Mmmmm.... doughnuts. (Silk-button galls <--- so heavy with them that the autumn leaf hit the floor with an audible clunk!). #autumn

Hi people, I am looking for a Yorkshire-based fossil expert or group. Is there anyone I know or anyone really active on here that I have missed over the years? Thanks! #fossils

Ohhhh... my book 'INFINITE LIFE' (an egg's eye view of evolution) is back on sale for 99p on Kindle. I love seeing lots of new readers come to it, so go download if you can! :)

Oh.... Choose Your Own Evolution audiobook has been SHORTLISTED for a Speakie.. This is recorded by the excellent Glen McCready. Honestly, such a fun element of this epic @nosycrow.bsky.social project! Great shortlist. Congrats to all. www.thebookseller.com/news/the-bri...

Ready or not, here it comes... Introducing Fear Files: Hide and Seek, the first book in a terrifying new series by @christopheredge.bsky.social. "I ran out of fingernails to bite." Jonathan Stroud Stunning cover illustrations by Mathias Ball. www.walker.co.uk/978152952737...

An incredible pick-your-own-path adventure through the story of life on Earth. Choose Your Own Evolution is an interactive audiobook by @juleshoward.bsky.social and @gordywright.bsky.social. Grab this innovative audiobook in the xigxag Listen For Less selection this month. 🎧 buff.ly/SCIRkWl

We often wonder whether the chicken or the egg came first—but did you ever ask yourself HOW chicken eggs came about? 🥚 This question was too easy for zoologist @juleshoward.bsky.social, so we added an extra challenge because we're mean like that.

Hello @bsky.app. we are Norfolk Ponds Project - a science-led partnership NGO focused on pond restoration & #ghostpond ressurection. We aim to educate, lobby & inspire others on ponds. We used to Tweet & had 5000+ followers. ***Please follow & help us achieve the same here***!!!

Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Edinburgh West End! @juleshoward.bsky.social's #InfiniteLife: An Epic New Story of Life on Earth ‘Insightful and evocative history of evolution and the crucial role played in it by the egg.’ Thank you Waterstones! 😍 #Bookshop #Edinburgh #EdBookFest #Science

Hearing great things about this! ❤️

LOKI! (such a fan). X

I've just finished reading Infinite Life by @juleshoward.bsky.social... a fascinating book... which tells the story of evolution... through the development of eggs... #HighlyRecommended 📚💙

Fell of my chair seeing this today so thought I should share. This is a little snippet of the longer review of CHOOSE YOUR OWN EVOLUTION in today's edition of The Times. (That line at the end is from the story where the reader ends up evolving into a human being).

"Mostly it's a planet of beetles" 👍😄

People, get ready for the launch of.. ‘THE MARTIAN MUSEUM OF EARTH ANIMALS’. This is my book with the amazing Matt Hunt c/o @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. One Martian museum. One school sleepover. One mysterious intruder. What could go wrong? ...

Teeth infused with metal, the evolution of venom, an over-developed spine built to withstand great weight, a deciduous dentition that's shed before birth... and so much more. #Shrews are something else: tetzoo.com/blog/2020/6/... #mammals

Over the moon to see that MEGA is on the longlist for the #WainwrightPrize, announced today. A real team effort, five years in the making. So many great books on the list (many written by friends - hello! and also congrats! - and people I respect a great deal). Delighted to be among them.

My first #artwork in months - I wanted to try a geological "field" sketch - submarine fan deposits in the Cretaceous Point Loma Formation at Point Loma, San Diego, and overlying Pleistocene deposits. Locally, the PLF consists of repetitive sandstone/mudstone couplets. #watercolor #geology

Lovely weather for enzymes.

Here in the East Midlands we don't really get proper stag beetles, but we get these cute chunks, the lesser stag beetles. Their grubs need wood that's been pulped up by fungi, just like more-er stag beetles. But they live for 2 years as grubs... not up to 7 years. Just a bit more sensible all round.

