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Professor.
#Zoology
, Theoretical
#Ecology
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, Trinity College Dublin.
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Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
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“Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed”
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Government bodies need to get off X, now
Nobody in Ireland should be exposed to hate speech, bullying, or child sexual abuse images on X just to find out if their train is delayed, writes Clare O'Donoghue Velikic
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41787647.html
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Freya Harrison
16 days ago
Remember the medieval remedy we reconstructed years ago? We've now dissected the various ways it attacks and kills bacteria! Preprinted & submitted, led by
@tosinorababa.bsky.social
& Jess Furner-Pardoe w/ many collaborators
#MicroSky
#Ancientbiotics
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Garvan Walshe
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13/ If Europe wants to build systems that are independent of US big tech it should promote interoperable open source infrastructure rather than specific companies. This open source infra can then also be used by the rest of the world and Americans who don’t like big tech either
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Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
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“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”
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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦
30 days ago
To recap: If you don't buy the thing which I've created but you don't want, then our whole business model which was predicated on your gullibility will fail! ...has pleaded every soon to be broke entrepreneur ever...
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Conor Matthews
about 1 month ago
They paywalled surviving poverty.
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www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...
amazing headline 👏
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Elon Musk and the issue with his Grok-blocking tweaks
The Grok undressing controversy led to outrage and a renewed debate about how governments here and around the world can regulate a rapidly evolving technology.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0117/1553534-grok-twitter-musk/
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Veronika Meduna
about 1 month ago
Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale.
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CEEFAUX
about 1 month ago
Happy Monday you lot
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TJ McIntyre
about 1 month ago
This is how you write headlines.
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Conor O'Mahony
about 1 month ago
I write in today's
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
about the laws that are broken when online AI platforms facilitate the production of child sex abuse material. No new laws are needed. Companies (and their executives) are accountable as well as users.
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Ireland could prosecute Twitter/X for AI 'child porn' deepfakes
The horrific child sex abuse material produced every day by Grok is already banned under Irish law. The real test is if we are ready to enforce that law against large tech companies
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41772308.html
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable, but VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.” 🧵⬇️
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Maximilian Ganser
about 2 months ago
Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of: A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids. A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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What precisely are these “Christian values” they so vigorously defend that other religions and non—religions do not hold?… eating bacon is one them.
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Natural History Museum, London
2 months ago
Robins became the iconic bird of Christmas in the Victorian era, when postmen were nicknamed robins due to their red waistcoats! Over time, robins began to appear on Christmas cards to represent the postmen who delivered them. 📮 Learn more about this feathered festive favourite:
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jenna newman phd
3 months ago
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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Richard Butler
3 months ago
Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums.
www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...
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Curator of Natural Sciences - Warwick,Warwickshire job with Warwickshire County Council | 250490
About Heritage and Culture Warwickshire Heritage and Culture Warwickshire (HCW) provide a wide range of services that help local communities and ...
https://www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/curator-of-natural-sciences?LinkSource=EmployerHub
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AJ Jefferies
3 months ago
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
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shoot me now: "We came across your paper [...] and applied custom AI models on it, which generated 5 new extensions. Our pilot study indicates that up to 60% of scientists found the proposed extensions both thought-provoking and actionable."
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agree. This is very well put.
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John Nyakatura
3 months ago
More info on our recent paper in this interview in Science... Why does biology keep building things out of tiles? | Science | AAAS
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Why does biology keep building things out of tiles?
Science talks with two scientists about finding the beauty in nature’s mosaics
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-does-biology-keep-building-things-out-tiles
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Well now.. thats quite the offer of a Monday morning.
3 months ago
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Charles Mullon
3 months ago
Great opportunity for those interested in fundamental questions in evolutionary biology and mathematical models: postdoc opening in Laurent Lehmann’s group
@unil.bsky.social
. We have a lively community of theorists here in Lausanne with good interactions across groups. Join us ! Please RP
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Strong vibes
i.redd.it/tgsxs3711i18...
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Nessa O'Connor
3 months ago
It’s Trinity Open Day and one of the most common questions I get asked is ‘what kind of jobs do zoologists do?’ - so we asked our alumni…
youtu.be/lJr4AsZ_rLc?...
