I think that this @natgeosci.nature.com paper—now published in the November issue of this journal—is worth checking out: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪 ⚒️ 🦣 🌊 #PaleoSky

Unwittingly proving Gibson's 1st Law of BBC Bias: You only think it's biased against the thing that you believe, otherwise you only hear facts

Avoid jumping to conclusions about mechanisms behind large-scale genetic shifts in the past! This paper doesn’t prove that small scale migrations of Homo sapiens led to the gradual replacement of Neanderthal DNA but suggests this explanation is as good as any other. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

oh yeah ok this is super cool not only did they find a gynandromorph spider, it also turned out to be a new species! 🤯🧪🕷️

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄 I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

I hosted a great discussion of it all here too:

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New at Tetrapod Zoology, a brief look at what's surely the world's best known extinct proboscidean: that Ice Age superstar the Woolly mammoth .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammoths #IceAge #Pleistocene #fossilmammals #elephants

📍 Project based in Liverpool in @livevobiomech.bsky.social 🥼 The team includes @tguillerme.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social and me! 🔗 Project description: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣Another exciting PhD available! Partnered with @nottswildlife.bsky.social and fully funded by the ACCE+ NERC Doctoral Landscape Award. We will look at morphological trait evolution, isolation and environment change, and rewilding of large herbivores. #evolution #WilderFuture #rewilding #PhD

Phd project on Climate Change Impacts on Sexually Selected Traits, lead by Alison Wright at Sheffield Uni, with supervisor team including @andrewpom.bsky.social and me. Application deadline 7th Jan

New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago. Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas. Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪 Here's the radio encounter between Ben & @toriherridge.bsky.social a year ago (7:40➡️) which covered many mammoth de-extinction issues, but didn't get into the major one for me which is how sustainable is it to create arctic-adapted elephants for a vanishing ecosystem? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Image of the Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of rock to the other side of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos.

I talked to Nature Methods about fieldwork and @trowelblazers.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... -- never say no to two many chandeliers, hey

It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... ... is nigh

Short piece in @consletters.bsky.social exploring social, cultural, political and ecological apsects of illicit and unregulated species translocations - what others (not me, due to homophone errors) might call guerilla rewilding. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌎🌐🫎🌵Extinctions: ⬆️ last 500 years! 👎 ...but... ⬇️ last 100 years! 👍 (in general) Unpacking the extinction crisis: rates, patterns and causes of recent extinctions in plants and animals @royalsociety royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Anyone interested in learning about why journals make a proactive effort to increase women's participation in the peer review process should take the time look at some actual evidence about why this is needed. Ditto journalists covering such a story. Do some reporting! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gulliver's Travels is 300 this year. Have there been any celebrations, events, articles or podcasts to mark its tercentenary?

🏺🧪🦣 Was more than happy to speak to @killgrove.bsky.social for this: even if you ignored the horrendous, insurmountable ethical issues, what we'd learn would do almost nothing to advance our understanding of prehistoric #Neanderthal lives, nor our encounters with them. There's zero justification.

Out of Asia… Central Asia as the centre of origin of northern hemisphere faunas 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SOON.... Behind-the-scenes events happening all the time

And today I learned that in 1962 the BBC let Jaquetta Hawkes imagine the archaeology of apocalyptic Britain. As a short film 👀10/10 Will weird your day youtu.be/c8yEIe69M4k?...

The astronomer Maria Mitchell gave a well-known talk entitled "The Need of Women in Science" in 1876.

Same story, three different headlines… 🧪👩‍🔬🏺

The wonderful @yukihaba.bsky.social and I went beneath London to help solve the riddle of the Underground Mosquito... Debunking rather than spelunking ;) @marakat.bsky.social @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social

🏺🗃️ Brilliant few days in Cambridge w/ @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy for #ExcavatingGarrod - some highlights as we work through archive material gathered so far - DG writing from Palestine field camp after Newnham fellowship award - Mary Kitson Clark on dig visitors - Belinda the donkey

Interesting little peak at ~1870 #WomenInScience

#WomenInScience 1888 👩‍🔬

#WomenInScience 1908 👩‍🔬

1888 - The West-American Scientist, Volumes 5-8 * books.google.co.uk/books?id=TC7...

🏺🗃️ In Cambridge again with @toriherridge.bsky.social & Emma Pomeroy for our #ExcavatingGarrod project, working through Paris archive records while having a cup of tea from Newnham's celebratory DG mug

What is the earliest use of the phrase “Women in Science”? This is from 1931 #HistSci #HPS

We keep being told "there are no silver bullets". Nonsense. There are plenty of silver bullets. If they're not working as well as you hoped, perhaps you're not shooting at a werewolf. on.ft.com/42JHpyB

Today is the deadline for proposing for observations with JWST. Across the globe, scientists are furiously putting the finishing touches on ideas spanning the nearest planets and stars to the most distant galaxies. Only ~10% of proposals will be accepted, and the science will be amazing. 🧪☄️

Maura Dooley visited Chris Wood's Grimm show at Scarborough Art Gallery for which I have written a series of Mortuary Rhymes, as opposed to nursery rhymes, in keeping with the Grimms' tone. She posted this catalogue last page, a suggestion why Yorkshire people are natural matches for such a project.

What an opportunity! Four years in one of the most beautiful parts of the UK, Lake District on your doorstep etc, working with one of the cleverest, kindest, funniest people I know, on a FASCINATING topic! Please share far and wide 🧪🏺👩‍🔬

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

astrophysicists, please help a poor terrestrial palaeontologist out: Did beryllium form in the first 3-5 minutes of the Big Bang, or not? Nasa mentions it here, science.nasa.gov/universe/ove... but other places EXPLICITLY say there was only H, He and Li until star formation. thank you!

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better." doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

All my comics have happy endings!

This was stupidly fun to record 😂🤘

I am currently very into ice age hippos, and it is actually pretty amazing how much we DON’T know about their chronology given that they are used as a kind of indicator for MIS5e. Here they are, lolloping about Europe in stage 4, for example (but for me, stage 6 is where I want answers!)

Intriguing study just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Patrick Arnold & Michi Hofreiter @unipotsdam.bsky.social showing hippos might have still been roaming central Europe in the last ice age www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪🦛#quaternary

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