still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

New preprint🚨happy to share work from my first PhD chapter, evaluating the ways in which we can integrate ancestral state estimations into disparity workflows, completed alongside @tguillerme.bsky.social , Gavin Thomas & @nhcooper123.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪

Tiny shellear fish in central Africa scale a 50-foot vertical waterfall using suction cups and tiny hooks. This convergent evolution places them with some island gobies and Brazilian bumblebee catfish, who all do world class bouldering. 🐟🌍 phys.org/news/2026-04...

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

Mary Anning mentioned in Last One Laughing s2! (random but absolutely welcome)

What on earth. New depths of corruption

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Big up Ralph Lawson for going 20 hours (and 20 minutes) in the mix for @warchilduk.bsky.social . You can donate here: justgiving.com/page/warchil...

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Can’t recommend this enough, a hilarious take on all the idiosyncrasies of “extreme birding”

First time watching Apocalypse Now last night… 10/10 but why does FF Coppola make me wait 2 hours to reveal Kurtz only for Baron Harkonnen to turn up

Great to see media coverage of the hostile and punitive approach taken by management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social towards @sheffielducu.bsky.social staff striking to protect jobs. Threats and intimidation won't work. We're out until we win! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Sheffield peeps, please help our friends in Nether Edge/Sharrow Vale. Comment on plan for new MacDonalds that would threaten local business, public health, & much more.🤮 @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social @sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social @helpsheffield.co.uk planningapps.sheffield.gov.uk/online-appli...

When we said we don't intend to be concerned or disappointed by the Labour Government - we intend to replace them, we meant it. Yougov have Labours lowest poll ever and Greens highest ever. Keep going everybody. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Call me crazy but I’m taking Guehi over Isak anyday… #LFC #deadlineday

Salmon in Sheffield !!

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

Alta Via 1 ✅ 80km, 4000m elevation and 500 ciao’s later, one of the toughest but most rewarding things I’ve done.

Saw my first ever stoat this weekend… even got the photo to go with it so that iNaturalist believes me🤪

This doesn’t bode well

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief. So good.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Grand Theft Hamlet tonight, Hamlet Hail to the Thief tomorrow. A very tragic bank holiday weekend

Labour's disastrous plight is very easy to understand. The people who run the party were good at one thing: smashing the left. Destroying, not building, is their skill. They have no vision for the country. They're in power because the Tories imploded, and no other reason.

Thanks @jasonhickel.bsky.social for the great discussion this evening, which served as a fitting debrief after finishing ‘Less is More’ last month.

Have had worse Sundays

I don’t care what Colossal or Beth Shapiro are trying to sell you. Woolly mammoths are extinct and not coming back. De-extinction is an unethical vanity grift that cannot deliver on its promises.

the malcom tucker monologue would be generational

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Few fontanesi style 📸 while in Marrakech this week

Sacha Lord is a great example of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He was never ‘For the Culture’🥱 the WHP exclusivity contracts are the reason so many grassroots venues are closing nationwide.

In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please sign, this institution was a godsend when I was a broke undergrad in London!

Dubby goodness on this one

Darwin always seems to be stuck somewhere around Alice Springs. #LFC

I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable. Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies). And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.

Nosferatu… future family Christmas classic

Aphex Twin be like driving home for XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix]

Tarkovsky 🤝🏻 me falling asleep

Hopped back on the bike for the 3rd extended ride since making the move up north… these Sheffield hills don’t seem to get any easier…

Freaky Sheffield skyline tonight #Photography #Sheffield #Cityscape

The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.