #SouthAfrica #iPhone

“Fancy sharpening mums knives? 😉”

As a British guy in the UK I’m not exactly directly impacted by this election, but man I love to see the direction he’s dragging the Overton Window in the English-speaking world in

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A long-held myth about a mosquito evolving in the London Underground has been debunked! 🦟 The insect gained notoriety in the Second World War, when it fed on Londoners seeking shelter in the rail tunnels during the Blitz. Discover its true origin story.👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

You fool, that issue that affects you and not me is obviously a distraction from the real issue, the one that affects me and not you

"A 2023 study found £800 a year in health and economic damage for each wood burner used in London." Love to live somewhere where my community actively harms my health every year purely for the cosy vibes it gives them. As a little rustic treat. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"As an air pollution scientist, I get emails each winter from people whose homes are being filled by their neighbour's wood smoke. Many are desperately worried about the impact on their child's asthma or health of their relative" #AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health

A crowdfunder to raise funds to save the last curlews in Oxfordshire is just 11% off its £25,000 target. The birds breed in Upper Thames wetlands, which are suffering from climate change. Local charity Wild Oxfordshire is working with farmers to restore their habitats.

Excited to say that I’ve been chosen as one of this year’s ED&I fellows for Oxford University’s mathematical, physical, engineering and life sciences division! Looking forward to a year of working to make it a better workplace for all ✊ www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/equality-div...

The idea of us attracting talent from the US in the aftermath of Trump's insane policies and funding cuts was always a fictitious pipe dream, when the government and our politics is geared towards repelling as much immigration as possible.

If you're looking for a book to introduce transgender identity to kids, this one is fantastic. It's fun to read, matter-of-fact on the issues, and both my kids (7 and 4) loved it.

I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)! Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

Indeed. Government's proposed ILR changes are wrong morally & politically - that is the main point. But from purely *economic* perspective, they're likely to be self-defeating - the migrants most likely to be deterred from coming/staying are high-skilled/high-paid, because they have other options!

this is why I stopped using spotify. I buy albums on Bandcamp fairly often. I love finding new music. I tune in to my university's radio station for shows that showcase genres I like, so I can find them on Bandcamp. If i decide I want a streaming service, it'll be Qobuz, probably.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Psst, Abingdon said runnings gay now. Pass it on

Exasperated. Gutted. Furious. Terrified. Sometimes swear words are the only ones that fit. Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Limping into the weekend after a busy workweek filled with too many germs and not enough sleep (toddlers eh)... and remembering I'm running a marathon on Sunday

FWIW: This paper, which argues that Twitter is no longer a useful or widely used place for talking about research and people have mostly switched to Bluesky, has been shared: -68 times on Twitter -3,560 times on Bluesky 🧪

Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, study finds #airpollution Story by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

New preprint! 🌳🐛 We combined experimental and genomic methods to study local adaptation of winter moths to variation in oak budburst timing in Wytham Woods, UK. With @andreaestandia.bsky.social, Lea Beaupere, Ella Cole, and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First of many, hopefully

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit. Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting. bsky.app/profile/carl...

i'm not going to chide or scold anyone for only now leaving twitter. your private, unspoken acknowledgment that i'm your intellectual and moral superior is all i need

"If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Ok, so this is a very big deal. Let’s thread it.

🦇 The Bat Conservation Trust is inviting evidence from bat groups, ecologists, practitioners, local authorities, developers, regulators, landowners, statutory agencies, NGOs, volunteers and others on the impacts of solar farms on bats: www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/10...

It's kind of wild that a species that's recently been as common as the long-tailed macaque is now endangered. Especially as a driver of their decline is laundering wild monkeys for biomedical testing as captive-bred, and lobbyists have been trying to get their protection downgraded. This sucks.