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Zoology Alumni
YouTube video by Trinity College Dublin
https://youtu.be/lJr4AsZ_rLc?si=BGTSGlBS07MGPAoK
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Amidst all the deep thinking of all things science, it is still the childlike wonder of new discoveries that makes my day
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I cannot think of a single ethical or moral argument for Generative AI and this isn’t helping
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Quite the thread!
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Eldar Rakhimberdiev
4 months ago
Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here &
@birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social
/RUG).
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Apply by 1 Dec 2025:
#Ecology
#Bayesian
#Conservation
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This whole project is grotesque and a classic case of just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Prof King’s justification of: well someone was going to do it eventually it might as well be me is lame in the extreme
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Should Hitler's DNA have been studied?
Ground-breaking research has made some fascinating discoveries on the dictator, from his ancestry to possible neurological disorders.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylw4pz83do
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Darren Dahly
3 months ago
Valuable reporting here from
@cathleenogrady.bsky.social
for
@science.org
, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social
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@deevybee.bsky.social
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www.science.org/content/arti...
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And our paper is out! One curve to rule them all: a simple universal thermal performance curve for ectotherms that explains at least 2700 datasets across 39 phyla and myriad measures of performance.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Science Magazine
4 months ago
Static electricity may be key to helping a tiny roundworm latch onto its insect hosts. Like a heat-seeking missile, the parasite zooms up to 10 millimeters in the air before getting yanked toward its target by nothing more than the electrostatic charge of its host.
https://scim.ag/3WKFVjZ
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Greg Albery
5 months ago
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details:
www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
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SADIE 𓅐
5 months ago
Would you believe this spindly guy is an assassin bug? I picked him up initially thinking he was a phasmid…then I got a closer look at the face and saw the rostrum, and the raptorial forelimbs started to make sense! He's a member of emesinae, a reduviid subfamily I didn't know about before!
#bugsky
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Orla Kelleher
4 months ago
New article by
@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social
and myself in the IPELJ exploring the implications of the ECtHR's climate rulings where we think through what
#KlimaSeniorinnen
might mean for NGO standing, constitutional rights climate cases, fair-share carbon budgeting and more.
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Keith W. Dickinson
4 months ago
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Daniel Padfield
5 months ago
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (
padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about
) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠
#microsky
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
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Liam Thorp
5 months ago
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
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Steve Portugal
5 months ago
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Marshal Hedin
5 months ago
let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.
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Conrad Hackett
5 months ago
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
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Christos C. Ioannou
5 months ago
Elon Musk has damaged science in the U.S., and here he is this weekend undermining democracy in the U.K. Yet
@royalsociety.org
still has him as a Fellow. If "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists" doesn't stand up to fascism, something is very, very wrong.
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T. Greg Doucette
5 months ago
So you know how there's a running gag about trying to run old school Doom or Wolfenstein on things never intended to run video games? This guy has managed to code a web server that runs from a disposable vape 🤯
bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
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Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
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Stuart K Watson
6 months ago
Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal
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Natural History Museum, London
6 months ago
It suggests early ankylosaur armour could have been used to show off to mates, like a peacock's tail feathers. Later ankylosaurs might have moved to more functional armour as more advanced predators evolved. Discover what else this amazing ankylosaur reveals 👇 (4/4)
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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“Bizarre” armoured dinosaur Spicomellus afer rewrites ankylosaur evolution | Natural History Museum
The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/august/bizarre-armoured-dinosaur-spicomellus-afer-rewrites-ankylosaur-evolution.html?utm_source=bls-link-post-20250827-ja&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news
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Dare Obasanjo
6 months ago
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/?itm_source=parsely-api
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈
6 months ago
I am obsessed with this plant. A species of cucumber, it fruits up to 90cm UNDERGROUND. Why does it do this? Because the only animals known to eat them are AARDVARKS 🤯 THAT'S RIGHT, THIS IS AN AARVARK CUCUMBER. And I got my hands on a specime for the
@perfect-specimen.bsky.social
🌿🎙️🧪
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