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... #ProtistsOnSky

What precisely are these “Christian values” they so vigorously defend that other religions and non—religions do not hold?… eating bacon is one them.

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: brnw.ch/21wYfin

“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.”🧪

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums. www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

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".

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."

agree. This is very well put.

More info on our recent paper in this interview in Science... Why does biology keep building things out of tiles? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Well now.. thats quite the offer of a Monday morning.

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

Strong vibes i.redd.it/tgsxs3711i18...

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?...

Amidst all the deep thinking of all things science, it is still the childlike wonder of new discoveries that makes my day

I cannot think of a single ethical or moral argument for Generative AI and this isn’t helping

Quite the thread!

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

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...

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 and @deevybee.bsky.social) www.science.org/content/arti...

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/...

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

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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”

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...

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.

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... 🧪

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.

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...

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

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...

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.

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 🌿🎙️🧪

There was definitely a Wendy's in Dublin (on Grafton St I think near whats now Burger King) in the (early?) 90s. Along with Dunkin Donuts it didnt last. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Rare as hen's teeth: an Assistant Curator job, with our fantastic team at National Museums Scotland! Closing date 24th August #museums #museumjobs careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553

Thread. Can’t wait til there are black-box phylogenetic/popgen programs written with this showing up in papers for review. 🧪

An ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) position in Genomics, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor). careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

What a cool use of fatty acids, stable isotopes and mixing models!

The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful

How is it’s still “normal precautions”?

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Someone is going to kill me: Bees, all of them. Salmon. Orca.

You can also follow us here on Bluesky for additional info about each specimen with links to further videos and articles we couldn’t fully cover in the episode :)

Of course they created their own journal at MDPI to publish this. Read the whole thread, but this is another reminder that MDPI sucks ass and you should not publish with them. 🧪

En 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat présentait un faux bulletin météo, celui de 2050. En 2025, avec 25 ans d’avance, ce bulletin devient la réalité.