Wolverine with a treat 🍖

Is there a giant cat downstairs?

Please tell me I'm not the only one thinking it's weird when a more senior man with teaching responsibilities romantically goes after more junior women (undergrad level, lab assistant) in academic settings. This surely breaches professional code of conduct in some institutions.

again,

hanging out with friends you'd just... say whatever came to mind and it was fine and sometimes it sparked a conversation but of course now anything you post is permanent content forever. You have to curate everything you do all the time and can't use any of this the way it was invented to be used

“Triceratops at Ueno” (2025)

Also, the unfortunate reality is that, virtually everywhere, including in the most liberal societies on gender equality and sexual autonomy, rape victims are - regardless of age, gender, relationship status, etc - routinely treated as defiled or impure. It's not really something you want to make up.

It's truly disheartening how many people are willing to believe that the "other side" of whichever conflict is willing to commit sexual violence, but "their side" is above it. The truth is, sexual violence is remarkably common, especially in conflict zones. Denial is always wrong.

Added this cephalopods through the ages series I did a while back to my print shop ~* www.inprnt.com/gallery/lurn...

I maintain that this man's entire existence is elaborate performance art to call attention to the elite impunity problem in this country in the most garish way and it's still not working

Indie animation day, you say? 👀 Indeed, we definitely have plenty of these... including dinosaurs and adventures too!! #indieanimation #animation #indieanimationday #dinosaurs

Boycotting Eurovision Today? Instead of voting, try donating the money to the new wing of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. Protect and help to communicate about the natural heritage, its past and future, of Palestine 🇵🇸 Link: palestinenature.org/natural-history/

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

In March, I visited North Ealing Primary School as part of @britsciassoc.bsky.social #BritishScienceWeek. I talked about all the cool things you get to do as a #geologist, including visiting (and abseiling into) volcanoes! 🌋 My message clearly stuck with at least one budding artist-geologist! 🙌🏾

My first PhD chapter is out! How do related fishes adapt to eat different foods? And how do they change as they grow? 🧵 doi.org/10.1002/jmor...

Boycotting Eurovision Today? Instead of voting, try donating the money to the new wing of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. Protect and help to communicate about the natural heritage, its past and future, of Palestine 🇵🇸 Link: palestinenature.org/natural-history/

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined the dozens of firms and individuals suing artificial intelligence companies over their alleged use of copyrighted works in training AI models go.nature.com/42GaWZt

Summer Rain, 2025 Art Fight attack on @dourbledoodles.bsky.social

sino-ptero

If you're wondering how UK is looking on international scene. Here's Polish governmental warning against travelling to London, given the Unite the Kingdom fascist march and upcoming World Cup.

African Bateleur Eagle is performing a natural bird behaviour called a Rouse. It’s for relaxation and preening. It also allows to release, trapped body heat in the hot sun.

Love loitering on the Hong Kong Island

Sinopterus with newly discovered iridescent feathers and stripy crest #paleoart #sciart

Younger daughter & I found these fossilised crinoid rock stars (segments of the ‘stem’ of Jurassic feather stars/sea lilies, related to starfish & sea urchins) in the gravel on the edge of a lake nr Peterborough UK. She used them to make an ammonite:

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

i have 3 separate YCH sheets available on ko-fi still! 1 spot open for each. ko-fi.com/ritwells/com... trying to sell at least one spot today to cover work days i’ve missed from hormonal issues 🙏 thank you for the consideration!

Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds

Stellar piece from @drjogrady.bsky.social! “[Labour] chose to sacrifice our universities on the altar of Reform’s hard-right immigration agenda in an attempt to win votes.” www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Last year I fought away toxic need to overwork. Workaholism stopped with me scheduling weekends with activities (something impossible in my previous work place), and leaving work hard drive at work. Weekends are for vibes, socialising, exploration and charity work.

Land Before Time. #skulldogart #reportyourart

"However, if the Strait of Hormuz were to face a prolonged closure and oil prices surged beyond $120 per barrel, the rupiah could weaken to 18,000-18,300 rupiah" lmao I believe this is what is called "we're cooked, chat" in financial terms

We’ve looked at snails with one shell and slugs with no shells. Now let’s have a look at a snail with two shells, because Nature laughs at our puny attempts to pigeonhole. In today’s #AtoZ – J is for Julia (Juliidae) (1/9) Pic: © uwkwaj CC BY-NC

I love seeing far right across Europe blatantly get funding, support and ideology from fellow ultra-nationalist conservative Russia.

Senior Curator job at the Natural History Museum London Salary in 2017: £42,400 Salary in 2026: £42,700 Crisis. What crisis.

#OtD 16 May is European Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought fascism during WW2, like the 'Lions of Breda Solini', a partisan battalion in Italy made up entirely of Sinti participants who had escaped from a concentration camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

Love this for them #subnautica #videogames #gaming

bouquet of dinosaurs

One thing you can do to make a small difference that adds up over time is, if you're in the position, to hire trans people and refuse to hire bigots. I've done both and it's super fucking easy. You just tell the chuds you're not interested in hiring any shitheads.

There are little factoids that drive me up the wall, framed as someone being progressive, but being severely misinformed: "There's no old gays because of HIV" "There weren't allergies back in the day? People with allergies just died" "World War Two, but it's just about white people"

Once day a major outlet will manage to write about the rise of misogyny as a unifying ideological project in the American right without a viscous little aside about how it’s actually all women’s fault for buying “male tears” mugs in 2015.

I’ve never felt so seen in my life

Happy #FossilFriday! Today we’ve got some South African gorgonopsians! Gorgonopsians were the apex predators of the Late Permian period, early relatives of mammals, and are among the earliest land animals to evolve saber teeth! 🧪⚒️🦊

Trump’s latest slap in the face to our NATO allies. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

Very tough week here in Nottingham. 40% of academic posts in my School are being made redundant and the numbers are even higher elsewhere - modern languages and music are being cut completely. The scale of the HE crisis in the UK is almost impossible to comprehend.

By the way. If you get pressured to attend events in the US. Bear in mind, attending them, not only allows your expenses to trickle down to its military complex, but also, you normalise illegal invasions, international murders, threats and fascism. Treat US how you'd treat Russia or Israel.

Something i think developing artists need to ask themselves is "Am i looking for an art style, or am i looking to understand my personal identity better?" because often people ask me for advice about the former, when really they want advice about the latter.