Written by the brilliant @juleshoward.bsky.social , was such a pleasure to be teamed up with him for this!

Another new review today! "Choose Your Own Evolution" by @juleshoward.bsky.social and @gordywright.bsky.social. ‪‪An amazing and engaging book about evolution. Become a T-Rex, Penguin or maybe even a human! geekdad.com/2025/06/choo... Out now from @nosycrow.bsky.social #booksky

#WhatWereReading : Fiona loves Choose Your Own Evolution by @juleshoward.bsky.social & @gordywright.bsky.social , out now from @nosycrow.bsky.social #books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse

ooohhhhhh.... (out in three weeks!). Pre-order now.

I really enjoyed this book. So interesting. 👍😀

Happy PAPERBACK publication day to this precious book/egg! (in the UK). It’s been a really satisfying year for ‘Infinite Life’ - a Book of the Year in The Telegraph, BBC Wildlife Magazine and Geographical. I have just been so blown away by people’s responses and emails in this last year...

Oh come on. COME ON. Ozzy is too much. It's not fair on other dogs that he exists. @weratedogs.com

Really, really important piece here. Wildlife-fans, this has enormous ramifications if it goes through...

Heard a cuckoo in Newport Pagnell today. Tell everyone you know.

Breaking news for #FossilFriday: Dr Mathew Wedel - world expert on sauropod #dinosaurs and their biology, anatomy and evolution - is speaking at #DinoCon! Be sure to follow our account at @dinoconuk.bsky.social, and get your tickets here: www.dinocon.co.uk Aug 16th-17th, Uni of Exeter

Oxyporus populinus. Its spores got into the tree through the wound that you can see here. Then the mycelium did its thing and then sprouted fruits on the brow of the wound. Still learning my fungi so corrections welcome!

As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

Banana slugs ARE hermaphrodites. Maybe White House isn't disputing this fact, they think it's "dirty" or "non-newsworthy". That's almost worse. The strange wonders of nature delight our curiosity. As for being offended by slug sex—well, that says something about the listener and it's not pretty.

This is brilliant from Rich Grenyer on the Dire Wolf hype: "It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat"

'Looking at Colossal’s wolves, I don’t even feel a “wow” moment like Ellie Sattler had... in Jurassic Park. I hurt for these wolves, creatures wholly unaware that they were created to be trophies.' Superb piece by @restingdinoface.bsky.social. Please have a read. slate.com/technology/2...

literally what conservation biologists have been warning against 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we live in the worst timeline

SNEAK PEEK! Just to say that the paperback release of Infinite Life is coming next month (8th of May). Gorgeous, eh? This was a Book of the Year in the Telegraph, BBC Wildlife, Geographic... Some really nice foreign editions coming too. Thanks for the cover quote @profaliceroberts.bsky.social! x

This looks like such an important read. Congrats to all involved. All power to you! Can't wait to read. #ScientistsOnSurvival

That's not really a dire wolf though.

What is #DinoCon? It's the biggest and best dinosaur-themed gathering the UK has seen, that's what it is. More info and links here.... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/2/... #conventions #dinosaurs #SummerEvents

Meta's new WhatsApp AI is wild. #dothewritething

Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite - Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose #teamcuttlefish www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bloat and Float

Thanks to everyone supporting us, especially our funders @leverhulme.ac.uk & National Geographic Read the paper here (open access!): journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

"This means that the flies have a control mechanism that allows them to get all the benefits of alcohol consumption without risking alcohol intoxication," lead author...said. TELL ME MORE, FLIES. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cave spiders use their webs in a way that hasn't been seen before www.newscientist.com/article/2474...

Seen many toadballs in my life but was surprised to see a terrestrial toadball today. Female is somewhere in the middle. This happens because of a skewed sex ratio at the pond. These are pretty young males. I chose to put them back in water because I was worried about someone treading on them!