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The evidence in favour of 20 mph speed limits is overwhelming, cheaper insurance, less emissions, less car crashes, it saves the NHS, Police and councils money. But Gary from Port Talbot's commute now takes 42 minutes instead of 40 so it simply must go.

Wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A 7% decline in English birds in just 5 years is astonishing The web of life is unravelling fast

In 2017, we discovered the whereabouts of the last known male #greatauk 👉 tinyurl.com/3nc8s74x Now we’ve confirmed where the last female resides… Spoiler: she’s at @cincymuseum.bsky.social! Read the full story here 👉 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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Wow.

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he's so fucking stupid it hurts

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Feeding strategies of the Pleistocene insular dwarf elephants Palaeoloxodon falconeri and Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis from Sicily (Italy) - Strani - 2025 - Papers in Palaeontology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Look at these Magpie Inkcaps aren’t they just perfect. 👌

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Florentino Ameghino, the father of Argentinian paleontology, was born #OTD 1854. He became a national icon for his role in creating national science and culture. 🧪⚒️ wp.me/p3ihHu-Af #histsci

MAGA, because it's a cult, doesn't realize the majority in America and around the world think today's spectacle was truly weird, sad, and unhinged. In no way did it honor Charlie Kirk. It abused his murder as a political rally in honor of their King, Donald Trump. Hella weird.

This little shit has had quite the journey. Some pieces can be easy, but some drag you kicking and screaming the entire way. I got there. And I'm happy with the end result, but boy am I glad to be done.

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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

“Today, we’re very similar to each other. Even the most different people are at most maybe 200,000 years separated, with little gene flow,” Reich said. “But 70,000 years ago, there were at least five groups far more different from each other than any groups living today.”

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new zealand government reaching new heights of stupidity next year our public dollars will go more to AI grants ($70 million) than all investigator-initiated basic science combined ($56 million in the Marsden fund)

If only there were some historical precedents we could draw on to help ourselves understand what happens when you try to appease a fascist

I’m pissed this is even a question. Science writers like myself have been scrabbling for work in a collapsing industry for years. The pond keeps shrinking. And now, rather than supporting *people*, Science is checking out if AI can replace us yet. I will never, ever use genAI in my work.

Oxford University's leadership has decided that human brains aren't up to much, especially brains at Oxford. A gullible mark has been captured by digital snake oil about which so many people have been warning about for years. Climate change, IP theft, and exploitation, anyone? #academicsky 💙📚 🗃

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

We want it this way.

For #RomanFortThursday The phallic floor tile at Chester’s fort on Hadrian’s Wall. Odd, really, how they seem to have gone out of fashion. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

You can’t talk about cleaning up crime in D.C. while a 34-count convicted felon is running the country.

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Andrea Jenkyns, Mayor of Lincolnshire, DOGE warrior... A story in three parts....

A welcome, if belated, awakening to the disconnect between Musk's actions and the stated values of the Royal Society?

Right-wing political violence is more frequent, deadly than left-wing violence theconversation.com/right-wing-e...

Long-stay car park, Edinburgh Airport today. I pity the traveller who’s going to return to find that a Crow’s wedged a rabbit’s head into their windscreen wipers in order to pick the brains out 😂 #birds

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz #ShareGoodNewsToo

Haunting the @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social: none other than M. R. James, sitting on the Standing Committee of the Trustees of @nhm-london.bsky.social, presumably as a Trustee of the British Museum. Perhaps thinking about ghosts more than recent acquisitions of Cephalopods and Yoredale Sandstone.

The dreary process of using an ATM could be enlivened by programming them with celeb voices just like a satnav. Imagine Danny Dyer or Kathy Burke going, "There's your forty quid, you lovely cahnnt".

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