Caleb Scutt
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PhD @ University of Sheffield | Macroevolution & Mass Extinctions☄️
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Sam
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still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now
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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...
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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝
about 2 months ago
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...
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Tiny African fish caught climbing to the top of a 50-foot waterfall
For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially confirmed. Now, these fish have finally been caught ...
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-tiny-african-fish-caught-climbing.html
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Natalie Cooper
about 2 months ago
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
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
https://nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/
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Mary Anning mentioned in Last One Laughing s2! (random but absolutely welcome)
about 2 months ago
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What on earth. New depths of corruption
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Claire E. Aubin
3 months ago
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.
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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...
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War Child 2020 .. Ralph Lawson In The Mix
YouTube video by 2020Vision
https://www.youtube.com/live/9maxvojpeRc?si=jVT3ZLBxmlVoWhbY
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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
5 months ago
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.
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Can’t recommend this enough, a hilarious take on all the idiosyncrasies of “extreme birding”
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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
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Joseph Ward
6 months ago
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...
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University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v7k8vn20o
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Joanna Hastings
7 months ago
#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...
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Zack Polanski
7 months ago
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
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Philip Sherburne
8 months ago
I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch
futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...
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Mixes Digest 22: Remembering Optimo’s JD Twitch
8 enduring sets from the late Keith McIvor (plus links to 20 more)
https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-digest-22-remembering-optimos
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Eliot Higgins
9 months ago
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...
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Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/02/cooper-reeves-starmer-green-party-leader-badenoch-devolution-latest-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68b6b60a8f08e8bac2726f04#block-68b6b60a8f08e8bac2726f04
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Call me crazy but I’m taking Guehi over Isak anyday…
#LFC
#deadlineday
9 months ago
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Salmon in Sheffield !!
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Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 24th Aug 2025
An exclusive, I think: the story of Sheffield's first baby salmon for over 250 years. Plus more on how Sheffield could do better.
https://open.substack.com/pub/abitblackoverbillsmothers/p/sunday-at-bills-mothers-24th-aug?r=4hwaki&utm_medium=ios
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Carl T. Bergstrom
9 months ago
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.
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Alta Via 1 ✅ 80km, 4000m elevation and 500 ciao’s later, one of the toughest but most rewarding things I’ve done.
9 months ago
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Saw my first ever stoat this weekend… even got the photo to go with it so that iNaturalist believes me🤪
9 months ago
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This doesn’t bode well
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Sam Wilson
10 months ago
Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system
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Tim Onion
10 months ago
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
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Peter Gleick
12 months ago
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.
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Tom Scott
about 1 year ago
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.
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Hamlet Hail to the Thief. So good.
about 1 year ago
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David Ho
about 1 year ago
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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Grand Theft Hamlet tonight, Hamlet Hail to the Thief tomorrow. A very tragic bank holiday weekend
about 1 year ago
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Owen Jones
about 1 year ago
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.
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Thanks
@jasonhickel.bsky.social
for the great discussion this evening, which served as a fitting debrief after finishing ‘Less is More’ last month.
about 1 year ago
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Have had worse Sundays
about 1 year ago
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Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕
about 1 year ago
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.
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Extinction is forever: de-extinction can’t save what we had | Aeon Ideas
Even if it works, genetic resuscitation would begin something new; it can’t restore what we lost. Extinction is forever
https://aeon.co/ideas/extinction-is-forever-de-extinction-can-t-save-what-we-had
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the malcom tucker monologue would be generational
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about 1 year ago
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Florian Altermatt
about 1 year ago
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
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Prem Thakker ツ
about 1 year ago
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.
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Few fontanesi style 📸 while in Marrakech this week
over 1 year ago
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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.
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Sacha Lord: Nightlife boss's firm must return £400k Covid grant
Nighttime economy adviser Sacha Lord announces he is stepping down following a review of the funding.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yel7z4g5jo
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George Monbiot
over 1 year ago
In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/30/labour-environmental-vandalism-rivers-wildlife-air-government-gdp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Please sign, this institution was a godsend when I was a broke undergrad in London!
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-prince-charles-cinema?bucket=other--28_1_2025_PCCexternal&utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio
over 1 year ago
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Dubby goodness on this one
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A2. Picasso - Dubaholic
Here at Rube Goldberg Series we pride ourselves on having everything you need to complete your ski gear set-up this season. So, whether it's ski bindings, ski goggles, ski poles, helmets, thermals and
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over 1 year ago
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Luke Foley
over 1 year ago
Darwin always seems to be stuck somewhere around Alice Springs.
#LFC
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James O’Brien
over 1 year ago
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.
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Nosferatu… future family Christmas classic
over 1 year ago
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s 𝚌𝚑 𝚛𝚕 𝐥𝐦𝚗 𝚗
over 1 year ago
Aphex Twin be like driving home for XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix]
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Tarkovsky 🤝🏻 me falling asleep
over 1 year ago
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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…
over 1 year ago
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Scott Hibberson
over 1 year ago
Freaky Sheffield skyline tonight
#Photography
#Sheffield
#Cityscape
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Patrick Chovanec
over 1 year ago
The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.
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