Loving my brief trip to #Bulgaria! #Sofia is a fascinating city, packed with history. Looking forward to speaking at the Ratio Forum science festival tomorrow, alongside @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social ‪@russellarnott.bsky.social ratio.bg/fall-en/

Hello AI! Might want to check your headline before pressing g publish.… scienmag.com/rewrite-oral...

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

Nice, intelligent review of my book "The Tree of Life" in Nature Ecology and Evolution by @bethanyjallen.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.amazon.co.uk/Tree-Life-So... Out in USA next Tuesday! www.amazon.com/Tree-Life-So...

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

Not very far from the madding crowd. Hampstead Heath today.

My article in tomorrow's @theobserveruk.bsky.social now online. But go and buy a copy!

Sounds like this is some amazing work ! Congrats

I've written a piece about great new article by @thibautbrunet.bsky.social, Chantal Combredet & Mylan Ansel. (www.cell.com/cell-reports... ) theconversation.com/how-the-firs...

I just voted online in National Trust AGM. If you are a member and would like to help keep the Nigel Farageists out of the NT then please take the short time to vote for the candidates and policies proposed by the Board of Trustees. Very quick and easy! www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

*ALERT* Fully funded PhD. Artificial Intelligence might really help to reduce e-waste by making fault diagnostics and repair of appliances easier. Come and do the fundamental research in our vibrant research group with this PhD studentship. Details here: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj...

Just going to leave this rather frightening reference about the change in global mammalian biomass from 1860 to now here. 😳🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Programmed DNA elimination was present in the last common ancestor of Caenorhabditis nematodes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.681605v1

A bit exciting... Number one in India!

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Our Ryan Felice wins a @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Research Grant with Dr Alana Sharp @livuninews.bsky.social to study the evolution of hollow spaces in the skull of mammals: do huge land animals air-fill their skulls to lighten their big heads? #anatomy @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Our latest: *Hierarchical lineage architecture of human and avian spinal cord revealed by single-cell genomic barcoding* For a summary & the digested highlights see thread🧵 from @giulia-boezio.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Infinite games of Beggar-My-Neighbour: now out in The American Mathematical Monthly. Congratulations again to Brayden Casella who discovered the infinite game and knocked one off the Wikipedia lost of unsolved maths problems. doi.org/10.1080/0002...

Halo ! C’est aujourd’hui que sort ma nouvelle « Dans ma maison sous terre » chez Esquif ! Pour fêter cette sortie, je vous dis tout ! Toute la journée, toutes vos questions, tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir : ngl.link/nicomartinfc 🧔🏻👴🏻⛰️

Thank you it's great.

Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵

Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚 www.artofplay.com/products/eas...

New favourite mixed metaphor. ‘Like a well oiled orchestra’. (I guess it’s more of a mixed simile…)

Crowd size seems pretty important in this case.

Hot of the press #mitochondria paper!! 🎉 @jevbio.bsky.social New evidence that #mitonuclear discordance and early-life #diet jointly shape development and adult behaviour in #Drosophila. 🪰🦠🧬🍝 @fcamus.bsky.social @dk-dowling.bsky.social et al., academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Very cool!

Really enjoyed chatting to Bob Wells on his highly recommended Undercurrent Stories podcast. You can listen to what science can tell us about life, the universe and everything: open.spotify.com/episode/1eUE... The perfect weekend activity!

The version of record of our paper on the emergence of metachronal waves in the #Platynereis larval ciliary band is now out. Together with Rebecca Poon and Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social#platynereis https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw4067 funded by @ERC_Research @wellcometrust @bbsrc

It is publication day of my book in Spanish. 'El árbol de la vida!'

William is right - you really should give it a go!

This poll in The Times is still open. Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

Thank you VERY much!

Apologies that I'm going to be all about THE RADIANT SEA for the foreseeable future, but .... 😉 Our book has been released in the U.K. now and should be available at your local bookshops! 🦑🧪 (with @sonkejo.bsky.social)

Omar Yaghi has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with 2 of his colleagues for his remarkable work on the remarkable materials produced through the MOFs and COFs he pioneered. His story is inspiring. Want to know what MOFs and COFs are? Last week's episode scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

see also this amazing story... www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

This is very sad news… an outstanding scientist and experimentalist, a superb writer and mentor. He will be greatly missed… www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

The annual meeting of the Portuguese Society for Evolutionary Biology will be in beautiful Bragança, on December 18 - 19. Save the date and "vinde" !! enbe2025.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt

Fantastic work. Super interesting.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Here it is! Postdoctoral position to identify the progenitors sensory organs in the regenerating legs of Parhyale apply here: www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman 1/3

Tractor traffic jam. Dorset. Yesterday.

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Publication day! My book on the Knights Hospitaller, 'Warrior Monks: Politics and Power in Medieval Britain' is now out. Available in all good and evil bookshops: www.amazon.co.uk/Warrior-Monk...

@scienceofthetimes.bsky.social is back after the summer break! We talk to @joanstrassmann.bsky.social about her fabulous new book "The Social Life of Birds". If you like the podcast: subscribe, like, share! We enjoy making it but have no idea how many folk listen! scienceofthetimes.transistor.fm

Apply now & work with me during your Post-doc. The FRQNT postdoc deadline (for Quebec residents) is October 8 & the NSERC postdoc deadline is October 17. Approximately 20% of the NSERC budget will be allocated to non-Canadians. frq.gouv.qc.ca/en/program/p... www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning. Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship. We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds

VERY cool!

Wondering why @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social is closed this week? Case refurbishments and new displays on the way!

The Japan Environment and Children’s Study found that birthing parent’s autistic traits were associated with a higher degree of antenatal pain.

Come and work with us! Assistant Professor in Psychology (Fixed Term, Maternity Cover) Please share! jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/c54c4570...